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5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor 5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor
5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor A 5-year-old girl was struck and killed while her father and younger sister were hospitalized in a Newark crash Tuesday, Jan. 31, authorities said. The girl was struck at the intersection of 6th Avenue and North 9th Street around 6:45 p.m., Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. Sources with direct knowledge of the incident say the vehicle flee the scene. The girl was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m. Her father and younger sister were taken to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The Essex …

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by Zak Failla & Cecilia Levine
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Heroin, 19 Illegal Firearms Seized Last Week In Newark Heroin, 19 Illegal Firearms Seized Last Week In Newark
Heroin, 19 Illegal Firearms Seized Last Week In Newark Police recovered 19 illegal firearms, loaded magazines, heroin and more from more than a dozen individuals in Newark in the last week, they said. The recoveries — from June 28 to July 7 — mark a 30 percent increase over the same period last year, Interim Newark Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. Malave reports the following arrests and gun/drug seizures: Thursday, July 7: Wyheed Heath, 27, and Kevin Artis, 27, both of Newark, arrested after police observed Heath with a handgun in the 600 block of South 20th Street. Heath was found in possession of a handgun, 50 glassine envel…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Ten Illegal Guns, DJ Equipment, Drugs Seized Father's Day Weekend In Newark Ten Illegal Guns, DJ Equipment, Drugs Seized Father's Day Weekend In Newark
Ten Illegal Guns, DJ Equipment, Drugs Seized Father's Day Weekend In Newark Police in Newark recovered 10 illegal guns and arrested four men, some of whom pointed their firearms at people at threatened to hurt or kill them, all over Father's Day Weekend, authorities said. According to Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara, the following arrests were made: Melvin Thomas, 23, of East Orange, was arrested near North 12th Street and 6th Avenue on June 19, after police saw him with an unlabeled bottle of 48 Oxycodone pills and a handgun after a traffic stop. Police also recovered another handgun and a Diamondback rifle from inside the vehicle. One of …

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by Cecilia Levine