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ICE Moves To Take Custody Of Teaneck Chef Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen
Federal authorities took the first step Wednesday toward seizing a 37-year-old chef from Teaneck who was jailed locally on charges of sexually assaulting an underage teenager. Victorino Romero was initially arrested by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on Tuesday, Dec. 19, following a joint investigation with Teaneck police, records show. They accused him of sexually assaulting a youngster that criminal records say was between 13 and 16 years old. Romero, who is married, was sent to the county jail in Hackensack to await a first appearance in Centra…
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: Accused Pedophile Living In Cliffside Wanted For Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen
A 52-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a pre-teen in Fairview multiple times fled the country and has been in Guatemala for at least the past few months, a reliable source told Daily Voice. Detectives obtained a warrant for the arrest of Bernardo Velazco, a single and unemployed Guatemalan national who had been living in Cliffside Park when the assaults allegedly occurred. He is considered a fugitive from justice, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, Dec. 18. Fairview police alerted members of the prosecutor's Special Victims Unit after the alleged assaults …
Business
Latin Cafe Paying Homage To Bergen County Chef's Late Parents Reopens Year After Fire
A Bergen County Latin restaurant is getting ready to reopen more than a year after an electrical fire devastated the kitchen. Mi Flor Latin Cafe in Westwood has been closed since the fire in October 2022. The eatery announced it would be reopening on Friday, Nov. 17. Mi Flor opened in 2021 and is run by chef Eliu Salguero, who was born and raised in Guatemala in a family of 16 children, and Dean Evans, who retired from UPS after 25 years of working in IT. "After recovering from COVID in March of 2020, and meeting up wit Eliu, I decided I need to keep busy," Evans said before opening …
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El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case
Four sons of notorious druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman are among more than two dozen members of Mexico's reigning Sinaloa cartel charged in a massive fentanyl-trafficking offensive announced by federal officials on Friday. The infamous quartet known as the Chapitos – each of whom had $5 million U.S. bounties placed on their heads – were dubbed “the pioneers” of fentanyl’s introduction to American users by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram during an April 14 news conference in Washington, D.C. “Death and destruction are central to their whole operation,” said Milgram, a former New Jersey a…
Police & Fire
'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals
A fugitive who's been on the lam for years and captured last March is back in New Jersey after being extradited, authorities said. Fausto Ramiro Santos Carillo, 56, fled to Guatemala sometime after the Plainfield murder of 49-year-old Martha Morales in July 23, 2003, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel and Plainfield Police Director James T. Abney said. She was found in the East Third Street apartment she shared with Carillo, having suffered multiple stab wounds, authorities said. Following the murder, Fausto Carillo fled the area. In February 2018, the Union County Prosecutor’…
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NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB
UPDATE: The death of an electric motorcyclist who authorities said ran a red light before crashing into a Port Authority police car near the George Washington Bridge is being investigated by state authorities. State law requires them to review the Oct. 17 incident in Fort Lee despite the circumstances because the death occurred during an encounter with law enforcement. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office identified the victim as Fredy Rolando Queveda -- although loved ones and court records identified him as Fredy Quevedo, a 40-year-old Guatemalan immigrant. The officer…
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Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.
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Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland
UPDATE: A bus company employee who stabbed and killed a fellow Palisades Park resident fled to Maryland, where he was captured, authorities said. Jose M. Rivera Mes, 29, remained held in the Prince George’s County Jail in Upper Marlboro, MD pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and weapons charges in Superior Court in Hackensack. Rivera-Mes stabbed Danilo Gonzalez-Flores, 37, with a kitchen knife outside the ShopRite on Roosevelt Avenue shortly after 7 p.m. last Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd been gashed so deeply across his stomach that organs were exp…
Business
Guatemalan Cafe 'Mi Flor' Opens In Westwood
A Guatemalan-inspired cafe has opened in Bergen County. Mi Flor Latin Cafe is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner with outdoor seating available on Kinderkamack Road in Westwood. Mi Flor is open in WestwoodMi Flor Instagram The chef, Eliu Salguero, was born and raised in Guatemala in a large family as one of 16 children. The restaurant is a tribute to both his mother and father. Losing his mother a year ago last April and his dad two years prior. His dad always called his mother “Mi Flor” (my flower). Hence, the name of the cafe with photos of his family hanging behind the counter…
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ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are looking for a 31-year-old man who escaped from the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark Friday. Luis Cordon-Guzman, Guatemalan national, was deported from the U.S. on April 24, 2019, and illegally reentered on an unknown date and location, a felony under federal law. He has multiple pending felony charges out Trenton stemming from a March 16 arrest by local police, ICE officials said. Following his arrest, ICE filed an immigration detainer with the Mercer County Correctional Facility (MCCF) in Trenton, and Cordo…
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ICE Promises More Sweeps After Capturing Murder Suspects, 113 Other Immigrants In New Jersey
Two fugitive murder suspects – one from Brazil who fled to Newark and another from El Salvador who was living in Elizabeth – were among 115 foreign nationals captured by ICE agents in New Jersey last week, officials said. Also seized in last week’s sweep of nationals illegally living in New Jersey were a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member found in Paterson and a deported child abuser from Mexico who was living In Guttenberg, they said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundup targeted at-large criminal aliens, illegal reentrants and other immigration violators who were “a threat to …
Police & Fire
Funds Launched To Send Body Of Deceased Bergen Pizzeria Restaurant Employee Home
Money is being raised on both sides of the North Jersey state line to transport the body of an 18-year-old Bergen County pizzeria employee home to his native Guatemala. The body of Wilson Atz-Roldan of Suffern was found Sunday in the water under the NY State Thruway bridge where Lake Antrim turns into the Mahwah River in Suffern, just off Route 202. An employee of Kinchley's Tavern in Ramsey, Atz-Roldan had gone missing more than a month earlier. "Wilson was the only family member in the United States with his father," the owners of Kinchley's said. "Now his father has the sad task of sen…
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Morris County Teens Called In To U-17 United States Men's National Team
A pair of Morris County teens have been called in to the U.S. Soccer under-17 national team ahead of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship. John Tolkin, 17 of Chatham, is a New York Red Bulls Academy defensive midfielder. He joins the U-17s for the fourth time this cycle. Peter Stroud, 17 of Chester, is a central midfielder for West Ham United, based in England. He left the Red Bulls last summer and joined WHU. USA will face Canada on May 2, Barbados May 4 and Guatemala May 6. Click here for the complete roster.
Police & Fire
Notorious Mexican Druglord ‘El Chapo’ Convicted In Brooklyn, Faces Life In Federal Prison
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, the most notorious drug lord in modern-day history, could be sent to prison for life after a jury in Brooklyn convicted him Tuesday of various charges. US District Judge Brian Cogan told the jurors they made him “very proud to be an American” after they found the boss of the murderous Sinaloa cartel guilty of all 10 counts against him – including engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise – following 34 hours of deliberations over six days. Guzmán, whom Cogan scheduled for sentencing on June 25, collected nearly $14 billion during a reign that saw him esc…
Police & Fire
Cabbie Captures Illegal Immigrant With Knife Who Robbed Woman At Cliffside Park Bus Stop
HERO: A courageous cab driver chased down and captured an illegal immigrant who’d just robbed a woman at knifepoint at a Cliffside Park bus stop early Monday, authorities said. The 53-year-old victim at first thought that Elias Guarcas, 30, was trying to catch the bus as he ran toward her on Palisade Avenue near the corner of Day Avenue just after 6:30 a.m., Lt. Vincent Capano said. “Then he stopped, pulled out a knife and told her to give him all her money,” Capano said. “All she had was $10 in her hand, so he grabbed that,” the lieutenant said. “Then he demanded a black bag she had wrapp…
Police & Fire
Palisades Park Painter Sexually Abused Teenage Boy, Authorities Charge
A Palisades Park painter sexually abused a 17-year-old boy, said authorities who arrested him. ICE issued a detainer holding Santos Ruiz-Teletor, a 37-year-old Guatemalan national, in the Bergen County Jail regardless of the outcome of a Thursday afternoon detention hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Ruiz-Teletor is charged with sexual assault through force or coercion and child endangerment through sexual contact. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Ruiz-Teletor was arrested following an investigation by members of his Special Victims Unit and Palisad…
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