The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca_police_department/)
An Ithaca police union said Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 decision to share footage from an April arrest on the Commons was “intentionally misrepresenting an incident” and “improper” in a Facebook post on Saturday.
The Ithaca Police Department responded to a bomb threat this morning at the Tompkins Financial site around 8:25 a.m.
The names of the perpetrators are still being withheld because of their juvenile status, but three males ages 13, 15 and 16 are being prosecuted in connection to a stabbing in the Commons on Friday.
Three subjects under the age of 17 were arrested on charges of gang assault in the first degree and assault in the first degree for a stabbing that occurred on Friday evening in the Commons.
A male was “brandishing” a handgun during a dispute with another male on Saturday afternoon. There were no injuries at the scene and both men were detained by the police.
At the meeting, Tyler, along with officials from the Fire Department and Public Information and Technology Office, had the chance to discuss the city’s nearly $76 million budget’s effect on their departments.
This is not the first time the South Meadow branch was robbed in the last year.
Cornell University Police and the Ithaca Police Department responded to alleged unlawful surveillance at Westbourne Apartments at 11:12 p.m. on Thursday. According to a crime alert, the victim said an unknown man recorded her with a cell phone through the window of her apartment located on 124 Westbourne Ln. The victim said the suspect is a “somewhat heavyset” white male who wore an orange T-shirt, according to the alert. The suspect was last observed going in the direction of Wyckoff Road. “There are no updates at this time,” Ithaca Police Officer Jamie Williamson, a spokesman, told The Sun on Monday.
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.
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.