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Man with 114 prior arrests charged with theft Monroe - On July 14, Monroe Village Police arrested and charged Robert Hennekens of Marlboro with petit larceny after police said he stole several DVD’s from a local business and then fled. Police said Hennekens, 48, has 114 prior arrests, the majority for petit and grand larceny, by dozens of police departments in the Hudson Valley and in New Jersey and Georgia. Police said 21 of those cases are still open in various Hudson Valley courts. This is his second arrest by the Monroe police on larceny charges. He was sentenced to six months in the Orange County Jail following his arrest on Feb. 18, 2010. Medical Center moves patients from Goshen and Middletown, opens new hospital inWallkill Middletown - On Friday, Aug. 5, Orange Regional Medical Center will move patients from the Arden Hill Hospital in Goshen, New York and Horton Campus in Middletown to the new Orange Regional Medical Center at 707 East Main Street, Middletown (in the Town of Wallkill). An estimated 300 patients will be relocated to the new state-of-the-art facility; the first new hospital in New York State in over 20 years. All patients will be relocated to the new hospital in one day.