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Wildwood Escort IDd As 7th Victim Of Giglio Beach Serial Killer, Police Say
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was formally charged with murdering a seventh victim. Heuermann, 60, of Massapequa Park, was indicted for second-degree murder in the killing of Valerie Mack in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday morning, Dec. 17. Mack, a 24-year-old Wildwood, NJ woman was working as an escort when she disappeared in 2000. A group of hunters discovered her skeletal remains wrapped in a plastic bag in a wooded area of Manorville in November 2000. She had been decapitated, and both of her hands had been severed from her body, prosecutors said. Her right leg had a…
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Gilgo Beach Murders: 'Significant Development' To Be Announced By Investigative Task Force
Investigators in the Gilgo Beach serial murders are gearing up to announce a major break in the case. The Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force – which includes the Suffolk County DA’s Office, Sheriff’s Office, and New York State Police – will reveal a “new significant development in the investigation” during a press conference planned for Tuesday morning, Dec. 17. It will follow a scheduled appearance by accused serial murderer Rex Heuermann inside a Suffolk County courtroom in Riverhead, the DA’s Office said. Suffolk County DA Raymond Tierney, Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr, Acting Suf…
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Newly-Minted Millionaire! Bergen County Man Claims $1 Million NY Lottery Prize
A Bergen County resident is celebrating a life-changing windfall after claiming a $1 million prize from the New York Lottery sold over the summer. Paul Seo, Little Ferry, matched the first five numbers — 34, 55, 59, 65, and 70 — missing only the Mega Ball, which was 12. Seo opted for a lump sum payment, taking home $651,000 after required withholdings. Seo purchased the winning ticket from the Aug. 13 drawing at 741 Montauk Inc., a BP gas station located at 741 Montauk Highway in Shirley, NY. The New York Lottery reported that Mega Millions generated $441,182,494 in sales during the 2023-2…
Politics
Former Congressman, Gubernatorial Candidate Lee Zeldin Named To Trump's Cabinet
President-elect Donald Trump has selected former New York congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In a statement on Monday, Nov. 11, Trump said Zeldin "will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses," adding that Zeldin will still maintain "the highest environmental standards." In a post on social media, Zeldin said, "It is an honor to join President Trump’s Cabinet as EPA Administrator. "We will restore US energy dominance, revitalize our auto indu…
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Bodycam Footage Shows Teen's Arrest After Route 3 Pursuit On Stolen Motorcycle
"What the hell's the matter with you?" was among the first questions a Lyndhurst officer had for an 18-year-old man who had been eluding him on a stolen motorcycle. The arrest was captured on body-worn camera footage, obtained via the Open Public Records Act and released by Transparency Bodycam on YouTube. The 22-minute video shows Lyndhurst Officer Michael LeStrange questioning then arresting Rozario Ymeraj, who racked up 21 summonses and faced criminal charges after a broad-daylight pursuit on Thursday, May 23, as reported by Daily Voice. The teen was operating the bike wi…
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: Stolen Long Island Motorcycle Chase Gets NJ High School Senior 21 Tickets
A Lyndhurst High School senior who tried to elude a township police officer on a stolen motorcycle received 21 summonses -- and was charged criminally -- after he finally stopped, authorities said. Rozario Ymeraj, 18, was charged with eluding and receiving stolen property following the broad daylight chase into Rutherford last week. Lyndhurst Police Officer Michael LeStrange was directing traffic at Ridge Road and New York Avenue when he saw the motorcycle blow by several vehicles stopped at a light around 1 p.m. last Thursday, May 23, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Driving without a l…
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Sister Of Slain NJ Woman Says Accused Long Island Serial Killer 'Deserves To Rot'
The younger sister of a New Jersey woman whose disappearance eventually led to the arrest of a midtown Manhattan architect who investigators believe preyed on prostitutes said she was relieved by the news. "I wished, hoped & prayed for this day," Sherre Gilbert wrote in a Facebook post. "I’m glad I’m still alive to see it." Rex Heuermann, 59, of Massapequa Park was seized after authorities matched his DNA during a full-scale investigation of what became known as the Gilgo Beach murders. Authorities have so far linked Heuermann to four of the slain victims, not including 23-year-old C…
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Were Two NJ Escorts Also Victims Of Gilgo Beach Serial Killer?
So far, 59-year-old suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged in the deaths of four women on Long Island, dating back to more than a decade ago. The Massapequa Park architect and married father of two, was arraigned on murder charges in Suffolk County Court on Friday, July 14, in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Clockwise from top left: Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Megan Waterman.Suffolk County Police Department The bodies of 10 people, including two from New Jersey and Philadelphia, are …
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NJ Woman's Long-Ago Disappearance Leads To Arrest In Long Island Serial Killings
A decade-long hunt for a serial killer that began after an escort from New Jersey went missing on Long Island has led to the arrest of a midtown Manhattan architect who investigators believe preyed on prostitutes. Rex Heuermann, 59, of Massapequa Park was seized after authorities matched his DNA during a full-scale investigation of what became known as the Gilgo Beach murders. What began as a search for Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old Craigslist escort who lived in Jersey City, led to the discovery of the skeletal remains of four victims along a sandy stretch of Long Island highway in 2010.…
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Modern Jazz Giant Wayne Shorter, The 'Newark Flash,' Dies At 89
Wayne Shorter had "courage in his heart, love and compassion for all, and a seeking spirit for the eternal future," fellow jazz giant Herbie Hancock said of his best friend following his death. Shorter, who influenced modern jazz as much if not more than most famed composers, passed away Thursday in Los Angeles. "The Newark Flash" was 89. Shorter was smooth before aficionados began calling jazz that. He was quite playful, too. The 12-time Grammy Award winner may be most widely known as the leader of Weather Report, pioneering a sound that became known as fusion. Shorter also collaborated…
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Newark Woman Admits Stealing Nearly $94K Worth Of Balenciaga Bags In Hamptons
A Newark woman pleaded guilty to grand larceny for her part in stealing $94,000 in handbags from a luxury retail store in the Hamptons. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced the guilty plea of Baseemah Davis on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for stealing from the Balenciaga store in East Hampton in March. “The message here is clear, organized retail theft in Suffolk County will not be tolerated,” said Tierney In addition to pleading guilty to grand larceny, Davis, 34, also pleaded guilty to criminal possession of stolen property and possession of a controlled su…
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Long Island Man Charged After Carlstadt Residents Find Wheels Gone, Vehicles On Wood Blocks
Three different residents in one Bergen County neighborhood found their cars on wood blocks, said authorities who charged a Long Island man with jacking up the vehicles and stealing all the wheels. Gilberto Grullon, 26, of the Suffolk County town of Brentwood, NY, surrendered to Carlstadt police late last week, Sgt. John Cleary said. Detectives had identified him in the late-April thefts of $12,000 worth of tires and rims from vehicles in the area of Marsan Drive and 8th Street, Cleary said. Police charged Grullon with theft, then released him pending a first appearance in Central Judicial…
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Long Island Fugitive Seized By NJ State Troopers Following Route 17 Bus Incident Identified
UPDATE: A man questioned by New Jersey State Police following an alleged incident on a Greyhound bus turned out to be a fugitive from Long Island. Christopher Milton, 41, of Brentwood, NY was taken into custody in a park-and-ride lot on southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood around 6:15 p.m. Monday, June 27, after the bus driver pulled over, dialed 911 and reported that he'd threatened to shoot another passenger. No weapons were found, but the troopers did discover that Milton was wanted in Suffolk County for failing to pay child support, records show. State police charged Milton with being a f…
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Long Island Fugitive Seized By NJ State Troopers Following Route 17 Bus Incident
UPDATE: A man questioned by New Jersey State Police following an alleged incident on a Greyhound bus turned out to be a fugitive from Long Island. Christopher Milton, 41, of Brentwood, NY was taken into custody in a park-and-ride lot on southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood around 6:15 p.m. Monday, June 27, after the bus driver pulled over, dialed 911 and reported that he'd threatened to shoot another passenger. No weapons were found, but the troopers did discover that Milton was wanted in Suffolk County for failing to pay child support, records show. State police charged Milton with being a f…
Police & Fire
NJ Man, 24, Hospitalized After 9-Story Fall From Hotel Balcony
A New Jersey man was recovering from serious injuries after falling from a hotel balcony on Long Island Monday, May 23, authorities said. South Amboy's Alexander Keating, 24, was on a ninth-floor balcony at around 12:45 a.m. when he fell over a railing at the Hyatt Regency Long Island in Hauppauge, Suffolk County police said. Keating survived the fall and was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital in critical condition, said police. Police are still investigating what led up to the fall. Anyone with information is asked to contact Suffolk County Police Department’s Fou…
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NY Man Shoots Teen During 'Ring-Run' Prank, Reports Say
A Long Island man was charged after authorities said he shot a 15-year-old boy who had knocked on the doors of his home and run away as a prank, according to multiple news outlets. James Moshier, age 64, is accused of shooting through the door of his Suffolk County home located in the Town of Southold on Peconic Bay Boulevard on Thursday, April 21, after the teen knocked on the front and back doors, according to a report from ABC 7. The boy was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening wound to his arm, the news outlet reported. CBS New York reported that the boy had been attending a b…
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Laundrie Family Attorney Provides Projected Timeline For Release Of Cause Of Death
A lawyer for the family of Long Island native Brian Laundrie said it may take two to three weeks for a forensic anthropologist to analyze his remains to provide a time and cause of death. Family Attorney Steven Bertolino, of East Islip in Suffolk County, told Fox News Digital the anthropologist will likely be able to provide some answers. An earlier autopsy by the Florida District 12 Medical Examiner conducted after Laundrie's remains were found on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Carlton Reserve in North Port, Florida, in Sarasota County came back inconclusive. The remains were then sent to t…
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NJ's Fetty Wap Out On $500K Bail After Indicted For Trafficking 100 Kilos Of Drugs Across US
Paterson native and rapper Fetty Wap was released from prison on a $500,000 bond after he was indicted last month in a cross-country drug trafficking scheme. The rapper, whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II, was one of six people including a 23-year-old New Jersey correctional officer charged in a federal case out of the Eastern District of New York. The "Trap Queen" singer was released by US District Judge Joanna Seybert on a $500,000 secured bond, GPS monitoring and other restrictions after an appearance in Central Islip, NY federal court. The rapper was named in the indictm…
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Friend Believes Laundries Told Cops Where To Find Son In Exchange For Immunity, New Report Says
A longtime friend of Brian Laundrie believes the late 23-year-old's parents may have exchanged information with law enforcement about his whereabouts for immunity, according to a report from The Sun. An unnamed friend of Laundrie's said they believe Laundrie's parents struck a deal with either the Florida district attorney or the FBI to prevent being charged with "harboring, assisting, or whatever it might be," the outlet said Sunday. The anonymous source said they got the information from a close friend of Laundrie's parents, The Sun reports. Laundrie's remains were found last week …
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Fetty Wap Trafficked 100 Kilos Of Opioids Across US, Federal Officials Say
New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap was among six men charged with running an elaborate cross-country drug distribution ring out of Long Island, authorities announced Friday. The rapper, whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II, was arrested Thursday by FBI agents at Citi Field. An indictment was unsealed in Central Islip federal court Friday, Oct. 29, charging six men with conspiring to distribute and possess controlled substances, including five of them also charged for using weapons in connection to drug trafficking. The six men distributed more than 100 kilograms of cocaine, heroin, fe…
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Police Detect 'A Lot Of Oddness' In Brian Laundrie's Parents' Story, Report Says
A spokesperson for the local police department in Sarasota County, Florida searching for Brian Laundrie said in a new interview that there has been "a lot of oddness" in the information his parents have shared with law enforcement. In the interview with NewsNation, City of North Port PD Public Information Officer Josh Taylor said he doesn't know what to believe when it comes to the information Laundrie's parents have shared with police about their son's disappearance. "We've said from the beginning, there's a lot of oddness here," Taylor said. "A lot of things that just didn't make sense.…
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'Don’t Try To Find Me,' Brian Laundrie Reportedly Says In Chilling Pinterest Post
"Don't try to find me." That was the message Brian Laundrie posted on social media that authorities are hoping may actually lead to his apprehension. Laundrie, 23, is a person of interest in the murder of the 22-year-old Gabby Petito whose body was found on Sunday, Sept. 19, in the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. He hasn't been seen in more than a week, since he allegedly went hiking in a nature reserve near his home in Sarasota County in the City of North Port in Florida. Brian LaundrieNorth Port Police Department Since the confirmed identity of Petito and her death being labe…
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FBI, Police Probe Out-Of-State Brian Laundrie Sightings After Florida Disappearance
As the FBI and police in Florida returned to a nature preserve to search for the missing boyfriend of a New York woman whose body was found in Wyoming, tips of sightings have poured in from across the country, including neighboring southern states. Police in the City of North Port, in Sarasota County, Florida, resumed their search Tuesday, Sept. 22, for Brian Laundrie in the Carlton Reserve. An autopsy is expected to be conducted Tuesday to confirm the body found in a Wyoming park on Sunday, Sept. 19, is that of 22-year-old Long Island native Gabby Petito of the hamlet of Blue Point, in Suf…
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Search For Long Island Woman Goes National, Police Eye Uncooperative BF As Person Of Interest
The search for Long Island's Gabby Petito has gone national as police eye her boyfriend as a possible suspect. She and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, left Long Island in early July for a cross-country trip in her 2012 Ford Transit van. Petito's mom reported her missing to Suffolk County police on Sept. 1, since last hearing from her on Aug. 30. Meanwhile, Laundrie returned to his North Port, Florida home in his girlfriend's van after their cross-country trip together, has refused to cooperate with authorities. “As a father, I can imagine the pain and suffering Gabby’s family is going throu…
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Pagans Motorcycle Gang Leader From Long Island Takes Plea On NJ Gun Charge Following PA Party
The former national president of the outlaw Pagans motorcycle gang took a guilty plea in federal court on Wednesday after police caught him with a gun in New Jersey while returning to his Long Island home from a party in Pennsylvania. Keith Richter – a 62-year-old ex-con known as “Conan the Barbarian” – was returning to his Bay Shore (Suffolk County) home from a Pagan's Motorcycle Club party in Lancaster, PA when he was stopped in Mercer County on Feb. 20. Police found him carrying a loaded .45-caliber Ruger P345 handgun, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Rath…
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Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody
A fugitive Ecuadoran national from Hackensack who was apprehended on Long Island was returned to New Jersey this week to face charges of raping a pre-teen. ICE placed a detainer on Jorge Luis Mora, 37, whom a local judge in Hackensack ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending trial following his extradition Friday from New York. Mora became a fugitive after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office charged him earlier this year with sexually assaulting the victim in Hackensack in 2013. He already had a criminal record, with arrests in 2017 for harassment and violating a co…
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Rochelle Park PD: Long Island Fugitive Who Bought Motorcycle With Stolen ID Caught Trying Again
A wanted Long Island man who got away with buying a motorcycle with a stolen ID got caught by Rochelle Park police when he tried it again -- at the same store, authorities said. This time, Thomas Derosa, age 52, of Sayville presented identification stolen from a Texas man to finance the purchase of a $31,000 motorcycle at Bergen County Harley-Davidson this weekend, Lt. James DePreta said. A manager at the popular Essex Street shop called police, telling them that Derosa was involved in the fraudulent purchase of another motorcycle earlier this month. Detective Brian Gallina contacted the v…
Real Estate
Covid-
19: New Data Reveals Number Who Have Moved Out Of NYC During Pandemic, Where They've Gone
There are now numbers behind the mass exodus of New York City residents to the suburbs and beyond amid the COVID-19 pandemic. From March 1 through Oct. 31 this year, a total of 295,103 NYC residents have made change-of-address requests. That's according to data The New York Post obtained from the US Postal Service. Most went to Long Island -- a total of more than 40,000 (21,362 to Suffolk County, with 6,500 of that number in six zip codes on the East End, and 18,731 to Nassau County), followed by Westchester County (15,850) and 9,356 to Hudson County, New Jersey (which includes J…
Police & Fire
Lodi Man Wanted On Long Island Nabbed By North Arlington Police
GOTCHA! A North Arlington police officer captured a Lodi man wanted out of Long Island following a traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Andrew Porporino stopped a 2016 BMW going more than 20 miles over the 30 mph limit on northbound Schuyler Avenue and found the driver extremely nervous, Police Chief Scott Hedenberg said. Porporino also noticed a “strong overpowering odor of air freshener” believed to be masking the odor of pot, he said. A computer checked showed the driver, Thomas Gibson Jr., 48, had both a suspended license and a fully-extraditable warrant out of Suffolk County, Hede…
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): State Police ID Driver Shot Dead On Route 80
UPDATE: Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in Lodi last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and New Jersey State Police Lt. Colonel Fritz Frage. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach, NY; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, NY, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 2…
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Update
: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized
UPDATE: Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in Lodi last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and New Jersey State Police Lt. Colonel Fritz Frage. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach, NY; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, NY, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 2…
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