A Garfield school bus aide and a jailed Wallington man awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting a pre-teen were charged with contacting the victim.Floridaliz DeJesus, 56, was charged with contempt of a court order after she reached out to the victim on behalf of Pedro Perez, 31, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday.Detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit ...

A Wyckoff police officer got two-for-one when he stopped a drunk driver from Englewood, authorities said.Officer Joseph Benanti stopped an Infiniti Q50 SUV whose driver was tailgating, failing to yield and failing to maintain a lane on Sicomac Avenue, Detective Lt. Joseph Soto said.It turned out the driver, Nelson Quesada-Aristy, 29, was wanted on a warrant out of Jefferson County, ...

A South Jersey mom who’s become one of the most recognizable “Reopen New Jersey” activists and a Monmouth County correctional officer were among the latest people charged with the riot at the U.S. Capitol building earlier this month.“Men, we need more men,” Stephanie Hazelton, 49, of Medford, shouts on a video as she waves her arm on the Capitol steps in an attempt to get more muscle to ...

A former New Brunswick Water Department meter reader who took payoffs to help reduce customers’ water bills by as much as 90% was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison.Guillermo Quinones, 51, of Somerset joins two former co-workers who also got five-year state prison terms: Joseph DeBonis, a 58-year-old former senior account clerk from Toms River, and William Ortiz, 59, of ...

A 23-year-old Saddle Brook man told police he was carjacked at gunpoint in Passaic late Thursday.The victim said he was assaulted by more than one person as he got out of the car near the corner of River Drive and Westervelt Place shortly after 11 p.m.The robbers took his keys and fled with the vehicle, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman ...

Two drivers escaped serious injury in a crash Friday afternoon in New Milford.Bystanders got the female driver out of a Toyota Camry after it was knocked onto the driver's side by a Toyota 4Runner at the corner of Henley Avenue and River Road shortly before 2 p.m.Both she and the SUV driver didn't appear seriously injured, they said.Borough police and EMS from Holy Name Medical Center ...

Hackensack police raided an ex-con’s apartment Friday and seized 461 heroin folds, 82 Oxycodone pills, pot and $1,170 in drug proceeds, authorities said. Cyrus Maurice Hammond, 27, had been dealing in the neighborhood of mid-rise and garden apartment buildings near Hackensack High School and Carver Park, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said.Records show that the unemployed Hammond already had ...

An Air Force officer from Camden County had child porn videos and images on his cellphone that he shared with others through a cloud, said federal authorities who took him into custody.Federal agents began investigating Ryan Osinski, 31, of Cherry Hill, following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that “images of child sexual abuse were shared from an IP ...

ELDER FRAUD: A Lyndhurst senior was befriended by a drug user whose intentions were no good, authorities said. The thief was caught, however, thanks to a real friend, they said.The 78-year-old victim didn’t know that Melissa Kaups, 39, of Lyndhurst has a drug-related criminal history stretching back more than 20 years, authorities said.The victim suddenly discovered Kaups in her home ...

It happened in a blink: A man who at first looked like a browsing customer suddenly snatched a $10,000 handbag from a Tenafly store and ran off with it, authorities said.It was shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday when the thief wandered around a bit and then grabbed the Hermès handbag from a display at Mint, Capt. Michael deMoncada said.He ran from the upscale vintage consignment shop that’s ...