Overcast 51°
Tag:

Teterboro Airport

News
Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ
Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ A Puerto Rican resident who coordinated a private shipment of more than 300 pounds of cocaine into Teterboro Airport is headed to federal prison for a mandatory 10 years. Mariano Enrique Arroyo Perez – also known as “Humilde” – took a deal from the government rather than risk a trial. He’ll have to serve out the entire plea-bargained term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. The scheme involved smuggling more than a quarter-ton of cocaine into the United States on private planes flying into the small local airport in Bergen County from 2017 through July 2019, U.S. Attorne…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Jet Of One Of Richest Men In World Tracked At Teterboro Airport Jet Of One Of Richest Men In World Tracked At Teterboro Airport
Jet Of One Of Richest Men In World Tracked At Teterboro Airport A Twitter account that tracks private jets of Russian oligarchs says that a jet belonging to of the world's richest men flew out of Teterboro Airport Thursday, March 24. Ukrainian-born Leonard Blavatnik's jet N600EB left the airport around 9:25 a.m., Russian Oligarch Jets said citing flight-tracking service ADSB Exchange.  ROJ's Twitter page is run by the same Florida teen who Elon Musk paid to stop tracking his private jet. The tweet quickly began racking up comments: "Atlantic City trip?" one person said. "Hoagies run?" another joked. Blavatnik, a naturaliz…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
News
Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ
Puerto Rican Man Admits Plot To Smuggle 330 Pounds Of Coke Into NJ A Puerto Rican resident admitted coordinating a private shipment of more than 300 pounds of cocaine into Teterboro Airport, federal authorities said. Mariano Enrique Arroyo Perez, 29, took a deal from the government rather than risk a trial, pleading guilty Tuesday in federal court in Newark to conspiring to distribute five or more kilos of coke, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. The conspiracy unraveled after four men not on the manifest boarded a private Teterboro-bound plane in Puerto Rico with "particularly heavy" luggage, raising the pilots' suspicions, Honig said. Investiga…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Bomb Threat Locks Down Teterboro Airport Ahead Of UN General Assembly's Return Bomb Threat Locks Down Teterboro Airport Ahead Of UN General Assembly's Return
Bomb Threat Locks Down Teterboro Airport Ahead Of UN General Assembly's Return A bomb threat temporarily locked down Teterboro Airport in advance of this week's U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, authorities confirmed. They didn't immediately say whether Port Authority police bomb dogs found anything during a hour-long search of the airport's four private aviation companies -- known as fixed base operators (or FBOs) -- early Sunday. The call had come into Bergen County dispatch around 6 a.m., responders said. Moonachie Avenue and Fred Wehran Drive were closed, as well. World leaders from 132 countries will convene at the U.N. Secretariat Building along the East Riv…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Tense Moment: NJ Officer Grabs Out-Of-State Driver Reaching For Loaded Gun Tense Moment: NJ Officer Grabs Out-Of-State Driver Reaching For Loaded Gun
Tense Moment: NJ Officer Grabs Out-Of-State Driver Reaching For Loaded Gun A potential tragedy was averted when a Wayne police officer grabbed an out-of-state driver as he reached toward a loaded gun on the floor of his car in the parking lot of a Route 46 hotel, authorities said. Patrol officers spotted the vehicle – its windows fogged and loud music coming from inside – parked in the Ramada Inn lot last Wednesday, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. They asked the driver, identified as Michael Walker, 25, of Baton Rouge, LA and his passenger to step out of the car after both admitted smoking pot, he said. Walker said that “he needed to put his shoes on first," Daly …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
NJ Couple Cover Cost Of Flying In 7,400 N-95 Respirators From CA To Teterboro NJ Couple Cover Cost Of Flying In 7,400 N-95 Respirators From CA To Teterboro
NJ Couple Cover Cost Of Flying In 7,400 N-95 Respirators From CA To Teterboro A shipment of 7,400 N-95 respirator masks arrived at Teterboro Airport early Tuesday to be distributed to area hospitals to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Making it possible were a Los Angeles-based company that makes vapes and vape products and a New Jersey couple who’ve become titans of the investment advisory industry. CEO Daniel Shapiro of Inhale Health was aboard the NetsJets Challenger 350 that brought the masks from Van Nuys, CA. Picking up the transportation tab for the business jet were prominent benefactors Ric and Jean Edelman. Crew members with Signature Flight Supp…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco