Tompkins County

The Ithaca Police Department and the FBI are conducting a search for a weapon in the Cayuga Lake inlet. They did not locate their object on Thursday  and will continue the search Friday. Police did not identify the crime that is associated to the search, but they... Read More.

Ithaca Police have been investigating suspicious activity of a Dryden Road resident. Officers recovered an unassembled AR-15 rifle, a homemade silencer, a gas mask, high capacity magazines, materials to make improvised explosive devices, and other items. On Friday, police arrested 20-year-old Maximilian Reynolds of... Read More.

A woman fought off an attacker in Ithaca on Sunday at about 10:15 PM. The attack occurred on the 200 block of Linden Avenue. The suspect is described as a white male between 20 and 30 years-old. He had an average build and... Read More.

The Ithaca Police were called to the scene of a shooting early Saturday morning on the 400 block of Lake Avenue. When police arrived, the victim was alert and the suspects had fled. Police said this did not appear to be a random incident,... Read More.

Early Monday morning, State Troopers arrested 21-year-old Samantha Townsend on an outstanding bench warrant from the Cayuga County Court. The warrant was for a felony charge of Possession of a Forged Instrument. Townsend was located at an apartment in Ithaca. Upon arrest, drugs were... Read More.

An improperly used hot plate was the cause of a fire last week in Ithaca College’s East Tower. The hot plate was prohibited from use in the college’s dormitories. The 10th floor fire was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system, but the building had... Read More.

A multi-jurisdictional task force has arrested a subject connected to two bank robberies committed in the Ithaca area over the last several weeks. 32-year-old Chaio Slater of Ithaca has been arrested and charged with two felony counts of Robbery. Slater is alleged to have... Read More.

An arrest has been made in three armed robberies in the Ithaca area. 32-year-old Curt Rosenfeld of Ithaca is charged with three counts of felony robbery. Rosenfeld is alleged to have robbed the Mirabito Convenience Store on Dryden Road in Dryden on December 17th,... Read More.