HITE PLAINS – A 20-year-old Newburgh man has been arrested on federal charges in connection with his participation in a string of armed home invasion and gas station robberies in and around Newburgh.
Tishawn Woods was arrested on Thursday in Orange, New Jersey and was to be presented to U.S. Magistrate Court in White Plains on Friday.
According to the federal complaint, in the early morning hours of March 17, 2021, Woods and an accomplice, armed with handguns, burst into an apartment in Newburgh where they robbed and shot the occupant, inflicting life-threatening injuries.
It is also alleged that in the early morning hours of March 22 and March 28, Woods and an accomplice committed armed robberies of gas stations in New Windsor, during which they fired shots near the gas stations’ clerks.
Woods is charged with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, and three counts of using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during and in the furtherance of a crime of violence, which carries a mandatory 10-year consecutive sentence.
“It takes the combined cooperative efforts of different law enforcement officials to stop organized violent criminal activity, particularly where it crosses over into different jurisdictions,” said Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler.
