Newburgh City PD, DA team up to fight non-fatal shootings, illegal handgun possession

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NEWBURGH – The City of Newburgh’s state-funded initiative to fight non-fatal shootings and illegal handgun possession has dried up, so the city is teaming up with Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler to continue the effort.

To date, the program has been successful at removing 22 guns and four rifles and shotguns from the streets, the DA said.

“They are not cheap Saturday night specials. They are guns that are being brought into New York from other places and are being put onto our streets and we are going to take an effort in the DA’s office with the City of Newburgh, with the FBI, with other federal partners, with the sheriff’s office, with the State Police, to get these guns off the street before it turns to gun violence,” he said.

The Multi-Agency Strategic Response Team, MAST, will have support from the DA’s office criminal investigators and assistant DAs.

Newburgh Police Chief Arnold “Butch” Amthor said that those weapons “were seized without injury or loss of life demonstrates the restraint and professionalism that these police officers exhibited daily, under at times very dangerous situations.”




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