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North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack
One man was stabbed with a pocket knife and another beaten with a wooden plank during a brawl between North Jersey truckers that broke out early Friday morning, authorities said.
Alptug Akkus and Bryan Tay, both of Paterson, had been working together in Arizona when they got in a dispute earlier in the week, Police Chief Anthony Manna said.
Surveillance tapes show Tay, 40, hiding behind a car in the KZY Logistics parking lot on Commerce Road, armed with a plank, apparently waiting for Akkus, 29, to pull in and drop off his tractor trailer, Manna said.
As Akkus pulled in, Tay jumped ou…
Covid-19: Five States Removed From NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List, One Territory Added
Travelers from five states have been removed from the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
This marks the first week since the list was started on Thursday, June 25, when eight states were initially named, that no new states with high COVID positivity testing rates have been added. However, one new territory has been added: Guam.
The five states removed on Tuesday, Aug. 25 are Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland and Montana.
The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents …
Support Surges For 5 Kids Of Hudson County EMT Killed In Arizona Murder-Suicide
The Hudson County community is rallying for five children whose mother and former North Bergen EMT was killed by her boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself.
Jasmine Berumen, 39, was fatally shot in the family’s Arizona home Aug. 20.
Four of Berumen’s five children were home during the incident, and one of them made the initial call to police, according to a GoFundMe started for the family.
As of Monday afternoon, the fundraiser had garnered more than $10,200 in donations, which will be used to help Berumen’s mother, Annette, relocate and care for the children.
“Annette and her husb…
