Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says
Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says A Guatemalan national who escaped from the jail in Essex County while awaiting a deportation hearing is back in federal custody, authorities said. ICE agents captured Luis Cordon-Guzman, 31, on Saturday, ending an extensive manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies, Newark ICE-ERO Field Officer Director John Tsoukaris announced. “As a result of the investigatory efforts of the dedicated men and women of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark Field Office, this criminal alien is back behind bars," Tsoukaris said Monday night. “Our officers worked day and night over this past …
Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds
Paterson PD: Detectives Nab Dealing Duo, Seize 375 Crack Vials, 100 Heroin Folds Paterson detectives nabbed two city drug dealers who were slinging heroin and crack after they watched several deals go down, authorities said. Responding to complaints, investigators set up surveillance at a notorious open-air drug market on Auburn Street. In a span of less than 90 minutes, five different buyers came up – including one on a bicycle – and bought drugs from Kahiem Lowe, 29, and Jesus Rolan, 37, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Uniformed units picked off the buyers after they left before detectives went into a deserted Auburn Street home and found Lowe and Rolan i…
Bergen Sheriff: ICE Protestor From Yonkers Who Maced Officers And Ran Captured Next Day Bergen Sheriff: ICE Protestor From Yonkers Who Maced Officers And Ran Captured Next Day
Bergen Sheriff: ICE Protestor From Yonkers Who Maced Officers And Ran Captured Next Day A Yonkers woman who sprayed officers with MACE and then vanished into the crowd during an anti-ICE protest outside the Bergen County Jail was identified and taken into custody when she returned the next day, authorities said. Lizbeth Vazquez, 19, was already facing rioting charges in New York City, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday. Vazquez “sprayed the officers with MACE and threatened bodily harm as an unruly group was asked to disperse” during a protest against ICE detainment of immigrants at the jail that erupted into a couple of brief skirmishes on Saturday, the sheriff…
Feds: Yonkers Porch Pirate, Pals Stole $600,000 In Checks From Mail In Four NJ Counties Feds: Yonkers Porch Pirate, Pals Stole $600,000 In Checks From Mail In Four NJ Counties
Feds: Yonkers Porch Pirate, Pals Stole $600,000 In Checks From Mail In Four NJ Counties A man charged with pirating Christmas packages from porches in Yonkers was part of a crew that stole, altered and cashed $600,000 in checks mailed in Passaic, Morris, Essex and Somerset counties the past 10 months, federal authorities said Friday. Claude Anthony Burnett, 23, who was captured by U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents, now faces charges that can bring way more serious consequences than package snatching. Meanwhile, victims were left trying to sort out their finances. From at least February of this year until just last month, Burnett and others fished envelopes containing chec…
Woman Fires Gun During Brawl In South Hackensack Parking Lot, Officer Rescues Victim Woman Fires Gun During Brawl In South Hackensack Parking Lot, Officer Rescues Victim
Woman Fires Gun During Brawl In South Hackensack Parking Lot, Officer Rescues Victim A fight between two women that began on Route 80 ended in a South Hackensack parking lot before dawn Saturday with one of them firing a handgun several times before a nearby officer rushed to the scene and rescued the victim, authorities said. The Passaic County women were returning from Yonkers, where Samantha Polanco works as a deejay, when they began arguing on westbound Route 80 around 4 a.m., Detective Sgt. James Donatello said. The 2017 BMW 3 pulled into a parking lot in an industrial area just off the highway, where the dispute got physical, Donatello said. Polanco, 23, fired a 9mm …
HEROES: Palisades Parkway PD, Rockland Responders Come To Rescue In Trio Of Cliff, River Saves HEROES: Palisades Parkway PD, Rockland Responders Come To Rescue In Trio Of Cliff, River Saves
Heroes: Palisades Parkway PD, Rockland Responders Come To Rescue In Trio Of Cliff, River Saves Responders rescued a woman who passed out on the Palisades while hiking with her teenage son above the Hudson River – one of two cliffside saves and a water rescue that occurred hours apart near the New Jersey/New York border. The woman was “diabetic, exhausted, dehydrated and vomiting” when Palisades Interstate Parkway police found her and her 15-year-old son shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday in the area of the Great Stairs more than 150 feet above the river in Alpine, PIPPD Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. She passed out as they administered lifesaving first aid, he said. The Piermont …
Police: Tri-State Liquor Thieves Swipe $10,000 In Booze From NJ Stew Leonard’s Police: Tri-State Liquor Thieves Swipe $10,000 In Booze From NJ Stew Leonard’s
Police: Tri-State Liquor Thieves Swipe $10,000 In Booze From NJ Stew Leonard’s A trio of tri-state liquor thieves – two from Westchester and one from Brooklyn -- were caught stealing more than $10,000 worth of booze from the Stew Leonard’s store in Paramus, authorities said. Richard Craig Caldwell, 54, Brooklyn, Yolanda Emery, 60, of Yonkers, and Tonya Hanner, 53, of Mount Vernon, snatched at least 136 bottles of alcohol combined over an 11-day stretch of brazen thefts last month, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Detective Lt. John Devine identified the getaway vehicle and worked with Stew Leonard’s security to identify the trio, who “have also been linke…
COVID-19: North Jersey ER Doc Who Survived Cancer Twice Dies In Husband's Arms COVID-19: North Jersey ER Doc Who Survived Cancer Twice Dies In Husband's Arms
Covid-19: North Jersey ER Doc Who Survived Cancer Twice Dies In Husband's Arms An East Orange General Hospital emergency room doctor who twice survived cancer died Tuesday -- a week after developing symptoms of coronavirus. Dr. Frank Gabrin, 60, woke up with chest pain and other symptoms March 24, his husband, Arnold Vargas said.  On March 31, Gabrin woke up saying he couldn't breathe, and died later that day. Gabrin, who stayed home from work last Thursday, was not tested for coronavirus but he and his husband both were certain he contracted the virus since he'd been treating patients with similar symptoms, several news outlets say.   The doctor, who was featured …
Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash
Yonkers Driver, 60, Killed In Clifton Crash A 60-year-old Yonkers driver was killed in a single-car crash Wednesday morning in Clifton, authorities said. Denis Murphy was driving a 2010 Toyota Corolla when he “failed to negotiate the exit ramp” at the intersection of Route 21 North and Route 3, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint release. An ambulance took Murphy to St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic following the 9:42 a.m. call, Valdes and Rinaldi said. He was pronounced dead exactly an hour later, they said. An investigation was continuing. Authorities asked that anyone…
COVID-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery COVID-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery
Covid-19: Group Meetings Cancelled In NJ, NY Complicate Addiction Recovery Social distancing is something that people recovering from addiction can least afford, especially amid a worldwide pandemic that only ramps up the anxiety.  But concerns that hospitals and churches have about the coronavirus has eliminated group meetings in New Jersey and New York. And no one knows for how long. From Bayonne to Boonton, the list of cancelled Northern New Jersey Alcoholics Anonymous meetings continued to grow on Saturday. Paramus, Hoboken, Montclair, West Orange, Saddle River -- anywhere someone in need might find a meeting now can't. At the same time, the arm of AA th…
1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers 1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers
1st NJ Coronvirus Death Victim Was 40-Year Horseman From Little Ferry Who Worked At Yonkers UPDATE: New Jersey’s first coronavirus fatality was a 69-year-old Little Ferry man who worked at Yonkers Raceway, which canceled racing Tuesday night from concerns that others may have contracted the virus, officials said. John Brennon was a horseman’s field representative for the Standardbred Owners Association (SOA) of New York, its president, Joseph Faraldo, said Tuesday. Faraldo said COVID-19 exacerbated existing health conditions, which authorities in New Jersey said included diabetes. Faraldo, in a Facebook post, said he remained confined himself over his doctor’s concerns that he mi…
Sparta Mourns HS Junior Melanie DiDomizio, 16 Sparta Mourns HS Junior Melanie DiDomizio, 16
Sparta Mourns HS Junior Melanie DiDomizio, 16 Sparta is mourning the loss of 16-year-old Melanie Paige DiDomizio, who died on Jan. 23 after a valiant battle with bone cancer. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Mel moved to Sparta in 2012 where she was an accomplished dancer and gymnast. Her obituary remembers her as the "life of the party," all the while looking out for others. "She touched the lives of so many; our beloved, shining, happy girl, the light of our lives and the star of our hearts," her obit says.  "She never complained. She took whatever circumstance came her way and never let it stop her from getting what she wanted." Her dance…