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Cliffside Park Detective Nabs Man For Snatching $1,100 Worth Of Meat From Parked Delivery Truck Cliffside Park Detective Nabs Man For Snatching $1,100 Worth Of Meat From Parked Delivery Truck
Cliffside Park Detective Nabs Man For Snatching $1,100 Worth Of Meat From Parked Delivery Truck A Cliffside Park detective ID'd a man who with a partner took nearly $1,100 worth of meat from a delivery truck in broad daylight, authorities said. The truck was parked off the corner of Anderson and Washington avenues when a dark-colored SUV with both thieves pulled up shortly after 12:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 18, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. One served as the lookout while the other emptied the truck in multiple trips, the deputy chief said. Detective Jason Pinzone identified the driver as Edgardo J. Gil Li, a 34-year-old Peruvian national with a prior record who most recently l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Passaic Man, 34, Among Three Dead In Illinois Bus Crash Passaic Man, 34, Among Three Dead In Illinois Bus Crash
Passaic Man, 34, Among Three Dead In Illinois Bus Crash Juan Vasquez-Rodriguez, a 34-year-old Passaic resident, was one of three people killed when a Greybound bus collided with three trucks on I-70 in Illinois on Wednesday, July 12, authorities said The crash, which is under investigation by the National Transportation Board and Illinois State Police, also injured more than a dozen people. Just before 2am emergency crews responded to a crash involving a Greyhound Bus and several semi trucks near the 70... Posted by Drew Mitchell on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 It happened around 1:55 a.m., and involved three commercial motor vehicles on the we…

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by Sam Barron
Business
Olympian Who Trained In NJ Bringing Peruvian Restaurant To Amazon's New Virginia Headquarters Olympian Who Trained In NJ Bringing Peruvian Restaurant To Amazon's New Virginia Headquarters
Olympian Who Trained In NJ Bringing Peruvian Restaurant To Amazon's New Virginia Headquarters An Olympic rower who spent three years training in New Jersey is bringing the restaurant that he opened as a food truck with his brother 10 years ago to Amazon's new Virginia headquarters this summer. Giuseppe Lanzone, who trained as a rower with Team USA in Princeton from 2006 to 2009, and Mario Lanzone, say the opportunity to bring Peruvian Brothers to HQ2 in Arlington was one they couldn't turn down. “We came [to America] to look for a better future,” the former Olympian said. “I feel like I am living the American Dream... and we are still trying to achieve that every day.” The brother…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Drug Mule Caught With 15½ Pounds Of Coke Wrapped In Chocolate At Newark Airport Gets 30 Months Drug Mule Caught With 15½ Pounds Of Coke Wrapped In Chocolate At Newark Airport Gets 30 Months
Drug Mule Caught With 15½ Pounds Of Coke Wrapped In Chocolate At Newark Airport Gets 30 Months UPDATE: A Peruvian woman was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle nearly 15½ pounds of cocaine hidden in chocolate candy through Newark Airport. Yolanda Fonseca Melgarejo, 60, a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Peru, was nabbed after flying in from Lima in March 2019. She had seven kilos of coke "concealed within wrapped chocolate candy in her luggage," Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. Malgarejo took a deal from the government rather than risk trial, pleading guilty this past June to a single count of importing controlled s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport
Jamaican Man, Peruvian Woman Admit Smuggling 22 Pounds Of Cocaine Into Newark Airport Two people in two days this week admitted smuggling more than 22 pounds of cocaine combined into Newark Airport. Perez Omar Gibbs, 38, of Jamaica told a federal judge in Newark via videoconference that he hid more than six pounds of coke in two bags of coffee and four picture frames aboard a flight from Montego Bay, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. In an unrelated case, Honig said, Yolanda Fonseca Melgarejo, 59, a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Peru, told another judge in Newark that she concealed more than 15 pounds in chocolate candy on a flight …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
NJ Resident Details Being Kidnapped, Tortured By Peruvian Intelligence Service In New Memoir NJ Resident Details Being Kidnapped, Tortured By Peruvian Intelligence Service In New Memoir
NJ Resident Details Being Kidnapped, Tortured By Peruvian Intelligence Service In New Memoir A New Jersey resident and former National Police lieutenant has penned a memoir detailing how he survived being kidnapped and tortured by the Peruvian National Intelligence Service. “The Unknown Basement: Based on a Real-Life Story,” details Saloman H. Soria's painful experience of being kidnapped, interrogated, tortured and imprisoned in the basement of the National Intelligence Service of Peru.  His story begins with the events that led up to his kidnapping, chronicles his false imprisonment and concludes with where he nearly 30 years later. In his role as Lieutenant of the National…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey
ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey Two fugitive murder suspects – one from Brazil who fled to Newark and another from El Salvador who was living in Elizabeth – were among 115 foreign nationals captured by ICE agents in New Jersey last week, officials said. Also seized in last week’s sweep of nationals illegally living in New Jersey were a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member found in Paterson and a deported child abuser from Mexico who was living In Guttenberg, they said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundup targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators who were “a threat to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Twice-Deported Immigrant Accused Of Strangling Jersey City Nanny Indicted Twice-Deported Immigrant Accused Of Strangling Jersey City Nanny Indicted
Twice-Deported Immigrant Accused Of Strangling Jersey City Nanny Indicted The 33-year-old Jersey City man arrested in March for allegedly killing a woman while she was jogging in a city park was indicted Wednesday, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said.  Jorge Rios -- who was deported from the U.S. in 2003 and then again a year later -- has been charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping.  Carolina Cano, a 45-year-old nanny from Jersey City, was killed March 24 as she was going for a run in Lincoln Park. Her body was found in a lake at the park. Marks on her body indicate she had been strangled.  Rios was arr…

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by Paul Milo
Schools
BERGENFEST: Local Teens Organize Massive Bergen County Music Festival BERGENFEST: Local Teens Organize Massive Bergen County Music Festival
Bergenfest: Local Teens Organize Massive Bergen County Music Festival Hundreds of people are expected to turn out for a music festival organized by Bergen County teens. Bergenfest is a "local concert on a global mission" with Wé McDonald of NBC's "The Voice" headlining the June 29 event. Held at the Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, the concert is for non-profit humanitarian organization TEEEM: The Empathetic Entrepreneur Equality Mission. TEEEM raises funds and awareness toward world-wide community needs and includes students from across North Jersey. BergenfestContributed Each high school is dedicated to a particular country: Ridgewood H…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Roselle Man Charged In Child Porn Case Arrested When He Returns To U.S. Roselle Man Charged In Child Porn Case Arrested When He Returns To U.S.
Roselle Man Charged In Child Porn Case Arrested When He Returns To U.S. A Roselle man who traveled to his native Peru after more than 1,000 images of child pornography were allegedly found at his home was arrested when he came back to the United States over the weekend, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said.  The search of 32-year-old Jose Ravello's Sheridan Avenue home last year turned up 20 devices containing the images, according to the prosecutor's Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, which headed the investigation. Ravello left for Peru shortly after the search was carried out, the prosecutor's office said.  Union County Sheriff’s Officer G…

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by Paul Milo
News
Community Rallies For 'Selfless' NJ State Trooper Mourning Wife, 45 Community Rallies For 'Selfless' NJ State Trooper Mourning Wife, 45
Community Rallies For 'Selfless' NJ State Trooper Mourning Wife, 45 Elkin Orellano of Bloomfield gives wherever he can. The New Jersey State Trooper works at 5K charity runs. He has spent time away from his family to volunteer in Puerto Rico. The father of two would help anyone who needs it, friends say. Now, Orellano is the one in need. More than $6,700 had been raised on a GoFundMe for him and his two daughters as of Monday morning, after his wife of 22 years, Karina Orellano, died suddenly last month. Karina Orellano, 45, died on March 2 due to complications of a brain aneurysm, says the GoFundMe launched by Jose Soto. She was born in Peru and worked a…

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by Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
Clients Remember Paramus Makeup Artist For Her Beauty 'Inside And Out' Clients Remember Paramus Makeup Artist For Her Beauty 'Inside And Out'
Clients Remember Paramus Makeup Artist For Her Beauty 'Inside And Out' To those who knew Evelyn Abanto, there's no wonder why she pursued a career in cosmetics:  "She was a beautiful person inside and out," said multiple people expressing condolences. Evelyn died peacefully surrounded by family on July 26, following a battle with stomach cancer. She was 41 years old. "She was so kind and praying for my health," said Jennifer Puch. "I'm sad to hear this news but happy to know she is no longer suffering." Evelyn was Celenia Mercado's "go-to" makeup artist and helped beautify her for her wedding. "Words cannot descr…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Look For Area Mom, International Marathon Swimmers Under The GWB Saturday Look For Area Mom, International Marathon Swimmers Under The GWB Saturday
Look For Area Mom, International Marathon Swimmers Under The GWB Saturday Fifteen swimmers. Twenty bridges. It's going down this weekend and you might just spot them under the George Washington Bridge Saturday morning as part of New York Open Water's "20 Bridges Swim." This year, swimmers hail from Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Gibralter and more. Among them is 58-year-old Susan Kirk from Califon, New Jersey.  The mother of two remembers always enjoying the open water – water skiing, playing in the surf, and so on. But it wasn’t until about 20 years ago that she began venturing into open water swimming, starting with ocean miles down the New Jersey shore…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
Teen Paramus Gymnast Living Dream As Junior Olympic Athlete Teen Paramus Gymnast Living Dream As Junior Olympic Athlete
Teen Paramus Gymnast Living Dream As Junior Olympic Athlete Corinne Bunagan has chalk on her hands and determination on her face. She stands under the uneven bars at Eastern National Academy of Gymnastics in Paramus and inhales deeply. Moments later, the 15-year-old junior olympian is catapulting her body between the bars, flipping and turning and holding positions at the top. Bunagan sticks the landing and steps off the mat, making her way back over to the chalk. It's clear she's not satisfied with her performance. And so she does it again. And again.  And again. Three years ago, Bunagan switched from the public school system to home schooling …

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by Cecilia Levine