A Trenton dealer admitted in federal court that she sold a Jersey Shore woman the fentanyl dose that killed her, authorities said.Tarashanna Blake, 33, met the 39-year-old victim near her Englishtown home, where the sale was made, on May 15, 2018, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.Englishtown police found the buyer dead of an overdose later that day, with several folds of what ...

An unidentified man found stabbed Monday in Palisades Park died Tuesday afternoon, authorities confirmed, as investigators tried to determine who he is -- and who killed him."The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Palisades Park Police Department are investigating a homicide that occurred in Palisades Park," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella wrote in a brief ...

Witnesses said you couldn't imagine the stink when a tractor-trailer carrying chicken carcasses lost part of its load as rush-hour temperatures on Route 17 neared 90 degrees on Monday. Hay and chicken parts "flew all over the highway" after a strap on a tarp came loose from the trailer as it headed down the hill on the southbound highway in Ramsey shortly before 6 p.m., one witness ...

A South Jersey man was convicted in federal court for his role in a scheme to defraud the IRS of more than $3 million.Jurors in U.S. District Court in Camden agreed that John Barry Jr., of Pemberton and accomplices in New York and elsewhere doctored tax returns that helped clients eliminate outstanding mortgage debts by claiming that a substantial amount of taxes had already been ...

A drunk Bronx driver crashed and was captured near the George Washington Bridge after leading Tenafly police on a chase, authorities said.A borough officer began pursuing the speeding Honda, which had front-end damage, on Route 9W shortly after 10:30 a.m. SundayThe Honda headed north into Alpine before getting onto the southbound Palisades Interstate Parkway, Capt. Timothy E. O'Reilly ...

A Newark man was sentenced Monday to a plea-bargained 6½ years in federal prison for helping a gunman drag an Uber driver from her car and throw her to the ground during a carjacking.Raquin Tanner, 25,  will have to serve just about all of the term because there's no parole in the federal prison system.The victim was in the driver’s seat of her parked car on Summer Avenue in Newark ...

A man suffered life-threatening injuries when he was struck by a train in Garfield over the weekend, authorities said.The 8:17 p.m. Bergen County Line 1883 train from Hoboken to Waldwick struck Nassir K. Essery, 21, of Garfield in the area of Eberhard and Outwater lanes near the Plauderville station at 8:50 p.m., a New Jersey Transit spokeswoman reported.He was taken to ...

A Yonkers man was sleeping when he was struck in the arm by gunfire in a Paterson, New Jersey home before dawn Monday, July 26, authorities confirmed.It was just after midnight when shots rang out on East 23rd Street off Park Avenue, just around the corner from where city police last week raided an open-air drug market, responders initially said.The sleeping 35-year-old victim and three ...

A Yonkers man was sleeping when he was struck in the arm by gunfire in a Paterson home before dawn Monday, authorities confirmed.It was just after midnight when shots rang out on East 23rd Street off Park Avenue, just around the corner from where city police last week raided an open air drug market, responders initially said.The sleeping 35-year-old victim and three vehicles were ...

COVID-19 hardly fazed a Rockland doctor who, with his wife, continued to collect bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering millions of dollars in genetic tests from his offices in Pennsylvania, a federal grand jury in Newark, New Jersey charged.Yitzchok “Barry” Kurtzer, age 61, and Robin Kurtzer, age 60, both of Monsey, collected monthly cash kickbacks and bribes ranging in exchange ...