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Joseph Portelli

No Bail Reform In This Court: NJ Judge Orders Accused Shooter Held No Bail Reform In This Court: NJ Judge Orders Accused Shooter Held
No Bail Reform In This Court: NJ Judge Orders Accused Shooter Held A state court judge in Paterson has refused to release a Midland Park man charged in a Prospect Park shooting. That defendant, Rahjshone Newkirk, 23, and borough resident Tylaire Clark, 22, had been sought by police after two people reported being shot at on Hopper Street around 6 p.m. Feb. 2, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari said in a joint release. Their vehicle was struck, but the victims’ weren’t wounded, they said. Borough police nabbed Newkirk on North 8th Street last Thursday, May 12.  Despite a state bail reform law that …
Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try
Paterson Squatter Admits Torching Multi-Family Home In Purported Suicide Try A Paterson squatter who set fire to a multi-family home after authorities said he deliberately stabbed himself has pleaded guilty to aggravated arson. Ertugrul Abaci, 58, bled heavily as he staggered across Sussex Street on June 9, 2019, authorities said at the time. He’d just ignited a fire in and outside the attic apartment where he’d lived nearly 23 years – and hadn’t paid rent on for the past five, they said. The German-born Abaci, who became a U.S. citizen after emigrating in the early 1990s, used a bottle of vodka as an accelerant after taking a few swigs from it, investigators said.…