Two Newburgh Men Charged After Cornwall Home Invasion, Safe Stolen

Christopher Dickerson, 49, of the City of Newburgh, and Stephen Fry Jr., 36, of the Town of Newburgh, were arrested and charged with a string of felonies after Cornwall police say they broke into a home on Nanuwitt Lane on March 9, yanked a safe from a bedroom closet, and shoved the victim down a stairwell as they ran.

The two men were known to the victim, according to Town of Cornwall police. They unlawfully entered the residence, removed the safe, and when the victim tried to intervene as they fled, they pushed him down the stairwell. He sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The suspects then escaped in a waiting vehicle.

Town of Cornwall Police Department detectives investigated the incident and arrested Dickerson on March 13, five days after the robbery. Fry Jr. was arrested the following day, March 14. Both were charged with second-degree robbery; first-, second- and third-degree burglary; and fourth-degree grand larceny, all felonies.

Following their arrests, Dickerson and Fry Jr. were arraigned in the Orange County Centralized Arraignment Court in Goshen and remanded to the Orange County Jail pending further court action. Police did not disclose whether bail was set for either suspect, and the names of their attorneys were not immediately available.

No information has been released about the contents or value of the stolen safe, or whether it has been recovered. The case remains in the court system.