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Kathy Reakes

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kreakes@dailyvoice.com

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Kathy Reaks has worked as a reporter in the local news business since 1984, starting as a news clerk and working her way up. She spent 17 years at Florida Today in Melbourne, Florida as a general assignment reporter, crime reporter, entertainment reporter and restaurant critic. She worked four years at Hometown News as a general assignment reporter, then another two years at Spacecoast Daily in Cocoa Beach, Florida. She attended Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida.

Kathy Reakes's Contributions

Police & Fire

Area Man Watched Porn With 5-Year-Old, Asked Her To Touch Him, Police Say A Fairfield County man has been arrested for allegedly watching pornography with a 5-year-old girl and then asking her to touch him. Juan Martinez, 46, of Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday and charged with risk of injury to a child after the juvenile reported the incident, which took place in 2015-16, to her mother, said Av Harris, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. Police said that while the girl, who was 5-year-old at the time, was staying with her grandmother, Martinez would show her pornography on his phone while the grandmother was in the shower and try and get the child to…

by Kathy Reakes

08/30/2018

Police & Fire

Wanted: Alert Issued For Hudson Valley Murder Suspect Police are asking the public for help in locating a Hudson Valley man wanted for a January murder in front of a local nightclub. Noel McClinton was shot multiple times in front of the Fireman's Exempt Club 200 on Mansion Street in the City of Poughkeepsie on January 27, said City of Poughkeepsie Police Det. Lt. Matt Clark. An investigation by the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department and the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office led detectives to Robert Whitaker, 38, of North Carolina, Clark said. The case against Whitaker was presented to a grand jury and he was indicted for the mur…

by Kathy Reakes

08/30/2018

News

New Tappan Zee Bridge Expected To Open In Full Within Weeks With an opening date scheduled for mid-September, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a tour of the new Tappan Zee Bridge on Monday to check out the progress. Since the move to the first span of the new bridge last year, work crews have been focusing on taking apart the old bridge. To date, officials said the deck panels have been removed and sent upstate to help shore up various infrastructure projects and some larger steel pieces have been sunk off the coast to create artificial reefs. "I'm pleased to report that thanks to the tireless work of the women and men building the new bridge,…

by Kathy Reakes

08/30/2018

Police & Fire

Westchester Pair Nabbed In Theft Of Cooking Oil For Sale On Black Market Two Westchester men were nabbed in Fairfield County stealing cooking oil to sell on the black market where it is turned into biofuel. The arrest took place around 4:53 a.m. Tuesday after Stamford Police received a complaint of two men stealing used cooking oil from 184 Summer St., said Lt. Michael A. Noto. When officers with the Bureau of Criminal Investigations Property Crimes Division and patrol responded to the area dotted with numerous restaurants they found the two men, Jonathan J. Garces and Richard D. Tolentino both of Yonkers, attempting to leave the scene, Noto said. Both men wer…

by Kathy Reakes

08/30/2018

Police & Fire

Large Condo Fire Breaks Out In Fairfield County Click here for an updated story: Fairfield County Condo Fire Displaces 16 Families, Injures Four Firefighters from across the area are battling a heavy fire at a Fairfield County condominium complex, according to multiple sources. The fire, which started around 3:55 p.m. Wednesday at 658 Success Ave., in Stratford, was first thought to be in Bridgeport but was later found to be located in Stratford. Both departments are working the blaze. Bridgeport dispatch said the department has multiple units on the scene. Heavy fire was said to be located in the rear roof section of the 2.5-story …

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

News

Spring Valley Man Nabbed Exposing Himself On County Bus A Spring Valley man was arrested for exposing himself aboard a moving county bus, according to the Rockland County Sheriff's Office. Daidrin McFadden, 41, was arrested for public lewdness around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday after the sheriff's office received a report that he exposed his private parts on the bus, said Sheriff's Office Chief William Barbera. Deputies were able to track down McFadden in the village of Spring Valley and arrest him on the current charge, Barbera said. He was also charged for an outstanding similar incident that took place in Spring Valley, he added. McFadden is being…

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

News

Missing Fairfield County 4-Year-Old Found Safe This story has been updated. Police have called off a massive search after a missing 4-year-old was found safe. The boy, Blake Taylor, was reported missing around 1 p.m. Wednesday in New Fairfield near 34 Candlewood Road, Connecticut State Police said. Just after 2 p.m., state police said they had located the boy and he was safe but did not offer additional details. State police K9 teams, New Fairfield police, and the Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection had flooded the area to search for the child. The boy was believed to be naked when he disappeared.

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

News

Missing Fairfield County 4-Year-Old Found This story has been updated. Police have called off a massive search after a missing 4-year-old was found safe. The boy, Blake Taylor, was reported missing around 1 p.m. Wednesday in New Fairfield near 34 Candlewood Road, Connecticut State Police said. Just after 2 p.m., state police said they had located the boy and he was safe but did not offer additional details. State police K9 teams, New Fairfield police, and the Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection had flooded the area to search for the child. The boy was believed to be naked when he disappeared.

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

Police & Fire

Fight Breaks Out At Town Pool In Westchester Two people were arrested following a fight at a Westchester community pool, according to Greenburgh police. The fight, which began around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Greenburgh Town Pool on Olympic Lane, when a teen girl and her former boyfriend started fighting, said Greenburgh Police Lt. Kobie Powell. Powell did not know the exact number of people involved in the fight at Anthony Veteran Park but said two people received minor injuries during the melee, that included a woman hitting a 13-year-old boy. When the fight began between the young female and male, who has an order of protection not…

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

Police & Fire

Suspects At Large After One Killed, Two Injured In Separate Westchester Shootings At least one person is dead and two others injured during separate shootings in Westchester, according to multiple sources. Tuesday morning Mount Vernon police found one dead as a result of a homicide at 240 7th Avenue. No other information was immediately available regarding the murder. The two other shootings took place around 6 p.m. when a man and a woman were shot near Oak Street and Terrace Avenue, sources said. A car, believed to involved with the crime, was located at Fleetwood train station. The man and woman are expected to recover from their injuries. Police have not responded …

by Kathy Reakes

08/29/2018

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