Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a 23 year-old Southeast man on charges stemming from the reported burglary of a storage building.
In February of this year, the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from a local resident reporting that his storage building had been unlawfully entered and tools, valued in excess of $2,000, were stolen.
The investigation was assigned to Investigator John Alfano of the Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation. As a result of his probe, Thomas Patrick McCabe of 790 Route 312 was arrested. Mr. McCabe was charged with Burglary in the Third Degree, a felony.
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He was arraigned before Southeast Town Justice Richard Vercellone and remanded to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $750 cash bail or $2,000 bond. He was later released after posting the required bail.
Some of the stolen property was recovered by the investigator.
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If convicted of the burglary charge, Mr. McCabe may be sentenced to a term of incarceration not to exceed seven years in a New York State correctional facility as determined by a court.
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