The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/ithaca_police_department/)
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.
The incident occurred in the area of Terrace Place and Linn Street, police said, which is adjacent to the base of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail.
Debra S. Brown of Ithaca filed suit against the city and Officer Jamie Buffone last week over an incident that Brown says occurred on Nov. 16, 2016
Pete Tyler was nominated by Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 to become the next police chief. If the Common Council votes to confirms Myrick’s recommendation, he will be the first person of color to occupy that office.
Perez Ventura, found dead in the Ithaca Falls gorge on Saturday evening, was an incoming Cornell student born in the Dominican Republic.
The police were not able to find the suspect, who is allegedly a clean-shaven white male in his 30s, according to a media release.