FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: JANUARY 15, 2019
RE: PRESS RELEASE – PEOPLE V. MAURICE STANSBERRY, SR., MAURICE STANSBERRY, JR., and KEVIN GARDENER
An Ulster County Grand Jury filed an indictment today in Ulster County Court charging Maurice Stansberry, Sr., Maurice Stansberry, Jr., and Kevin Gardener with Murder in the Second Degree for killing Mark Lancaster on December 1st, 2018, on Sawkill Road in the Town of Ulster. The indictment charges all three defendants under New York’s felony murder statute for Lancaster’s death which occurred during the defendants’ flight from an armed robbery. The indictment further charges the defendants with Robbery and weapons charges.
The Office of the Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide and determined the cause of death to be the result of a gunshot wound.
The defendant will be scheduled for arraignment on the indictment in Ulster County, County Court.