Crime & Safety

Police: Putnam Man Arrested on Warrant

State police provided the following information. It does not indicate a conviction.

Troopers at the Southeast barracks recently arrested a 43-year-old Patterson man who was at the station for a separate incident, officials say.

John C. Sprague was speaking to police about an unrelated case at about 10 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. Officials discovered that he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant out of the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department, troopers say, and he was arrested as a fugitive from justice.

Information on the events leading up to the warrant was not available. Police turned Sprague over to Poughkeepsie.

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