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RAMAPO, NY – The Rockland County District Legal professional, Thomas E. Walsh II, has introduced the conviction of Bernard Salas, a 46-year-old Ramapo resident. The decision was delivered following a jury trial within the County Courtroom of Rockland County, presided over by the Honorable Anne B. Bianchi, on Could 16, 2024.
Salas was convicted of a number of expenses associated to 2 separate incidents. The primary incident occurred on July 14, 2023, when Salas entered an unoccupied car in Spring Valley and stole varied objects together with keys, paperwork, an electrical scooter, and expired bank cards. He additionally stole AirPods from one other car in the identical driveway.
The second incident occurred on December 7, 2023. Salas tried to money a stolen examine at an area financial institution, which was made out for $7,500 with the sufferer’s solid signature. Financial institution employees turned suspicious and refused to money it, resulting in a confrontation the place Salas turned irate, refused to go away, and verbally and bodily assaulted financial institution employees and law enforcement officials. The confrontation, together with Salas’s arrest, was recorded on the financial institution’s video surveillance.
Salas’s convictions embrace:
- Prison Possession of a Cast Instrument within the Second Diploma (Class D Felony)
- Tried Grand Larceny within the Third Diploma (Class E Felony)
- Petit Larceny (Class A Misdemeanor)
- Resisting Arrest (Class A Misdemeanor)
- Tried Assault within the Third Diploma (Class B Misdemeanor)
- Trespass (Violation)
- Harassment within the Second Diploma (Violation)
- Disorderly Conduct (Violation)
At present held at Rockland County Jail, Salas awaits his sentencing scheduled for August 13, 2024. With 4 prior felony convictions and 9 earlier misdemeanor convictions, he faces a possible sentence as a persistent felony offender, which may vary from a minimal of 15 years to life in jail.
