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Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts A suspect who nearly drowned after jumping into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thursday. Borou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say 2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say
2-Hour Food Run? Upstate NY Pair Had 1,100 Heroin Folds, Infant In Car, Hawthorne Police Say Hawthorne police who found 1,100 heroin folds in a stopped Jeep said the upstate New York driver told them that she and two men had come more than 135 miles to Paterson with a 2-year-old infant in the car "to get Spanish food." Victoria Declemente, 29, of Stamford, NY “appeared very nervous” when she was stopped on Goffle Road near Mohawk Avenue for several violations, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. After claiming they’d driven all that way to Paterson for food, Declemente couldn’t remember exactly where, Hoogmoed said. Eventually, she admitted they’d come to buy drugs, he said. Of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hawthorne Man Who Fired Shots Through Neighbor's Window Says He Was Aiming At Pesky Critters Hawthorne Man Who Fired Shots Through Neighbor's Window Says He Was Aiming At Pesky Critters
Hawthorne Man Who Fired Shots Through Neighbor's Window Says He Was Aiming At Pesky Critters A Hawthorne man who fired two bullets through a neighbor’s window said he'd aimed at critters in his vegetable garden but missed, authorities said. An officer responding to the Royal Avenue call spotted Antonio Porporino, 65, holding what looked like a rifle in the garden of his Washington Avenue home, , Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Porporino at first told police he was “just standing in his garden,” Hoogmoed said. When they spotted a rifle against a wall in plain view in his shed, the sergeant said, Porporino insisted he didn’t fire it. Police found another bullet in his pocket …

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by Jerry DeMarco