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Body Pulled From NJ River ID'd As Woman Who Vanished 14 Years Ago, Family Says
The family of a New Jersey woman who disappeared finally has some closure. The body recovered along with three cars from the Cooper River in Pennsauken last week has been identified by her daughter as Bernadine Gunner, who went missing in July 2010. AFTER 13 LONG YEARS WE HAVE CLOSURE, MY MOM WAS FOUND 💔😢. SIP MOM I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO FEEL RIGHT NOW…... Posted by Julia Young on Thursday, May 16, 2024 In a Facebook post shared Saturday, May 18, Julia Young says United Search Corps was behind the recovery operation in Pennsauken on Thursday, May 16, in which dive teams …
Police & Fire
Dad Killed Biking To 2nd Job In Jersey City: Family
Guillermo Acevedo was biking to his second job in Jersey City when he was fatally struck by a vehicle on Saturday, Nov. 4, those who knew him said. At 4 p.m., Jersey City police responded to Marin Boulevard and 16th Street where a 2018 Hyundai Elantra collided with Acevedo, Kimberly Wallace-Scalfione, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office said. The driver attempted to turn left at the intersection when the crash occurred, Wallace-Scalfione said. The driver remained on the scene and called 911, she said. Acevedo, a father of three boys, 16, 14 and 8, was a cook in downtown Jersey City,…
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Englewood Resident Carjacked, Fleeing Juveniles Captured In Paterson
Two 17-year-olds who carjacked an Englewood resident at gunpoint overnight Wednesday were captured in Paterson a short time later by city police and New Jersey State Police troopers. The 52-year-old victim told police the two masked robbers took his Hyundai Elantra at the Rock Creek Terrace Apartment complex shortly after midnight Nov. 1, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. The victim wasn’t injured, Pulice said. Englewood detectives used the vehicle's tracking system to trace the car to Paterson and alerted police there, the lieutenant said. Paterson police pursued the vehicle before the pai…
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Update
: Driver Flees, Gets Into Other Car After Crash At Popular Route 46 Hot Dog Joint
UPDATE: A driver who crashed a stolen car at a popular hot dog stand on Route 46 in Lodi on Wednesday drove a couple blocks further before getting into another car, police said. The 2023 Hyundai Elantra -- which had apparently been stolen out of Edison -- crashed at Hank's Franks shortly before 2 p.m. Aug. 2, local law enforcement officers said. The driver then headed east on Charlton Avenue before bailing out at the corner of Clark Street, they said. He then entered the passenger side of another vehicle in the area of the Boulevard Apartments and was gone. Police described him as black, …
Police & Fire
NJ Man Who Killed GF Found On Maryland Roadside: Prosecutor
A 59-year-old Lakewood man has been charged with killing his live-in girlfriend before fleeing to Maryland, authorities said. John Filistovich was charged on Thursday, June 1 with murder in connection with the beating and suffocation of Betty Perry, 60, of Lakewood, they said. On Tuesday, May 30, at approximately 12:15 p.m., Lakewood Township Police responded to a residence on Thornbury Court to conduct a welfare check on Perry, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. Police found the dead body of a woman, later identified as Perry, on the floor of the bed…
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Kohberger Victims, Roommate Were Reportedly Awake During Idaho Slayings: Affidavit
The probable cause affidavit in the quadruple murders of University of Idaho students was unsealed Thursday, Jan. 5 as prime suspect Bryan Kohberger appeared in court, suggesting that at least one of the victims and one surviving roommate were awake during the crimes. It was ultimately DNA on the button snap of a knife sheath that helped police identify the 28-year-old criminology PhD student as the suspect in the Nov. 13 killings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, according to the affidavit published in NewsNationNow. The affidavi…
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Bryan Kohberger Traffic Stop Captured By Police Bodycam In Indiana: Report
Accused Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger had a run-in with police not once, but twice on his drive from Washington to Pennsylvania before he was officially labeled as a suspect in the four college students' murders, reports ABC 7. And one of the stops was captured by an Indiana state trooper. Indiana State Police have released body camera footage of the encounter with 28-year-old Kohberger being pulled over on around 10:50 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15 — just nine minutes after he was pulled over by Hancock County Sheriff's Deputies, the outlet said. The criminology PhD candidate is seen in the dri…
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Driver Dead After Tractor Trailer Pushes Her Disabled Car Into 2 Other Trucks On NJ Turnpike
A 32-year-old North Bergen woman died when her car became disabled on the New Jersey Turnpike and was pushed by a tractor trailer into two other vehicles, killing her early Friday, Dec. 16, authorities said. Zadira Reyes' Hyundai Elantra broke down on the northbound side in the travel lanes of Elizabeth around 2:20 a.m. near milepost 100.8, New Jersey State Police said. The impact of being struck by a tractor trailer sent Reyes' car into a tanker truck and a bobtail, police said. Reyes was pronounced dead while the driver of the tractor trailer, which overturned, suffered minor injur…
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Police Forced To Put Deer Down After Crash In Glen Rock, It's Season For Drivers To Beware
The risk posed by deer in densely populated areas this particular time of year was tragically illustrated when one had to be put down in Glen Rock after being struck by a car. The driver was treated by an EMT from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps for a minor hand injury after the deer smashed the windshield of a Hyundai Elantra on Maple Avenue on Sunday, Oct. 30. A Glen Rock police officer had to put the deer down using a small-caliber rifle. A tow truck removed the sedan. Animal control officers tended to the deer. Deer are particularly active and tend to cover more territory than…
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SUV Mows Down Mailbox, Crashes Into Waldwick Home
One woman was hospitalized with what may be a broken arm and another with neck pain after an SUV collided with a sedan, bowled over a mailbox and smacked into the front of a Waldwick home. Ambulance crews from Waldwick and Allendale joined police at the scene on East Prospect Street right off southbound Route 17 shortly before noon. Both the Nissan Pathfinder that hit the house and the severely damaged Hyundai Elantra had to be towed. The Hyundai Elantra got the worst of it in on East Prospect Street right off southbound Route 17 in Waldwick.Boyd A. Loving A building inspector reported…
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Pro NJ Boxer Misses Court Appearance For Fatal Fentanyl Crash: Report
A professional bare-knuckle boxer from Hackensack who was believed under the influence of fentanyl when he was involved in a fatal crash failed to appear in Salem County court, NJ Advance Media reported. “Bobby Gunn,” as he’s known in the sports world, had been a fugitive in the September 2019 crash that killed a 51-year-old woman until June 2020, when he surrendered to New Jersey State Police's Woodstown Station in Pilesgrove. Gunn was due to appear in Superior Court on Thursday, April 7, but didn’t show apparently due to medical issues, according to NJ.com. He was charged with death …
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Passaic: Reckless Haledon Driver Who Fled In Aborted Paterson Pursuit Surrenders
A reckless driver who sped from a Passaic County sheriff's officer who was prevented from chasing her surrendered several days later to face charges, authorities said. The officer witnessed Vanessa S. Englishman, 22, of Haledon blowing a red light at Belmont Avenue at West Broadway, nearly hitting a truck whose driver was trying to make a turn, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Englishman's 2013 Hyundai Elantra "continued through the intersection at a high rate of speed, posing an imminent threat to the safety of pedestrians and motorists," Berdnik said. The officer activated hi…
Police & Fire
Man Steals Bobcat From PA Snake Farm Then Stuffs Her In His Trunk: Police
A Pennsylvania man was in custody after stealing a bobcat with medical issues from a snake farm in the Poconos and putting her in his trunk, authorities said. Semyon Levit, 45, broke into the Pocono Snake and Animal Farm in Smithfield Township through the unlocked main entrance and stole 22-year-old Blanche on Friday, Feb. 4 around 10:15 a.m., Pennsylvania State Police said. Levit and the bobcat struggled in the parking lot before stuffing her in the trunk of his red Hyundai Elantra. Police stopped Levit's car around 4:15 p.m. that day and found the cat in the trunk. Blanche was safe…
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Missing Underage NJ Girl Rescued From Sex Trafficking Trio
An underage girl who'd been reported missing was rescued from a trio of South Jersey human traffickers who were prostituting her, authorities said. Marquise Ogawa, 28, Chyaire Lee, 26, and Jazmin Scott, 21, all of Lawnside, were being held in the Camden County Correctional Facility in Camden, charged with various child prostitution, trafficking and endangerment counts. The victim was reported missing out of Voorhees in late October of last year, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck and New Jersey State Police Supt. Col. Patrick J. Callahan said in a joint release Tuesday. Detectives fro…
Police & Fire
NY, Newark Car Thieves Busted In Hudson County: Police
Two car thieves from New York and Newark were busted following separate traffic stops in Hudson County, authorities said. Tariq Alqanawi, 37, of Newark was pulled over on Paterson Plank Road in a 2007 Hyundai Elantra found to be stolen out of East Rutherford on Nov. 18, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Alqanawi was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property. Meanwhile, George Valerio, 40, was pulled over on County Avenue in a 2007 Chrysler Sebring found to be stolen out of New York City on Nov. 23, Miller said. The vehicle allegedly had a forged temporary registrat…
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Saddle Brook Boy Charged With Carjacking His Mom
A Saddle Brook juvenile was charged with carjacking his own mother, authorities said. The mom was behind the wheel of a rented Hyundai Elantra when she and her son got into an argument and he insisted he be allowed to drive, Capt. John Zotollo Jr. said. The mother "noticed the son had a pocket knife (and) became frightened," Zotollo said. She then "immediately exited the vehicle and called 911," he said. "The son then drove away." Lt. Leigh Cadigan and Officers Adam Georgaros, Peter Romero and Marcos Torres took the boy into custody and recovered the vehicle about two hours later, the cap…
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Heroes
: Sedan Collides With Bus Off Route 17, Victim Extricated By East Rutherford Firefighters
PHOTOS: East Rutherford firefighters extricated a woman from a sedan that barreled down an embankment after hitting a New Jersey Transit bus on Friday. Witnesses said the Hyundai Elantra with New York State license plates collided with the bus at Enoch Street and Paterson Avenue just off southbound Route 17 after its driver blew a stop sign. The extricated victim was hospitalized with undetermined injuries after the sedan careened down the embankment at a Paterson Avenue construction site. xxxJames Wood Sr. for DAILY VOICE Nearly 20 passengers were picked up by another bus. James Wood…
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New Milford PD: Hackensack Driver, 17, Nodded Out In Head-On Crash That Injured Dumont Woman
A 17-year-old Hackensack driver fell asleep behind the wheel an instant before a head-on collision in New Milford that injured a Dumont motorist, authorities said. The young driver's northbound Hyundai Elantra crossed into the oncoming lane and slammed into the Volkswagen Tiguan just off the corner of East Woodland Road just after 7 p.m. Monday, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The 22-year-old SUV driver was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center by members of the Little Ferry Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Van Saders said. She sustained a fractured wrist, he said, adding that the …
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Hackensack Man Found Dead Of Gunshot Suicide Behind Police HQ
DUAL WIELD: A 76-year-old Hackensack resident was holding two handguns when he shot and killed himself behind city police headquarters, authorities said Friday. A city employee spotted the victim slumped over the wheel of his 2020 Hyundai Elantra in the rear parking lot off Central Avenue around 6:50 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Anthony DiPersia said. In his hands were two guns, DiPersia said. There were no indications of foul play, the lieutenant said. Responders said the man held a 9mm and a .45-caliber, which was the weapon that was believed used. The flash could be seen on surveillance video, …
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Boy, 5, Struck By Rockland Driver's Vehicle In Montvale
A 5-year-old Montvale boy ran out from between parked cars and was struck by a sedan driven by an 18-year-old Rockland man, authorities said. The 2020 Hyundai Elantra driven by a Spring Valley motorist hit the boy on Nottingham Court at the Nottingham Manor Apartments shortly after 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. The boy, who had a bump on his head, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood as a precaution, he said. No summonses were issued.
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Manhunt Ends: Fugitive Accused In NJ, CT, PA Bank Robbery Spree Captured
UPDATE: A Cleveland man out on bail after robbing a bank outside Chicago cut off his monitoring bracelet, stole his mother's car and went on a holdup spree in New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, federal authorities said. Tyler James O’Toole, 23, robbed or attempted to rob two banks in one day three separate times, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. O'Toole was released to home detention with electronic monitoring after authorities charged him with a August bank robbery in Glenview, Illinois, records show. A month later, he removed the monitoring device, snat…
Police & Fire
Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash
Cliffside Park police chased down a Jersey City ex-con with a rap sheet nearly 50 arrests long after he crashed a stolen car and bailed out, authorities said. Lester Williams, 54, was speeding south on Anderson Avenue in the 2015 Honda Accord late Saturday when he saw a police car and hit the brake, rapidly slowing down, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Williams then made a quick left onto eastbound Jersey Avenue at Sal's Deli, where the Accord -- reported stolen earlier out of Bayonne -- slammed into two parked vehicles, one of which was a 2001 Ford Mustang, Capano said. The other…
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HIM? Bare-Knuckle Boxing Champ From Hackensack Wanted For Killing Woman In DWI Crash
UPDATE: A bare-knuckle boxing champion from Hackensack surrendered to New Jersey State Police on vehicular homicide charges in the death of a woman in a drunk-driving crash. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/police-fire/gotcha-hackensack-bare-knuckle-boxing-champ-wanted-for-killing-woman-in-dwi-crash-surrenders/789788/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Shades of "Fight Club": A bare-knuckle boxing champion from Hackensack was being sought for the drunk-driving death of a woman in a crash that seriously injured her husband. “Bobby Gunn,” as he’s known in the sports world, remained a fugiti…
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Motorcyclist's Facebook Post Before Fatal Sussex County Crash Will Give You Goosebumps
Hours before he was killed in a Sussex County crash, motorcyclist Jesse Dunn was taking in the idyllic moment alongside Greenwood Lake. "Beautiful day to be out on the bike," 38-year-old Dunn of Unionville, N.Y., wrote on Facebook around 4 p.m. Saturday. He shared a photo of his Kawasaki motorcycle and the view from Emerald Point Restaurant & Marina. That evening around 8:30, Dunn was killed after his bike crossed over to the other side of Loomis Avenue and struck the front of a northbound Hyundai Elantra in Wantage, New Jersey State Police said. The female driver of th…
Police & Fire
Update
: Bergenfield Man, Woman Killed In Route 80 Double-Crash In Paterson
Sebastian Martinez Gaviria and Sabrina Acosta of Bergenfield were only minutes into their trip to North Carolina Sunday morning when their lives were cut short. The 22-year-old friends, who both graduated from Bergenfield High School in 2015, were standing outside their crashed car after it hit the divider on westbound Route 80 in Paterson when they were struck and killed by a sedan driven by a Morris County woman, responders said. Both had set out that morning for North Carolina, friends and family said. "They were two friends in search of the next chapter in their life," parents Ricci …
Police & Fire
Driver Hospitalized After Sedan Slams Into Ridgewood Utility Pole
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- A young driver was hospitalized Monday afternoon after her new sedan slammed into a utility pole in Ridgewood. An ambulance took the woman to Hackensack University Medical Center after the crash in the 400 block of Linwood Avenue. Her injuries didn't appear life-threatening. The 4-door 2018 Hyundai Elantra Limited had to be towed. Village police, firefighters and EMS responded, along with a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and a PSE&G crew that assessed damage to the pole. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account.
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