Apelles
KINGSTON – A hamlet of Wallkill man faces 10 years in state prison when sentenced in September in connection with his guilty plea in Ulster County Court to felony burglary.
Hans Apelles, 19, broke into a house in the Town of Shawangunk this past February 8 and stole two loaded firearms among other items. He then sold the firearms for heroin. Apelles was familiar with the family he burglarized, who had tried to help him with his addiction.
“This is a classic and sad example of one of the two things that heroin addiction leads to,” said District Attorney Holley Carnright. “The other is death,”
