LIBERTY – Police arrested a Yonkers man for an assault that occurred in Glen Spey. State Police at Liberty arrested Matthew Spataro, 19, on a misdemeanor charge of criminal obstruction of breathing. He is accused of grabbing the throat of a female victim against her will causing injury. He was arrested on May 29 following…

YONKERS – Police are looking for a 15-year-old Yonkers boy who is wanted for the murder of a girl in that city. Two groups had argued on a city street last Thursday when one person pulled out a gun and shot at the others. The bullet struck and killed Marilyn Montanez, 18. On Monday, police…

YONKERS – A Yonkers public school student was shot and killed Thursday evening when one group chased another following an altercation and someone pulled a gun and opened fire. Marilyn Montanez, 18, of Yonkers, was believed to have been an uninvolved party. Police investigated since the incident occurred around 6:38 p.m. near Lake and Morningside…

YONKERS – Yonkers Police responded shortly before midnight Sunday night to an apartment within 358 Nepperhan Avenue on a report of a 12-year-old child down bleeding from the head. The boy was on the bedroom floor., Yonkers Fire Department and Empress Emergency Medical Services members rendered aid and transported to a local area hospital where…

YONKERS – A man was found shot dead in Yonkers Thursday night, police said today. Police discovered the man, 30-year-old Dymere Graham, lifeless behind his home at 9 Riverview Place with a gunshot wound to his lower body.  “The preliminary investigation has yielded that the victim died at scene, and that he may have been targeted and…

YONKERS – A fire at a one-story building at 131 Park Avenue in Yonkers has claimed the life of a woman.Ida Martinez, 69, was a resident of that address. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. No one else was injured.The fire was reported before 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Police…

TOWN OF WALLKILL – State Police arrested a Yonkers man following an investigation into commercial burglaries that occurred during December 2016. Brian Conklin, 24, was charged with two counts of felony burglary. He was sent to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond. On December 21 and then Christmas…

WHITE PLAINS – A former Yonkers man was arraigned in Westchester County Court on a sealed indictment in the shooting death of a man in Yonkers in April 2016. Anthony Burton, 38, also known as David Burton, also known as “Faseoff,” was remanded to the county jail. A grand jury had earlier handed up a…

WHITE PLAINS – A 38-year-old former Yonkers man was arraigned in Westchester County Court on a sealed indictment in the shooting death of a man in Yonkers in April 2016. Anthony Burton, also known as David Burton, also known as “Faseoff,” was remanded to the county jail. A grand jury had earlier handed up a…

“For many years, those who are classified as homeless cluster in our urban core areas. Society, working through government, provides some minimum baseline of shelter particularly on cold nights. Part of this is a legal requirement, part of this is a moral requirement. Downtown Yonkers is one of those areas, and for a number of…