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Mugshots Released: SWAT Raid Uncovers 28K Fentanyl Pills, Meth, Ghost Guns In Bergen County
A major drug bust in Bergen County led to the seizure of tens of thousands of fentanyl-laced pills, along with cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, and untraceable firearms, authorities said in announcing the arrests of the three men behind it. Ramon Morillo, 39, of Fort Lee; Brandon Morillo, 31, of Lodi; and Joseph Diaz, 34, of Fort Lee, were arrested on Thursday, Nov. 7, following a months-long investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotic Task Force, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The investigation began in July 2024, when detectives identified Mo…
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Neighbors Evacuated In 22-Hour Standoff With Armed Man In Essex County: Police
A 34-year-old barricaded Irvington man was arrested on Thursday, Sept. 5 after a standoff that lasted nearly 24 hours, authorities said. At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4, Irvington police responded to the 300 block of Nesbit Terrace on a report of an armed person and encountered Karim Brunson, who proceeded to barricade himself in the home, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens, II and Irvington Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers said. Irvington officers secured the area and received assistance from the Sheriff’s Tactical Response Team, Stephen and Bowers said. Trained negotiators …
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NY Trio Who Used Zip Ties To Restrain 4 Victims In Teaneck Home Invasion Charged: Prosecutor
Three New York men have been charged in a January Teaneck home invasion, authorities announced. Frank A Salcedo, 43; Francisco Sandoval, 42; and Brian Arias, 40; are facing a litany of charges including armed robbery, kidnapping, weapons possession and related offenses in the Friday, Jan. 12 incident on East Tryon Avenue, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The three men wearing masks and armed with handguns broke into the home and used zip ties to restrain two men in the home around 10:30 a.m., Musella said. Over the next few hours, two more adult victims arrived at the …
Police & Fire
NJ Murder Suspect Caught Up In 'Criminal Justice Overhaul' Convicted In 2016 Christmas Killing
A 40-year-old Newark man whose case happened in the midst of an overhaul of New Jersey's criminal justice system has been convicted in 2016 Christmas morning killing, authorities said. Habeeb Robinson was convicted of aggravated manslaughter, weapons possession and witness tampering in the death of Hassan Cobb-Jones, a 32-year-old Newark resident, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens, II said. Cobb-Jones was shot in a van on the 100 block of Parker Street, Stephens said. Robinson's case was more complicated, as it was happening at the turn of major changes under New Jersey's…
Police & Fire
Mahwah PD Nabs Stolen Car Driver After Owner's BF Follows Him From NYC
A man whose girlfriend's car was stolen in New York City tracked it to Suffern and then followed the driver into New Jersey, where Mahwah police made an arrest. The 2019 Mercedes 300 coupe was valet-parked at a Manhattan restaurant when it was stolen Tuesday night, May 28, Mahwah Police Lt. Michael Blondin said. Township police got a call at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday from the boyfriend, who the lieutenant said "was now behind it getting onto Route 287 south entering Mahwah" more than 25 miles from the city. Officer Ryan Berger was completing a traffic stop on Route 287 when both vehicles passed …
Police & Fire
Teaneck Woman Accused Of Hitting Child In Face With Device During Dispute Over Adultery: Report
A Teaneck woman hit a girl in the face with an Internet router, sending her to the hospital, during an argument over the adult’s alleged infidelities, authorities charged. The juvenile was bleeding from the nose and eye and required stitches after being struck by the device thrown by Katherine Pastor, 44, in the kitchen of her Sherwood Avenue home last Friday, May 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The two had gotten into an argument over Pastor’s alleged infidelities, a Teaneck police complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. “The argument turned physical, but b…
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! Bicycle-Riding Burglar From Passaic, 30, Captured By Hasbrouck Heights Officers: PD
A 30-year-old repeat offender from Passaic known for getting around on a bicycle tried to run but was caught by Hasbrouck Heights police who authorities said chased him down before dawn Saturday. A concerned citizen's call about a car burglar brought officers to the area of Hamilton Avenue and the Boulevard around 2 a.m., May 25, Lt. John Behr said. Hector J. Torres-Duran tried to flee Officers Joseph Armeli and Kevin Condal but crashed the bike and took off on foot in the parking lots behind Boulevard businesses, the lieutenant said. "He was eventually cornered and found hiding behind a D…
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! East Orange Fugitive Caught, Charged With Shooting Prospect Park Woman On New Year's
State and federal authorities captured a 23-year-old fugitive from East Orange who was wanted for shooting a woman on New Year’s Day in Paterson. It was just before 5 a.m. this past Jan. 1 that the 25-year-old victim from Prospect Park arrived at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center via private vehicle. She’d been shot near the corner of Market Street and East 33rd Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Department Officer-In- Charge Isa Abbassi said in a joint announcement. Eudys Santios-Toribio was subsequently identified as the shooter and a manh…
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Sixth Defendant Charged In Armed Edgewater Robbery Being Held In Westchester
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: The broad-daylight holdup of an Edgewater shopper last fall was committed by an armed robbery crew that included a Bronx man who was arrested this week in Westchester, authorities said. Jose A. Santana Torres, 22, and his partners followed the victim from Hudson County to an unidentified shopping center on River Road in last Oct. 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Two of them approached the victim and stole a watch at gunpoint while a third member of the crew served as lookout. The robbers then hopped into getaway vehicles driven by companions. The mid-afternoon holdu…
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Ridgefield Park Officer Finds Gun, Hollow-Nose Ammo, $24,500 After Stopping Out-Of-State Driver
A Ridgefield Park police officer turned up a handgun loaded with hollow-nose bullets, a small amount of crystal meth and $24,500 in suspicious cash during a traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Amanda Thomas stopped the Toyota Tundra for a number of violations at Main and Hobart streets shortly after 10 a.m. Monday, April 8, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. The driver, 40-year-old Mexican national Raul Villanueva Muratalla of Nashville, was taken into custody a short time later, he said. Muratalla was charged with unlawful weapons possession, possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpo…
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Englewood Police Chase Down Juveniles Carrying Stolen Gun, Knife
A group of Englewood police officers nabbed one juvenile with a stolen handgun and another with a knife after chasing both down, authorities said. The pair bolted when confronted by officers responding to a report of a robbery on Second Street at 10:45 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, Englewood Deputy Police Chief Matthew de la Rosa said. Two officers sustained minor injuries and were treated by EMS following a brief struggle after chasing the pair down. One of the teens was sent to the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Facility in Teterboro after police issued a delinquency complaint that charges hi…
Police & Fire
Ex-Con Accusing Of Pinning Hackensack Woman Down By Her Hair, Plunging Knife Next To Her Head
A transient ex-con was charged with domestic violence after authorities said he pinned a Hackensack woman to the floor by her hair and threatened her with a knife before dawn Monday. Robert Raghoenathsingh, 40, formerly of Lodi but more recently of Passaic, plunged the knife into the floor next to the victim's head in her Prospect Avenue apartment around 2 a.m. Feb. 5, the woman told police. He then stood on her hair so she couldn't get up, her report says. Raghoenathsingh -- who jail records show is a divorced Yemeni national -- made headlines in 2019 when he brought what proved to be bas…
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Instacart Driver Leads Maywood Police To Hackensack Couple Trying To Steal Car: Authorities
Thanks to a conscientious Instacart driver, Maywood police caught an 18-year-old Hackensack man and a 17-year-old female companion trying to steal a vehicle, authorities said. The delivery driver directed police to the rear parking lot of a Hammell Place apartment complex shortly after 8 p.m. last Wednesday, Jan. 31, Maywood Detective Sgt. William Phayre said. Sgt. Gregory Mulawka and Officer Alana Luna were already in the area investigating another reported motor vehicle burglary when the call came in from Maybrook Drive, the sergeant said. Phayre headed to Hammell Place and tog…
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NJ Man Laid Naked On Headless Mom's Body After Killing Her: Police Docs
A 46-year-old New Jersey man accused killing his mom was found lying on her headless body, in the nude, when police arrived to the gruesome scene last week, according to police paperwork. ** WARNING: This news article contains graphic details ** Jeffrey Surgent called the Ocean City Police Department saying he suffers from bipolar and he just killed his mom, Alexandri Surgent, just before 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sutherland said. Officers arriving at Surgent’s home on the 600 block of 6th Street in Ocean City, found him "nude in the hallway, lying on t…
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Murder In Franklin Lakes: Son Charged With Killing 87-Year-Old Father
UPDATE: An unemployed Franklin Lakes man stabbed, bludgeoned and drowned his 87-year-old father in their home, then went to the police station to confess to the murder, according to a report outlining the horrific assault. David Allen Hagal, 60, was charged with murder and illegal weapons possession in the brutal murder of his 87-year-old father. Borough police rushed to the home, found the body of George J. Hagal and took David Allen Hagal, 60, into custody shortly after 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 10. The younger Hagal hit his father in the head with a metal pipe and stabbed him multiple…
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Violent Garfield Ex-Con Charged With Englewood Shooting
A Garfield ex-con with a violent criminal history was charged with firing a gunshot at another man in Englewood earlier this year. Michael Dashawn Lockett, 31, apparently had some kind of beef with the victim when he squeezed off a shot on an otherwise quiet Green Street near Argonne Park in broad daylight this past Feb. 15, authorities said. No one was struck, they said. Englewood detectives and members of the US Marshals Service captured Lockett in Hackensack on Tuesday, Oct. 3. He was charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession and sent him to the Bergen County Jail, where h…
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Lyndhurst PD: Fleeing Motorcyclist From Lodi, 19, Captured Carrying Drugs, Knife
A motorcyclist who tried to give a Lyndhurst police officer the slip was captured following a brief chase, authorities said. Jaydan Tejada, 19, of Lodi, was carrying a large kitchen knife, a ski mask, and assorted drugs -- crystal meth and psilocybin mushrooms, as well as THC candies and vaporizers -- following the pursuit, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. It began shortly after 11:30 p.m. Mondy, Aug. 7, when Officer Nicollette Villani spotted a pair of motorcycles heading south on Park Avenue. Neither rider was wearing a helmet and both had their lights off, Auteri said. …
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Gang Member Who Stabbed New Leonia GF Dead With Young Daughter Home Gets 35 Years In Prison
UPDATE: A Paterson gang member was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing his new girlfriend to death in the Leonia apartment that she shared with her young daughter. Murder pleas are rare in Bergen County, where deals are often cut for just about every other charge. Nile “OG Cripp” Diakos, 36, nonetheless got a deal from prosecutors in the March 26, 2022 stabbing death of Alicia Arnone, 35. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office agreed to a 30-year sentence – with no parole. Another five will be tacked on for stalking and weapons possession by a con…
Police & Fire
Jamaican National From Wayne Charged With Machete Attack In Clifton
A Jamaican national who lives in Wayne was charged with slashing a Clifton man's wrist with a machete during a weekend dispute. The victim was rushed to St. Joseph's University Medical Center with a serious cut following the incident at a home on the corner of Vernon and Bergen avenues shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, June 22. Police tracked down Romario Douglas, 27, who they said fled after the stabbing. He was charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession and sent to the Bergen County Jail. Douglas remained held there on Monday while awaiting a first appearance in Central Judic…
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Teaneck Ex-Con Freed After 6 Months On Gun Conviction Charged With Shooting Couple In Paterson
A Teaneck ex-con who served all of six months in state prison on a gun conviction and a Paterson man are charged with wounding a city woman and an East Orange man in a burst of gunfire on a Silk City street. Tommy Norberto, 20, and Paterson native Jazyre K. Kearney, 21, were both charged with attempted murder and weapons possession in the May 22 shooting on West Broadway between Matlock Street and Totowa Avenue, authorities said Police found the 37-year-old Paterson woman at the scene with a bullet wound in her leg, responders at the scene said. She was brought to St. Joseph’s University M…
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Repeat Hackensack Offender Captured After Pulling Knife On Garfield Resident: Police
A repeat offender from Hackensack was caught hiding in a Garfield resident's backyard after he threatened someone with a knife, police said. Elijah I. Fulgham, 24, was also wanted on a December 2021 warrant out of Teaneck, records show. Officers who responded to a report of a dispute possibly involving a handgun in the area of Palisade Avenue and Sampson Street spoke with the victim, Garfield Police Capt. Mario X. Pozo said. He told them that Fulgham "knocked on his apartment door and threatened him with a knife," Pozo said. The issue between them was immediately clear. Fulgham tipped aw…
Police & Fire
Officers Responding To Hackensack Street Brawl Find Birthday Boy Carrying Loaded Gun: PD
Two Hackensack police officers responding to a report of an overnight fight found a city man marking his 24th birthday Tuesday with a loaded handgun stashed under the driver’s seat of his vehicle, authorities said. Participants in the fight on Central Avenue off Prospect scattered as police approached shortly after 1 a.m. June 20, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. While some of them were being rounded up, Officers Michael Reo and Reuven Lyak turned their attention to an idling vehicle occupied by Noah Brown, the captain said. The officers determined that …
Police & Fire
Stolen iPad's Ping Leads To Multi-Burglary Arrest: Ridgefield Park PD
A cellphone stolen during a burglary spree led Ridgefield Park police to a South Hackensack motel and the arrest of a suspect tied to several area break-ins. Village police headed to the Congress Inn in South Hackensack after one of the victims told them that his iPad had pinged there, Sgt. Justin Tress said. Suer enough, they found Shamiar L. Clyburn, 33, of Paterson, on nearby Phillips Avenue off Route 46. Clyburn was the man seen on surveillance video burglarizing multiple vehicles shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday, June 10, the sergeant said. He resisted arrest but was subdued with help fro…
Police & Fire
Bergenfield Man, 20, Charged With Firing Toy Gun Water Pellets At Englewood Pedestrians
A 20-year-old Bergenfield man fired a gel blaster that hit two people crossing an Englewood street, authorities said. Jason Suarez was identified as the person responsible for firing the water beads from the paintball-type toy gun, which struck the pedestrians as they crossed East Palisade Avenue around 8 p.m. Sunday, May 7, police said. Suarez apparently fired from a 2019 Honda Accord that then sped off, they said. Police had him in custody by 11 a.m. the next morning, Chief Thomas Greeley said. They issued him two summonses for aggravated assault, as well as one for weapons possession…
Police & Fire
Robber With Meat Tenderizer Attacks Woman Outside Bergenfield School, Takes Cash, Phone, More
A robber wielding a meat tenderizing hammer took a cellphone, purse, credit cards and $400 in cash from a woman in broad daylight outside a Bergenfield elementary school, said authorities who arrested him moments later. Uniformed officers and detectives flooded the neighborhood around the Hoover Elementary School at Murray Hill Terrace and Sylvan Avenue shortly before 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 1, Capt. William Duran said. The terrorized 45-year-old victim from Little Falls had surrendered her belongings to Rickent Carrasco, 33, after being threatened, the captain said. Responding officers cap…
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Update
: Getaway Driver, 21, In Fairview Drug Murder Gets 30 Years Without Parole
The getaway driver in the cold-blooded killing of a Fairview man during a drug-related apartment robbery was sentenced to 30 years without parole in state prison. David Martinez, 21, of North Bergen watched as three men who were in the apartment when David Duque Soto was shot in June 2019 took guilty pleas rather than risk the consequences of a trial. Martinez let a jury decide his fate and was convicted on March 13 in Hackensack of felony murder, armed robbery, conspiracy and weapons possession. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutors Suzanne Cevasco and Matthew Fitzpatrick presented 16 witn…
Police & Fire
Fleeing Wrong-Way Driver Captured After Ramming Passaic Police Cars, Civilian Vehicles
Thankfully no one was hurt in a wild pursuit in the City of Passaic in which several vehicles were struck by an out-of-control driver. The driver was captured after hitting two police vehicles while going the wrong way down a one-way street and then mistakenly turning into a dead end Thursday night, Passaic Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. Carlos A. Tejada, 29, was headed down Jefferson Street from Main Avenue when his vehicle struck a police unit occupied by an officer coming from the opposite direction near Hope Avenue around 8 p.m. April 27, Lora said. Tejada hit another police car a…
Police & Fire
Five Arrests In 365 Days For Accused Domestic Violence Offender From Englewood
An Englewood woman already on probation remained held in the Bergen County Jail following a slashing, authorities confirmed. Reyna P. Flores Ramirez, 30, was arrested by police who said they recovered the knife following the incident on White Street on Sunday afternoon, April 16. The victim sustained a minor injury, they said. White was charged with aggravated assault, weapons possession, violating a domestic violence court order and violating probation and sent to the county lockup, records show. The 5-foot-3-inch, 154-pound Ramirez was sent there following repeated arrests beginning a y…
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SWAT Standoff In Westwood Ends With Arrest Of Shotgun-Toting Resident
A Westwood man was taken into custody after a brief standoff that began after police said he pointed a shotgun at someone on his street. The alleged victim told police that Brian McCarron had racked and pointed the weapon shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, April 16, responders said. The reason was unclear. McCarron, in turn, told police that he was simply doing an armed "perimeter check" of his Fourth Avenue property, one responder said. Westwood Police Chief Michael Pontillo confirmed that responding officers surrounded the house after McCarron, 52, wouldn't answer the door. A Bergen County …
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Teen Trio Caught Running Fund-Raising Robbery Scam At Jersey City PATH Stations
Three teens running a fund-raising robbery scam on strangers at Jersey City PATH stations were captured after one of the victims was injured in a scuffle, authorities said. That man was approached by the trio at the Grove Street station on March 6, Port Authority Public Information Officer Lenis Valens said. “They asked if he was willing to donate to their football team,” she said. When he told them he had no cash, they said he could do it through Venmo or Zelle, so he handed the phone over looking to make a $5 donation, Valens said. The teens, in turn, told him the account was wrong and …
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Ecuadorian National Pleads Guilty To Brutal Stabbing Death Of Popular Bergen County Chef
A Jersey City man who brutally stabbed a well-known chef to death during a party at the victim’s Little Ferry home cut a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter in exchange for a lesser sentence. Ray Edwardo Arcentales Sanchez, 24, could still get a minimum sentence of 10 years in state prison for the plea, entered in Superior Court in Hackensack earlier this week. Then there’s the matter of his citizenship. Police at the time said the Ecuadorian national was sitting on a curb, spattered with blood, when officers responding to a 911 call found a mortally wounded …
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