Two charged with sexually assaulting woman in motel

NEWBURGH – Two men are in custody charged with rape in connection with the sexual attack on a woman early Monday morning, Newburgh Town Police said.

Police arrested Harold Hester, 28, of Forest Park, GA and Stanford Dean, 19, of Quality Inn, Route 17K in Newburgh on charges of rape in the first degree.

The victim, a woman in her 20s, reported she was talking with a man on Broadway in Newburgh at about 2 a.m. when she was invited back to the Quality Inn on Route 17K. She went with him and hung out for a while before she was forcibly raped by the man and another man who entered the room.

She was later driven back into the City of Newburgh by the first suspect where she jumped from the car on Broadway.

Relatives brought her to St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital for treatment and that’s when the police were alerted.

Town Police detectives and members of the multi-agency IMPACT Unit investigated and obtained a search warrant for evidence in the room where the incident took place.

It was then that police established the men committed the crime and arrested them. They were arraigned and remanded to the Orange County Jail, Hester on no bail and Dean on $50,000 bail.