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'Mama's Boy' From New Jersey Chosen To Star On New Season Of 'The Bachelor'
ABC's "The Bachelor" franchise has announced its next star. His name is Grant Ellis, and he's a 30-year-old day trader with New Jersey and New York roots. The Houston, Texas resident initially competed on this season of "The Bachelorette" starring Jenn Tran, who grew up in Bergen County. Ellis was eliminated just before Tran picked her final four. Ellis is a Newark native who played basketball for Hudson Catholic, and later at the collegiate level in New York for Iona University in New Rochelle, where he played guard and forward. His bio on the ABC website says he's a "mama’s boy who love…
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Bergen County Spas Offering Sex For Cash, Federal Investigation Finds
Four people have been charged with offering sexual favors at nine different massage parlors and spas across North Jersey and New York, federal officials said. Zhejun Piao, 37, a Chinese national, Miyeon Choi, 37, a South Korean national, Shangxian Cui, 36, Chinese national, and Meixiang Jin, 34, of Palisades Park, New Jersey, are charged by complaint with one count of conspiracy to commit interstate travel or transportation in aid of a racketeering enterprise., U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Friday, Aug. 9. The following nine spas and massage parlors owned and operated by …
Police & Fire
ICE Puts Hold On Inmate Charged With String Of Sex Assaults In Bergen, Hudson
An accused North Jersey serial sex offender isn't going anywhere now. ICE has placed a detainer on Fokam Ngongang Parfait, a former Montclair High School football star who's accused in a series of sexual assaults at hotels in Saddle Brook and Secaucus. The 25-year-old repeat offender has been held in the Bergen County Jail since his arrest by detectives from the county prosecutor's office on March 31. Parfait was initially charged with kidnapping, raping and robbing a victim at gunpoint in Saddle Brook on March 24. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said investigators from his Special …
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Online Sting Scheme: Indian National Admits Scamming Elderly In NJ, Around World
UPDATE: An Indian national who participated in an international conspiracy that preyed on senior citizens in New Jersey and throughout the U.S. was sentenced to a plea-bargained 33 months in federal prison, authorities said. Ashish Bajaj, 29, of India, will have to serve out the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty also sentenced Bajaj to two years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $2.4 million in restitution to his victims. Bajaj lived in different parts of the United States, including New Rochelle, NY, and Anahe…
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Gunpoint Rapist Robbed, Kidnapped One Of His Saddle Brook Victims: Prosecutor
Authorities on Friday seized a former Montclair High School football star who they said kidnapped and robbed one of multiple rape victims at gunpoint in Saddle Brook. There may be other victims, they said. Fokam Parfait, a 25-year-old repeat offender, fled the kidnapping rape on a motorcycle last Friday, March 24, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in announcing his arrest a week later. Investigators from his Special Victims Unit and Saddle Brook police found that Parfait had also sexually assaulted “multiple” victims while armed in the township. Parfait – who played safety and lin…
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Driver Torches Sedan For Insurance Money After Hitching Ride For Gas From PIP PD: Prosecutor
A driver torched his sedan on the Palisades Interstate Parkway after first getting a ride from a police officer when he ran out of gas, authorities said. Tramaine Hayward, 46, of New Rochelle, NY, caught a lift from a well-meaning Palisades Interstate Parkway Police officer who found him and his disabled 2010 Nissan Altima stranded on the shoulder of the highway in Englewood Cliffs shortly before 10 p.m. Feb. 8. Two and a half hours later, PIP police responded to a 12:30 a.m. vehicle fire in that same spot, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. “The fully engulfed vehic…
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! Hardcore Ex-Con Trio Robbed 80-Year-Old Shopper In Route 46 Costco Lot: Prosecutor
UPDATE: Authorities charged three hardcore criminals from Newark with robbing a defenseless 80-year-old shopper in the parking lot of a Costco off Route 46 in Teterboro. Ex-cons Alex Carroll, 35, David Fate, 38, and Tariq Kyam, 57, all have extensive, violent criminal histories, records show. Kyam and Fate were both charged with committing two robberies in 2009, one of which left a Verona gas station attendant shot dead. Kyam served nearly nine years behind bars after Fate testified against him. How much time Fate served in exchange for his testimony couldn't immediately be determined. Th…
Obituaries
East Rutherford's John D. Zoidis, M.D., Loved The Beatles And The Beach
John D. Zoidis, M.D., 63, of East Rutherford passed away peacefully in his sleep at home on March 29. John was born in Bronx, NY to John and Margaret (Barbato) and raised in Pelham Manor, NY. After graduating Pelham Memorial High School, John attended Fairfield University and St. George’s University School of Medicine (in Grenada). He previously lived in New Rochelle, NY and Fairfield, CT before moving to East Rutherford in 2013. John Zoidis could often be found on the beach or near the water.The Zoidis Family John left medical practice in the early 1990s to begin work at several pharma…
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4 Arrests Made, 221 Calls To Police Placed During Hoboken's Santacon
Police responded to 221 calls for service, 28 medical calls, 8 motor vehicle summonses and ordered three city ordinances during Hoboken's Santa Con, they said Tuesday. The annual event returned with vaccine requirements on Saturday, but that didn't stop people from letting loose. The following four arrests were made, Hoboken Police Lt Danilo Cabrera said. Michael Koziol 26 y/o Male from Bloomfield, NJ Date & Time: 12/18/21 at 6:22 PM Location: 81 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 Charge: Aggravated Assault on Law Enforcement Officer Incident Detail: On Saturday, December 18, 2021, at …
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Fairview Officer Chases Down Westchester Driver With Illegal Gun, Magazine, Ammo, Police Say
A Fairview police officer chased down a Westchester County driver who was carrying a gun when he bolted during a pre-dawn traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Sebastian Castano stopped the Toyota Camry on 91st Street and Kennedy Boulevard just over the North Bergen border after the driver was unable to maintain a lane while heading south on Bergen Boulevard, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. Castano had the driver -- identified as Zachary Montique-Lyttle, 22, of New Rochelle -- step out of the car after he showed the officer a phony driver's license, Kahn said. A temporary license plate on…
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Ex-BF Sentenced For Kidnapping Of NY Woman Found Dead In Suitcase
The ex-boyfriend of a 24-year-old Westchester, NY woman whose body was found dead in a suitcase in Connecticut has been sentenced to decades behind bars for his role in her 2019 kidnapping. Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, age 25, of Queens, pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to kidnapping Valerie Reyes in New Rochelle and illegally transporting her to Fairfield County, where her body was found in a suitcase a week later in Greenwich. US Attorney Audrey Strauss announced that Rojas has been sentenced to 360 months in prison following his guilty plea in February last year. He was als…
Police & Fire
Update
: Body Of NYC Forensic Dentist, 72, Found In Backyard Bergen Pool
In the latter years of his career, Dr. Richard Boguslaw gave names to the dead. The 72-year-old widowed Montvale resident, whose body was found Wednesday afternoon in his backyard pool, was a forensic dentist with the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office. He also was a member the past dozen or so years of the Region 2 Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team in New York and New Jersey. DMORTs, as the teams are known, respond to mass deaths -- such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina -- to help identify the deceased. Besides identifying human remains, forensic dentists also…
Police & Fire
Montvale PD: Detectives Nab Verizon Store Robber
Montvale detectives arrested a Bronx man who they said robbed $16,000 worth of cellphones from a local Verizon Wireless store with an accomplice two months ago. Investigators found Victor A. Manzanillo, 27, after police from several departments chased down and captured three other Bronx men who pulled a similar job late last month at a Verizon store in Denville, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said Thursday. SEE: Police Capture Morris County Verizon Store Robbers After Chase Manzanillo and an associate made off with more than 15 cellphones and an employee's wallet f…
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Congregants Self-Quarantine After Rabbi In NY Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…
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Fourth Presumptive NJ Coronavirus Patient Went To Conference Attended By Trump, Officials Say
New Jersey's fourth patient who tested positive for coronavirus traveled to a political conference attended by President Donald Trump, officials said. The 55-year-old man from Englewood was exposed to the virus before arriving at the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference, a spokeswoman for the governor said Saturday. The man remains in stable condition at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, where he has been since Thursday, officials said. The ACU event was held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Maryland…
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Officials: Englewood Coronavirus Patient Self-Quarantined
New Jersey's second presumed coronavirus patient works in the same office as a Manhattan lawyer from Westchester who was the second New York State resident hospitalized with the virus, a source with knowledge of the cases said. The 30-year-old Englewood lawyer was examined at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center for "minor symptoms" and released, state officials said Thursday. She was asked to temporarily self-quarantine until the New Jersey Department of Health determines that she has passed the infectious stage, they said. The woman works in the same midtown law firm as a 50-year-…
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NJ's 2nd Presumed Coronavirus Patient Released From Englewood Hospital And Medical Center
New Jersey's second presumed coronavirus patient works in the same office as a Manhattan lawyer from Westchester who was the second New York State resident hospitalized with the virus, a source with knowledge of the cases said. The 30-year-old Englewood lawyer was examined at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center for "minor symptoms" and released, state officials said Thursday. She was asked to temporarily self-quarantine until the New Jersey Department of Health determines that she has passed the infectious stage, they said. The woman works in the same midtown law firm as a 50-year-old N…
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State Health Dept: Temple Attendees From NJ Should Self-Quarantine Due To Coronavirus
State health authorities on Wednesday asked any New Jerseyans who attended religious events at a Westchester synagogue to self-quarantine until this Sunday. The request is directed out of an abundance of caution to anyone who attended Temple Young Israel in New Rochelle on Feb. 22-23, state Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli said. It's based on a public health assessment and guidance issued Tuesday by the Westchester County Health Department in connection with a case of COVID-19 in a person who attended the temple, she said. “While the risk to any given individual is likely to be low, …
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Wife, Two Kids, Neighbor Of Westchester
Covid-
19 Patient Also Test Positive, Cuomo Says
The family and a neighbor of the 50-year-old New Rochelle lawyer who tested positive for coronavirus have become the four latest subjects to test positive for COVID-19. At a press briefing on Wednesday, March 4 to offer an update of coronavirus in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the man’s 20-year-old son, 14-year-old daughter, wife and a neighbor who drove the man to NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville all tested positive. There are now six confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York State. Though that number is expected to climb, the governor cautioned. Ea…
Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: Westchester Couple Busted Selling Ecstasy To Undercover Detectives
A Westchester couple sold Ecstasy to undercover Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives who busted them, authorities said Friday. Daniel Velasquez, a 32-year-old furniture distribution supervisor, and Kayla Grace Raffaele, 18, both of New Rochelle, became targets in June after detectives received a tip, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. On July 25, Velasquez sold 25 Ecstasy pills to an undercover investigator in Paramus, Calo said. Five days later, Raffaele – accompanied by Velasquez -- sold 70 more in Hackensack, the prosecutor said. Both were then immediately arrested, he s…
Police & Fire
Decapitated Goat Found In Container Off Route 80 In Elmwood Park
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A headless goat carcass, most likely part of a ritual sacrifice, was found in a container Monday night alongside railroad tracks in Elmwood Park. Authorities treated the hard-plastic bin found on Linden Avenue, just off eastbound Route 80, as a suspicious package. Not only was the animal slaughtered: The carcass, under state law, was improperly disposed. There was also was fresh blood in the bin with no decomposition. "Preliminarily, it looks possibly like a Santería-type ritual," Police Chief Michael Foligno said Tuesday. "The SPCA, through the [Berge…
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Jeweler From River Vale Fenced $1.25M In Stolen Bling
RIVER VALE, N.J. – A jeweler from River Vale fenced $275,000 worth of bling from an Englewood jewelry store and $1,000,000 worth from one in Westchester County for a tri-state area burglary crew, authorities said Friday. Frank Lashvili, 56, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing Monday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's charged with fencing, receiving stolen property and accomplice liability. Also arrested were two 55-year-old Brooklyn men: Kevin Lyde, a spiritual rehabilitation couns…
Sports
March Madness: Watch For Bosco Boy Paul Jorgensen, Top Butler Guard
The area has no shortage of players going dancing for March Madness. Here are four former varsity standouts from the region to watch in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and when you can see their first-round games. Paul Jorgensen, Butler: The New City native graduated from Don Bosco Prep. The guard played two seasons at George Washington helping lead them to the NIT title last year with an average of 15.7 minutes per game. He has two seasons of eligibility remaining at Butler. (10.5 PPG, 3.2 RPG). Friday, March 16 vs. Arkansas at 3:10 p.m. Rickey McGill, Iona: The junior gua…
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