Kurth

GOSHEN – Former Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Lloyd Kurth has been given a conditional discharge by Visiting Judge Robert Neary.

Kurth had been convicted of grand larceny in the fourth degree, criminal possession of stolen property and official misconduct.

Orange County Sheriff Carl DuBois expected that Kurth would not be sentenced to any jail time. “He’s been a police officer and corrections officer for close to 20 years and his threat to the community was not there,” he said.

“The only problem I have is the entire case was not able to be judged. There were other incidents; this was just one incident of many, which did not make it in front of the court,” he said. DuBois said his office did make its case to the district attorney, but those cases were not prosecuted for various reasons “with no fault to the sheriff’s office.”

Kurth was given a three year suspended sentence following his guilty convictions in a non-jury trial.

He was terminated from his job at the Sheriff’s Office after he was convicted in October.