The mother of Meredith Lickwola has hired a prominent local attorney to represent the interests of the family in her tragic and mysterious death in Police custody. Meredith Lickwola the 38-year-old single mom from Schuylerville was arrested by County Sheriffs on a misdemeanor petty larceny warrant after calling them for help with an unwanted guest in her home on St Patrick’s night.
The women was dragged out of her home transported to a darkened road by Saratoga County Sheriff’s deputies where City police met the deputies and took Lickwola to the police station, where she was processed and placed in the female holding cell. Hours later the woman would be dead in the city lockup.
Police have maintained a virtual news blackout that has only fueled speculation that they are hiding something. I for one am grateful for this development and the public should be too.
At this point I would suggest the Police come clean and release to the public the coroners’ and pathology reports. Remember the cover-up is often worse than the crime and when payday comes and justice is served you have no one to blame but yourselves.
And once again the Saratogian is asleep at the switch. The TU is said to be working on this for Tuesdays Edition and Bab's is said to be busy extraditing her head from her ass.
The TIMES UNION wrote about it today
The Saratogian is running an Exposé on an outbreak of restless leg syndrome among DPW drivers caused by excessive driving in aimless circles this week, and has no staff to cover such trivial matters as a death in Police custody .
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Has Lombardo offered you a job yet? Maybe Bernstein's? You could sure teach that staff a thing or two about getting scoops!
Our readers don't care bout this. They want to read about the HS girls' JV stickball score!
The high school has a stickball team? Boy. You guys really know how to scoop the big story.
Yeah! This asswipe Richard Wirth is really doing a great fucking job! As big a deuche bag that Ron Kim was, he wouldn't have wasted cops in the middle of the night to transport a Jay walker. Way to go asshole! More taxes coming our way.
Jail cited before death in Saratoga Springs
State agency had ordered changes prior to Saratoga Springs fatality
By DENNIS YUSKO, Staff writer
First published in print: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The state Commission of Correction required the Saratoga Springs Police Department to make changes in how it supervises its prisoners in the years leading up to the still-unexplained March death of a mother of three from Schuylerville.
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After state inspections of the police station revealed deficiencies, the commission ordered the department in 2005 and 2008 to make sure officers check on prisoners at least every 30 minutes and sign logs documenting the visits, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Law.
On March 18, Meredith Lickwola, 38, was found unresponsive in a city jail cell around 5 a.m. She died a few hours later in Saratoga Hospital.
Police Chief Christopher Cole has said Lt. Linda Quattrini made "regular checkups" on Lickwola that morning. The state commission is still investigating her death. A toxicology report is due soon.
There is no camera surveillance of the jail's women's cells; cameras are used to monitor male inmates' cells.
Lickwola's mother, Shannon Adams of Saratoga Springs, said in a short interview Monday that police and hospital officials had told her that Lickwola died from a heart attack. "I'm burying her Wednesday, and I'd rather not talk about it," Adams said.
But the cause of death on Lickwola's death certificate is listed as "pending," said Peter Tulin, a city attorney Adams has retained to investigate her daughter's death.
"Shannon Adams right now has a very high level of anxiety, as do Meredith's children, as to what actually transpired," Tulin said. He said he would advise Adams on how to proceed.
A review of past state evaluations of the police department shows the state Commission of Correction told the city to improve its supervision of detention areas.
In 2005, the commission noted time gaps in the documented checks of prisoners and told the department that the roll calls had to occur at least every 30 minutes, according to the internal documents. Also, the review found a consistent failure to sign log entries, and the city was not using updated suicide screening forms for prisoners, the documents say.
In 2008, the commission told the department to ensure that the times of prisoner checks were documented and that prisoners with physical or mental conditions be supervised every 15 minutes, or constantly, according to communications between the state and city.
Then-Chief Edward Moore reported back to the commission in 2008 that the shortcomings had been addressed, according to the documents. Moore appointed Lt. Michael Chowske to review the prisoner logs daily, and ordered subordinates to start reporting a prisoner's level of intoxication, health problems and more, the documents say. The state deemed the actions acceptable pending a review.
Lickwola was 5 feet 2 and 170 pounds, was under psychiatric care and had a history of drug abuse, according to the police's inmate death report filed with the state.
Saratoga County deputies responded to a call from Lickwola's home on March 18. She was arrested around 1:45 a.m. on an outstanding petit larceny case.
"In light of the death in custody in March, the commission will examine all aspects of supervision and accountability for detainees, including those that were evaluated previously," Commission of Correction spokeswoman Janine Kava said.
Funny, I didn't see that story in The Saratogian. Do those morons ever even visit the police station? Babs and O'Sullivan asleep at the wheel once again.
Hey, the Togian actually had this story. As usual, however, it was a day after the competition did. Nice job Babs! What happened, did your hair appointment to make you look like a chia pet or something that wandered out of a Lita Ford video take up too much of your time to get on this story? Please go away right now you have done too much damage.
This was the last line in the Togian's story on this today:
"The Commission of Correction’s full report on Lickwola’s death is expected to be completed and released by December."
December? Are you fucking kidding me? Two things: 1. Somebody needs to be strung up by the balls if it takes SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS MORE to get a full report and 2. The idiot who wrote this story, Bernstein's equally inept replacement Patrick Dong, should put a major detail like the fact it will take seven more months to get a report at the top of the story, not the bottom. Jesus, did this fuck take Lombardo's class at Albany? Where do they get these fools?
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