By June Mercer | Saturday, October 17, 2026
No new Dutchess County arrest releases were issued today. Today's blotter covers a State Police fraud arrest out of East Fishkill and a fatal-crash indictment in neighboring Ulster County.
East Fishkill | State Police Fraud Arrest
State Police in Wappinger arrested Shakeema L. Winters, 38, of Poughkeepsie, on October 13, 2026, following a fraud investigation in the town of East Fishkill. Troopers say the investigation began in May 2026 after a private business in East Fishkill received customer complaints that payments for services were never reaching the business. Police allege Winters, an employee, collected customer payments through a personal account rather than the business's authorized payment system and received more than $4,000 from multiple victims.
Winters is charged with grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony, and criminal impersonation in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor. She was released on her own recognizance and is due in Town of East Fishkill Court on November 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Source: New York State Police, Troop K
Neighboring | Ulster County
An Ulster County grand jury indicted Raul E. Braddock-Toala, 26, of Napanoch, on October 6, 2026, in connection with a two-car crash on October 5, 2025, near 8097 Route 209 in the town of Wawarsing that killed Kaelyn A. Rausch, 24, of Ellenville. State Police arrested Braddock-Toala on October 14; he was arraigned October 15 in Ulster County Centralized Arraignment Part Court and remanded to the Ulster County Jail without bail.
He faces charges of second-degree manslaughter, a class C felony; criminally negligent homicide, a class E felony; and second-degree reckless endangerment, a class A misdemeanor. The investigation was conducted by State Police Troop F's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Ulster County District Attorney's Office. He is represented by the Ulster County Public Defender's Office.
Sources: Times Herald-Record | Radio Catskill
Charges are accusations; defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
