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Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death
Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death An extradition hearing was scheduled Tuesday for six suspects captured in Paterson in connection with the mistaken-identity stabbing death of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx. Video shows five reupted members of the Dominican Trinitarios gang – one with a large knife -- dragging Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz out of a bodega on East 183rd Street and hacking him late Tuesday night. He made it to St. Barnabas Hospital but died after being repeatedly stabbed, including in the neck, the NYPD said. They also said the attackers got the wrong person: They thought he was someone recorded h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder
New Bergen Cold Case Unit: Deportee Charged In 1999 Englewood Rape, Murder A Nicaraguan man who remained at large following the 1999 rape and murder of an Englewood nail salon worker became the first defendant targeted by Bergen County’s first-ever Cold Case Homicide Unit. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo and state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal on Thursday announced the creation of the unit – a collaboration between the prosecutor’s office and New Jersey State Police that’s dedicated solely to the review of cold-case homicides in the county. Prosecutor's detectives have investigated cold cases for years, but the new collaboration with their state co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NH Man Charged With Online Sex With Lyndhurst Minor Extradited To NJ NH Man Charged With Online Sex With Lyndhurst Minor Extradited To NJ
NH Man Charged With Online Sex With Lyndhurst Minor Extradited To NJ A New Hampshire paint technician was charged with having online sexual conduct with an underage Lyndhurst teen. Blake Ryan Ballinger, 27, became the target of an investigation beginning in January after the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency “received information that an adult male named Blake had inappropriate sexual contact with a juvenile,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Monday. Work by members of Calo’s Special Victims Unit and Lyndhurst Police Department produced arrest warrants late last month charging him with aggravated sexual assault and child endan…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Dominican College Van Thief Chased, Caught In Old Tappan Police: Dominican College Van Thief Chased, Caught In Old Tappan
Police: Dominican College Van Thief Chased, Caught In Old Tappan OLD TAPPAN, N.J. – A driver who stole a van from Dominican College led police on a chase before he was stopped and arrested in Old Tappan, authorities said. Not officially identified yet by police, the man was booked into the Bergen County Jail as Rah Ralla, 19, records show. Charges of aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, eluding police and throwing bodily fluids at a law enforcement officer, among other counts, were filed, according to jail records. An extradition hearing was being scheduled. The van was stolen just after 6:30 p.m. Saturday., authorities said. Oran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica 13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica
13 Years Later: Bergen Fugitive Captured In Jamaica FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. – It took 13 years, but Bergen County authorities secured the arrest -- in Jamaica -- of a "Most Wanted" accused drug dealer who they said tried to run down a police detective. Davey Scott, 48, was seized by U.S. Marshals early Tuesday in Kingston, where he’d been living and working as a disc jockey under the name “DJ Tallman,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s office, along with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshal’s Regional Fugitive Task Force had been searching for the Jamaican national since he ski…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fugitive Who Sold 80 Lbs Of Pot To Bergen Detective Extradited From Canada Fugitive Who Sold 80 Lbs Of Pot To Bergen Detective Extradited From Canada
Fugitive Who Sold 80 Lbs Of Pot To Bergen Detective Extradited From Canada HACKENSACK, N.J. – A fugitive who fled the U.S. after admitting he sold 80 pounds of pot to an undercover Bergen County detective was extradited from Canada to be sentenced, authorities said Friday. James S. Norton, 46, had been a fugitive of justice since skipping out on his bail after taking a plea deal, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. Norton, of Hogansburg, N.Y., was arrested in 2010 after authorities said they caught him red-handedselling marijuana to an undercover officer, Grewal said. The U.S. Marshals Service extradited him from Canada after authorities there …

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