Woman gets 6 months in jail for hiding corpse
A Newburgh woman who pleaded guilty to leaving a human corpse in a Plattekill ditch has been sentenced to six months in the Ulster County Jail, according to County Court documents.
Lauren Romano, 35, of Third Street, Newburgh, was sentenced in connection with her arrest on Feb. 28, 2016. Arrested at the same time were Angel Delgado and Kristen A. Green of Newburgh. All three were charged with the felony of concealment of a human corpse and the misdemeanor of conspiracy.
Ulster County Judge Donald A. Williams sentenced Romano on May 25 to 180 days in the county jail and five years of probation for the concealment of a human corpse.
Police located the body of Alexis Scalon, 28, of Newburgh, in a ditch on New Unionville Road in Plattekill after an investigation by the state police Troop F Forensic Identification Unit, Computer Crimes Unit and New York State Intelligence Center. On Thursday, state police Lt. Brian Webster said Scalon died of an accidental overdose of heroin and fentanyl. Webster said he did not know why Romano attempted to hide the corpse.
Delgado and Green were not in the Ulster County Jail on Thursday, according to a jail officer, and information about the status of their cases was not immediately available.
Webster said Scalon died at Delgado’s home in the city of Newburgh but had not lived there.