Pair Broke Into A Home, Stole A Bedroom Closet Safe, Pushed Victim Down The Stairs: Police

TOWN OF CORNWALL, NY — The suspects behind a terrifying home invasion robbery have been arrested, according to police.

The Town of Cornwall Police Department announced on Friday that two people have been arrested for a residential burglary and robbery that took place earlier this month, at a home on Nanuwitt Lane.

Police say that on March 9, two men, who were known to the victim, unlawfully entered the home and removed a safe from a bedroom closet.

As they fled with the safe, the victim tried to stop them, but was then pushed down a stairwell, receiving non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

The suspects then fled in a waiting vehicle.

After an investigation by Town of Cornwall Police Department detectives, one suspect, 49-year-old Christopher Dickerson, of the City of Newburgh, was arrested on March 13. Another suspect, 36-year-old Stephen Fry, of the Town of Newburgh, was arrested on March 14.

Dickerson and Fry were charged with felony first-degree burglary; felony second-degree burglary; felony third-degree burglary; felony fourth-degree grand larceny; and felony second-degree robbery.

They were arrained in the Orange County Centralized Arraignment Court in Goshen, and remanded to the Orange County Jail.