FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: NOVEMBER 30, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE – CONNOR CHARGOIS PLEA
November 30, 2018 Connor Chargois of Saugerties, NY, pled guilty in Ulster County Court to one count of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the third degree. Mr. Chargois was arrested by members of the Town of Saugerties Police Department in February of this year following information they had received that the defendant had posted comments on the internet relating to “Eric and Dylan”, the individuals responsible for the horrific Columbine School shooting. Chargois was a student at Saugerties High School at the time.
In the ensuing investigation, police seized from Chargois a quantity of ammunition of varying calibers, homemade knives, machine fabricated gun parts, a prototype of a firearm that Connor Chargois admitted he had been manufacturing in the basement of his house, in addition to a number of completed homemade firearms in both .22 and 9mm caliber capacities.
Mr. Chargois is scheduled for sentencing before County Court Judge Donald A. Williams February 8, 2019.