FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: FEBRUARY 18, 2015
RE: PRESS RELEASE – JARED DUTCHER, CONVICTED OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
On February 17, 2015
Jared Dutcher of Saugerties, New York, pled guilty to Criminal Contempt 1st and
was sentenced to 1 and 1/4 - 3 years in state prison. In addition the court
issued an order of protection on behalf of the victim and two children which
the victim and defendant have in common.
Defendant has prior
assault and criminal contempt second degree convictions regarding this same
victim, as well as 2002 assault and criminal contempt second convictions
regarding a different victim.
In this matter the
Town of Saugerties Court had issued an order of protection for the victim which
the defendant violated in a domestic violence incident during which the
children in question were present.
The case was
prosecuted by Sr. Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth A. Culmone-Mills. The defendant was prosecuted by attorney
Majer Gold of the Ulster County Public Defender’s Office.
