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Corrections Officer Arrested In Viral Video Capturing Atlantic City Casino Assault
A Monmouth County corrections officer was arrested after a fight caught on video at an Atlantic City casino's shopping mall, authorities said. Keila Diaz, 47, of Freehold, has been suspended without pay, a spokesperson for the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Daily Voice on Wednesday, Sept. 18. She and 35-year-old Damian Pineyro of Hazlet were arrested in the brawl on Sunday, Sept. 15. Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden said Diaz, who graduated from the county's police academy in 2014, is "expected to be held fully accountable for her actions." "This type of behavi…
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DOG
Attack
: Five Children, Two Adults Hurt In Unruly Atlantic City Incident
Five children and two adults were wounded when their two dogs encountered another on a walk and turned on them in Atlantic City, authorities said. Two of the juveniles were walking their dogs in a fenced-in area of Baltic Avenue when the animals encountered the third dog around 3:40 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, local police said. The dogs became aggressive towards each other prompting them to break free from the children and, without warning, turned on the juveniles and began attacking, police said. Additional children and adults became involved in an effort to assist the children from being atta…
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Best Hospitals In NJ Ranked In Newly Released Report
US News & World Report has released its annual rankings of the best hospitals in New Jersey. At the very top are Morristown Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center. Morristown Medical Center was nationally ranked in three specialties, while HUMC was nationally ranked in four specialties. Ninety-eight hospitals in the Garden State were evaluated, with the addition of health equity and cancer ratings. 15. Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden 13. Tie between Ocean University Medical Center in Brick and Jefferson Health-Stratford, Cherry Hill and Washington Townshi…
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Mom Who Ran Into Ocean To Rescue Kids Expected To Make Full Recovery: Brigantine Police
A 28-year-old mom who had to be rescued herself after running into the ocean to rescue her children in distress earlier this month is expected to make a full recovery, police in Brigantine said. The woman had been in critical condition after the incident around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 13. The two children were wading in the ocean when they appeared to have become overpowered by the current, witnesses said. Their mom ran into the ocean to try to rescue them, but suddenly became distressed herself, and disappeared underwater. A witness called 9-1-1 immediately, bringing Brigantine Beach Pa…
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Man Critical After Setting Himself On Fire In Atlantic City, Police Say
A man who set himself on fire overnight in Atlantic City was in critical condition as of Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The 24-year-old Somers Point man was found with severe burns by police on the 2000 block of Atlantic Avenue around midnight, police said. An attendant from the gas station used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out. The man was transported to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Division with serious, life-threatening injuries. An investigation revealed that the man doused himself with rubbing alcohol before using a lighter to set himself on fire, pol…
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Video Released Of Atlantic City Bicyclist Struck, Killed In Police Car Crash
State authorities released surveillance video from up the street of a bicyclist struck and killed in a crash with an Atlantic City police car. The officer was “responding to a routine call for service in a marked patrol vehicle, with no lights or siren activated” when the crash occurred in the intersection of Arkansas and Arctic avenues around 8:30 p.m. June 18, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Everett Stern, 63, was riding past traffic stopped at a red light when the police cruiser entered the intersection and his bicycle slammed into the driver’s side, Bruck said. …
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Pro Poker Player Seeks $1.25M In Damages For Lifetime Borgata Ban
A professional poker player is suing the Borgata after an apparently offhand comment he made to a desk clerk about jumping out of a window got him banned for life. Scott Robbins of Millbury, Massachusetts is seeking more than $1.25 million, a major portion of which he alleges represents lost earnings from Atlantic City poker tournaments, court papers show. The suit says Robbins, 54, was checking in at the popular hotel and casino for a Borgata $3,500 Main Event in September 2019 when a front desk clerk asked if he wanted a high or low floor for his room. “If I had to jump from a high floor…
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Atlantic City Councilman MD Hossain Morshed Hospitalized In Assault, Police Say
Police are investigating the assault of an Atlantic City councilman. Fourth Ward Councilman MD Hossain Morshed, 47, was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries following the attack at the intersection of Florida and Atlantic avenues around 10:45 p.m. July 15, local police said. No further information was released. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Atlantic City Police Department Criminal Investigations Section at 609-347-5766. Information can be text to tip411 (847411). Begin the text with ACPD. All tips are anonymous
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Atlantic City Woman, 57, Struck, Killed While Helping Stranded Motorist At Route 30 Crash Scene
A motorist who stopped to help another motorist involved in a crash was struck and killed in South Jersey, authorities said. Atlantic City police were called to Route 30 on a report of a collision about 10 p.m. Wednesday, a department spokesman said. Responding patrol officers found that a Jeep SUV operated by an unidentified driver, 35, from Atlantic City, struck a center median and became disabled in the left lane of eastbound traffic. Several vehicles stopped to assist in the removal of the woman from the disabled vehicle, according to Lt. Kevin Fair. Then, as a Toyota Camr…
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NYC Men In Tropicana Brawl Stabbings Indicted
UPDATE: One of two New York City men accused of stabbing a pair of New Jersey patrons at an Atlantic City casino tossed two knives and 14 cocaine vials under a vehicle when police found him, a state indictment alleges. Jabari O. Cummings, 31, of Brooklyn was sitting in the vehicle outside AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, where the victims had been taken after a predawn brawl at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, the indictment returned in Trenton says. Seeing police approaching, Cummings tried to stash the drugs and weapons, it says. Authorities charged Cummings and Delro…
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NJ Attorney General Releases Video Of Incident Involving Deceased Atlantic County Jail Inmate
New Jersey's attorney general released surveillance video Friday of an incident involving a 41-year-old Atlantic County Jail inmate who later died after being taken to a local hospital. Hamilton Township police responding to a trespassing call arrested Mario Terruso, of Mays Landing, shortly after 1 p.m. Sept. 15, 2019, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. They processed Terruso and sent him to the county lockup after finding an outstanding warrant, Grewal said. Terruso began feeling ill at the jail, so corrections officers began preparing to transport him to the hospital, the attorney…
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Video
: Atlantic City Police Help Deliver Baby Girl
Whoa, baby! That's all one can say after this story. Spoiler alert: You can view the end result via the video linked above. On Saturday, Atlantic City Police Officers Auttika Taing and Justin Peyton were leaving AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Division, when a vehicle pulled behind them. A frantic driver told the patrol officers that her friend needed immediate medical attention. The officers went to the passenger side and spoke to a woman that had just given birth and the baby was in her pants, according to police. The officers could clearly see movement from insid…
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These NJ Hospitals Are 'Weeks Away' From Getting Early Doses Of
Covid-
19 Vaccine
It's only a matter of weeks before several New Jersey hospitals receive an early shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine, state officials said. As part of Operation Warp Speed, the nearly half-dozen area hospitals will get the frozen shipments of the vaccine to keep in Arctic-level sub-zero freezers -- even before it's approved by the FDA. While no dates were given, New Jersey was "weeks away from the first doses of a vaccine being ready for distribution to our health care workers... and months away from a vaccine being readily available for public distribution," Gov. Phil Murphy said. …
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Video
: 'Stop! Stop!' NJ Officers Shout Before Shooting Man Who Rushed Them With Broken Bottle
"We don't wanna do this, man. Stop! Stop!" an officer shouts over and over again before police in Atlantic County shoot a Pennsylvania man who charged at them with a broken bottle, dramatic video released Friday shows. Officers alternately implore and command Amir Johnson, 30, to drop the bottle the Aug. 6 late-afternoon standoff in the middle of a Ventnor highway. “Put it down, bro, we don’t wanna do this,” an officer shouts. "Drop the bottle! Drop it! Stop! Stop!" the officers repeatedly shout at Johnson, of Wilkes Barre, to stop, but he doesn't, the video shows. He's only feet away whe…
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Boy, 12, Speeds Away From Officer In Stolen Car Before Crashing Into Pole In Atlantic City
A 12-year-old boy crashed a stolen car while speeding away from a motor vehicle stop in Atlantic City, authorities said. Police officer Aaron Jones was stopped by a concerned citizen on New Jersey Avenue saying there was a car being driven by a juvenile at a high rate of speed around 9:50 a.m. Monday, Atlantic City police said. The office attempted to stop the car but the driver refused, then crashed into a pole on the 600 block of Connecticut Avenue, police said. The boy had been driving a car that had been reported stolen earlier that morning, authorities said. The boy was arrested with…
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Missing Bergenfield Group Home Resident Found In Atlantic City
BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A Bergenfield adult group home resident who went missing exactly a week earlier was found Monday -- nearly 135 miles away. Checking hospitals, as is done whenever those with medical conditions go missing, police found 40-year-old Thomas Araneo at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City, Capt. Mustafa Rabboh confirmed. Araneo, who authorities said was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was last seen at Vantage Health System on West Palisade Avenue in Englewood. Originally from East Hanover in Morris County, he's been known to ride NJ Transit, the captai…
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