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Police & Fire
Girl, 2, Drowns In Bathtub In Bergenfield
An unresponsive 2-year-old child died at Holy Name Medical Center after being brought there from a home in Bergenfield early Sunday evening, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed. The little girl drowned in a bathtub, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. The child lived on Brook Street with her mother, stepfather and his parents, another source said. Musella didn't address the cause of death in a quick release shortly before 9 p.m. Nov. 5. "At approximately 5:20 p.m., the Bergenfield Police Department responded to a 911 call regarding an unresponsive …
Police & Fire
Wyckoff Woman, 79, Who Died In House Fire Identified
UPDATE: Virginia D'Amelio Ingenito of Wyckoff was home alone Sunday afternoon when what quickly became an intense fire apparently began in her kitchen. Wyckoff police who arrived first at the Meer Avenue home where she lived with her son and two grandsons found the 79-year-old Italian immigrant unresponsive just after noon Nov. 5, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Ingenito was in cardiac arrest when taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where she was pronounced dead a short time later, responders said. The rear of the house, where the kitchen was located, was fully involved…
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One Dead In Wyckoff House Fire
A grandmother who was pulled from a Wyckoff house fire on Sunday died at the hospital, authorities confirmed. Virginia D'Amelio Ingenito, 79, was found unresponsive by Wyckoff police officers who were the first responders at the fire on Meer Avenue just off James Way behind Route 208 just after noon Nov. 5, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. CPR was conducted on Ingenito, who reportedly was in cardiac arrest when she was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where she was pronounced dead a short time later. Firefighters found the rear of the house, where the kitchen was loca…
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Love-Triangle Husband Sentenced To Life In Murder Of Popular Teaneck Software Engineer
For more than 12 years since popular software engineer Robert Cantor was brutally murdered in his Teaneck home, his twice-convicted killer has neither admitted it nor expressed any remorse. Sui Kam “Tony” Tung, 60, now has whatever’s left of his life to spend with whatever feelings he has following his sentencing Friday in Hackensack. This past July, jurors in that same courtroom convicted Tung of murdering Cantor, with whom his wife had been having an affair, in March of 2011. Superior Court Judge Christopher Kazlau said he’d seen enough of Tung to not be surprised by his refusal to spea…
Police & Fire
Charges Upgraded Against Teaneck Restaurant Manager In Double-Fatal DWI Crash
UPDATE: Authorities have upgraded charges against a Teaneck restaurant manager who they said was drunk when he slammed his speeding car into a tree, killing two of his passengers. Teddy Mejia, 32, originally was charged with death by auto following the horrific Oct. 21 crash that killed Rudy Rosales Escobar, 40, of Hasbrouck Heights, and Alexander Cosme Curruchich, 29, of Englewood. Investigators have since determined that Mejia was not only intoxicated but also speeding down Teaneck Road when his 2021 BMW M850i hit the tree – shearing off an entire limb – and rolled onto its roof near Bilt…
Police & Fire
Loaded Gun Lost In Target, Ex-Con Owner Jailed: Closter PD
It’s not every day that a loaded gun turns up in the lost and found at Target. Surveillance video helped point Closter police to Tyshawn Culver, a 31-year-old convicted burglar from Westwood, soon after the gun was found on Tuesday, Oct. 24, Capt. Vincent Aiello said. Culver was arrested later that day in Englewood, the captain said. He was charged with unlawful possession of a handgun, possessing a handgun as a convicted felon and possession of both a large-capacity ammo magazine and hollow-nose bullets, Aiello said. Culver remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a firs…
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: Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Spending $100G Treasury Check Stolen Out Of Teaneck
A Ridgefield Park man intercepted a $100,000 U.S. Treasury check that was headed to a beneficiary in Teaneck, then spent the money on himself, authorities charged. Tyler N. Thomas, 27, “created a fictitious LLC and opened a bank account to deposit the check for his own benefit,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He then “withdrew funds and made several purchases prior to the detection of the fraud,” Musella said. Thomas (also known as Tyler D. Rodriguez) surrendered himself on Oct. 10 amid a joint investigation by members of Musella’s Financial Crime Unit and Teaneck police, the…
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Pair Killed In Horrific DWI Rollover Crash In Teaneck ID'd, Charged Driver Remains Hospitalized
UPDATE: Authorities have upgraded charges against a Teaneck restaurant manager who they said was drunk when he slammed his speeding car into a tree, killing two of his passengers. Teddy Mejia, 32, originally was charged with death by auto following the horrific Oct. 21 crash that killed Rudy Rosales Escobar, 40, of Hasbrouck Heights, and Alexander Cosme Curruchich, 29, of Englewood. Investigators have since determined that Mejia was not only intoxicated but also speeding down Teaneck Road when his 2021 BMW M850i hit the tree – shearing off an entire limb – and rolled onto its roof near…
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Philly Trio Busted With Two Guns, Hollow-Point Ammo: Bergen Prosecutor
Three 21-year-old unemployed men from Philadelphia were arrested after drug investigators found two guns – one of them in a passenger’s waistband -- during a traffic stop, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Victor Garcia-Morla, Chelvin Castillo-Paula, and Anthony L. Medina Suarez remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Sunday, Oct. 21, pending first appearances in Hackensack. Detectives from the prosecutor's Narcotic Task Force stopped their vehicle at an undisclosed location in the county. They found the handguns, took all three into custody and charged them equally with illeg…
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DJ From Paterson Among Five Charged With Armed Carjacking In Edgewater Target Lot
A deejay from Paterson was one of five carjackers who robbed a victim at gunpoint in the Target parking lot along the Hudson River in Edgewater earlier this year, authorities charged. Giancarlo Rodriguez -- known as "Jaycee973" -- and the others "approached the victim and forcibly removed him from his vehicle" shortly after 3:30 a.m. April 13, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They then "assaulted the victim and stole his vehicle, chain necklace, and cell phone," the prosecutor said. Led by SWAT teams from Hudson and Middlesex counties, Musella's detectives conducted raids and ex…
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Update
: 100-Year-Old Lodi Woman Succumbs To Injuries From Apartment Fire
A 100-year-old woman who suffered severe burns in a fire at her public housing apartment in Lodi ultimately succumbed to her injuries, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced on Saturday. Firefighters found Judy Reifel unconscious in her low-rise garden apartment on Rennie Place around 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 13, the prosecutor said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center in critical condition and was pronounced dead there a short time later, he confirmed. "A preliminary investigation has determined that the fire was accidentally set and does not appear to be suspicious…
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Update
: Ramifications Follow Arrests Of Tenafly Council President And Son On Child Porn Charges
Shock waves spread from one corner of Bergen County to another with the arrests of Tenafly Council President Jeffrey D. Grossman and his son on child pornography charges following a raid Thursday at the family home. Jeff Grossman, 65, is a longtime elementary school teacher in Rochelle Park. Steven Grossman, 24, is a substitute teacher in the same district. Both men “used the Internet to view, download and possess items depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Their Oct. 11 arrests stem from an investigation …
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