And yet again, at
the immediately following Town of Durham Town Board Meeting held on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 the
Town of Durham Supervisor and Councilmembers S A I D N O T H I N
G.
Again -- NO call for investigation from the Town.
NO
call to accountability of the Town of Durham Police Chief.
NO
mention whatsoever -- including NO call for a "standard" Police Department
report (although the Town Supervisor and Councilmembers do regularly call for
and get tremendous detail from the Highway Department Supervisor
about the inventory of gravel, road salt, equipment status, snow plowing
reports ...)
EX-COP'S TROUBLES CONTINUE Nathan Van Fleet, awaiting sentencing for sexual misconduct, faces
new charges
By Colin DeVries Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:15 AM
EDT
DURHAM — The former Durham and Hunter police officer convicted of
sexual misconduct in February has been arrested for illegal possession
of firearms and explosives.
Nathan J. Van Fleet, 32, of Durham
was arrested on a laundry list of criminal possession of a weapon
charges after a complaint was issued to the New York State Police at
Catskill.
According to state police, after Van Fleet’s jury
conviction on two counts of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old
Tannersville female he should have surrendered the arsenal of weapons he
was allegedly found to possess on April 7 in his home in East Durham,
where a young child resides with him.
Van Fleet was charged with
19 counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a
misdemeanor, for having assorted long guns: rifles and shotguns; 10
counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D
felony, for having assorted handguns; three counts of third-degree
criminal possession of a weapon for having three flashbang grenades; one
count of criminal possession of a weapon, a class C felony, for a
loaded .44 Magnum revolver; one count of third-degree criminal
possession of a weapon for a rubber impact grenade; and two counts of
unlawful possession of noxious material for CS "tear gas" grenades.
Van Fleet was also charged with acting in a manner injurious
to a child under 17 because, according to state police, the child was
living in a dangerous environment with these weapons present.
Nonetheless,
police said, the weapons were found locked away and secured.
State
police said there was no incident involving the weapons just that it
had been reported he had them.
Convicts of serious crimes in New
York are not allowed to possess any of the weapons in question, police
said.
Van Fleet, who was due to be sentenced for his February
sexual misconduct conviction on Monday, April 12, was arraigned in
Durham Town Court and remanded to the Greene County Jail in lieu of
bail.
The sentencing has been rescheduled to May 10 in Coxsackie
Town Court.
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