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Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal
Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Authorities revealed on Monday that one of several men who carjacked and abducted a couple in Paterson last week was actually captured in Bloomfield later that night. City resident Juan Montero-Pena, 30, was among several men who accosted the 38-year-old Paterson woman and her 47-year-old male companion from Long Island in the area of Jackson Street and Washington Avenue around 8 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 1, authorities announced on Dec. 5. Bloomfield police located the vehicle and captured Montero-Pena in the area of Arlington and Watsessing avenues in their town shortly after 9:30 p.m., Pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson Police Bust 3 Out-Of-State Men With Loaded Gun, Drugs Paterson Police Bust 3 Out-Of-State Men With Loaded Gun, Drugs
Paterson Police Bust 3 Out-Of-State Men With Loaded Gun, Drugs Paterson police detectives arrested three out-of-state men after they said they found one of them carrying a loaded gun. Detectives Mustafa Dombayci, Mohamad Bashir and Yamil Piminenta were in the area of Washington Avenue and Spring Street around 7:45 p.m. Saturday when the silver Nissan with Georgia license plates sped by, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They stopped the car in the 500 block of Main Street, he said. A patdown turned up a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun in the waistband of Shakeem Jones, 20, of Roanoke, Virginia, Speziale said. Jones was sent to the Passaic Count…

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Passaic Sheriff’s Officers Nab Paterson Pair With Loaded Guns In Predawn Pullover Passaic Sheriff’s Officers Nab Paterson Pair With Loaded Guns In Predawn Pullover
Passaic Sheriff’s Officers Nab Paterson Pair With Loaded Guns In Predawn Pullover Passaic County sheriff’s officers found two men -- one of them an ex-con -- carrying loaded guns during a traffic stop overnight in Paterson, authorities said. Officers Angelo Calabro and Mathew Baskinger stopped a silver Mercedes Benz E-Class with an obstructed windshield at Washington Avenue and Ellison Street shortly after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Rear passenger Mark Jackson, 27, who was holding an open bottle of Hennessey cognac made a “quick hand movement near his pants pocket,” Berdnik said. Suspecting he might be armed, Calabro ordered Jackson out of the…

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Police: DWI Hackensack Driver Charged In Clifton Police Chase, Paterson Crash Police: DWI Hackensack Driver Charged In Clifton Police Chase, Paterson Crash
Police: DWI Hackensack Driver Charged In Clifton Police Chase, Paterson Crash A suspended Hackensack driver was drunk when he pulled up behind a Clifton police car in an empty parking lot before dawn, then led a high-speed chase that ended in a Paterson crash, authorities said. Officer Jomarcel Urena was on patrol in the area of Main and Sylvan avenues when the driver – identified as 28-year-old Preston Washington Jr. – followed him into the parking lot of a closed business at 2:35 a.m. Saturday. The officer got out and found Washington smelling of alcohol behind the wheel of a 2017 black Lexus SUV, Sgt. Robert Anderson said. Urena asked if he needed help, to which …

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by Jerry DeMarco