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: Another Dead, Two Wounded In Latest Paterson Shooting
Paterson was already reeling from three fatal shootings in a single day when a 23-year-old Riverdale man was killed and a 19-year-old Elmwood Park man was critically wounded Tuesday in a hail of gunfire at one of the city's deadliest street corners. Gunfire erupted at Rosa Parks Boulevard and Godwin Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Oct. 3. In addition to the dead and critically injured victims, a 57-year-old Paterson man took a bullet in the leg. He and the Elmwood Park teenager were being treated at St. Joseph's University Medical Center, where the third victim was pronounced dead. This…
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Gunman Shooting From Inside Paterson House Wounds Man, 47, On Street: Responders
Police and Passaic County sheriff’s officers converged on a Paterson neighborhood after a man on the street was shot in the neck, apparently by someone in a nearby home, responders said. No arrests had been announced nor suspects identified following the 1 p.m. shooting on Lyon Street at the north end of Rosa Parks Boulevard around 12:45 p.m. Monday, March 6. The 47-year-old victim made it about a half-dozen blocks before police found him near the corner of River Street and 6th Avenue, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Bert Ribeiro said in a joint releas…
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Four Nabbed With 200 Heroin Folds, Crack, Two Handguns, Passaic Sheriff Says
Sheriff's officers arrested four men and seized more than 200 heroin folds, 44 bags of crack and two handguns after watching a drug deal go down in Paterson, authorities said. The arrests and seizures come amid an announcement by Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik that his Quality of Life squad will furnish four officers a day from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. seven days a week to answer public calls in Paterson. Narcotics detectives using undercover vehicles were watching the area of East 19th Street between 17th Avenue and Market Street when a white Sprinter van driven by Julio Dela-Cruz, 44, …
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'230 Boys' Members From Paterson Sent To Federal Prison For Dealing Heroin, Fentanyl
An all-out law enforcement offensive produced more federal prison sentences Monday against members of a violent gang from Paterson who admitted slinging deadly fentanyl and heroin on the streets of the Silk City. 230 Boys members Dwayne “D Black” Northern, 35, and Isaiah Hargrove, 21, must serve just about all of their plea-bargained sentences because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Northern got four years and three months, followed by three years of supervised release, during a video-conferenced sentencing by U.S. District Judge Brian R. Martinotti in Newark. Hargrove, 21…
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Third Member Of Notorious Paterson Gang Nabbed In Drug Roundup Admits Dealing Heroin
A 35-year-old Paterson man became the third member of a notorious city gang to plead guilty the past month in federal court to selling heroin. Like others before him, Dwayne “Black” Northern – also known as “D Black” – struck a deal with the government rather than face trial. Northern was among 17 reputed 230 Boys members who were charged in a coordinated heroin, fentanyl and cocaine trafficking case assembled last September by a strike force comprised of agents from the DEA, ATF and state, county and local law enforcement. Northern pleaded guilty earlier this week to conspiring to have an…
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Paterson Man Charged In 2019 Shooting
Detectives charged a 22-year-old Paterson man with a shooting five months ago. Alex Nieves was charged with attempted murder, resisting arrest and weapons offenses following his arrest by city police Friday, authorities said. The 28-year-old victim was hospitalized after being struck by gunfire on Rosa Parks Boulevard between Putnam and Lyon streets the morning of Dec. 5, 2019. Detectives identified Nieves as the shooter. They stopped his car Friday night on Totowa Avenue in Paterson, but he kept driving, crashing in the area of East Main Street, before police seized him.
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Paterson PD: Foot Chase Ends With Arrest Of Man Carrying Stolen Handgun
Police responding to a report of several shots fired amid a large group of street partiers in Paterson chased down a man who they said had been carrying a stolen high-caliber handgun. A “Shotspotter” activation on Sunday brought officers to the intersection of Rosa Parks Boulevard and Keen Street, where they found people “on both sides of the intersection and walking into traffic, smoking, drinking and playing loud music,” Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Their attention was immediately drawn to a man identified as Jacim Pitts, who, Speziale said, “appeared alarmed with the presence of …
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Authorities: 82-Year-Old Paterson Man Charged With Attempted Murder Amid City Shooting Spike
An 82-year-old Paterson man was charged with attempted murder for shooting another man during what has become a tumultuous pre-Christmas week in the Silk City. Another victim was killed in a rash of shootings in just over three hours Wednesday night, as a tumultuous week for the city continued. Police were looking for the shooter in that case, along with a few recent others. The escalating gunfire comes amid an ongoing FBI investigation that has produced guilty pleas from three city police officers and pending charges against two others. The body of Lexander Torres, 23, was found on …
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