Canandaigua, NY – William Dean, who is currently serving 19 years in Attica Correctional Facility for being found guilty by a jury trial on March 03, 2011, still says he did not do it. Mr. Dean said they fabricated and falsified witness statements and evidence in his case to obtain an unlawful indictment and conviction, in County of Ontario, Canandaigua, NY. They unlawfully searched his property in the Monroe County Jail on July 22, 2010 and two NYSP Investigators tampered with his property, took photographs, and removed said property.
He said they then took the property back to Troop E Barracks in Farmington, NY at 1596 Rochester Road, County of Ontario, where then Inv. Miklos S. Szoczei II instructed then Inv. Aaron B. Dake to hold the pictures he took until August 06, 2010 so that he could obtain a search warrant for the property they took. On August 02, 2010 Inv. Szoczei approached Ontario Country Court Judge, Hon. William Kocher with an application for a search warrant to search the property of William Dean located at the Monroe County Jail, 130 South Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14614, County of Monroe, that he believed there was property located in the property holding area of William Dean that pertained to an incident that occurred at a Walmart Store in the Town of Macedon, NY, County of Wayne, and maybe related to a crime that alleged occurred in the Town of Richmond, NY on or about April 27, 2010.
What Inv. Szoczei did not tell Hon. Kocher is that Inv. Aaron B. Dake and himself had already searched the property in the Monroe County Jail, took photographs and removed said property, returning with it to the NYSP Troop E Barracks on July 22, 2010. Nor did he inform Hon. Kocher that they switched the property at the Barracks with something different. Wherein they removed an alleged Red T-shirt from the Property Room at the Monroe County Jail, and when they returned to the Barracks on July 22, 2019 tagged it and placed it into the Evidence locker and that it was now Blue, not red or orange. Nor did they inform Hon. Kocher that the shirt in all the reports said he was wearing an Orange T-shirt, not red or blue.
Then, Mr. Dean claims that on May 26, 2010, then NYSP Inv. Szoczei and Ontario County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Gregory J. Shaffer went to the Monroe County Jail to interview a suspect who was arrested with Mr. Dean on an unrelated incident, to be later detailed that he said he has evidence that it was another false arrest in his case, knowing that she was also represented by an attorney and allegedly questioned her about the incident in Macedon, NY, Wherein Inv. Szoczei said Leighanne Attridge-Kuchinick made the statement that she was at the Walmart in Macedon, NY on April 27, 2010 with William Dean and did use a stolen credit card to purchase certain items, including the alleged orange T-shirt that Mr. Dean was allegedly arrested in on May 21, 2010 in Pittsford, NY. Where the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrested Mr. Dean for an alleged Arrest Warrant issued by the Town of East Bloomfield Court for Aggravated Harassment 2nd that was to have occurred on April 2, 2010.
Ontario County Sheriff’s Deputy Pat Hicks, by order of then Ontario County District Attorney Michael R. Tantillo, did file a misdemeanor complaint with then Hon. William P. Morsheimer, also a former NYSP Inv. Retired, alleging that it was illegal for a person to send a single text message to a woman, Samantha Lippa, also of East Bloomfield, NY, saying “your f***ed” after Mr. Dean discovered that Ms. Lippa had stolen property from Mr. Dean’s parents’ home in West Bloomfield, NY sometime in March, 2010. Despite the NYS Statute of PL 240.30(1)(a) being unconstitutional for years prior to the false charge and arrest warrant’s issuance. And that no court in the state of New York has never convicted or ruled, nor did lawful statute ever claim, that sending a single non-threatening text message with profanity was a crime. Mr. Dean said to see People v. Golb, New York State Court of Appeals, 991 NY2d 792 May 13, 2014. Mr. Dean said Tantillo, being a seasoned prosecutor, knew better and was just out to get him.
Mr. Dean, whom thought that he did commit a crime after which being convicted by then attorney Jeffrey R. Morrow, Ontario County ADA, and Hon. Morsheimer it was a crime, he plead guilty to the charge of aggravated harassment for that single text message. Unbeknownst to him, it was not a crime. Nor was the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office delegated pursuant to NY Statute CPL 120.60 and 120.70 authorized to act as an agent of Ontario County Sheriff’s Office and arrest Mr. Dean for an alleged misdemeanor arrest warrant from another county without said permission of the issuing county or of a local criminal court judge in the County of Monroe.
Monroe County Court Judge, then Hon. Doyle recognized its mistakes and dismissed all charges against Mr. Dean. But, only after the Pittsford Town Court Judge then Hon. Fred S. Galina issued an unlawful search warrant, when the court lacked jurisdiction as no crime was reported to occurred in the court’s jurisdiction, did issue a search of Mr. Dean’s car, after it had been unlawfully towed from a public parking lot without permission or any complaints as such. When the unlawful search warrant was executed on May 27, 2010, at 145 Paul Road in the Town of Chili, NY by Monroe Country Investigators and two Ontario County Deputies, they removed several pieces of Mr. Dean’s property from the car alleging they were stolen property.
Ontario County Deputy Rebecca Edington, while being instructed by then Ontario County District Attorney Michael Tantillo, acting under his expressed direction, brought all the property seized from the car back to Ontario County immediately. Deputy Eddington, working under specific direction of Tantillo, brought the property to Ontario County, directly from the scene of the search warrant’s execution, without returning said property of Mr. Dean’s and his then Fiancé, to the Pittsford Town Court Judge, based upon the statute of a search warrant’s return.
Inv. Shaffer, in concert with Mr. Tantillo, alleged that Mary Jane Pellicano of 5001 North Road, Canandaigua, NY via a telephone conversation while she was currently residing in the state of Florida, claimed that she identified three DVD movies found in Mr. Dean’s car as her stolen property, along with an alleged pill bottle which was several years old found in the purse of Ms. Attridge-Kuchinick, also located in Mr. Dean’s car, with Ms. Pellicano’s deceased husband’s name on the label, telling Inv. Shaffer that she was positive that she threw away all her husband’s old medications months prior to the alleged burglary, after he passed away which occurred in Florida. Tantillo chose to use the false evidence and fabricated her testimony to which was used to obtain an unlawful indictment and conviction of Mr. Dean. Tantillo used evidence in Mr. Dean’s trial that was either false, fabricated and/or not stolen property of any crimes, even after testimony of Ms. Pellicano, and there was no objection from Dean’s attorney nor Hon. Craig J. Doran who was sitting as the Ontario County Court Judge, and therein using the evidence as proceeds of a crime for the jury during testimony and their deliberations.
Mr. Dean said before trial on or about December 05, 2010, while being held in the Ontario County Jail, he was discussing and complaining to other individuals also being held prior to their own cases, about Tantillo and the false charges he has filed against him, when another person named Shawn E. Carey approached Mr. Dean, telling him that he and others had committed those crimes that Tantillo was charging Mr. Dean with. He told Mr. Dean during a lengthy conversation that he knew Mr. Dean’s brother, Mark Dean, and had took Samantha Lippa there in May to get her car fixed when they robbed the place since nobody was home and the house was open. And that Ms. Lippa, he, and two other guys robbed several homes in Ontario, Monroe, and Livingston Counties, and went as far as Syracuse, NY to steal from people to support their drug habits. Mr. Carey spelled out details to Mr. Dean that he was willing to put into writing in a statement to provide to his attorney and DA Tantillo, and would give him all the details if he could get a deal for the burglary he was currently being charged with. If he could get immunity for the other crimes they did, he would testify against the others and everything they took and where it went.
Mr. Dean knew Mr. Carey’s story was true because Mr. Dean had been meeting Ms. Lippa at the Source Jewelry Store in Pittsford, NY where she provided him with jewelry that she said was given to her during her prostitution for drug money, and Mr. Dean would take into the Source to sell it to them so he could recover the money for the property stolen from him and his parents. Mr. Carey new the details of some of the items seen by Mr. Dean, including a Hand Gun to which Mr. Dean had setup a controlled buy with the Rochester Police Department to purchase said Colt 380 gun from Samantha Lippa on Mar 21, 2010 after they all left the Source Jewelry Store located at 3300 Monroe Ave, Pittsford, NY, which happened to be the very same location and day where Mr. Dean and Ms. Attridge-Kuchinick were arrested based upon the unlawful charge in East Bloomfield Town Court issued on April 02, 2010.
Mr. Dean said he and Mr. Carey went to the law library at the Ontario County Jail and typed up Mr. Carey’s statement. Mr. Dean asked Mr. Carey to proof read it and make any changes that are not correct and to initial the changes. Mr. Carey did so and they returned to the POC where they were being held and requested a Notary Service from the Jail Deputy, after which Mr. Dean contacted his mother telling her about the statement and that he wanted to see his attorney, Morrow, ASAP, and he attempted to contact Inv. Shaffer to disclose the statement. After the Notary Service was completed, Mr. Dean instructed Mr. Carey to ask the deputy at the desk for copies to be made of the statement to which was done by the Sgt. on duty. Mr. Dean immediately mailed Mr. Morrow a copy of Mr. Carey’s Statement. He kept the original and Mr. Carey had a copy.
Mr. Dean was finally able to obtain bail on December 11, 2010 after clearing up all the false charges entered in the Town Courts of East Bloomfield, Victor, Farmington, Richmond, and Macedon. On December 13, 2010, Mr. Dean met with Mr. Morrow at the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office on 73 Ontario Street, Canandaigua, NY as Mr. Morrow was working out of the basement of that Sheriff’s Office while his office was being built by the Ontario Country Public Defender’s Office. Mr. Dean questioned Mr. Morrow about the statement he provided of Mr. Carey and said he never received it in the mail, and wanted to know if Mr. Dean had another copy of it. Mr. Dean told him he only had the original. Mr. Morrow told him to leave it with him and he would copy it and give the original back to his mother the next day when she came to him about where she obtained the three DVD movies found in Mr. Dean’s car. Mr. Morrow then went on to say that they have no evidence that he did anything wrong and committed any crimes. Mr. Dean left the original copy with Mr. Morrow, not knowing that Mr. Morrow was also representing Mr. Carey on burglary 2nd charged pending in Ontario County also. Neither Mr. Carey nor Mr. Morrow ever mentioned such to Mr. Dean.
Mr. Dean spent most of his time chasing down and trying to locate his Fiancé Ms. Attridge-Kuchinick as she has a severe drug problem and went missing after his initial arrest. On February 02, 2011, just days prior to Mr. Dean’s trial, Ontario County and NYSP Officers claimed that Mr. Dean abducted a woman (Ms. Attridge-Kuchinick) at gun point on the corners of Baker Road and Elton Road, in the Town of Ionia, NY and placed and all point bulletin and contacted several news and media sources to be on the lookout and that he was armed and dangerous. Mr. Dean was arrested while eating lunch in his truck parked at the McDonald’s on Lake Ave, Rochester, NY after being surrounded by Rochester Police. After Mr. Dean exited his vehicle, police asked if he had a weapon and he said NO, and they asked to search his truck to which he said “go ahead, I have nothing to hide”. After an extensive search and no weapons were found, Mr. Dean was placed in the back of an RPD car, not handcuffed and his wife was placed in another police car. The RPD Officer told him that he was not under arrest and that they were waiting for someone to come from Ontario County to speak with him.
After some time, NYSP Inv. Szoczei arrived on scene and located where Mr. Dean was being held and approached the police car, wherein he opened the driver’s rear door and leaned in saying to Mr. Dean “gotcha now a**hole”. When Mr. Dean moved his hands, Inv. Szoczei leapt back saying “why is he not in handcuffs?” and slamming the police car’s rear door. A short time later, Mr. Dean was removed from the police car and handcuffed and placed into an Ontario County Sheriff’s car wherein he was told he was being arrested for menacing. He was transported to the West Bloomfield Town Court and arraigned on said menacing charge and remanded to the Ontario County Jail again, without bail, and pending an order of the Ontario County Court cancelling his bail status claiming that the charges were another setup by the District Attorney again during an interview with reporters at the Courthouse in West Bloomfield.
Mr. Dean’s bail was rescinded on February 04, 2011 in front of Ontario County Court Judge Hon. Craig J. Doran and remanded to the Ontario County Jail again without bail.