Hudson Valley man admits to torching trooper’s home in revenge plan

A Hudson Valley antheral pleaded blameworthy Tuesday to setting a New York authorities trooper’s puerility location connected fire successful revenge for the trooper issuing him a postulation ticket.

Tyler Williams, 26, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree arson and faces up to 20 years successful situation astatine his sentencing proceeding connected Jan. 6, the Orange County territory attorney’s bureau said successful a property release.

“Every time successful America, constabulary officers constitute countless postulation tickets, and it does not effect successful those drivers mounting occurrence to those officers’ homes successful retribution,” District Attorney David Hoovler said. “Law enforcement represents the backbone of the information of our community, and they indispensable beryllium protected for doing the unsafe enactment that they bash each day.”

The trooper’s puerility location successful Warwick was destroyed successful the fire. (Orange County District Attorney)

Williams was pulled implicit successful Middletown connected Dec. 20, 2023, and issued aggregate postulation tickets, authorities said.

After the postulation stop, Williams began searching online for accusation astir the trooper who pulled him over. He yet recovered an code for the trooper’s puerility location successful Warwick, astir 15 miles southbound of Middletown, cops said.

The pursuing morning, the trooper’s puerility location was destroyed successful a fire. Cops instantly launched an arson investigation, and Williams was arrested successful May.

“This incidental struck astatine the bosom of each instrumentality enforcement serviceman and their families,” Warwick Police Chief John Rader said. “It is beyond comprehension that our lives and the lives of our families could beryllium targeted for doing our job.”