New from The Croton Chronicle---FORMER CROTON FIREFIGHTER PLEADS GUILTY TO LEAVING THE SCENE OF A FATAL ACCIDENT. VICTIM'S MOTHER ACCUSES VILLAGE OF COVERUP.
In a plea deal, Nicholas Edwards-Ambos will avoid jail time. His attorney says he was not responsible for the death of Richard Lent. Mayor Pugh defends the integrity of Croton’s police investigation.
MICHAEL BALTER
At about 2:30 pm on Saturday, July 15 of last year, Peekskill resident Richard Lent, Jr. died in a fiery motorcycle crash on Route 9 near Senasqua Road in Croton. Initial media reports, citing Croton police, suggested that Lent had been struck by a car, whose driver then fled the accident. However, in combing over the scene, investigators from the Croton police, Westchester County police, and New York state police found pieces of a side mirror that allowed them to identify the vehicle and arrest its driver two days later.
At first, the name of the driver was not publicly released. But a number of weeks later, News 12 Westchester identified the driver as Croton firefighter Nicholas Edwards-Ambos. This week, Edwards-Ambos pled guilty in State Supreme Court to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, after a police investigation found that he was not at fault for Lent’s death. The charge can bring up to seven years in prison. But in a plea deal with Westchester county prosecutors, he will spend five years on probation and have a felony conviction on his record. MORE AT Former Croton firefighter pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Victim's mother accuses village of coverup. (substack.com)
At about 2:30 pm on Saturday, July 15 of last year, Peekskill resident Richard Lent, Jr. died in a fiery motorcycle crash on Route 9 near Senasqua Road in Croton. Initial media reports, citing Croton police, suggested that Lent had been struck by a car, whose driver then fled the accident. However, in combing over the scene, investigators from the Croton police, Westchester County police, and New York state police found pieces of a side mirror that allowed them to identify the vehicle and arrest its driver two days later.
At first, the name of the driver was not publicly released. But a number of weeks later, News 12 Westchester identified the driver as Croton firefighter Nicholas Edwards-Ambos. This week, Edwards-Ambos pled guilty in State Supreme Court to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, after a police investigation found that he was not at fault for Lent’s death. The charge can bring up to seven years in prison. But in a plea deal with Westchester county prosecutors, he will spend five years on probation and have a felony conviction on his record. MORE AT Former Croton firefighter pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Victim's mother accuses village of coverup. (substack.com)
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