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BUSTED: Reputed Trinitarios Members Living In Fort Lee Charged In Major Drug Ring Takedown BUSTED: Reputed Trinitarios Members Living In Fort Lee Charged In Major Drug Ring Takedown
Bergen-Based Gang Members Charged In DEA Takedown: Feds A trio of Trinitarios street gang members who shared an apartment in Fort Lee slung fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin on both sides of the Hudson River before being busted last week, federal authorities charged. Ernesto Adon Martinez, 38, Luis Arismedy Gomez Torres, 28, and Deury Luis Gomez Torres, 25, drove back and forth "on a near-daily basis" between Fort Lee and an apartment just off Dyckman Street in the Fort George section of Manhattan where drugs were packaged and stashed, they said.The Trinitarios emerged in New York City in the 1990s as protection against rival gangs such as th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail
ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are looking for a 31-year-old man who escaped from the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark Friday. Luis Cordon-Guzman, Guatemalan national, was deported from the U.S. on April 24, 2019, and illegally reentered on an unknown date and location, a felony under federal law. He has multiple pending felony charges out Trenton stemming from a March 16 arrest by local police, ICE officials said. Following his arrest, ICE filed an immigration detainer with the Mercer County Correctional Facility (MCCF) in Trenton, and Cordo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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LOCKDOWN: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For COVID-19
Lockdown: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For Covid-19 The Hudson County Jail went into lockdown Sunday after two inmates tested positive for coronavirus, officials said. The inmates were quarantined in the hospital's rehabilitation center and will be treated according to guidelines established March 13, Hudson County spokesperson James Kennelly told NorthJersey.com. None of the immigration detainees being held at the Kearny jail or staff tested positive for COVID-19, Kennelly said. The news comes days after a corrections officer at the Bergen County Jail tested positive for COVID-19, prompting seven co-workers to self-quarantine as well.…

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by Cecilia Levine
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POLL: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed POLL: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed
Poll: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders unanimously voted to put a question on the ballot similar to the one New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal told them not to: "Should Sussex County aid ICE?"  (Story continues below poll). The board is asking voters to weigh-in on if it should "make county-owned tools, resources, personnel, and real and intellectual property" should be made reasonably available to ICE. Grewal last month criticized a similar ballot question that would have asked the county sheriff to ignore his "immigrant trust directive," and gave the Free…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid
Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid A Passaic teen who refused to open to the door for apparent ICE agents recalled the terrifying experience in a recent New York Times article. The girl -- Liza, who lives with her parents-- said she was startled awake at 1 a.m. Sunday by knock on the door by people she believed to be ICE agents, the article says. “'They said, ‘We need to talk to you, can you come outside, can you open the door?’" The Times reports.  "'I said, ‘Do you have permission to come inside my house, do you have a paper?’'" Liza saw several "know your rights" posts on Instagram -- and knew not to open her door.…

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by Cecilia Levine
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UPDATE: ICE Detainer Slapped On Hillsdale Stolen Car Thief Who Crashed In WTP UPDATE: ICE Detainer Slapped On Hillsdale Stolen Car Thief Who Crashed In WTP
Update: ICE Detainer Slapped On Hillsdale Stolen Car Thief Who Crashed In WTP Federal authorities issued a detainer on a 21-year-old Guatemalan national living in Hillsdale who led police on a chase that ended in a crash Thursday night in Washington Township. Ronald Gabriel Xiloj Alvarado remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail on charges out of both towns that include theft and resisting arrest. Alvarado was initially taken by ambulance to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for treatment of a head injury after slamming the sedan, stolen out of Hillsdale, into a utility pole at the corner of Clinton and Washington avenues during a brief chase. It was one o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson PD: Heroin Capsules Surgically Removed From Accused Dealer Paterson PD: Heroin Capsules Surgically Removed From Accused Dealer
Paterson PD: Heroin Capsules Surgically Removed From Accused Dealer PATERSON, N.J. -- Authorities had to have more than an ounce of heroin capsules surgically removed from an accused dealer who swallowed them, Paterson police said. Fernando A. Castillo, 39, of Union City was arrested in the 300 block of Grand Street and charged with possession of the 40 capsules with the intent to distribute them near public school No. 8, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. U.S. Homeland Security Investigations is prosecuting Castillo federally, Speziale said. HSI is the investigative arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a hybrid drawn from functions previous…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids
Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Federal agents' arrest of two Indonesian nationals as they dropped off their children may have violated a longstanding prohibition on immigration enforcement actions at “sensitive locations,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal, of Glen Rock, called on U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen to personally review the "deeply upsetting" incident. In a letter addressed to Nielsen, Grewal expressed “serious concern” about the arresst of Indonesian nationals Gunawan Liem of Franklin Park and Roby Sanger of Metuchen by agents of Immigration and Cust…

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by Jerry DeMarco