Police Blotter

SHOOTING – At approximately 8:30 p.m. on January 23, 2012, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police responded to an incident on the ice bridge where two unknown suspects shot at and struck a 31 year old Akwesasne man in the leg. The suspects stole a small amount of cash from the victim before shooting him. The suspects then fled the scene on snowmobiles. A second victim was unharmed during the ordeal and remained at the scene until police arrived. The 31 year old victim was transported by Mohawk Council Ambulance to Cornwall Regional Hospital where he received treatment for his injuries. Tribal Police are looking for two suspects who remain at large. They are described as two males, wearing black snow suits and black helmets, driving black Ski-doo snowmobiles. Police are looking for any information the public may have on this investigation. If anybody has any information to offer please call Detective Sergeant Matthew Rourke at (518) 358-9200.

SENTENCING - A Rooseveltown man faces a one year jail sentence after pleading guilty to a criminal contempt count in Massena Town Court. Donald R. Swamp, 48, of 19 County Route 45, Massena, entered a guilty plea after a felony count of first-degree criminal contempt was reduced to a misdemeanor charge of second-degree criminal contempt in a plea bargain agreement with the St. Lawrence County District Attorney’s Office. The agreement, which also satisfied a second second-degree criminal contempt count pending in Massena court, calls for Swamp to be sentenced to one year in the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility when he returns to court on March 21. He will be given credit for time he has already served at the county jail on the criminal contempt charge. Swamp had been charged Oct. 27 with raising a golf club over his head and telling a long-time female acquaintance, Sonya L. King, that she better let him into the apartment. Massena-based state police had charged Swamp with a felony count of first-degree criminal contempt, criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree menacing and resisting arrest. Ms. King refused to give a statement, according to court documents. Troopers said Swamp violated an order of patrol at 6:50 p.m. Oct. 26. He also reportedly struggled when troopers attempted to take him into custody. Swamp, then listing an address of 228 River Road, Hogansburg, had been jailed in March on a fourth-degree criminal mischief charge and criminal contempt count. According to court documents from that case, witnesses told police an allegedly highly intoxicated Swamp went to Ms. King’s apartment at Iroquois Village Apartments in Rooseveltown and tried to break in, tearing a window screen and bending the frame. He then allegedly kicked the door in, breaking the frame. Witnesses said the door and dead bolt were both locked, and Swamp’s girlfriend was not home at the time of the incident. Swamp is the father of Ms. King’s baby.

PERSONATION

Dustin George, 22 of Akwesasne was arrested on the 24th of January, 2012. It is alleged that on the 24th of January, 2012 a member of the Cornwall Community Police Service Patrol Division conducted a traffic stop when the driver provided a false name. Investigation revealed the male’s true identity. He was charged with obstruct police and personation. He was released to appear in court on the 21st of February, 2012.