Video from camera on an adjacent store led to the arrest
of the suspect who murdered a beloved Port Jervis
shoemaker in his store
GOSHEN – Police are relying more and more on video surveillance images to identify and catch crime suspects and Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler wants to take that tool to a new level. He announced creation of a Community Camera Partnership Program where homeowners and businesses may register their camera systems so that law enforcement can contact them if they discover evidence of a crime may have been captured by a particular camera.
Hoovler came up with the central data base following the use of video to help catch a killer in Port Jervis.
“The impetus for this program was the murder in Port Jervis of Josef Kucher, a cobbler, where the crime would have basically gone unsolved if there were not video cameras on the neighboring gun store,” Hoovler said. “In addition in that case, there was video from Middletown that helped solve the crime.”
Registering video surveillance cameras in the new database is strictly voluntary and may be done at www.ocdacams.com .
