Corinth Man Arrested After Dead Body Found in Vacant Apartment
A Corinth man has been arrested after a corpse was found in his former place of residence on Walnut Street in the Village of Corinth.
Roy Cheyenne, 49, was arrested by Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office and charged with felony concealment of a corpse.
Deputies were first dispatched to the apartment on June 1st at 6:24 p.m. after a caller reported that they had found a dead body. Shortly after, deputies arrived on scene and found the corpse.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the corpse was found concealed under blankets in a bedroom that Cheyenne had previously occupied but had since vacated.
“Cheyenne is accused of having a reasonable expectation that a human corpse would be produced at an autopsy for a criminal investigation and allegedly concealed it under blankets in a bedroom in a dwelling he formerly occupied which is now vacant,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
The Sheriff’s Office also said that the corpse appeared to have been in the apartment for a significant period of time.
Cheyenne was arraigned in the Corinth Town Court and remanded into the custody of the Saratoga County Jail pending further proceedings.
The corpse’s identity is still under investigation and cause of death has yet to be determined. In a press release shortly after the discovery of the corpse, the Sheriff’s Office said that there was no danger to the public.
This is not Cheyenne’s first arrest this year. In April, Cheyenne was arrested by the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office on charges of felony menacing a police officer, felony 3rd degree criminal possession of a weapon, felony first degree unlawful imprisonment and misdemeanor 4th degree criminal possession of a weapon over an incident that occurred in February on Main Steet in Corinth.
At the time, Cheyenne was accused of unlawfully restraining someone by not giving them the key to a padlock while armed with knives. Cheyenne allegedly threated deputies with said knives and acted as if he was going to throw them at the deputies.