RED HOOK, NY — Two employees at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health were arrested following an incident involving a teenage resident at the facility.
The Rhinebeck Bureau of Criminal Investigation received a report on March 26, 2026, of an incident at the behavioral health facility in the Town of Red Hook.
An investigation determined that staff member Caitlin Cambridge, 36, of Wappingers Falls, used excessive physical force by pushing a 16-year-old resident into a chair and then using a desk to physically push the resident across the room.
Investigators determined that teaching assistant Erika J. Travis, 48, of Kingston, was present and witnessed the incident but failed to intervene and failed to report it.
Immediately following the incident, when the resident was cleaning up, Travis dumped the contents of a desk the resident had just picked up, prompting the resident to clean it again.
The incident was later identified through an internal video audit.
Further investigation revealed Cambridge provided a false account of the incident.
Cambridge was arrested on March 27, 2026, and charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the first degree, a class E felony, and falsifying business records in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Travis was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Both Cambridge and Travis were issued appearance tickets returnable to the Town of Red Hook Court on April 23, 2026, at 5 p.m.
