The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/arrest/page/2/)
Videos from the early April arrest in the Ithaca commons show a chaotic scene. Svante Myrick ’09 shared the footage with the public following demands from the community and accusations against the Ithaca Police Department of racial bias.
Sethik Howe of Ithaca was charged with rape in the first degree and criminal sex act in the first degree, both class B felonies.
The Ithaca SWAT team discovered cocaine, heroin and a marijuana operation in a Lansing woman’s residence on Wednesday.
Ithaca police responded to two separate robbery cases last week and arrested two men on Thursday responsible for stealing from the Elmira Savings Bank on South Meadow Road and from a 71-year-old female.
The Ithaca Police Department’s deputy chief said it was the first time he’d worked a case like this in his 36 years on the job.
Last week, Cornell narrowly escaped becoming the latest entry in a list on which no school wants to appear. After a timely tip from Walmart, Ithaca police and the FBI were able to seize weapons, ammunition, and explosive materials from a former student’s Collegetown apartment, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Cornell is lucky, but that a very flawed system worked this one time is not a consolation, nor should it be used as evidence that America’s gun problem is anything less than incredibly dire. It is not right for a 20-year-old to be able to obtain an assault rifle, significant amounts of ammunition, tactical gear and bomb-making materials — all of which amount to what IPD called a “specific recipe for large scale destruction.” It is not right that the only thing illegal about Reynolds’ possession of that rifle was that he obtained it through a so-called “straw purchase,” wherein he paid another man to buy it for him. We must consider whether anyone, regardless of method of purchase, should be able to hoard such weapons.
Last Wednesday, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 32-year old Mexican national and Ithaca resident Jose L. Guzman. The event was confirmed and only widely spread once reporters investigated the swift and shocking arrest, a bleak reminder that federal agencies are operating faster than ever under the auspices of the current administration. ICE has become more active over the past few months, increasing their arrests by a staggering 32.6 percent only a few weeks after Trump assumed the presidency. Under the Obama administration, federal agents were directed to focus on serious criminals — now, empowered by the new administration, ICE is increasingly merciless in its efforts to deport undocumented immigrants, even those with no criminal record. “Before, we used to be told, ‘You can’t arrest those people,’ and we’d be disciplined for being insubordinate if we did…Now those people are priorities again,” a 10-year veteran of the ICE agency admitted to The New York Times.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested “one unlawfully present Mexican national” in Ithaca on Tuesday, an ICE spokesman and a Cornell student who said she witnessed the arrest told The Sun.
Police arrested a man and woman on Friday and charged them with a felony for allegedly stealing valuables from students at Cornell after $12,000 worth of belongings were reported stolen on Thursday.
The recent arrests of three local men associated with a cocaine-trafficking ring will make a “significant dent” on the drug trade in Tompkins County, District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson told The Ithaca Journal last Tuesday. Curtis Echols of Rochester, said to be the ring’s leader, along with his sons, Curtis McCool and Darrell L. Bailey, have been charged on about 30 counts of drug trafficking.
According to The Journal, Echols allegedly distributed cocaine to both Bailey and McCool, in addition to Kelly Keefe, an Ithaca resident who was arrested on charges of alleged ties to a cocaine ring two weeks ago.