GUILDERLAND -- Wesley Staroba's black locust tree will not make him a criminal after all.
Town police arrested Staroba in April on reckless endangerment and criminal mischief charges after the tree came down on his neighbor's shed. On Thursday, the case ended when a judge threw out the endangerment count.
"I'm relieved because the truth finally came out," Staroba said.
The neighbor, James Murphy Jr., an Albany police officer, claimed Staroba purposefully cut down a tree that crashed into a fence as well as a shed near where his young children play, according to the criminal complaint in the case.
But Staroba maintained that the 45-foot …
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