On August 3, 2026, the New York State Police arrested Kelvin Tanksley, 43, of Syracuse, following an investigation into a series of threatening telephone calls made to the New York State Police Troop D communications center in Oneida on the evening of August 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
The investigation determined that Tanksley placed multiple telephone calls to the Troop D communications dispatch center during which he repeatedly threatened to kill a New York State Trooper, a State Police Communications Specialist, and a protected party who is the subject of a valid New York State Order of Protection against him. During the calls, Tanksley also allegedly directed threatening and derogatory statements toward the victims because they were white.<\/p>\n
As a result of the investigation, Tanksley was charged with:<\/p>\n
Aggravated Harassment in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime (Class E Felony)Criminal Contempt in the First Degree (Class E Felony)Aggravated Family Offense (Class E Felony)<\/p>\n
Tanksley was located in the city of Syracuse by members of the Troop D VGNET and CSU Unit, taken into custody without incident, and transported to SP Oneida for processing.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned in Madison County CAP Court and remanded in lieu of $10,000 cash bail or a $50,000 secured bond.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 3, 2026, the New York State Police arrested Kelvin Tanksley, 43, of Syracuse, following an investigation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-314966","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\/314966","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=314966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}