Indictment in attack on SUNY student
The activeduty Marine accused of raping a SUNY New Paltz student as she slept in her apartment has been indicted by an Ulster County grand jury for one felony count of sexual abuse, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. He was not inducted for rape despite initially being charged with the crime.
The indictment against Lance Cpl. Kevin Guerrero, of New Windsor, was handed up Tuesday.
Guerrero, age 20 at the time, was arrested Sept. 7 by New Paltz police and charged with rape and burglary, both felonies. He was located at his place of employment, the Stewart Air National Guard Base in New Windsor.
At the time, police said early in the morning of Sept. 4, a man entered a SUNY student’s apartment while she was sleeping. She was able to fend off her attacker and he fled, police said, adding that the woman was able to provide a description of the suspect. The campus police Facebook page identified the woman as a SUNY New Paltz student.
Police said that during their initial investigation, detectives learned of two other incidents in which a man forced entry into nearby apartments. In both of those incidents, authorities said, the man was encountered by the apartments’ residents.
The descriptions provided by those residents matched the one provided by the SUNY student, police said.
Sexual abuse, as opposed to rape, involves subjecting a person to sexual contact by forcible compulsion or when that person is incapable of consent, according to state law. Rape is intercourse without consent.
Also indicted, according to the District Attorney’s Office, were:
• Corey Larson, age unavailable, of Cragsmoor, for the felonies of menacing a police officer and reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor.
On May 24, Larson was charged with attempted murder of a police officer after calling 911 to report a crime in progress as a way to lure police into an ambush at his home in the Wawarsing hamlet. No one was wounded in the incident. He also was charged with the felonies of reckless endangerment and menacing a police officer, and the misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon.
At the time, police said Larson reported several unwanted people trying to get into to his home in the area of Vista Marie Drive in Cragsmoor. When troopers arrived, shots from a 12-gauge shotgun were fired at them from inside the home. One trooper, whose name was not provided, returned fire with three rounds from a Glock, state police said at the time. After the exchange of gunfire, Larson came out of the house, unarmed, and surrendered.
Besides attempted murder of a police officer, Larson was charged with the felonies of reckless endangerment and menacing a police officer, and the misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
• Susan A. Whalen, age unavailable, of Port Ewen, for criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony.
Whalen was arrested Sept. 3 by members of the Ulster County Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT) after failing to appear in court following a 2015 drug arrest, police said at the time.
She initially was charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance and with the misdemeanors of resisting arrest and aggravated unlicensed driving.
• Anton Wise-Brown, age unavailable, of Poughkeepsie, for one felony count of aggravated unlicensed driving and the misdemeanors of drunken driving (two counts), criminal impersonation and false personation.
Wise-Brown was arrested by state police on U.S. Route 9W in Esopus on June 18 and charged with criminal impersonation, driving with a blood-alcohol content exceeding 0.08 percent, aggravated unlicensed driving and drunken driving, all misdemeanors, and with failure to keep right, an infraction.
• Darryl Charles, age and address unavailable, for the felonies of criminal possession of a controlled substance (two counts) and tampering with physical evidence, and with possession of marijuana, a violation. Additional information was unavailable.
• Scott Craig, age unavailable, of Kingston, for two felony counts of sale of a controlled substance.
Craig was arrested by members of the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team on May 3 and was charged with possession of a controlled substance and sale of a controlled substance, both felonies. The arrest followed an investigation into the sale of narcotics in Esopus.
• Kashawn Watson, age unavailable, of Kingston, for two felony counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Watson was one of 46 defendants arrested Oct.
13 in a crackdown on drug trafficking in the region. At the time, he was charged with felony possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
• Winford Newson, age and address unavailable, for two felony counts of unlicensed driving. Additional information was unavailable.
• Hakan Selleskog, age unavailable, of Pine Bush, for two felony counts of drunken driving.
Selleskog was arrested by state police at Wawarsing May 23 on state Route 52 in Wawarsing and charged with the felonies of aggravated unlicensed driving, drunken driving and driving with a bloodalcohol content exceeding 0.08 percent.
• Jacob Froman, age and address unavailable, for two felony counts of drunken driving.
Froman was arrested May 1 by state police on U.S. Route 9W in Esopus on a felony charge of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle (alcohol) and misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content exceeding 0.08 percent.
• Brittany Tissiera, age unavailable, of Kingston, for the felonies of drunken driving, aggravated drunken driving and aggravated unlicensed driving.
Tissiera was arrested May 25 by state police on Downs Street in Kingston and charged with the same offenses as well as with driving without a court-ordered ignition interlock device, a misdemeanor.