{"id":313336,"date":"2026-08-04T11:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313336\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:52:29","slug":"richfield-springs-man-arrested-after-inappropriately-touching-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313336\/","title":{"rendered":"Richfield Springs man arrested after inappropriately touching teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, 2026, at approximately 8:17 p.m., New York State Police at Richfield Springs arrested Douglas Nelson, 61, of Richfield Springs, for two counts of Forcible Touching and Unlawfully Dealing with a Child in the 1st degree, both misdemeanors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An investigation revealed that while at a residence in Schuyler Lake, Nelson allegedly made sexual remarks and touched the intimate parts of a 17-year-old victim.\u00a0 Nelson is also accused of trying to provide alcohol to the victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troopers arrested Nelson at his residence without incident.\u00a0 He was processed at SP Richfield Springs, then transported to the Otsego County Jail for Centralized Arraignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 30, 2026, at approximately 8:17 p.m., New York State Police at Richfield Springs arrested Douglas Nelson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-313336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}