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Police & Fire
Paterson Jewelry Store Robbery Part Of Multi-State Crime Spree Involving DC Rapper: Feds
Three masked men who robbed a Paterson jewelry store of more than $1 million worth of merchandise at gunpoint last year were part of a violent East Coast crime ring that included a Washington, DC-based rapper, federal authorities said Wednesday. Trevor Wright – aka “Taliban Glizzy” – was among 16 defendants named in an indictment unsealed by federal authorities in the nation’s capital on Aug. 30. Mohammad Sheik had only just opened the Paradise Jewelry Store at the corner of Main Street and Delaware Avenue in Paterson several weeks earlier when the place was robbed last fall. It was one o…
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Anything
? Armed Robbers Smash Cases, Get More Than $1M In Bling From Paterson Jewelry Store
UPDATE: Authorities in various jurisdictions are comparing notes after three masked gunmen robbed a Paterson jewelry store of more than $1 million in merchandise. Meanwhile, the owner of Paradise Jewelry expressed gratitude to the community for messages of love, support and concern following the brazen broad-daylight heist earlier this week. Mohammad Sheik had only just opened the shop at the corner of Main Street and Delaware Avenue this past July after operating for two years at a smaller location two blocks away. Sheik said he plans to reopen this coming Tuesday, Nov. 1 -- exactly a we…
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Viral Video Shows Paterson Fire Trucks Colliding
A social media video shows a collision of two Paterson fire engines that sent eight of the Silk City's bravest to the hospital. An engine headed west on Broadway begins making a left onto Straight Street when the cab is bashed by a southbound truck around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, in the video posted by @glow2worm. The turning engine slams into the front of the Golden Mango supermarket on the southwest corner of the intersection. The southbound truck rolls down Broadway and slams head-on into a tree. Eight firefighters were taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center. None of t…
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: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson
A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street and sped off…
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Prosecutor: Speeding SUV Kills One, Injures Others, Hits Parked Police Car In Downtown Paterson
UPDATE: A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street and…
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One Dead, Others Injured: Police Vehicle Struck In Chain-Reaction Paterson Crash
UPDATE: A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street …
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'Israelis Are New Nazis': Paterson Hookah Shop Posts Anti-Israel Sign With Swastika
A sign outside a Paterson hookah shop calling Israelis "the new Nazis" is stirring controversy. The sign outside of Clifton Hookah on Main Street bears a swastika and a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a Hitler-styled mustache. A photo of the sign was shared on by StopAntisemitism.org on Twitter, which called it a "vile comparison deemed Antisemitic by the [International Holocaust Remembrance Association]." Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said it is "both shocking and saddening to witness such ignorance in a city that celebrates diversity as its greatest strength and at…
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Hit-run
: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers
Two Passaic County sheriff's correctional officers were struck by a hit-and-run driver while heading to work in Paterson early Sunday. Both officers were treated at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center before being released, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. A late-model four-door sedan struck them at 6:45 a.m. while rounding a corner from westbound Grand Street to southbound Main Street a block from the Passaic County Jail, responders said. One of the officers was struck on the leg and the other hit in the arm by the driver's side mirror, they said. The driver apparently sl…
Police & Fire
Bergenfield Man Shot, Robbed In Paterson Overnight
A 48-year-old Bergenfield man was shot and robbed before dawn Sunday in Paterson, authorities said. The gunman fled with the victim’s wallet and phone following the shooting shortly before 4 a.m. at or near an all-night laundry at Main and Elizabeth streets, they said. The victim went to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in a private vehicle for treatment of non-fatal gunshot wound, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. An investigation was continuing, they said.
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Paterson Shooting Spree: Four Struck In One Incident, Hospital Area Shut Down In Another
No fewer than three separate shootings overnight in Paterson wounded four men in one and forced the street outside St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center closed in another. Struck on 10th Avenue near East 23rd Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. were three city residents – 32, 28 and 22 – and a 32-year-old man from Newark. Two of them were taken to St. Joe's, and the other two arrived via private vehicles, authorities said. Two hours later, a 38-year-old city man was shot outside the medical center near the corner of Main and Mary streets, they said. None of the injuries were considered life-th…
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Authorities: Ex-Con Violating Distancing Rules Jailed For Not Registering As NJ Sex Offender
A Passaic County ex-con with a lengthy criminal record got more than he bargained for when authorities said he went berserk at a Paterson 7-Eleven. Travis Mann, 38, of West Milford was “yelling at employees, alarming customers, shoplifting, and not social distancing or wearing a mask” when city police arrived at the Main Street convenience store, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. As they processed him at headquarters for disorderly conduct and violating Gov. Phil Murphy’s emergency social distancing order, police learned that Mann is a registered sex offender wh…
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Man Gives Motorists Finger, Pair Holds Crap Game: Here's Today's NJ
Covid-
19 'Knuckleheads'
One man walked back and forth along a highway carrying obscene poster boards while giving passing motorists the finger, while two others resumed a huge crap game that was shut down last month. Here's today's list of New Jersey coronavirus state-of-emergency violators provided by authorities. Paterson police charged Elizabeth Fernandez, 56, of Woodland Park and city resident Juan Rosario, 60, of Paterson with violating Gov. Phil Murphy’s state of emergency directives by opening their Quilvio Bar and Liquors on Main Street, where customers were found drinking inside and outside, state Attorney…
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Police: Stubbornest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided Again
It wasn’t long after Paterson police raided a brothel above a city storefront that men were once again coming and going all hours of the day and night, authorities said. No sooner had they released manager Felipe Valdez, 44, on drug and prostitution charges than he was back in business, they said. ABC/Vice Unit members earlier this month raided the second-floor Main Street apartment, above a ground-floor business that offers travel, tax and mortgage services, after receiving complaints from merchants and residents. They arrested Valez, as well as two accused hookers – one 35 from the Bronx…
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Ammo
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Guns
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: Passaic Sheriff's Detectives Seize Raw Heroin, 300 Folds, $8,123 Drug Cash
Two observant Passaic County sheriff’s detectives seized more than 300 heroin folds, over a half pound of raw heroin and $8,123 in proceeds while arresting two men in Paterson, authorities said. The investigators saw two men involved in a drug deal near the corner of Main Street and Bloomfield Avenue and followed one of them to an Acura parked in the lot of the Main Suds Laudromat, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Bernik said. They stopped the car and saw several heroin folds in plain view on the center console between the driver and front-seat passenger, the sheriff said. A search turned…
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Police: Smallest Little Whorehouse In Paterson Raided
At street level it was a typical inner-city storefront, with a ground-floor business that offered travel, tax and mortgage services. But upstairs, Paterson police said, people were selling sex. Responding to complaints from merchants and residents, ABC/Vice Unit members raided the second-floor Main Street apartment, where they said men came and went all hours of the day and night. Two accused hookers were arrested along with an alleged manager. More than $900 in suspected proceeds was seized. Police said they also found a bag of coke and jar of pot. Charged with promoting prostitution and …
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