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Delivery man charged in sexual assault Monroe - Monroe Village Police have charged a Union City, N.J., man with assaulting a woman in her home, where he came to deliver and assemble furniture. Det. James Frankild said the department received the complaint from a 29-year-old woman on April 22. She told police that she was at home along with a young child awaiting a scheduled furniture delivery. “The delivery person arrived at the home and while in the home assembling the furniture he sexually assaulted the woman,” the detective said in press release announcing the arrest. On Monday, May 2, Monroe Police arrested Jose Ortez, 32, and charged him with first-degree sexual assault and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. He was processed at headquarters and arraigned in Monroe Village Court and released after posting $3,000 cash bail pending a future court date. Tuxedo Park man pleads guilty to killing his father GOSHEN A 31-year-old man has pleaded guilty to killing his father and assaulting his mother last summer in the family’s home in Tuxedo Park. Jesse Green pleaded guilty in Orange County Court to manslaughter and assault Tuesday, a day before his trial was scheduled to begin. Green admitted to fatally stabbing his father, 66-year-old C. Daniel Green, in the family’s home in Tuxedo Park. He also pleaded guilty to battering his mother, 62-year-old Jacqueline Green, during the July 7 attack that prosecutors say was sparked by a dispute over money and property. Jesse Green was originally charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors say they agreed to the manslaughter plea to spare Green’s mother from having to testify against him. He’ll be sentenced June 13 to 30 years in prison. - The Associated Press NY law sheds 24,000 sex offenders from Web ALBANY A New York law is credited with removing 24,000 sex offenders from Internet social networking sites nationwide. The law proposed by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo requires sex offenders registered with the state to provide all their screen names and e-mail addresses, with regular updates. The information is sent to two dozen social networking sites which then block the offenders. Cuomo, now governor, says the law passed by the Legislature in 2008 is one of the most effective means to protect children from sex offenders in the nation. The law’s third anniversary was April 28.