Thompson
COLD SPRING – Police have arrested a Highland Falls man with a lengthy rap sheet, for public lewdness after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman in the Butterfield Memorial Library in Cold Spring.
Benjamin Thompson, 36, was arrested on Thursday night while walking along Main Street in Highland Falls after police circulated security camera photos of the suspect in the January 11 crime. He was sent to the Putnam County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 bond.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said Thompson has an extensive criminal record, including convictions in Florida for burglary, automobile theft, felony drug distribution, battery against an officer and rioting, and a conviction in Georgia for fraud.
If convicted on the public lewdness charge in Cold Spring, he could face up to six months in jail.
