Co-conspirator and former Guilderland Town Justice Richarad Sherwood had planned to testify against Thomas Lagan. Asked if that was why Lagan had decided to plead guilty after many months of preparing to fight the charges, Lagan’s attorney E. Stewart Jones said, “Obviously that was not helpful.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Michael Snyder, 59, of Medusa, who worked as a corrections officer at the county jail, was arraigned Friday morning on charges he had raped an inmate at the jail, and had sexual contact with another.

Police say that two young children watched parts of an attack where their mother was strangled until she lost consciousness.

He also circumvented an ignition interlock device and violated his felony probation.

The 17-year-old was out on $15,000 bail in a rape case when he allegedly waved the gun around during a Vape-cigarette buy in the mall parking lot.

Police say Sellie failed to return jewelry to customers or to compensate them.

BERNE — Around 3:30 in the afternoon on Thursday, a person driving on Route 156 in Berne saw a car stopped in the middle of the road, still running. Looking inside the Chevy Malibu, the passerby saw three people were unconscious and called 9-1-1, said Chief Deputy William Rice, of the Albany County Sheriff’s office.

Cases of production of child pornography are far less common than downloading, said Special Agent David Fallon of the FBI’s Albany Field Office. The vast majority of production cases involve people, he said, who are able to convince kids whom they have never met in person to take their clothes off for them.

The jailed woman said that Michael A. Snyder Sr., of Rensselaerville, raped her three times in the last two weeks.

The same year he was released after serving 20 years for burglary, Paul Harris went on to commit four more, a jury found.