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Holland Tunnel Driver With Loaded Gun, $17K Toll Debt Impersonated Officer: Port Authority PD Holland Tunnel Driver With Loaded Gun, $17K Toll Debt Impersonated Officer: Port Authority PD
Holland Tunnel Driver With Loaded Gun, $17K Toll Debt Impersonated Officer: Port Authority PD A woman who once made headlines for an alleged COVID scam was carrying a loaded gun -- and owed $17,000 in unpaid tolls -- when Port Authority police stopped her at the New Jersey end of the Holland Tunnel, Daily Voice has learned. Sharita T. Patterson, 36, of Brooklyn was stopped in Jersey City for having a bogus temporary Georgia license tag on her car just before noon Tuesday, July 25, said Port Authority Public Information Officer Lenis Valens. PAPD officers spotted the gun "in plain view" and seized it, Valens said. They also seized Patterson, a single mother of three who Valens said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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TRI-COUNTY CRIME SPREE: Unique Tattoo Makes ID’ing NJ Car Thief Simple, Police Say TRI-COUNTY CRIME SPREE: Unique Tattoo Makes ID’ing NJ Car Thief Simple, Police Say
Tri-county Crime Spree: Unique Tattoo Makes ID’ing NJ Car Thief Simple, Police Say When it comes to distinguishing marks, it's tough to beat an enormous butterfly-skull neck tattoo. It helped police identify an 18-year-old Newark man charged with breaking into homes or vehicles in no fewer than three North Jersey counties. Authorities in Rochelle Park became the latest to charge Zaire Gaskins, with police in even more towns possibly following. ROCHELLE PARK: Gaskins and two accomplices tried taking a BMW from a residence on West Oldis Street on Sept. 18, Police Lt. James DePreta said. When they couldn’t find the keys inside the vehicle, one of them unsuccessfully tried t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Gunman Wanted In Triple Jersey City Shooting Captured By US Marshals At Bergen County Hotel Gunman Wanted In Triple Jersey City Shooting Captured By US Marshals At Bergen County Hotel
Gunman Wanted In Triple Jersey City Shooting Captured By US Marshals At Bergen County Hotel US Marshals captured a 31-year-old Newark man accused of killing a woman and wounding two other people in a shooting in Jersey City last February, authorities said Tuesday, June 21. Jimmy B. Colclough shot Raven Harris dead and wounded the other victims -- one 28, the other 29 -- at the intersection of Old Bergen Road and Neptune Avenue on Feb. 10, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.  Colclough had been wanted on murder, attempted murder and weapons charges when he was captured at a hotel on Paterson Plank Road in Carlstadt, Suarez said. He remained held at the…

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by Cecilia Levine
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5-Year-Old Boy Swallows Meth; Mom, BF Charged: Hudson Prosecutor 5-Year-Old Boy Swallows Meth; Mom, BF Charged: Hudson Prosecutor
5-Year-Old Boy Swallows Meth; Mom, BF Charged: Hudson Prosecutor Two people have been arrested after a 5-year-old boy swallowed methamphetamine in Hudson County, authorities said. The child's unidentified 20-year-old mom and her 22-year-old boyfriend were each charged with endangering the welfare of a child, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The incident occurred on Friday, Feb. 18, and the child was in good health following the incident, Suarez said. Both the mother and the boyfriend were arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City and were remanded to the Hud…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Hudson County Inmate Awaiting Sentencing Dead In Apparent Suicide Hudson County Inmate Awaiting Sentencing Dead In Apparent Suicide
Hudson County Inmate Awaiting Sentencing Dead In Apparent Suicide A Hudson County inmate died of what county officials believe were self-inflicted injuries on Wednesday, officials said. Albert Roman, 51, was taken to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment of the undisclosed injury Wednesday evening, and was pronounced dead at 5:03 p.m., NJ.com reports citing county spokesman Jim Kennelly. Roman's death marks the first suicide at the Hudson County Correctional Facility since 2018. Roman was arrested by North Bergen police last November for violating a restraining order, criminal mischief and contempt of court, NJ.com reports. His sentencing was rep…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man
Bayonne Ex-Con Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of Jersey City Man Authorities on Wednesday charged a Bayonne ex-con with murder in the shooting death of a man on a Jersey City street the night before. Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m.  Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the pro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Middlesex County Dad, Veteran Correction Officer, 44, Dies Of Coronavirus Middlesex County Dad, Veteran Correction Officer, 44, Dies Of Coronavirus
Middlesex County Dad, Veteran Correction Officer, 44, Dies Of Coronavirus A 19-year-veteran of the New Jersey Department of Corrections and father of three has died from complications due to the coronavirus, making him at least the second prison worker to die of the disease, state prison officials said. Nelson Perdomo, 44, of Middlesex County, was admitted to Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge Township last month with a high fever and placed on a ventilator. “He lost his battle with this terrible virus,” the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association said in a Facebook post on Friday. More than $21,000 was raised on a GoFundMe page for Perdomo's f…

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by Jon Craig