Monticello Man Indicted for Murder

Posted 12/14/16

District Attorney Jim Farrell announced today that Rickey Bolden, 36, of Monticello, N.Y. was indicted today by a Sullivan County Grand Jury for Murder in the 1 st Degree, Murder in the 2 nd Degree …

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Monticello Man Indicted for Murder

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District Attorney Jim Farrell announced today that Rickey Bolden, 36, of Monticello, N.Y. was indicted today by a Sullivan County Grand Jury for Murder in the 1st Degree, Murder in the 2nd Degree (2 counts), Robbery in the 1st Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 3rd Degree, Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Grand Larceny in the 4th Degree and Tampering with Physical Evidence, all felonies.

The indictment alleges that Bolden intentionally caused the death of John Ferrari, 61, of Westwood, N.J., at the Pardess Bungalows in the Town of Thompson on September 21, 2016, during the course and commission of a robbery of the victim.  The indictment further alleges that Bolden used a sharp weapon to strike the victim causing his death, stole the victim’s car, burglarized a building on the property in an attempt to retrieve a DVR recorder and tampered with that DVR.  Farrell said that Ferrari was employed as the caretaker at the bungalow colony and was working at the colony when the acts alleged in the Indictment occurred. 

Sheriff’s deputies were investigating a missing persons report when they found Ferrari’s body hidden on the bungalow property on September 23, 2016.  If convicted of Murder in the 1st Degree, Bolden faces life without the possibility of parole.  Bolden was arrested after an investigation by the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department, New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Identification Unit and the District Attorney’s Office.  Bolden is remanded to the Sullivan County Jail without bail pending arraignment in Sullivan County Court on December 16, 2016. 

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