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Southern Ulster Times, Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Verbal threats at Highland High School lead to arrest
On Nov. 10 at approximately 11 a.m., Lloyd Police
received a call from Highland High School concerning
alleged verbal threats that were made by a 16 year-old
youth that he would shoot other students.
According to Lt. James Janso, Lloyd Police arrived on
the scene and investigated, speaking with faculty and
students about the incident. Janso said the youth had
already left for the BOCES campus by bus and a call was
made to the Ulster County Sheriff’s Department for their
assistance. Lloyd Police arrived shortly thereafter at
BOCES and arrested the youth at 1:30 p.m., charging him
with felony 1st degree coercion and menacing. Janso said
the youth did not have a weapon on him, admitted that
he had made the threats and fully cooperated with his
department. Janso said there was no danger to students
or the faculty during the incident at the high school and
the school facility was not put into lockdown.
Janso noted that although the youth is 16 years old he
might be eligible for youthful offender status, which will
be determined at a later date.
The youth was due in the Town of Lloyd Court on Nov.
17 and may be requested to appear there again on Nov. 24
at 4 p.m.
- Mark Reynolds
Neighbors fed up with the Mansion
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have to do is hear it.”
The Town of Newburgh Police Department received
“numerous” complaints regarding the club over the summer and fall, Clancy said. Two assaults were reported
during this time, one inside the strip club and the other
spilled out onto the street. One person was arrested, he
said.
“We assigned an officer to be a presence in the area, to
monitor and listen for music,” Clancy said Friday. ”This
weekend, our officers did not hear music.”
Club owner Keith Slifstein said the club has taken a
number of steps to address complaints. “We’ve unhooked
all of our bass speakers so that there is no vibration coming from the facility,” said Slifstein Monday.
The speakers were unplugged about a month ago, he
said, around the same time Pabey presented petition signatures to the council.
Slifstein said police have been at the facility with decibel readers to monitor noise levels. “We’ve posted signs
to move our designated smoking area further toward 9W,
away from Devito Drive,” he said. “The signs say to be
respectful of the neighborhood and keep the noise down.”
Since the strip club opened in 2012, residents have com-
plained of fights, litter, property trespassing and parking
problems, said Clancy. Customers sometimes park on
Devito Drive as the club charges money to park in the
parking lot, he said.
“There is nothing audible coming from the facility
if you’re standing on Devito Drive any time we’re open,
except the cars driving on 9W,” Slifstein insisted this
week. “We tell (patrons) they can’t park on Devito Drive.”
The club is attempting to be “proactive” in response to
the complaints, he said. “We want to be respec љհ