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When Utica police Investigator Joseph Longo Jr. left a divorce proceeding Monday, he didn’t appear to be angry about what was going on, his attorney, Devin Garramone, said Wednesday.

Grief stricken.

Likewise, his wife, Kristin Longo, seemed satisfied with how the day’s proceeding had ended, according to her attorney, George Massoud.

But in the few hours that followed, something went terribly wrong.

While Longo Jr.’s reasons for stabbing his wife more than a dozen times later that afternoon inside their Deerfield home will forever remain left to speculation, his attorney offered what he believed might have pushed

Longo JR.

the 13-year police veteran over the edge.

“He was still in love with her, and I think that he would have been happier to reconcile with her than get a divorce, but then it finally dawned on him that he was losing his wife,” said Garramone.

“The prospect of losing her,, and her meeting somebody else and starting a new life, it freaked him out,” Garramone added. “Like any typical break-up, there was a period of reckoning, and I think that’s where he was it. It was a real critical point, and he just went overboard.”

After 41-year-old Longo Jr. repeatedly stabbed his wife shortly before 4 p.m. Monday, he then stabbed himself about 20 times and slashed at his throat, police said. Once Kristin Longo died, Longo Jr. was alive long enough to be discovered by their 8-year-old son and to admit to the stabbings.

Although Kristin Longo, 39, did fear for her safety as her husband’s emotional stability spiraled downward in the weeks leading up to the murder-suicide, she appeared to believe everything would be OK after Monday’s appearance in state Supreme Court, Massoud said.

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5 pounds of shrooms? 20 thousand dollar street value? Wow that sucks!

Eats them yes we do.

According to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Unit a Westmoreland man was arrested for possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms. According to Inv. Richard Dodge, arrested was Scott M. Colony age 27 of Furnace Street in Westmoreland.

The Sheriff’s road patrol received a call from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office in California regarding a suspicious package which was to be shipped to a Westmoreland address by way of UPS. The package was checked and it was found to contain mushrooms. The package was then secured by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and a call was placed to the Sheriff’s Office in Oneida County.

Patrol upon receiving the call from Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office contacted the on call investigator for Oneida County and an investigation was started. The package containing the mushrooms was shipped to Oneida County by UPS and a controlled delivery was made by UPS to the address on the package.

Once the delivery was made Sheriff’s investigators along with members of the Drug Task Force and Road Patrol armed with a search warrant hit the residence and the package containing over five pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms with a street value of approximately $20,000.00 was secured. Colony was also taken into custody at that time.

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Seriously though I have been saying it for ten years now. After you hit 65 years of age you should be up for taking a drivers test again, repeating every three years. I can not believe this old lady did not get hurt.

Ladies and steering wheels do not mix.

A 73-year-old Utica woman escaped any major injuries Wednesday afternoon when she drove her sport-utility vehicle over a ledge in the parking lot of M&T Bank on Genesee Street and landed on top of another car.

Phyllis Spataro remained behind the wheel of her SUV as it teetered atop the hood of a second SUV parked in a lot adjacent to the State Office Building at about 1 p.m. Wednesday, police said. City firefighters then quickly arrived and helped her climb down.

Although Spataro doesn’t recall exactly how the accident happened, witnesses told police that they heard her engine revving before the SUV drove over some bushes and a curb in parking lot, Utica police Sgt. Tom Brady said.

Her vehicle then crossed a small exit driveway, traveled through several more bushes that lined the roadway before it careened over the edge and into the sunken parking lot below, Brady said.

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It is funny yes. But even better because he is local, out of Utica NY.

He was obviously mentally ill. Pray for the children! Pictures below courtesy of  The UticaOD.

House might be a little cheaper now.

A Utica Police officer stabbed his wife to death, then turned the knife on himself Monday afternoon in an apparent murder-suicide.

According to State Police, they responded to a 911 call around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon at 10508 Cosby Manor Road in Deerfield. Authorities said a child had discovered the bodies of their parents in their home – both were bleeding from stab wounds.

A female victim, Kristin Longo, 39, was dead at the scene, while her husband, Joseph Longo Jr., 41, was alive, but severely bleeding. At the scene, Longo admitted to police that he had stabbed his wife multiple times with a household knife and then turned the knife on himself. The knife was recovered at the scene. When asked if, Longo being a police officer, any guns were found at the scene, Coots said no.

Longo, an active Utica Police Investigator for several years, and a part-time security officer at Proctor High School, was taken from the scene by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center, where he died of his self-inflicted wounds around 4:30 p.m Monday afternoon.

The couple were found in what Coots referred to as “a common room” of the Cosby Manor Road. Coots said they were still processing the residence, and so far, no note describing reasons for the actions was found.

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YORKVILLE — Sam Yafai said he was sitting near the front window of his grocery store, Sam’s Mini Mart, Sunday evening when he saw a car pull up slowly near his Whitesboro Street business.

As the next few minutes unfolded, the grocer would be attacked — and would fight back, police and Yafai said. “The man came in and I stood up to face him and he jumped over the counter and pushed me down,” Yafai recalled the day after the incident.

Yafai said he was kicked in the ribs and a demand for money was made. “He said, ‘I want all your money. Give me your money!’” said the native of Yemen. “I told him, ‘Take it! Take it! I’m just an old man, I don’t want any trouble.’”

Source: Utica OD