3 Held In County Jail In Probe Of Car Break-Ins
Clarkstown police task force charged trio after incident in Congers.
Three men arrested Friday by a police task force investigating a rash of car break-ins were ordered held in the county jail on $75,000 bail each until a hearing Wednesday in Clarkstown Town Court in New City.
Clarkstown police said the investigation into the break-ins is continuing and will look into whether the men arrested in Congers are connected to incidents plaguing the town since November 2011.
Charged are:
- Domingo Ferguson, 30, of New York City
- Luis Vazquez, 22, of Spring Valley
- Joel Santiago, 22, of Haverstraw
Police said officers in the Clarkstown police car larceny task force, working in conjunction with the Rockland County Intelligence Task Force and the Ramapo and Haverstraw police departments, had been following the three men as they rode in a 1990 Honda. When the men parked at the Stratford Arms complex in Congers, police said the men were spotted breaking the window of a 2005 Chrysler and stealing a GPS unit at about 8 p.m. Friday.
The town officers arrested Ferguson, Vazquez and Santiago.
All three were arraigned in Clarkstown Town Court and ordered held in the Rockland County Correctional Facility.
They are each charged with:
- Third-degree criminal mischief
- Fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property
- Petty larceny
- Third-degree auto stripping
Police ask that anyone with information about the recent car larcenies contact them at 845-639-5800.
OutonBail
1:24 pm on Monday, February 6, 2012
Three upstanding citizens that will drain the system for the rest of thier lives
RJ
6:56 am on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Who says they're citizens?
Scotty
8:34 am on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
For the rest of our lives you mean. In other countries, especially where the prison budget is limited, they would be in hard labor camps and triple restitution is mandated. Here ? They'd file grievances on not enough chocolate chips in their cookies.