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Self-Defense

Widow Who Killed Husband Gets 6 Years In NJ State Prison Widow Who Killed Husband Gets 6 Years In NJ State Prison
Widow Who Killed Husband Gets 6 Years In NJ State Prison A Mays Landing woman will spend more than half a decade in prison after admitting to killing her husband during an argument in their home on Christmas night, authorities said. Marylue Wigglesworth, 53, was sentenced on Tuesday, Aug. 20 to six years in state prison, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release on Thursday, Aug. 22. She pleaded guilty on Tuesday, June 4 to second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 57-year-old David Wigglesworth. Hamilton Township police found David Wigglesworth with a gunshot wound at the home on the 5200 b…
Jake Paul Vs. Mike Perry Undercard Features Bergen County Boxer Tonight Jake Paul Vs. Mike Perry Undercard Features Bergen County Boxer Tonight
Jake Paul Vs. Mike Perry Undercard Features Bergen County Boxer Tonight Dane Guerrero never intended to compete. The 36-year-old boxer began learning self defense and MMA at 19 years old. He liked the fitness. The self-confidence he gained from being able to protect himself and others. But fighting for sport was never in the cards for Guerrero, he said. Until it was. On Saturday, July 20, Guerrero, who owns Combat Fitness Club in Ridgefield Park, will be fighting against Ariel Perez on the Jake Paul vs. Mike Perry undercard in Miami, FL. Guerrero's fight is the fourth in the four-round preliminary event expected to begin at 7 p.m. The main event features Pau…
ON VIDEO: Bergen Footballer, 17, Stabbed In Heart By Long Island Killer, DA Says ON VIDEO: Bergen Footballer, 17, Stabbed In Heart By Long Island Killer, DA Says
ON Video: Bergen Footballer, 17, Stabbed In Heart By Long Island Killer, DA Says A surveillance camera recorded a Long Island man stabbing a 17-year-old New Jersey high school football player dead and slashing his older brother during a fight in downtown Manhattan on Thanksgiving, city authorities revealed. An autopsy revealed that a 6-inch stab wound pierced the heart of Rocco Rodden in front of an ax-throwing bar on Lafayette Street around 1:50 a.m., Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eun Bi Kim said on Saturday, Nov. 25. The accused killer, Gianluca Bordone, 19, of Oyster Bay, was wearing a black sweatshirt with the word "courage" on the back when he was brought …
NJ Daughter Who Used Broomstick To Fatally Beat Mom Was Acting In Self-Defense: Report NJ Daughter Who Used Broomstick To Fatally Beat Mom Was Acting In Self-Defense: Report
NJ Daughter Who Used Broomstick To Fatally Beat Mom Was Acting In Self-Defense: Report An 80-year-old woman told police her 65-year-old daughter from South Jersey beat her with a broomstick three days before she died of her injuries in the attack, NJ Advance Media reports. The alleged assailant's defense attorney, though, says she was acting in self-defense. Florence Dicriscio told officers arriving at the Woodmont Circle in Washington Township on Aug. 6 that Loretta A. Barr struck her in the head with a broom and beat her up, then locked her out of the apartment, NJ.com says. Barr's attorney, Mark Bernstein, said Dicriscio suffered Alzheimer's and dementia, and of…
Assault Charges Dropped Against Football Player Who Decked Combative Airline Employee In Newark Assault Charges Dropped Against Football Player Who Decked Combative Airline Employee In Newark
Assault Charges Dropped Against Football Player Who Decked Combative Airline Employee In Newark A former NFL player who laid out a United Airlines employee after getting sucker-slapped during a now-infamous clash at Newark Airport reportedly is no longer facing charges. Simple assault charges against Brendan Langley were dropped after authorities determined that he'd used reasonable force during a May incident that went viral, his lawyer told TMZ Sports. "We are grateful for the Court’s decision which puts an end to this ordeal that began nearly two months ago when Mr. Langley was assaulted then wrongfully arrested and charged for exercising his rights under the law," attorney Halim …
Verizon Door-Knocker Says He Killed Jersey Shore Homeowner In Self-Defense: Report Verizon Door-Knocker Says He Killed Jersey Shore Homeowner In Self-Defense: Report
Verizon Door-Knocker Says He Killed Jersey Shore Homeowner In Self-Defense: Report A Verizon door knocker who claims he was acting in self-defense when he killed a Jersey Shore resident during a fight, according to a new report from NJ Advance Media. Michael Tsamas, 32, of Laurence Harbor, was charged with murder in connection with the death of Joseph Delgardio, 44,  in Jackson Township on Thursday, May 26, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Jackson Township Police Chief Matthew Kunz said. The deadly stabbing happened after Delgardio declined Tsamas' services and later confronted him on the street, Daily Voice previously reported. The two got…
CHILLING VIDEO: Cliffside Park Woman Furiously Fights Off Attacker CHILLING VIDEO: Cliffside Park Woman Furiously Fights Off Attacker
Chilling Video: Cliffside Park Woman Furiously Fights Off Attacker Chilling security video shows a Cliffside Park woman furiously fighting off a mugger after he jumped her from behind and tried to drag her into a stairwell. Refusing to become a victim, the 37-year-old woman scratched and clawed her attacker, who ran away -- then was caught by borough police moments later, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Chilling footage shows a man whom police identified as Guatemalan national Marcelo Seten following the woman on Anderson Avenue shortly before 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14. As they reach the corner at Oakdene Avenue, the would-be robber grabs her a…
Man Wrestles Gun From Teen Robbers And Kills Them Both In PA, Authorities Say Man Wrestles Gun From Teen Robbers And Kills Them Both In PA, Authorities Say
Man Wrestles Gun From Teen Robbers And Kills Them Both In PA, Authorities Say A man being robbed by two teenage boys wrestled a gun from one of the boys and used it to kill them both in Pennsylvania, authorities said. The incident occurred around 8 p.m. in an alley behind 334 Warren St., in Norristown, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. The shooter and would-be robbery victim was questioned and released. This is a developing story. Check back for more.
NJ Man Pardoned By Christie On Gun Crimes Charged With Attempted Murder In Colorado: Report NJ Man Pardoned By Christie On Gun Crimes Charged With Attempted Murder In Colorado: Report
NJ Man Pardoned By Christie On Gun Crimes Charged With Attempted Murder In Colorado: Report A gun rights advocate who years ago was pardoned by former Gov. Chris Christie on a weapons offense has been arrested for attempted murder, NJ Advance Media reports. Brian D. Aitkin, 38, was charged Friday in connection with a shooting at his home in Telluride, Colorado, the outlet said. The lawyer who represented him in 2009, Evan Nappen, told NJ.com reports that Colorado shooting was an act of self-defense.  Nappen could not immediately be when Daily Voice called his office Monday morning. Aitken was arrested by Mount Laurel police in 2009 for having unregistered weapons i…
Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says
Hoboken Street Fight Stabbing Was Self-Defense, Attorney For Lyndhurst Man Says UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was defending himself when he stabbed a North Bergen man who attacked him in Hoboken, his lawyer told a judge in Jersey City on Tuesday. "It's self defense, clear self defense," attorney Adam Lustberg of Hackensack said after the judge released Andre Mateus, 26, with conditions following a Zoom hearing. The trouble began at the Tally-Ho bar at the south end of Washington Avenue on Sept. 28.  Two groups got into a dispute that Lustberg said ended when the 22-year-old man who was later stabbed knocked a drink out of his client's hand. Mateus and his friends left…
Grand Jury: NJ Officer Justifiably Shot, Killed Knife-Wielding Man Who Stabbed Woman Grand Jury: NJ Officer Justifiably Shot, Killed Knife-Wielding Man Who Stabbed Woman
Grand Jury: NJ Officer Justifiably Shot, Killed Knife-Wielding Man Who Stabbed Woman A Newark man who’d just stabbed a woman was justifiably shot and killed by an Orange police officer after he charged at police with the knife, a grand jury found. Jamahl Smith, 46, refused repeated commands by responding officers to drop the knife on the third floor of the Oakwood Towers on Oakwood Avenue around 3 p.m. June 13, 2019, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said Wednesday. Instead, he “continued to advance toward the officers,” Bruck said. Officer Willie Jones fired his service weapon three times, stopping Smith, the attorney general said. The officers rendered …
HEROES: Officers Justified In Gunning Down Heavily Armed Irvington Killer, Grand Jury Finds HEROES: Officers Justified In Gunning Down Heavily Armed Irvington Killer, Grand Jury Finds
Heroes: Officers Justified In Gunning Down Heavily Armed Irvington Killer, Grand Jury Finds A New Jersey grand jury has cleared a trio of hero police officers from Irvington who gunned down a rifle-wielding man after he'd killed an unarmed civilian and wounded two of them. Kaizen Crossen, 39, had shot and killed Jason Caudle, a father of two, point-blank in the chest when responding officers confronted him in the 300 block of Myrtle Avenue on Aug. 8, 2019, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. Crossen, who was wearing an Army fatigue vest filled with ammunition, exchanged gunfire with the officers before shots to his shoulder and thigh brought him down, Grewal sai…
Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count
Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count A convict from Union County who's spent the past 13 years behind bars will be eligible for release in four years after pleading guilty to a lesser charge for killing a Jersey City man. Zia Berisha, 46, of Linden, had his murder conviction for the Nov. 6, 2007 shooting and beating death of Michael Marro Jr. of Jersey City in a downtown high-rise killing overturned in 2019 by a state appeals court that sent the case back to Hudson County for a do-over. Jurors found in 2010 that Berisha killed Marro, 39, during a robbery at his Portside Tower home that involved high-grade marijuana. In addit…
North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack
North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack One man was stabbed with a pocket knife and another beaten with a wooden plank during a brawl between North Jersey truckers that broke out early Friday morning, authorities said. Alptug Akkus and Bryan Tay, both of Paterson, had been working together in Arizona when they got in a dispute earlier in the week, Police Chief Anthony Manna said. Surveillance tapes show Tay, 40, hiding behind a car in the KZY Logistics parking lot on Commerce Road, armed with a plank, apparently waiting for Akkus, 29, to pull in and drop off his tractor trailer, Manna said. As Akkus pulled in, Tay jumped ou…
Prosecutor: Charge Dismissed Against BLM Leader Accused Of Punching Man At Boardwalk Protest Prosecutor: Charge Dismissed Against BLM Leader Accused Of Punching Man At Boardwalk Protest
Prosecutor: Charge Dismissed Against BLM Leader Accused Of Punching Man At Boardwalk Protest A 28-year-old Black Lives Matter leader accused of simple assault during an August protest had the charges against him dismissed. Jamaal Holmes, of Toms River, was charged with simple assault after police said he punched Robert Lay, 68, in the face during the protest. Holmes said he was simply protecting himself and never punched anyone, according to earlier news accounts. On Friday, Ocean County Bradley D. Billhimer agreed, saying the charge had been dismissed after interviews with witnesses and a review of video from the boarwalk. Several additional independent witnesses came f…
DWI Newark Driver Who Slammed Man With Car At Atlantic City Casino Gets 14 Years Behind Bars DWI Newark Driver Who Slammed Man With Car At Atlantic City Casino Gets 14 Years Behind Bars
DWI Newark Driver Who Slammed Man With Car At Atlantic City Casino Gets 14 Years Behind Bars A Newark driver who slammed his car into another man and crushed his legs during a drunken argument in an Atlantic City casino parking garage was sentenced to 14 years in state prison, authorities said. Michael Garland, 46, was at a trial Monday of aggravated assault and endangering an injured victim after saying he acted in self-defense, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said. Local police responded to the fourth level of the Golden Nugget Casino & Marina parking garage where the 25-year-old victim was lying near a barrier wall just before 1:30 a.m., the prosecutor's office said.…
Man Grabs Gun, Foils Armed Home Invasion In Maplewood: Report Man Grabs Gun, Foils Armed Home Invasion In Maplewood: Report
Man Grabs Gun, Foils Armed Home Invasion In Maplewood: Report A man who was in a Maplewood home when two armed intruders entered early Monday morning grabbed one of the robber's guns and fired it, sending them running,  one of the victims told WABC 7.  Two masked men dressed in black entered the Lombardy Place home around 3 a.m. and demanded money at gunpoint, a woman who lives there told the station.  The woman's fiance grabbed one of the guns and fired a shot and the intruders fled, she said.  Police later determined the intruders got in through a bathroom window at the rear of the house.  It is not known whether either of…
Elizabeth Shooting Involving Ex-Newark Police Officer ‘Justified’: Jury Elizabeth Shooting Involving Ex-Newark Police Officer ‘Justified’: Jury
Elizabeth Shooting Involving Ex-Newark Police Officer ‘Justified’: Jury A grand jury declined to bring charges against a retired police officer in Newark who shot and wounded a man during a carjacking in Elizabeth nearly two years ago, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Thursday. The grand jury reached its decision in March, but per protocol the incident was then reviewed by the state Attorney General’s office, the prosecutor’s office also said. The officer, who was not identified, was at a 24-hour car wash on Edgar Road around 5 a.m. Sept. 20, 2017, when Dequelle Nelson entered the officer’s vehicle while the officer’s back was turned, i…
Newark Woman Stabs Man On Their First Date: Police Newark Woman Stabs Man On Their First Date: Police
Newark Woman Stabs Man On Their First Date: Police Police in Newark say Zaniya Stevens was looking for love, but instead finds herself in a lot of trouble.  Stevens, 23, was arrested after police were called to a North Ward apartment around 2 a.m. Stevens flagged down responding officers and told them she stabbed her date three times in self-defense, after he strangled her, police said in a statement.  It was the first real-life meeting between the two, who'd had several previous online encounters.  Responding officers questioned Stevens' claims of being attacked by the man, however, when they were unable to find any neck ab…
'Kai the Hitchhiker' Gets 57 Years For Killing Clark Lawyer 'Kai the Hitchhiker' Gets 57 Years For Killing Clark Lawyer
'Kai the Hitchhiker' Gets 57 Years For Killing Clark Lawyer A Canadian drifter who became known as "Kai the Hitchhiker" was sentenced Thursday to 57 years in prison for the slaying of a Clark attorney in 2013, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said.  Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, 30, was previously convicted of first-degree murder in the beating death of Joseph Galfy Jr. six years ago. He must serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, or more than 48 years, before he's eligible for parole.  Police discovered the 73-year-old Galfy's body beside his bed after responding to his Starlight Drive home May 13, 2013. Surveillance footage, cell phon…
UPDATE: South Hackensack Boy, 16, In Stepbrother's Fatal Stabbing Suffered Neck Injury UPDATE: South Hackensack Boy, 16, In Stepbrother's Fatal Stabbing Suffered Neck Injury
Update: South Hackensack Boy, 16, In Stepbrother's Fatal Stabbing Suffered Neck Injury UPDATE: A 16-year-old South Hackensack boy who authorities say stabbed his older stepbrother dead in self-defense was hospitalized with a severe neck injury, Daily Voice has learned. "He's lucky he wasn't paralyzed," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. No charges had been filed in connection with the stabbing death of Ismael Fajardo, 18, during the confrontation at their Hoffman Street home over the weekend. Police responding to a 911 call found Fajardo bleeding and unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's suffered "s…
UPDATE: South Hackensack Teen Stabbed Dead By Stepbrother In Fight, Authorities Say UPDATE: South Hackensack Teen Stabbed Dead By Stepbrother In Fight, Authorities Say
Update: South Hackensack Teen Stabbed Dead By Stepbrother In Fight, Authorities Say UPDATE: A 16-year-old South Hackensack boy who authorities say stabbed his older stepbrother dead in self-defense was hospitalized with a severe neck injury, Daily Voice has learned. "He's lucky he wasn't paralyzed," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. No charges had been filed in connection with the stabbing death of Ismael Fajardo, 18, during the confrontation at their Hoffman Street home over the weekend. Police responding to a 911 call found Fajardo bleeding and unresponsive in a second-floor bedroom, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He's suffered "s…
Smash, Smash, Suh-Mash: 'Kai The Hitchhiker' Found Guilty Of Clark Murder Smash, Smash, Suh-Mash: 'Kai The Hitchhiker' Found Guilty Of Clark Murder
Smash, Smash, Suh-Mash: 'Kai The Hitchhiker' Found Guilty Of Clark Murder A hitchhiker who briefly became an online celebrity after giving a profanity-laced interview several years ago has been found guilty of killing a 73-year-old attorney in his Clark home, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.  Caleb "Kai" McGillvary, 30, was convicted of first-degree murder in the beating death of Joseph Galfy Jr. six years ago.  Police discovered Galfy's body beside his bed after responding to his Starlight Drive home May 13, 2013.  Surveillance footage, cell phone data and other evidence quickly pointed to McGillvary as the suspect. He was arr…
Clifton Girl With Umbrella Fights Off Would-Be Wristlet Robber Clifton Girl With Umbrella Fights Off Would-Be Wristlet Robber
Clifton Girl With Umbrella Fights Off Would-Be Wristlet Robber A Clifton teen told police she fought off a street robber with her umbrella. The 17-year-old girl said she was walking in the area of Kingsland and River roads just after 10 p.m. Saturday when the robber rushed her from behind and tried to snatch her wristlet, ripping her blouse in the process, Lt. Robert Braken said. She whacked him with the umbrella, she said, and he took off. The teen, who wasn't injured, described him as either white or Hispanic, about 6 feet tall and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. Anyone who may have seen something or has information that could help the investiga…