{"id":43491,"date":"2013-03-13T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=43491"},"modified":"2013-03-13T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:25:15","slug":"state-police-make-arrests-at-turning-stone-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=43491","title":{"rendered":"State Police Make Arrests at Turning Stone Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ontario Man Charged With Assault\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Verona, NY &#8211; March 11, 2013)\u00a0A Canadian man was arrested and charged with assault early Sunday morning after attacking another patron at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3:10 a.m. March 10, Troopers Thomas Watts and Mark Buzzard responded to a complaint of a fight at the Turning Stone Casino on Patrick Road in Verona.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, Oneida Nation Police had detained Christopher M. Heywood, 31, of Nepean, Ontario after he punched a 28 year old Albany man in the face during a brief\u00a0argument near the Oneida room on the casino property.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered cuts to his face and was bleeding. He was treated at the scene by Turning Stone EMS personnel, but refused transport to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Heywood was arrested and transported to the SP Oneida barracks, where he was\u00a0charged with thiord-degree Assault. Heywood was arraigned in front of Town of Verona Justice Randall Smith and remanded to Oneida County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash or bond and was scheduled to reappear in Verona Town Court on March 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Albany Man Charged With Drug Possession\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\"> \u00a0<\/em>(Verona, NY &#8211; March 11, 2013)\u00a0Oneida based state police responded to the Turning Stone Casino at approximately 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, March 9, to assist the Oneida Nation Police with a drug complaint, resulting in the arrest of an Albany man for possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Terry Horton was dispatched to assist Nation Police after a small glassine envelope containing white powder was observed falling from the pants pocket of Kason C. Phillips, 32, of Myrtle Avenue, Albany as he walked through the casino<\/p>\n<p>Further investigation revealed that Phillips also possessed\u00a0additional drugs\u00a0on his person.<\/p>\n<p>Field tests of the white powder showed it to be MDMA, also referred to as &#8220;Ecstasy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was processed at the SP Oneida barracks on the charge of seventh-degree Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance and arraigned in front of Town of Verona Justice Randall Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was remanded to the Oneida County Jail in lieu of $1,000 cash or bond and is to reappear in Verona Court on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Man Charged With Assault\u00a0 (Verona, NY &#8211; March 11, 2013)\u00a0A Canadian man was arrested and charged with assault early Sunday morning after attacking another patron at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona. At approximately 3:10 a.m. March 10, Troopers Thomas Watts and Mark Buzzard responded to a complaint of a fight at the Turning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}