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ICE Detains Driver Who North Arlington Police Say Had Pot, Fake License ICE Detains Driver Who North Arlington Police Say Had Pot, Fake License
ICE Detains Driver Who North Arlington Police Say Had Pot, Fake License A Mexican national was being held in the Bergen County Jail on a detainer from ICE after he gave North Arlington police who found him carrying more than an ounce and a half of pot a bogus license during a traffic stop, authorities said. The officer stopped a silver Acura driven by 30-year-old Jose Manuel Leon on Ridge Road near Arlington Boulevard for having tinted windows, Police Chief Scott M. Hedenberg said. "During the stop, the officer detected the odor of raw marijuana," Hedenberg said. "The search resulted in the discovery of a large sealed bag containing marijuana.&qu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups
Ridgewood Gang Member Gets 65 Months In Cab Carjacking, Bar Holdups A gang member from Ridgewood was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in federal prison for his role in carjacking, kidnapping and leaving a local cab driver for dead after he and four others robbed a Hawthorne bar. Wilbur J. Barahona, 22, was the last of six defendants to accept a plea deal from federal prosecutors in Newark in connection with the separate crimes, which occurred within hours of one another. Exactly a year ago Wednesday, Barahona told a U.S. District Court judge that he and other members of the 18th Street Gang got into a cab in Paterson around 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, 2015 for a ri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl
Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl FAIRVIEW, N.J. – A Fairview laborer was charged with aggravated sexual contact and child endangerment after authorities said he “inappropriately touched” a young girl over the course of a year. Leon Aguin-Lopez, a 47-year-old Guatemalan national, was being held in the Bergen County Jail on an ICE detainer, records show. Fairview police received a report Friday and notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Aguin-Lopez was taken into custody the next day, he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Waldwick Carjacker Gets 3 Years In Fed For Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle Waldwick Carjacker Gets 3 Years In Fed For Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle
Waldwick Carjacker Gets 3 Years In Fed For Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle WALDWICK, N.J. -- A Waldwick gang member was sent to federal prison for three years Wednesday for smashing a carjacked cab driver in the head with a beer bottle before his accomplices dumped the victim on the side of the New York State Thruway in Orange County. Arlyn Jowany Carrasco Cruz, 28, will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there is no parole in the federal prison system. Cruz and five accomplices carjacked the driver of a 2008 Dodge Caravan in the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 2016, in Ridgewood forcing him into the back of the vehicle, authorities said. As the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Weather
New Nor'easter's Heavy Snow, Strong Winds Could Cause Power Outages New Nor'easter's Heavy Snow, Strong Winds Could Cause Power Outages
New Nor'easter's Heavy Snow, Strong Winds Could Cause Power Outages Click here for an updated story: Projected Snowfall Totals Increase As New Nor'easter Nears While some uncertainty still remains about the potential amount of snowfall from the fourth Nor'easter to hit the region this month, the heavy, wet snow, combined with strong winds, could lead to new power outages and tree damage. Winds will gust 30 to 35 mph along the coast during the height of the storm on Wednesday, 25 to 30 mph inland and 25 mph or less farther north. (See second image above.) Coastal flooding and beach erosion are also likely. Still, this will not be a powerhouse storm in terms…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Carjacker From Waldwick Admits Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle Carjacker From Waldwick Admits Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle
Carjacker From Waldwick Admits Smashing Cabbie With Beer Bottle WALDWICK, N.J. -- A Waldwick man admitted Wednesday that he was the member of a gang who smashed a cab driver in the head with a beer bottle during a carjacking. Arlyn Jowany Carrasco Cruz, 27, and five accomplices carjacked the driver of a 2008 Dodge Caravan in the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 2016, forcing him into the back of the vehicle, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said. As they drove toward Waldwick, Cruz "struck the victim in the head with a beer bottle, he said. The others dropped off Cruz and continued driving the cab to New York, where one of them sliced th…

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by Jerry DeMarco