TOWN OF NEWBURGH – A 49-year-old City
of Newburgh man is under arrest after he allegedly broke into a liquor
store in the Town of Newburgh early Thursday morning.
Abdul Mutakabbir was charged with burglary, two counts of reckless endangerment,
unlawful fleeing police, resisting arrest and 20 vehicle and traffic violations.
Town of Newburgh Police received an alarm of a break-in at Neighborhood
Wine and Spirits on Route 52 at around 3:25 a.m. and when they arrived
there, a man was running out of the store.
Later identified as Mutakabbir, he jumped into a vehicle and led police
on a chase onto I-84 where he crashed the car and fled on foot, only to
be caught by Police officer Adam Zeilberger.
