VILLAGE OF GENESEO: Livingston County Sheriff Thomas J.
Dougherty reports of an Allegany County resident on
felony charges after an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office. On January 31,
2019 Gordon L. Cassidy, age 47 from Canaseraga New York, was an inmate in the
Livingston County Jail and was allegedly found to be in possession of eight (8)
bags of an unknown white powder. As a result, members of the Sheriff’s Office
Jail Division and Criminal Investigations Division conducted a drug
investigation which included sending the unknown powder to the Monroe County
Public Safety Lab for testing. The lab testing identified the powder as heroin
and fentanyl. On September 26, 2019 Sheriff’s Investigators arrested and
charged Cassidy with felony Promoting Prison Contraband in the 1st Degree and
Criminal Possession on a Controlled Substance in the 7th Degree. Cassidy was
turned over to Central Booking Deputies at the Livingston County Jail for
processing and pre-arraignment detention. The District Attorney’s Office was
contacted in regards to bail due to the felony level charge. It was advised
that Cassidy should be held without bail due him having multiple prior felony
level convictions. Cassidy was later arraigned at the Livingston County
Centralized Arraignment Part (LC-CAP) at the Livingston County Jail before Town
of Groveland Justice Jenean Love. The Judge did remand Cassidy to the custody
of the Sheriff without the chance of bail.
