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Chilean Ring Used NJ Digs To Stash Loot From Home Burglaries In NY, MD, Elsewhere: Feds
Six Chilean nationals who burglarized homes in multiple states were recorded on video stashing a huge safe and other items stolen in the break-ins in a Jersey City apartment building, authorities said.
The crew took pearl necklaces, diamond earrings, a distinctive high school “state champions” ring, and other jewelry during the burglary of a Westchester County, NY, residence in late March, an FBI complaint says.
The same burglars struck again in Baltimore County, MD, in mid-April, taking luxury timepieces, distinctive cufflinks, and a safe that contained a collection of rare coins, the comp…
Update: Body Of Missing NJ College Student From Nepal, 22, Found In Brooklyn, Prosecutor Says
Detectives have located and identified the body of the 22-year-old New Jersey college student from Nepal who was missing since January.
Ajay Sah, 22, was last seen Tuesday, Jan. 19 at Drew University around 8 p.m. and reported missing three days later around 4 p.m., Madison police said.
He was then seen on surveillance footage at the Brooklyn Bridge just hours after his disappearance. In Sea Bright, a citizen found Sah’s backpack, which was turned over to police toward the end of April.
Meanwhile, an unidentified body was found in the Anchorage Channel in Brooklyn on March 9 and dete…
Update: FedEx Driver Robbed, Police Nab Teaneck Suspect, 31, Who Waded Into Creek Near Route 80
"Give me the package or I'll f*** you up," a shoeless robber from Teaneck told a FedEx driver who was making a delivery in Hackensack on Tuesday, authorities said.
What followed was a massive manhunt and a police chase through a muddy creek that ended when police found Newon O. Byfield, 31, behind the nearby Hilton Hasbrouck Heights/Meadowlands.
And what was in the package? Marijuana, authorities suspect.
The shoeless Byfield approached the driver at a Polifly Road address and threatened him shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Anthony DiPersia said.
The driver resisted, a struggle follo…
Man, 54, Struck, Killed By Train In Oradell Near River Edge Border
A train struck and killed a man on the tracks in Oradell at the River Edge border Wednesday night, responders said.
Christopher Lubben, 54, The person was struck by a NJ Transit Pascack Valley Line #1635 commuter train just south of New Milford Avenue near the Marginal Road intersection around 7 p.m., the agency's Elizabeth Chamberlain said.
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TRIBUTE: He was known for his sense of humor -- a fun-loving guy and popular Oradell butcher who called himself "The Meat Man." Christopher Lubben, 54, a former boys soccer coach at River Dell High School, was struck and killed Wednesd…
Hackensack Couple Meeting In Middle Of Tracks Struck, Killed By Train
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Each was on the opposite side of the tracks before Keith Daisley and Regina Eller met in the middle Wednesday afternoon -- and were struck and killed by a commuter train, witnesses told investigators.
Eller, 48, "had just gotten off a bus on Main Street" around 1:10 p.m., a law enforcement official said.
Daisley, 51, "was waiting for her on the other side of the tracks," he said, adding that they apparently hadn't seen one another in awhile.
The couple -- who each lived at different Hackensack addresses -- "met in the middle of the tracks,"…
