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Prosecutor: DWI Driver Charged In Deadly Crash That Killed Passenger In Jersey City Prosecutor: DWI Driver Charged In Deadly Crash That Killed Passenger In Jersey City
Prosecutor: DWI Driver Charged In Deadly Crash That Killed Passenger In Jersey City Authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a driver involved in a crash that left his 30-year-old passenger dead in Jersey City last February. Jose Colon, 31, was heading west on Columbus Drive  approaching the roadway split when his vehicle, a 1996 Honda Civic, struck the attenuator- protected guard rail around 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 28, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. HIs passenger, Jesus Gonzalez, was found dead at the scene near the Merseles Street split, Suarez said. Colon was taken to Jersey City Medical Center in critical condition. He surrendered to aut…

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by Cecilia Levine
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New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder
New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder A Nicaraguan man who remained at large following the 1999 rape and murder of an Englewood nail salon worker became the first defendant targeted by Bergen County’s first-ever Cold Case Homicide Unit. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo and state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal on Thursday announced the creation of the unit – a collaboration between the prosecutor’s office and New Jersey State Police that’s dedicated solely to the review of cold-case homicides in the county. Prosecutor's detectives have investigated cold cases for years, but the new collaboration with their state co…

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by Jerry DeMarco