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How Newark Police Arrested 3 Suspects Using Control Tactics How Newark Police Arrested 3 Suspects Using Control Tactics
How Newark Police Arrested 3 Suspects Using Control Tactics Police in Newark used arrest and control tactics to safely apprehend three armed suspects in two recent incidents, authorities said. Newark residents Kaseem Callender, 25, and Keon Orr, 22, were arrested in connection with an armed robbery near the North Munn Avenue entrance of the Bradley Court apartment complex just after 8 a.m. on Sept. 7, Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said. The victim told police that he and a second victim had been robbed at gunpoint while inside a vehicle. Callender was found during a search of the area and taken into custody after resisting arrest an…

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by Valerie Musson
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Newark PD: Carjacker Caught Hiding In Backyard After Crashing Pickup Stolen At Knifepoint Newark PD: Carjacker Caught Hiding In Backyard After Crashing Pickup Stolen At Knifepoint
Newark PD: Carjacker Caught Hiding In Backyard After Crashing Pickup Stolen At Knifepoint A Newark man who ordered a woman out of her car at knifepoint was arrested after police officers spotted him hiding in someone's backyard after he crashed the vehicle, authorities said. A woman was sitting in a parked 2012 Dodge Durango at Mountainview Place when a man, later identified as Wallace L. Johnson ordered her out at knifepoint around 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose. Sixth Precinct officers saw a vehicle matching the description of the victim's in a crash near the intersection of Mountainview Place and Chelsea Avenue, Ambrose said. As…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000 Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000
Passaic Sheriff: Released Dealer Nabbed With 4,750 Heroin Bags, $15,000 PATERSON, N.J. – A month after he’d been arrested and released on drug charges, an ex-con was busted by Passaic County sheriff’s detectives with 4,750 bags of heroin and $15,500 in bundled proceeds, authorities said Wednesday. Narcotics Bureau members staked out a pair of residences where 51-year-old Troy Kelley was known to live – one in Newark and the other on Sherman Avenue in Paterson, Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. They’d busted Kelley with 370 glassines of heroin for sale during a traffic stop a month ago, after which a judge released him under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law. Ar…

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by Jerry DeMarco