Black Balloon Day Is Next Week

Black Balloon Day is coming up on Tuesday March 6^th.  It’s a day when fatal overdose victims are remembered, and black balloons are let go up in to the air, all over the country.  And they’re doing it next Tuesday across Steuben County as well.

 

Fraud Charges For 40 Year Old Bath Man

Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard reports that 40 year old Matthew K. Youngs, of Bath, is charged with 1^st degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the first degree, he was arraigned in the Centralized Court and released.  The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Steuben County Department of Social Services Fraud and Legal Affairs Unit, and the District Attorney’s Office.   

 

Drug Arrest In Painted Post

From Sheriff Jim Allard: deputies and County Sheriff’s Investigators Office went into a home on Hornby Road in Painted Post with a search warrant, and turned up almost $1600 worth of suspected crystal methamphetamine, a shotgun and assorted paraphernalia.  The suspect, 41 year old Joseph Hetlan, is charged with 2^nd degree Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, 3^rd degree Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance and 3^rd degree Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance.  Hetlan was arraigned in the Centralized Arraignment Court and released.  Sheriff Allard thanks the Village of Bath Police Department, City of Corning Police Department and Village of Painted Post Police Department for their assistance in this investigation, search and arrest.

 

Troopers: Delivery Driver Gets Into Accident In Steuben 

State Troopers say that last Friday, a delivery truck driver drove over the sidewalk and into a tree in the Greenwood School parking lot.  State Police say troopers found that truck after that on Andover Street in Greenwood and ticketed the 38 year old Elmira Heights driver, Michael Morgan with Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs, having a Controlled Substance not in Original Container, and Leaving the Scene of a Property Damage Accident.  Morgan was given an appearance ticket to appear in the Greenwood Town Court at a later date.