A 12-year-old Jersey City girl was struck by a bullet fired from a stolen car that fled into Newark, where pursuing police stopped it and arrested four suspects.The girl, who was struck in the leg, and another person were shot on Martin Luther King Boulevard near Oak Street around 6 p.m., responders said.Police began chasing a black Volkswagen, which had been reported stolen out of ...

Faced with footage from a hidden camera, a home health aide from North Bergen admitted that she abused a 90-year-old patient in the bedridden woman’s Clifton home, authorities said Tuesday.Emma Llanes, 57, “put a cloth over the patient's face without reason, grabbed [her] by the back of the neck and pushed the patient’s head forward, slapped [her] legs and failed to assist the patient ...

A Middlesex County identity thief collected $211,887 by forging a stolen U.S. Treasury check, federal authorities said Tuesday.Federal agents arrested Bernard Lopez, 40, of Sayreville, in Florida on Monday, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.They charged him with bank fraud, theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft.Lopez “used a victim’s Social Security number and ...

An Elmwood Park man was charged with raping a pre-teen over the course of three weeks.Authorities arrested Hitendra Rakholia, a married, 50-year-old estimator, after local police “received information that [he] had engaged in sexual activity with a child under the age of 13,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday.There were “multiple acts of sexual penetration with the ...

A Door Dash driver survived after she and her car were swept through a blocks-long underground tunnel and into the Passaic River during Monday's storm, city police said.Nathalia Bruno, 24, of Newark told police she was delivering food when her car got caught in a flash flood near the Benson Avenue tennis courts.She said she “was then dragged by a current of water and she could see ...

Englewood police detectives captured two men accused of shooting at another group during an ongoing dispute last month.Several people in a large group that had gathered on Palisade Place on June 4 were pelting police with rocks and other items when shots were fired on nearby Mattlage Place.No one was wounded by the half-dozen or so rounds fired, although two vehicles were struck, Deputy ...

A health aide sexually abused an 84-year-old patient at an Ocean County long-term care facility, state authorities said.Authorities charged Michael A. Edwards, 32, of Manchester with aggravated sexual contact after officials at the Sunrise Senior Living facility in Jacksontold police that another employee caught him “inappropriately touching an elderly woman in her room at the ...

A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday night in Jersey City, authorities said.Tyeah Garner was found with a single gunshot wound in the face at a single-family home on tree-lined Rutgers Avenue, near the corner of Sheffield Street, just after 10:30 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.Tyeah was taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead five ...

Two detectives who witnessed a street drug deal in Paterson seized a loaded semi-automatic handgun, along with 169 heroin folds, a combined 88 bags and vials of crack and 112 Xanax pills, while arresting two city residents.Detective Mohammad Bashir of the city’s Street Crime Unit was on a special holiday details with Passaic County Prosecutor’s Detective Eugene Tolliver when they saw ...

They say true character is what you do when no one is watching, which is what some people in Paramus were saying Monday about one of the borough’s bravest.“Amidst the worst thunderstorm I have ever seen, multiple trees blown down across the roadway, large tree branches falling without notice, live power wires down in the street and on fire, this selfless firefighter took the time to ...