Alleged murder plot broken up in Rotterdam.By Spotlight Staff As of Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -6:03 p.m.
#Police charged Tanner D. Ruane, 23, with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery with a deadly weapon on a warrant from New Mexico State Police.
#Ruane was arrested at the Pilot Gas Station on Route 7 in Rotterdam after he spent the night in an Albany hotel, police said. He allegedly had traveled to Vermont with his uncle, Mark Staake, 41, in order to murder two people in the St. Albans area near the Canadian border. The two had tried to cross into Canada but Staake was arrested for being in violation of felony probation for aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon. Ruane was released at the border.