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Ex-Con Repeat Offender, NJ Roommate Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More
An ex-con whose Point Pleasant boardwalk arrest became part of a viral video was busted once again on drug charges, this time along with his roommate, authorities said.
A SWAT team led a raid on the Grand Street apartment in Garfield that Zakee Murphy, 32, shares with fish tank technician Ryene Perry, 34, landing both in jail on various drug-related counts, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Murphy has been arrested dozens of times in multiple counties over the past decade, records show.
This time he's accused of using the Garfield home to stash the drugs along with more than $8,…
NJ Restaurant Owner, 'Green Book' Actor ID'd As Victim Whose Body Was Found Dumped In NYC
Bergen County actor and restaurant owner Frank Vallelonga Jr. was identified as the alleged overdose victim whose body was found dumped on a Bronx sidewalk earlier this week, authorities said.
Vallelonga, 60, a longtime Paramus resident more recently of Franklin Lakes, lived in a long shadow cast by his late father, Frank Sr., an actor known for his recurring role on "The Sopranos" -- and whose nickname, "Tony Lip," gave his son's Italian pasta and pizza joint its name.
According to Bronx court reports, a city man loaded the lifeless body into a vehicle owned by Vallelonga's younger brother…
'So Unfair': Shock, Anger Spread After NJ Man Is Killed By Driver In Apple Store Crash
Shock, grief and anger continued to spread with the news that a construction worker who died when a driver crashed his SUV into an Apple store in a Boston suburb was from Passaic County, NJ.
Kevin Bradley, 65, of Wayne was apparently moving a barrier outside the store with co-worker Vince Ruotolo of Maywood when Ruotolo said his pal’s life “was cut short” on Monday, Nov. 21.
“Life is so unfair,” Ruotolo wrote, noting that Bradley had a wife, children and grandchildren.
“It's getting real now,” Michelle Filippone of Clifton noted on Tuesday. “A reporter from NBC Boston just emailed me and …
Update: Victim In Hackensack Barbershop Shooting Laid To Rest, Two Charged With Murder
UPDATE: On the day when loved ones laid to rest a Maywood man who was gunned down outside a Hackensack barber shop last weekend, authorities announced the arrests of his alleged killer and two accomplices.
A Catholic prayer service and burial were held on Thursday morning, Nov. 17, for Vidal Nieves, a 28-year-old single dad who worked at a dollar store in Passaic.
At the same time, charges were being brought against:
Dior Alston, a 21-year-old laborer from South Hackensack;
Malik Abel, 21, an electrician from Maywood;
Rayshawn Powel-Myhand, a 19-year-old cashier from Hackensack.
Alston a…
Four $50K Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In NJ
Four second-tier prizewinning Powerball tickets from the Wednesday, Oct. 26 drawing were sold across New Jersey.
The tickets matched four of the five white balls and the Power Ball drawn
Those tickets were sold at the following locations:
Atlantic County: Boom Food Mart, 36-01 Ventnor Ave., Atlantic City;
Bergen County: Krauser’s Food Store, 109 West Pleasant Ave., Maywood;
Cape May County: Acme Market Store #3835, 2087 Shore Rd., Ocean View; and,
Passaic County: Market Street Shell, 10 18th Ave., Paterson.
The winning numbers were: 19, 36, 37, 46, and 56. The Red Power Ball number …
Bail Reform Poster Boy Wanted On Warrants Out Of Eight North Jersey Towns Nabbed By Local PD
A serial burglar wanted on warrants out of no fewer than eight towns in four counties was captured by Maywood police and charged with a break-in at a local dry cleaner.
Nicolas G. Torres, 40, of Passaic, has been repeatedly arrested and then subsequently released under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, mostly on commercial burglary charges, over the past several years, records show.
His criminal record stretches back more than a decade before that, however.
Earlier this year, Torres was linked to break-ins at businesses in Fort Lee, Leonia, Englewood Cliffs, Little Falls, Montclair, Ridg…
