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Bi-state Bust: Bergen Man, Westchester Woman Had 20 Pounds Of Fentanyl, 2½ Pounds Of Coke: Feds
A Bergen County man and a woman from Westchester were busted with 20 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 2½ pounds of cocaine for sale, federal authorities said.
Plinio Junior Pineda Lopez, 33, of Oakland and Lorendy Diaz Beltre De Inoa, 27, of Yonkers were arrested with 1.5 kilos of fentanyl in Wallington, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said Wednesday.
Nearly eight more kilos of hidden fentanyl were found during a court-approved search on Tuesday, July 11, of Lopez’s Hillside Avenue home just off West Oakland Avenue and down the street from an entrance/exit for Route 287, inve…
IN Cold Blood (Update): Trio Charged With Killing Kidnapped Newark Man Alongside Route 80
UPDATE: Three Newark men have been charged by New Jersey State Police with shooting and killing a fellow Brick City resident and leaving his body alongside Route 80.
Two of them – William Dixon, 24, and Nishir Rios-Figueroa, 30 – were already in custody in connection with other crimes, State Police said on Tuesday. They captured the third, Mustafa Manns, 28, in Newark.
The trio had abducted the victim, 27-year-old Quadree “Pee” Burch, in early August and driven him to Allamuchy Township, 20 or so miles from the Pennsylvania state line, the NJSP said in a March 14 release.
They shot and ki…
New Englewood Schools Superintendent Dies In Westchester Crash
A career educator who'd only just become Englewood's school superintendent this past summer died in a weekend car crash in Westchester.
Dr. Ronel Cook, 51, was killed and his 18-year-old son, Jayden, injured after Cook's 2015 Nissan Altima veered off the eastbound Cross County Parkway and slammed into a stone wall at the Seminary Avenue overpass on Sunday, Nov. 20, according to Kieran O’Leary, a Yonkers police spokesperson.
The elder Cook, of Newburgh, NY, was pronounced dead at NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester hospital a short time later. His son, a Yonkers resident, was admitted with se…
Gotcha! Fugitive Nabbed After Incident With Elderly Driver In Oakland
An angered driver who stopped after being cut off by an elderly motorist in Oakland turned out to be a fugitive wanted in Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Sgt. Ryan O’Keefe was on Ramapo Valley Road when he saw a 2016 Kia cut off a 2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo around 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12.
As O'Keefe pulled the female motorist over, he noticed the driver of the Monte Carlo, which had struck a curb, stop just up the road, Capt. Timothy Keenan said.
That driver, Tyris Scott, 20, of Newark didn't have a driver's license on him, the captain said.
Then came the surprise: A computer check …
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…
Members Of Massive Ny-based Crew Caught Stealing Tens Of Thousands From NJ ATMs ID'd
They flooded New Jersey by the dozens, coming from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Westchester, armed with bogus debit cards. They nearly returned home with tens of thousands of dollars stolen from ATMs throughout the state.
Police in several counties stopped them, though.
Here’s a snapshot of one of several theft crews captured in New Jersey on Tuesday:
Eight adults, three juveniles;
47 indictable charges, mostly for identity and credit card theft;
10 disorderly persons charges;
$3,335 in stolen cash seized, along with various bogus cards.
That group, busted Cliffside Park, was among severa…
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…
