Crime

Tompkins County may be adopting an animal abuse registry, aimed at curbing animal abuse and punishing offenders.

20-year-old Damian Stewart is charged with 2nd degree murder in the stabbing death of 19-year-old Breanne Keane in Cayuga Heights.

57-year-old Aubrey Plummer was arrested May 21 in Elmira for failing to update his home address.

Cayuga Heights Police Chief Jerry Wright says a May 23rd death investigation is “being treated as a murder.”

The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office says 45-year-old Christopher Price kicked in the front door Wednesday of a house in the town of Horseheads.

Darrin Badman, who left the scene before the arrival of authorities, allegedly violated the order several times and had been threatening harm to the protected party.

On May 10, the Cortland County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Dutch Hill Road in the Town of Cincinnatus to serve court paperwork and seize guns.

25-year-old Noah Tappan-Bright was jailed on May 19th and is being held on $250,000 cash bail.

According to SUNY Cortland Police Chief Mark Depaull, Heather Hurteau was charged on May 19 with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, which is a misdemeanor.

State Police arrested 44-year-old Jason Marsh on Sunday, May 17 on accusations of sexual assault and choking.