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Police Chief wounded Brown gets
5-15 years
Amthor shot while responding to Maybrook domestic incident Man who fatally stabbed
Justin Speights at Crawford party
sentenced to prison
Bob McCormick
Police stood by, Tuesday, after a suspect barricaded himself inside a home on Abbey Avenue in Maybrook.
in the hospital, accompanied by Orange
Maybrook Police Chief Butch
County Executive Steve Neuhaus.
Amthor was in stable condition Tuesday
Leahy said he received a call while
after being shot in the shoulder, while
working in Rockland County Tuesday
investigating a domestic dispute in
morning about an officer
Maybrook.
down in Maybrook and
Police were reportedly
immediately raced home.
investigating a report
“A lot of things go
of a domestic dispute
through your mind,” he said
at 812 Abbey Avenue in
“It’s not as serious as
Maybrook. During the
initially reported,” Leahy
interview with the suspect,
said. “Thank God he’s OK.”
Anthony Bostick, 28, there
Neuhaus told WABC
was an exchange of gunfire
television that he and Amthor
and Amthor was struck in
went back many years, dating
the upper torso. He was
back to their time in the
transported to St Luke’s
City of Newburgh. Amthor
Cornwall Hospital where
was a retired detective in
he was admitted to the
the City of Newburgh
Intensive Care Unit.
Butch Amthor
Police Department, while
“He’s in stable condition.
Neuhaus served as assistant to then
He’s in good spirits,” said Maybrook
City manager Harry Porr. Amthor is
Mayor Dennis Leahy who visited him
also Chief of Police in the Town of
Montgomery.
Bostick, believed to be barricaded
inside the residence, was later discovered
dead in the house.
The Maybrook Learning Center,
located in the former Maybrook
Elementary School, was on lockdown.
Assisting at the scene were State Police
Special Operations Response Team
(SORT), Orange County Sheriff’s Office,
FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco
and Firearms, police departments from
Maybrook, Town of Montgomery, City
and Town of Newburgh, Harriman, and
multiple Fire and EMS agencies.
State Police, in conjunction with the
Orange County District Attorney’s
Office, are continuing the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call
457-1388.
A Spring Valley man who pled guilty to
stabbing a volunteer firefighter at a New
Year’s Eve Party in Pine Bush, has been
sentenced to five to fifteen years in state
prison.
Orange County District Attorney David
M. Hoovler announced that on Monday,
May 15, Jauntae Brown, 20, was sentenced
by Orange County Court Judge Craig
Stephen Brown to
five to fifteen years
in state prison. On
March 8, Brown
had pled guilty
to one count of
Manslaughter in
the Second Degree,
in connection with
the New Years’
morning stabbing
death of Justin
Jauntae Brown
Speights at a party
in the Town of
Crawford.
In the early morning hours of January
1, 2016, Justin Speights, a volunteer
firefighter, and numerous other people
were at a New Years’ Eve party at a private
residence in the Town of Crawford. Many
of the partygoers were under the legal
drinking age of 21. At some point during
the party, a number of fights broke out.
Based on the investigation of the case,
it is believed that Speights was trying to
break up one of those fights, when Brown
stabbed him twice in the abdomen.
The stab wounds ultimately resulted
in Speights’ death. When he pled guilty,
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