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Nine Illegal Firearms, Heroin Seized In Newark Busts: Police Nine Illegal Firearms, Heroin Seized In Newark Busts: Police
Nine Illegal Firearms, Heroin Seized In Newark Busts: Police Seven people were arrested and nine illegal firearms were seized in four days in an ongoing gun operation in Newark, authorities said. The nine illegal handguns, recovered since Friday, April 29, bring the city's total gun recoveries in 2022 to 251 — a 54 percent increase over the same period a year ago, Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said. On Monday, May 2, 2022, police arrested Darrell Hodges, 27, and James Hailey, 41, both of Newark, in separate incidents, O'Hara said.  Police received a Crime Stoppers tip about a man with a firearm in area of Bergen and West Ru…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another
Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another A Newark police detective who frisked an ex-con suspected of firing and then tossing a gun found him carrying another one, federal authorities said. Kevin Hills, 21, had been seen on surveillance video shooting what turned out to be a 9mm Jiminez semiautomatic pistol after he got out of a sedan on Chadwick Avenue near Clinton Avenue last June, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Officers in the area found the gun after one of them reported hearing the shots, he said. A warranted search of the Lincoln LS that Hills had gotten out of turned up 64 rounds of various ammunition, according t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bodycam Footage Shows Police Capture Newark Ex-Con During Armed Robbery, Abduction Bodycam Footage Shows Police Capture Newark Ex-Con During Armed Robbery, Abduction
Bodycam Footage Shows Police Capture Newark Ex-Con During Armed Robbery, Abduction Bodycam footage shows Newark police officers capturing an ex-con who forced a pair of men to drive him away from scene of an armed robbery at gunpoint, authorities said. Shukri M. Dunell, 25, forced two men to rob an ATM inside of a Bergen Street store at gunpoint, and then forced them to drive him away from the scene a silver Ford pickup truck belonging to one of the victims around 11:50 a.m., Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said. An officer located near the scene spotted the truck heading northbound on Chadwick Avenue, and began following the vehicle while corresponding wit…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Five Injured In Newark Police Pursuit Crash Five Injured In Newark Police Pursuit Crash
Five Injured In Newark Police Pursuit Crash A Newark police pursuit ended in a multi-vehicle crash that injured a carjacker, two police officers and two civilian before dawn Monday, responders said. All five were taken to University Medical Center after the chase ended in a chain-reaction collision at Hawthorne and Chadwick avenues shortly after 2:30 a.m., they said. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office, which was investigating the crash, said none of the injuries appeared life-threatening. It hadn't yet confirmed an earlier report that the carjacker bailed from the vehicle after it collided with a police car -- then somehow became …

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by Jerry DeMarco