Former parking officer arrested again
Jeremy Blaber faces felony charges related to allegations that he attacked a U.S. Postal Service employee in Portland.
A former Kingston parking enforcement officer who secretly taped his own firing and has had several runins with local law enforcement has been arrested in the Pacific Northwest for allegedly assaulting a postal worker.
Jeremy Blaber, 31, was charged on May 18 with three counts of felony assault, three counts of felony use of a weapon, and the misdemeanors of unlawful entry into a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, trespassing and attempted theft, according to the Portland, Ore., police department.
Officer Carlos Ibarra, a department spokesman, said Blaber is accused of attacking a U.S. Postal Service employee and vandalizing property. Ibarra did not provide further details, and no specifics about the weapon charge were available.
Blaber, who has been living in Oregon, is identified on the Portland police website as “Jeremiah Kyle Blaber,” but the mugshot posted online by the department clearly shows the former Kingston employee.
Efforts to contact Blaber on Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Blaber has faced several criminal charges in Ulster County.
In October 2018, he was arrested at the Saugerties Antique Center on Main Street in the village and charged with the felony of possession of stolen property. Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagra said Blaber tried to sell the store three stolen gold rings valued at a total of $1,400.
In 2015, Blaber was arrested in Kingston and charged with two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police said at the time that Blaber was in possession of pharmaceuticals for which he did not have a prescription.
He was arrested twice in December 2013, also in Kingston — first for burglary and later for possession of a forged instrument. The charge later were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors, and Blaber served five days in the Ulster County Jail.
Blaber chaired the Kingston Public Access Commission in 2006 and later worked as a parking enforcement officer for the city before being fired by thenMayor Shayne Gallo in 2013.
Blaber made a secret recording of his firing by Gallo. The mayor could be heard using vulgar language and threatening physical violence, and he later issued a public apology.
In 2007 and 2008, Blaber ran unsuccessful campaigns for a seat on the Kingston Board of Education. In 2013, he lost a Democratic primary for the Common Council seat in Kingston’s Ninth Ward.