Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports that a man was robbed and stabbed along a street in the Village of Brewster last evening. Investigators are seeking information from the public in the case.

At about 10:30 P.M. yesterday, June 18th, the Sheriff’s Office received a call from emergency room personnel at Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, who reported that they were treating a man there for knife wounds. Sheriff’s deputies and investigators responded to the hospital and interviewed the patient, who told them that he had been robbed and stabbed some two hours earlier in Brewster.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports that Sheriff's Sergeant Michael Szabo has graduated from the prestigious Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy.

Sergeant Szabo attended the 237th Session of the FBI National Academy in a class that included law enforcement officials from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, four branches of America's military services, five federal civilian agencies and twenty-three foreign countries. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, presented diplomas to graduates in a ceremony held on June 12, 2009 at the Academy facilities in Quantico, Virginia.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports that an arrest has been made in the murder of Mr. John E. Marcinak of Garrison on December 31, 2008. Mr. Anthony Grigoroff, aged 18, of 52 Morrissey Drive in Lake Peekskill, faces a murder charge and other counts in connection with the shooting death of Mr. Marcinak outside his automobile towing business, located along Route 9 in Garrison, last New Year’s Eve day.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of three local teens on assorted drug-related charges by members of the Sheriff’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit following a surveillance of the business district in the Hamlet of Carmel.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Coxsackie, New York man on narcotics possession charges following the surveillance of a Putnam Valley convenience store parking lot.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a 20 year-old Southeast resident accusing him of possessing an assortment of weapons.

At about 9:45PM on May 27, 2009, Investigator Christopher Spiconardi of the Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation stopped a car whose occupants were acting in a suspicious manner on North Main Street in the Village of Brewster. Upon conducting a field interview, a passenger in the vehicle, Devin M. Meschino of 30 Paddock Farm Road, was found to be in possession of a pair of brass knuckles, a gravity knife and a switchblade knife. Investigator Spiconardi arrested Mr. Meschino and charged him with three counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Fourth Degree, a class “A” misdemeanor.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of two Putnam County residents after they were found illegally possessing a number of controlled substances and narcotics.

At about 11:00PM on May 7th, members of the Putnam County Sheriff's Narcotics Enforcement Unit were conducting narcotics trafficking investigations in and around the Village of Brewster, when they observed two people acting in a suspicious manner occupying a parked vehicle on Allview Avenue. Upon interviewing the occupants and conducting a field investigation, the pair was found to be in possession of a cigarette pack containing a quantity of ecstasy pills and a cigarette dipped in the hallucinogenic drug, phencyclidine, commonly known as "PCP." Additionally they possessed suboxone tablets, a controlled substance that can only be prescribed by a license physician in limited quantities.

Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Danbury, CT. couple on assorted narcotics sales and possession charges.

In January of this year, an investigator assigned to the Sheriff's Narcotics Enforcement Unit developed information that a Danbury (CT) resident was traveling across state lines to sell cocaine to others in the Town of Southeast. As narcotics enforcement officers continued their probe, they were able to infiltrate the enterprise and arrange to purchase the illegal drug from him.

Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Putnam Valley woman who was discovered to be in possession of an unregistered handgun after a deputy sheriff responded to a report of a dispute at the woman's residence.