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Federal Agents Capture Accused Hit Man Wanted In Fatal Englewood House Party Ambush
An accused hit man wanted in a double shooting at a June Bergen County house party was captured by federal agents after two months on the run, authorities said Saturday.
U.S. Marshals arrested Dwayne Redd Jr., 22, on Thursday at a house in Baltimore, MD, his native city, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said nearly two months after the Englewood house party ambush.
Redd and Dejuan Stokes, 23, both unemployed, were recruited by Jamal "Mally" Robinson, 44, in the June 20 shooting that killed killed Douglas Perry, 43, of Newark, and a injured a 29-year-old En…
'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Route 80 Shooting
UPDATE: Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in Lodi last weekend.
"It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and New Jersey State Police Lt. Colonel Fritz Frage.
Anzilotti identified the trio as:
Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach, NY;
Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, NY, the alleged shooter;
Robert Plunkett, 2…
Gotcha! Prosecutor's Detectives Nab Accused Hackensack Killer, Accomplice In Brooklyn
Detectives captured an accused gunman who they said ruthlessly shot and killed a 22-year-old Hackensack man on a city street.
Jairo Echeverry, 20, of Hackensack was taken into custody in Brooklyn around 11 p.m. Monday, along with another repeat offender, Brian Guerrero, 27, of Paramus, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Detectives from the NYPD's 72nd Precinct assisted Musella's homicide investigators in nabbing the pair, he said.
Echeverry was charged with murder and Guerrero with hindering his apprehension, the prosecutor said.
Both were being held in Brooklyn pending extradit…
ID Theft: $400,000 Stolen From Hillsdale Retiree, Out-Of-State Duo Charged
Two members of an interstate identity theft ring – one of them a 79-year-old old woman who lives in North Carolina -- helped steal $400,000 from a Hillsdale retiree, authorities said.
Richard C. Okorie, 42, of Missouri City, TX, and Barbara Lynn Alexander of Graham, NC, were arrested following an investigation by borough police investigated, with support from the Bergen County prosecutor’s Financial Crimes Unit and several other agencies in three states, Hillsdale Police Chief Robert Francaviglia said.
Some of the money stolen from the victim’s company-sponsored retirement account was recov…
