Chester
Camp La Guardia residents charged
Two New York City homeless men living at the Camp La Guardia shelter were arrested in separate incidents late last week. One was accused of breaking into a school in Monroe, and the other is charged with stealing a car in Chester, police said yesterday.
Village of Monroe police arrested Nkrumah Obadele, 56, about 3:30 a.m. Saturday as he fled from North Main Elementary School with two tape recorders he stole from the building, investigators said. He had smashed a window with a rock to get into the school, according to police.
Obadele, a parolee with an extensive criminal record, was sent to Orange County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail after being arraigned on felony charges of burglary and criminal mischief, along with several misdemeanors. Police say he was paroled in 2003 after serving 17 years for armed robbery.
About five hours before that arrest, Blooming Grove police stopped another shelter resident driving a Toyota SUV he stole from a Cumberland Farm gas station on Route 17M in the Village of Chester, police said. Miguel A. Corniel, 50, was charged with grand larceny, a felony, and sent to jail without bail.
Chris McKenna
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