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BUSTED: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say BUSTED: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say
Busted: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say A 26-year-old Elizabeth man was arrested at a Newark hotel, where he had been running a mobile heroin mill linked to 15 suspected overdoses across New Jersey, authorities said Agents found Marlon Lopez operating a heroin mill out of a hotel on Routes 1 & 9 in Newark, in which he was able to quickly mobilize the entire operation from room-to-room and to different locations altogether, New Jersey State Police said in a news release. A search of the room turned up 145 bricks of heroin, 80 grams of raw heroin, 3 pounds of marijuana, narcotics packaging materials, and several diffe…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Authorities: Carlstadt Officer Not Fooled By Wanted Newark Driver Switching Seats Authorities: Carlstadt Officer Not Fooled By Wanted Newark Driver Switching Seats
Authorities: Carlstadt Officer Not Fooled By Wanted Newark Driver Switching Seats A wanted Newark man tried to avoid detection by switching seats with his passenger when a Carlstadt police officer stopped him for making an illegal turn, authorities said. The silver Nissan that illegally turned right off northbound Route 120 into the Hampton Inn parking lot also had tinted windows and an obstructed license plate when Officer Matthew Bartlett stopped it, Police Chief Thomas Berta said Monday. The vehicle shook heavily as Bartlett approached it – the result of 22-year-old Shareef Kamara swapping seats with a female passenger who had her young daughter with her, Berta said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor
Registered Rockland Sex Offender Gets House Arrest For Violating Federal Release With Minor A registered sex offender from Rockland County who spent a year in federal prison for assaulting a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark Liberty International Airport was sentenced Thursday to time served for sexually abusing a minor after his release, authorities said. Yoel Oberlander, 39, of Monsey had served a plea-bargained year behind bars for the airborne May 2016 assault when he was arrested by Ramapo police in June 2019. Oberlander later admitted that he’d picked up an underage victim for sex in his car during what was three years of federal supervised release, U.S. Attorney Craig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Irvington Man Charged In Fatal Shooting Irvington Man Charged In Fatal Shooting
Irvington Man Charged In Fatal Shooting An Irvington man has been arrested for gunning down another city resident a week ago, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.  Matthew Beckley, 26, has been charged with murder and illegal possession of a weapon. He was being held at the Essex County jail in Newark.  Authorities say Beckley gunned down 34-year-old Gregory Wright June 19 in the 100 block of Maple Avenue in Irvington. He was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Newark at 9:24 p.m., about a half-hour after he was shot.   Anyone with information about Wright's death is asked to contac…

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by Paul Milo
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Owner Of Nutley Tanning Salon Secretly Filmed Clients, Prosecutor Says Owner Of Nutley Tanning Salon Secretly Filmed Clients, Prosecutor Says
Owner Of Nutley Tanning Salon Secretly Filmed Clients, Prosecutor Says The owner of a Nutley tanning salon was arrested on drug possession and other charges, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday. Martino Poli, 38, of Stanhope, owns the Sun of a Beach salon on Franklin Avenue and was being held at the Essex County jail. Police began to investigate the business after a female customer reported seeing a camera lens in the tanning bed she was using. The camera appeared to be recording her, the woman said. Police searched the business Wednesday and found “surreptitious recording devices,” the prosecutor’s office said. Police also allegedly found co…

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by Paul Milo
Lifestyle
Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report
Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report Comedian Artie Lange will be released from the Essex County jail at the end of the week to resume his participation a drug rehabilitation program, Radar Online reported Monday.  “He will remain in the Essex County Jail, which is located in Newark, until the end of the week when he is expected to be moved to a treatment facility for a variable length stay,” a spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor told Radar. “He will continue in Drug Court probation.” Lange, a 51-year-old Union native, was arrested last month for violating the conditions of the court-ordered rehabilitation progra…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase
Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase A Newark police officer has been indicted on manslaughter, assault, official misconduct and other charges for shooting and killing a fleeing suspect earlier this year, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday night. Crespo was being held at the Essex County jail and was expected to make an initial court appearance tomorrow or Thursday. Around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 28, a car containing Gregory Griffin, 46, and Andrew Dixon, 35, was stopped at Clinton Avenue and Thomas Street. The officer believed she saw a gun in the vehicle, authorities said. Griffin and Dixon fled the stop and …

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect
Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect An East Orange man who held up a Bloomfield liquor store at gunpoint Wednesday was arrested yesterday after he was seen on security footage entering a taxi, Bloomfield police said.  Alfonzo Jenkins, 49, entered Discount Liquor on First Avenue shortly before noon and pointed a silver revolver at an employee, demanding money and cigarettes, police said. The woman handed over a large amount of cash to Jenkins, who then fled the store.  A canvass of the area did not turn up any suspects but police did see surveillance footage of a man entering a silver Ford Crown Victoria taxi. With t…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies' Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies'
Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies' A Route 46 supplement store owner was peddling an illegal catnip cocktail that could be used as a date-rape drug, police in Fairfield charged. John Sirico, 48, of Tafton, PA was taken into custody after a warranted search at the Nutrition Zone turned up 61 bottles of catnip cocktail, 29 bottles of human growth hormone (HGH) and 13 bottles of Prohormones, Police Chief Anthony Manna said. Also seized were seven high-capacity handgun and rifle magazines and 20 bottles of a mixing agent, the chief said. Ordinarily used to sedate felines, catnip cocktails have similar properties to gamma-hydrox…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom
Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was deployed to a Fairview home in search of a man who authorities said abducted his children after stabbing their mother. Pedro Vaca, 29, apparently visited a relative there after signing the kids out of school and dropping them off with a family member in North Bergen around 3 p.m., authorities said. Police pinged his cellphone to Fairview, where Vaca "had been laying his head" with another relative on Greeley Avenue, borough Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The SWAT team was dispatched to Fairview at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, Kahn said. V…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say
Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say A 22-year-old Passaic man who has been arrested multiple times for burglarizing cars in North Jersey towns was slapped with similar charges Tuesday in Paramus, authorities said. Rashawn Vaughan was arrested and charged with burglary to auto and theft after breaking into at least seven cars in the borough last month, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. He is currently lodged in the Essex County Jail on other unrelated crimes, awaiting his bail hearing,  On Sunday, June 10, multiple cars parked between Village Circle Drive and Prospect Street were burglarized. All of the cars had be…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash
Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police on Wednesday identified a man who they said tried to run over a police officer at the Willowbrook Mall, crashing a car he'd just stolen into the officer's patrol cruiser and then, later, another police car, before he was captured on Route 46 in Fairfield. Alterick Harris, 42, of Newark became "became irate and argumentative" with the owner of the silver BMW as they were driving outside the mall, then took the keys and sped off after she got out, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Flagged down by the woman, responding Officer Pawel Jadczak positioned …

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by Jerry DeMarco