Police issue crime warning for Oxford residents
OXFORD _ The Oxford Police Department is warning local residents to not leave keys in cars and to lock their vehicles.
They also suggested that all valuables, such as GPS devices, be removed from parked vehicles or placed out of sight.
There have been two vehicles stolen from the village of Oxford in the last week, police said in a media release.
Area couple charged with receiving undue benefits
COOPERSTOWN _ A Burlington Flats couple was arrested Monday for allegedly receiving nearly $5,000 in food-stamp and Medicaid benefits to which they were not entitled.
Mark Olsen, 46, and Nancy Olsen, 42, were each charged with first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, a felony.
Other charges are pending, according to investigators from the Otsego County District Attorney's office, which is handling the case.
Other charges are expected, investigators said in a media release.
The Olsens were issued appearance tickets for a later date in Middlefield Town Court.
'Little Women' postponed
FRANKLIN _ The Franklin Central School Drama Club's performances of "Little Women," originally scheduled for today and Saturday, have been postponed because of illness, organizers said.
Performances will instead be at 7 p.m. Thursday and Nov. 21 in the Franklin Auditorium.
Sex offender arrested
MIDDLEFIELD _ Otsego County deputies arrested a Unadilla Level 2 sex offender Tuesday for allegedly failing to register a change in his address.
David Alan Shaffer Jr., 31, was an inmate at the county jail from late August to Sept. 10, according to a media release from deputies.
After he was released from jail, where he was being held on a fourth-degree criminal mischief charge, Shaffer failed to change his address back to his Unadilla residence within 10 days, deputies said.
Shaffer surrendered himself at the Otsego County Sheriff's Office and was charged.
He was issued an appearance ticket for Nov. 23 in Middlefield Town Court.
In 1999, Shaffer was convicted of an unspecified felony sex offence in North Carolina involving a 14-year-old girl and was sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison.
