New York State Police

An upstate New York traffic stop led to a Bronx woman’s arrest on charges she hid more than a pound of cocaine in her baby’s diaper bag. New York State Police said they stopped Shante Pleasant, 33, on Tuesday on I-87 in Coxsackie for a traffic violation. She had two daughters with her in the car — a 13-year-old and…

Decades after a judge ordered the New York State Police to diversify its ranks, the agency remains overwhelmingly white

New York State Police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that left one of their troopers injured in Westchester County, authorities said Friday. The trooper was conducting a vehicle and traffic stop on I-95 southbound in New Rochelle shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. He was walking back to his patrol car when a white van hit him and kept driving, officials…

A 29-year-old New York man was arrested by State Police three times in less than 12 hours for allegedly committing various traffic infractions while in possession of crack cocaine, heroin (or both) or impaired by a drug, officials said Wednesday. All of the three arrests involving Robert Radek, of Marlboro, happened March 7. The first run-in with law enforcement was…

A 28-year-old father-to-be in Sullivan County was killed on Sunday after a device designed for a gender reveal exploded, state police said. New York State Police dispatched officers to a Liberty residence around 12 p.m. after reports of an explosion. A spokesperson for the department confirmed Christopher Pekny, the soon-to-be father, was building a device to be used at a…

A 56-year-old New York man died in a snowmobile accident Monday when the sled he and another man were riding on broke through the ice on Orange County’s Goshen Reservoir and fell into the water, State Police said Tuesday. It was one of more than 300 accidents New York State Police responded to as a furious nor’easter battered the...

An 11-year-old Brooklyn girl died when the driver of an SUV she was in fled a New York State Police traffic stop and ended up colliding with the trooper vehicle after a chase, officials said Thursday. She wasn’t wearing a seat belt. State Police say they tried to stop a Dodge Journey around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday on the Thruway...

Two men have been arrested in the shooting death of a 12-year-old girl in Ulster County’s Kingston last week, New York State Police said Thursday. Gilbert Thomas, 24, and Robert James, 46, both of Kingston, each face charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and criminal use of a firearm in the shooting that left D’Janeira Mason dead the evening of…

Two men have been arrested in the shooting death of a 12-year-old girl in Ulster County’s Kingston last week, New York State Police said Thursday.

A 12-year-old girl was shot to death and a 9-year-old boy wounded as gunfire erupted in an apartment in Ulster County Thursday evening, police say. Few details on the shooting on Van Buren Street in Kingston were immediately available Friday. Police responded to a report of a shooting there around 8 p.m. the night before. They found the two children…

New York State Police say they arrested two 20-year-old Queens men for allegedly firing a gun at another vehicle in a road rage confrontation on the Cross Bronx Expressway Monday — all while the suspects had an infant in their car. State Police sergeants were in a parking lot when two people approached them around 2:30 p.m. and said their…

An unmarked New York State parole vehicle was struck by gunfire in the Bronx around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to police.

A 30-year-old Bronx man has been arrested in connection with the Manhattan subway derailment that led to extensive delays and injured three passengers Sunday, the NYPD said. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Two EMTs died in a crash involving a tractor-trailer on the New York Thruway early Monday, officials say. State Police say it appears Moshe Herzog, 27, of Spring Valley, was driving a 2017 Chevrolet Tahoe southbound, near mile marker 29.1 in Rockland County’s Suffern, when he tried to change lanes and possibly exit the Thruway at exit 14B around 1:45…

Four people are dead and two others are hurt, one of them seriously, after a multi-vehicle collision on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway early Tuesday that apparently was caused by a wrong-way driver, New York State Police said. State Police said they received a call about an eastbound crash involving three vehicles and a motorcycle around 5:10 a.m. near...

Four people are dead and two others are hurt, one of them seriously, after a multi-vehicle collision on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway early Tuesday that apparently was caused by a wrong-way driver, New York State Police said.

Four people are dead and two others are hurt, one of them seriously, after a multi-vehicle collision on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway early Tuesday, New York State Police said. The Southern State Parkway was closed in the area as authorities investigated.

Two people died in a hit-and-run crash involving a tractor-trailer on the New York State Thruway early Friday, State Police said. According to their preliminary investigation, the tractor-trailer tried to make a U-turn across the westbound lanes of traffic between exits 4 and 47 in Monroe County’s Wheatland shortly before 4:30 a.m. As it did that, a vehicle traveling in…

New York’s inspector general says an internal probe by state police into a drug task force allowed members who engaged in misconduct to retire “in good standing” without being held accountable

The move would change the agency’s status as one of the few primary state law enforcement agencies in the nation without body or dashboard cameras