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Paramus Officer Nabs Teens In Route 17 Stop With Nearly Two Dozen Pieces Of Stolen Mail Paramus Officer Nabs Teens In Route 17 Stop With Nearly Two Dozen Pieces Of Stolen Mail
Paramus Officer Nabs Teens In Route 17 Stop With Nearly Two Dozen Pieces Of Stolen Mail A Paramus police officer caught a trio of teens with nearly two dozen pieces of mail -- tax-related paperwork, utility payments and such from Saddle River and Upper Saddle River -- during a traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Nicholas Tanelli stopped their speeding Toyota Highlander near Midland Avenue on southbound Route 17 shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 5, Police Chief Robert M. Guidetti said. The driver, Robert Marte-Nunez, 18, of Queens didn't have a license, registration or insurance for the vehicle, the chief said. Tanelli was talking with Marte-Nunez when he spotted the un…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Trio In Clifton Attacked, Knife-Wielding Assailant Caught Trying To Flee US: Police Trio In Clifton Attacked, Knife-Wielding Assailant Caught Trying To Flee US: Police
Trio In Clifton Attacked, Knife-Wielding Assailant Caught Trying To Flee US: Police Two men were stabbed and another cut during a fight in Clifton with a Lodi man who was later caught trying to flee the country, police said. Mirsad Kolasinac, 51, was captured by federal agents at JFK Airport in Queens, Police Lt. Robert Anderson said. He remained held on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Bergen County Jail. Officers responding to an overnight fight outside the Village Square shopping center early this month found two men who'd been stabbed with a large kitchen knife at the Botany Lounge, Anderson said. One victim, 26, had multiple stab wounds in his legs, as well at facial injuries…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds
Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds A Hudson County man who posed as a nurse on Facebook and the Hinge dating app kidnapped, assaulted and sexually abused several women in New Jersey and New York, federal authorities charged. Herman Calvin Brightman, 30, abducted one of the women and her 2-year-old child in the Bronx and brought them to his West New York home at knifepoint, said Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It was only one of what NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban called many “deeply disturbing and heinous acts” that included threats to kill his victims. Brightman also stalked a wom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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4 NYC Men Busted In Home Break-In Are Members Of ‘Chilean Burglary Crew’ In NJ, NY, Mayor Says 4 NYC Men Busted In Home Break-In Are Members Of ‘Chilean Burglary Crew’ In NJ, NY, Mayor Says
4 NYC Men Busted In Home Break-In Are Members Of ‘Chilean Burglary Crew’ In NJ, NY, Mayor Says Four NYC men busted in an attempted home burglary in North Jersey are members of a “Chilean burglary crew” that has been committing similar crimes throughout New Jersey and New York, officials say. Four men from Queens broke the back sliding glass door of an occupied home on Denise Drive in Kinnelon around 6:40 p.m. Saturday, Mayor James J. Freda said on the town’s official Facebook page. The resident yelled at the men, who ran from the home and fled in a waiting vehicle, Freda said. Local police found the suspect vehicle on Boonton Avenue and stopped it in Pequannock Township after a brie…

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by Valerie Musson
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AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids
Authorities: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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by Jerry DeMarco