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Hoboken Robber Punches One Employee In Face, Pushes Another To Ground, Police Say Hoboken Robber Punches One Employee In Face, Pushes Another To Ground, Police Say
Hoboken Robber Punches One Employee In Face, Pushes Another To Ground, Police Say A 22-year-old Hoboken man was arrested on robbery and assaulted charges after punching one store employee in the face and pushing another to the ground on Tuesday, authorities said. A store employee near 3rd and Jackson Street told police he was arguing with a customer later identified as Kyeise Lopez around 11:40 a.m., when Lopez began taking merchandise off of the shelves, Det. Lt. Danilo Cabrera said. As Lopez made his way out of the store without paying for the items, he punched the employee in the face and pushed another to the ground, Cabrera said. Lopez was identified as a susp…

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by Cecilia Levine
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LAWSUIT: Lenape Valley Schools Superintendent Alleges Age Discrimination LAWSUIT: Lenape Valley Schools Superintendent Alleges Age Discrimination
Lawsuit: Lenape Valley Schools Superintendent Alleges Age Discrimination The Superintendent of Lenape Valley Schools has filed a lawsuit against the regional board of education with allegations of harassment and ageism. Paul DiRupo says his contract as district superintendent was not renewed because the Lenape Valley Regional Board of Education President Richard Kuncken told him the group was “going younger,” according to a suit filed in Sussex County Superior Court. The comment was made after a meeting among board members regarding their decision not to renew DiRupo’s contract. DiRupo, 64, says he was further discriminated against due to his diagnosis of Multi…

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by Valerie Musson
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Woman Jumps In Front Of Atlantic City Mayor's Car Threatening To Kill Him, Authorities Say Woman Jumps In Front Of Atlantic City Mayor's Car Threatening To Kill Him, Authorities Say
Woman Jumps In Front Of Atlantic City Mayor's Car Threatening To Kill Him, Authorities Say A woman who police say jumped in front of Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr.'s car while he was driving and threatened to kill him was being held in jail. Small was driving in the parking lot of City Hall when a woman later identified as Nicole Staton jumped in front of his vehicle, forcing him to stop at 4:25 on Dec. 11, local police said. Staton began banging on Small's car windows as a small group gathered and watched. The mayor got out of his car in an attempt to speak with Staton, police said. Staton only continued to yell and then threatened to kill Small and his family, authorities…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police: Teaneck Ex-Con Fondles, Threatens Englewood Restaurant Worker With Razor Police: Teaneck Ex-Con Fondles, Threatens Englewood Restaurant Worker With Razor
Police: Teaneck Ex-Con Fondles, Threatens Englewood Restaurant Worker With Razor Englewood police captured a violent repeat offender from Teaneck who twice tried to fondle a restaurant worker before threatening her with a box cutter, authorities said. Responding officers found and arrested Jermaine Oshen Thompson, 37, after he’d fled the West Palisade Avenue restaurant, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. It was the sixth time Thompson had been arrested in the past 11 months. A judge had freed Thompson in September pending trial after he was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a domestic violence incident in Hackensack. He’d been arrested a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Trump Family Friend From Montclair Arrested On Cyberstalking Charges Trump Family Friend From Montclair Arrested On Cyberstalking Charges
Trump Family Friend From Montclair Arrested On Cyberstalking Charges A former Montclair resident who is family friends with Donald Trump's family was arrested and accused of cyberstalking three people and harassing two others. The criminal complaint against Ken Kurson -- who is close friends with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner -- was filed last week in the public corruption unit of the U.S. attorney's Brooklyn office. The alleged harassment was revealed earlier this year as part of a background check, when Kurson was nominated by the Trump administration to the board of National Endowment for the Humanities. The FBI discovered that Kurson had ha…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Elizabeth Man Accused Of Killing Victim In Front Of Teen Girl They Were Fighting Over Elizabeth Man Accused Of Killing Victim In Front Of Teen Girl They Were Fighting Over
Elizabeth Man Accused Of Killing Victim In Front Of Teen Girl They Were Fighting Over An Elizabeth man was tracked down in Upstate New York and accused of killing a Queens man in front of the 17-year-old girl they were fighting over, the NY Daily News reports. Patshawn McMitchell, 24, was tracked down in Watertown, NY -- 30 miles from the Canadian border -- and returned to Queens on Thursday, police said. McMitchell was charged with murder for the killing of 23-year-old Dahmel Miller, in the Queensbridge Houses on Vernon Boulevard near 40th Avenue Sept. 8. Miller was shot in the buttocks and stomach somewhere between the front door and first floor of a building as the …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers
Fair Lawn PD: Man Seized For Violating Order Of Protection Fights With, Spits On Officers A Fair Lawn man led borough police on a brief foot chase, then spit on and fought with officers after violating an order of protection, authorities said. Brandon Hernandez, 25, ran from officers who responded to a call to a 1st Street residence Wednesday afternoon, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. When they finally grabbed him, Hernandez fought with and spit on the officers before being subdued, Metzler said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him under police guard to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation. He was later transferred to the Bergen County …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car
Bogota PD: Teaneck Driver Masturbated, Shouted Obscenities At Women From His Car A Teaneck motorist shouted obscenities at women while masturbating in his car, Bogota police charged. Juan D. Hernandez-Morales, 19, was charged with lewdness and making harassing comments by borough detectives following victims' complaints, authorities said. "Hernandez-Morales habitually harassed and made lewd acts to females within the borough while driving by them on the roadway," a post by the department says. He was released pending a court hearing.

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by Jerry DeMarco
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VIDEO: 'I'll Knock You Out,' Angry NJ Costco Customer Growls Before Terroristic Threat Arrest VIDEO: 'I'll Knock You Out,' Angry NJ Costco Customer Growls Before Terroristic Threat Arrest
Video: 'I'll Knock You Out,' Angry NJ Costco Customer Growls Before Terroristic Threat Arrest A Costco customer is accused of making "terroristic threats" after losing his temper on a Jersey Shore cashier, authorities said. In a heated exchange posted on TikTok, the 48-year-old Barnegat man bad-mouths a cashier, calling her "an old, ugly hag," Stafford Township police said. At one point, the customer threatens to smack the cashier's husband and beat up her manager, according to this TikTok video.  "I'll knock you out, too. Get out of here, you little bitch," William Commauf of Cannonball Drive is captured snapping in a profanity-laced tirade, police said. The video — tak…

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by Jon Craig
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Longtime Dumont Principal Dismissed For Harassing Vice Principal Longtime Dumont Principal Dismissed For Harassing Vice Principal
Longtime Dumont Principal Dismissed For Harassing Vice Principal The principal of a Dumont elementary school has been fired and may now lose his pension for inappropriate behavior toward the school’s vice principal an arbitrator ruled as inappropriate, reports say. In a 53-page decision from Ruth Moscovitch, John Podesta, who became the Selzer School principal in 2015, was terminated from his position for harassing vice principal Jacqueline Bello and showing "inappropriate expressions of love," NorthJersey.com reports. The decision also prevents Podesta from being eligible for leadership positions within the K-12 district, the report says. Bello accused…

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by Valerie Musson
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Strip-Search Groping, Sex Exchanged For Sanitary Pads: Female NJ Inmates Detail Abuse By Guards Strip-Search Groping, Sex Exchanged For Sanitary Pads: Female NJ Inmates Detail Abuse By Guards
Strip-Search Groping, Sex Exchanged For Sanitary Pads: Female NJ Inmates Detail Abuse By Guards Groped. Sexually assaulted. Ordered to perform sexual favors in exchange for basic needs. That's how guards at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Hunterdon County treated female inmates, six former inmates testified during a hearing Wednesday in Trenton. The hearing was the fourth held by the Workgroup on Harassment, Sexual Assault and Misogyny in New Jersey Politics, founded in January by Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen). The U.S. Justice Department found decades-long sexual abuse at the prison, according to a report released earlier this year. Despite th…

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by Cecilia Levine
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WANTED: Authorities Seek Public's Help In Accused Bergen Stalker Manhunt WANTED: Authorities Seek Public's Help In Accused Bergen Stalker Manhunt
Wanted: Authorities Seek Public's Help In Accused Bergen Stalker Manhunt SEEN HIM? Authorities turned to the public for help finding a former Bergen County man wanted on stalking and harassment charges. Patrick McMeekin, 52, who recently lived in Hillsdale – and, before that, Mahwah -- maintains another home in Colorado, they said. Authorities believe he still returns to New Jersey. McMeekin doesn’t drive but is known to frequent public places, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and Hillsdale police said in a joint release. They described him as 5-foot-10, about 225 pounds, with grey hair and brown eyes. Anyone who spots McMeekin or knows where to find him is…

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by Jerry DeMarco