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Uber Driver Sexually Assaulted Female Fare In Alpine, Authorities Charge Uber Driver Sexually Assaulted Female Fare In Alpine, Authorities Charge
Uber Driver Sexually Assaulted Female Fare In Alpine, Authorities Charge Authorities armed with lab results arrested an Uber driver from Brooklyn who they said sexually assaulted a female fare in Alpine last year. Dearan Bennett, 36, remained held in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest Tuesday on sexual assault charges, records show. Alpine police responded to a 911 call of the assault last June 1, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. Detectives from Calo’s Special Victims Unit and the Alpine Police Department investigated, leading to Bennett’s arrest. A judge on Wednesday ordered that Bennett remain held pending a detention hear…
Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says
Jeweler Caught Trafficking Child Porn, Bergen Prosecutor Says Bergen County cyber crimes detectives arrested a jeweler from West New York who they said was trafficking child porn online. A judge ordered Sezcan Gonturk, a 32-year-old Turkish national, released under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law after a detention hearing last Friday, a day after his arrest. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said his Cyber Crimes Unit found Gonturk with more than 100 digital files “depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent children.” He also distributed more than 25 of the images, the prosecutor said. Gonturk is charged with possession and distrib…
East Rutherford Software Engineer Charged With Trafficking 310 Child Porn Files East Rutherford Software Engineer Charged With Trafficking 310 Child Porn Files
East Rutherford Software Engineer Charged With Trafficking 310 Child Porn Files A software engineer from East Rutherford was caught trafficking 310 child pornography files, said authorities who arrested him. Dean M. Desrosiers, 49, was charged with distribution of child pornography following a raid last week at his Mozart Street home, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Desrosiers, who Calo said is divorced, was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Friday and ordered released by a judge hours later, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law. He’s scheduled for a Feb. 13 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Calo thanked Eas…
Northvale Resident Charged With Having 2,400 Child Porn Images, Cyber-Chatting With Kids Northvale Resident Charged With Having 2,400 Child Porn Images, Cyber-Chatting With Kids
Northvale Resident Charged With Having 2,400 Child Porn Images, Cyber-Chatting With Kids A single, unemployed Northvale man was found with more than 2,400 illegal child-porn images -- and had been chatting online with girls as young as 10, authorities said. Corey Barraclough, 27, was arrested in Port Jervis on Thursday -- with assistance from Deerpark, N.Y. police -- following a raid on his East Avenue home, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He was charged with possession of more than 1,000 files of child pornography "depicting nude or sexually explicit images of prepubescent and pubescent children," Calo said. Barraclough remained held pending extrad…
Bergen Prosecutor: Westchester Couple Busted Selling Ecstasy To Undercover Detectives Bergen Prosecutor: Westchester Couple Busted Selling Ecstasy To Undercover Detectives
Bergen Prosecutor: Westchester Couple Busted Selling Ecstasy To Undercover Detectives A Westchester couple sold Ecstasy to undercover Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives who busted them, authorities said Friday. Daniel Velasquez, a 32-year-old furniture distribution supervisor, and Kayla Grace Raffaele, 18, both of New Rochelle, became targets in June after detectives received a tip, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. On July 25, Velasquez sold 25 Ecstasy pills to an undercover investigator in Paramus, Calo said. Five days later, Raffaele – accompanied by Velasquez -- sold 70 more in Hackensack, the prosecutor said. Both were then immediately arrested, he s…
Former Local Sportswriter From Maywood Charged With Sex Trafficking Of Minors Former Local Sportswriter From Maywood Charged With Sex Trafficking Of Minors
Former Local Sportswriter From Maywood Charged With Sex Trafficking Of Minors A fugitive from Maywood -- who once worked as a sportswriter for a local daily newspaper -- was charged with trafficking juveniles for sex while producing kiddie porn, authorities said Wednesday. Kevin J. Newell, 55, was arrested at his East Pleasant Avenue home on Tuesday and charged by authorities in Pennsylvania with human trafficking, unlawful sexual contact with a minor and creating child pornography, among other offenses, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A months-long investigation by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) field office in Pittsburgh and police in…
Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug
Prosecutor: Hackensack Penthouse Raid Finds Steroids, LSD, Date-Rape Drug HACKENSACK, N.J. – A raid on a Hackensack penthouse produced an assortment of drugs – including anabolic steroids, LSD and mushrooms – and an arrest, authorities said Thursday. Ryan W. Rohlfs also had the date-rape drug Ketamine, as well as hash oil and marijuana in his Prospect Avenue apartment when it was raided last week, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. “A handgun and drug paraphernalia also were seized during the search,” he said. Knowing authorities were searching for him, Rohlfs turned himself in at the prosecutor’s Paramus office on Tuesday, Calo said. The North …