Crime

Halloween movies and thrillers may be based on the idea of a psychopath, but it turns out you don’t even need to turn to the movies.
I stumbled across an article about the U.S. states with he most psychopaths.  New York ranked pretty high on the list...

Saturday, August 24th there is a citywide game that’s kinda like a giant game of the board game Clue.

This is just becoming a crime?  Because I thought fraud was already a felony.
Apparently, according to news channel 6, staging a car for insurance fraud is now a crime which can be charged as a felony.  Seems to me like this should have been a thing all along...

When your neighbor gets busted in your quiet section of Colonie with an AR-15 and a few pounds of packed marijuana by maintenance, well, it's a news story you notice. So much of this arrest hits close to home, because well, it is close to home...

Well that's a political work-around.  Turns out, since the legalization of marijuana apparently didn't work out, New York State instead decided to decriminalize marijuana in certain amounts.
Newyorkupstate.com posted that the New York State Senate voted yesterday to pass a bill de…

An audit by the New York Comptroller's Office showed some disturbing findings.  Thousands (and by thousands I mean $60,000) was spent by Medicaid on Viagra for registered sex offenders.
WLNY posted that the audit showed what is being called a "blatant misuse" of taxpa…

Through Monday, a crackdown is in effect.  It's Memorial Day weekend, a time to celebrate, to remember and honor veterans past and present, and a time to enjoy.  But, not a time to drink and drive (well, really at no time should you be drinking and driving)...

Earlier in April, I posted about O'Learys in Troy losing their Liquor License due to underage drinkers.  Well, it looks like yet another Capital Region bar is in trouble.
The state is having a big crackdown on underage drinking, and Graney's Stout in North Albany is the next …

After a ridiculous number of underage drinkers were caught in a sting, one Troy bar is saying good-bye to it’s liquor license.
According to news 10 abc, O’Learys in Troy has been busted.  The State Liquor Authority suspended the license after 80 percent of th…

As if it’s not bad enough with the Fentanyl already...
A pretty common drug recently was found to laced with Fentanyl.  News 10 abc reported a police warning issued about Fentanyl-laced marijuana.  The News 10 abc report said that marijuana laced with Fentanyl was confiscated in a parking lot, and al…

Not an excuse, but at least he was stealing cool stuff?
"Zack-Attack"- real name Joey Gaydos Jr.- from the blockbuster movie "School of Rock" is facing felony charges in Florida.  Gaydos Jr., pictured next to Jack Black performing, was caught multiple tim…

The New York State Conference of Mayors recently got together for a summit on legalizing marijuana.
CBS6 reported on the summit, which including New York politicians and policy makers, and some from other states who spoke.  Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan did make some comments on marijuana and …