Police Seek Man Impersonating Putnam County Deputy Sheriff in Patterson! from LOHUD.com

December 5, 2009

Police seek man impersonating Putnam deputy sheriff

Terence Corcoran
tcorcora@lohud.com

PATTERSON — Authorities are searching for a man who tried to pass himself off as a Putnam County sheriff’s deputy when he visited a town home Thursday, offering to conduct an unsolicited security inspection of the house.

But the fake cop fled when a woman living there [...]

New Program Monitors Juvenile Offenders from PoughkeepsieJournal.com

December 7, 2009

Crime Beat: New program monitors juvenile offenders

Michael Valkys
Poughkeepsie Journal

Dutchess County officials will personally check on juvenile offenders — an effort to keep them out of detention facilities and save taxpayer dollars.

County Executive William Steinhaus said the Office of Probation and Community Corrections has started a curfew monitoring program — which has probation officers [...]