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When officers attempted to handcuff the subject, he “punched one officer in the face” and attacked another, causing the officers to fall, the IPD media release said.
An Ithaca police officer claims the City of Ithaca and Ithaca Police Chief John Barber discriminated against her based on her sex, gender and sexual orientation and retaliated against her when she complained.
Firefighters searched the building, checking to see if the fire had spread to other parts of the house and rerouted traffic around the area.
There was a brief, unsuccessful struggle over the victim’s cell phone, before the suspect reportedly punched the victim and left the area on foot in an unknown direction.
Officers arrived on the scene at approximately 4:11 p.m. and blocked off a section of West State Street — extending from North Geneva Street to North Cayuga Street — with police tape as they investigated.
The clerk was forced towards the register and then to open it as the suspect held a handgun, according to the report.
Jacob M. Rollins-Young, 17, a student at Ithaca High School, was arrested and charged with a felony Tuesday after threatening a mass shooting at his school via Facebook, according to a press release from the Ithaca Police Department. Police charged Rollins-Young with originating a terroristic threat — a Class D felony — Saturday night, and he was arrested Monday night, according to The Ithaca Journal. The police responded to an alert at approximately 3:28 p.m. Saturday, after concerned students who had seen Rollins-Young’s Facebook comments notified Ithaca High School principal Jason Trumble, according to the release. The Facebook posts included the narrative of an imagined shooting — “Local Teen Opens Fire at Ithaca High” — in which Rollins-Young describes a “Caucasian male” opening fire with an assault rifle “in a cafeteria nearby.” He also repeatedly suggested that he was not joking, according to the felony complaint. In a Facebook conversation between several IHS students, “one student became upset and made a direct threat to another student followed by a threat of violence to the entire IHS community,” according to an email sent by school administrators to students’ parents.
Ithaca Police identified a package that contained materials used in the production of methamphetamine near Wal-Mart Monday, according to an Ithaca Police press release. At 11:30 a.m. Monday, officers responded to a report of a suspicious package by Fairgrounds Memorial Parkway, just under a block from Wal-Mart’s store. After determining that they needed additional resources to analyze the package, Ithaca police officers were joined by a New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team, the Ithaca Fire Department and Bangs Ambulance, the release said. The teams found ingredients and equipment commonly used to manufacture methamphetamines — enough to substantiate a charge of Unlawful Disposal of Methamphetamine Laboratory Material, which is a class E Felony, according to the release. Police made no arrests and the investigation is ongoing, the Ithaca Police Department announced.