Middletown, New York, Plainclothes Officers Made 229 Arrests in Four Months

Police chief John Ewanciw in his office at the Middletown Police Department in N.Y. on Oct. 13, 2022. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

Plainclothes officers made 229 arrests on three rounds of assignments between April and August in Middletown, New York, according to police chief John Ewanciw.

The offenses range from criminal possession of weapons, appearing in public under drug influence, robberies, aggravated assaults, and thefts to city code violations.