Law & disorder
The following items are based on information provided by officials in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Town of Ulster
• Welfare fraud: Maria Whitbeck, 54, of Kingston was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 29, by Ulster County sheriff’s deputies on felony charges of welfare fraud, grand larceny, and four counts of offering a false instrument for filing. The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said an investigation showed that between September 2017 and September 2019, Whitbeck filed four recertifications with the Ulster County Department of Social Services, not disclosing that she was receiving Social Security Income. The result was that she received
$4,146 in SNAP benefits she was not entitled to, the District Attorney’s Office said. Whitbeck was released on tickets to appear in Ulster Town Court.
• Welfare fraud: Stacey Jacobs, 37, of Pine Hill was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 9, by Ulster County sheriff’s deputies on misdemeanor charges of welfare fraud and two counts of misuse of food stamps. The Ulster
County District Attorney’s Office said an investigation showed Jacobs had accessed SNAP benefits of an incarcerated person between March and April 2019, obtaining $384.60 in benefits that did not belong to her. She was released on tickets to appear in Ulster Town Court.
• Welfare fraud: Alida Brown, 35, of Kingston was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 9, by Ulster County sheriff’s deputies on a felony charge of offering a false instrument for filing and the misdemeanor of attempted welfare fraud. The Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said an investigation showed Brown had submitted falsified income and employment records to the Ulster County Department of Social Services for eligibility for SNAP benefits.
She was released on tickets to appear in Ulster Town Court.
Lloyd
• DWI: Bradford T. Sauve, 42, of Manlius was arrested at 2:53 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, on Route 44⁄55 by state police at Highland on a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving. He was released on tickets to appear in Lloyd Town Court.