Middletown man with violent past rearrested in Ellenville on warrant

An off-duty Middletown police detective spotted Juwan Dolson walking toward the Village Motel on North Main Street in Ellenville and helped put the 29-year-old back in police custody on a felony second-degree conspiracy warrant.

Authorities had already issued the arrest warrant before the Friday night encounter in Ulster County. Dolson was later turned over to the City of Middletown Police Department after the arrest at the motel, a quick street-level capture that kept a wanted man from slipping away again.

Dolson was not an ordinary warrant pickup. He had been on parole after serving time in one of Middletown’s most closely watched violent cases, the 2017 shooting death of 19-year-old Coree White. Dolson pleaded guilty in 2018 to second-degree attempted murder and received a 10-year state prison sentence, followed by five years of post-release supervision. Court records and prior reports also identified him by the aliases La Capone and Wanny.

The White killing was tied by Orange County authorities to the Middletown-based Coke Wave gang. Prosecutors said the indictment alleged that Coke Wave members sold narcotics, illegally possessed firearms and carried out violent acts against rival groups, including Guap Gang. In the same case, Tramel Morman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received 18 years in state prison, while Isaya Dolson pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to three to nine years.

The latest Ellenville arrest leaves unanswered what conduct led to the new second-degree conspiracy charge, but it does show that law enforcement was actively looking for Dolson and found him before the warrant went cold. For Orange County, the case is both a policing success and a reminder that a man with a documented violent history was still moving around the region while on parole.