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NYPD Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx NYPD Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx
Nypd Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx New York City police captured a Paterson man who authorities said shot a Bronx man the night before. The 24-year-old victim went to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York City after he was shot shortly before 3 a.m. Monday near the corner of Park Avenue and Carroll Street in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and city Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. Investigators identified the shooter as David Polanco, 33, whom the NYPD took into custody at the 52nd Precinct station house on Webster Avenue early Tuesday, they said. Paterson detectives charged Pola…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say
Fugitive Pennsylvania Killer Caught Chillin' At Reopened Jacksonville Beach, Authorities Say A fugitive who apparently didn’t know that the reopening of beaches in Jacksonville, Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t include sitting around turned out to be wanted on homicide charges out of Pennsylvania, authorities said. A three-month manhunt ended Sunday with the arrest of Mario Matthew Gatti, 30. Gatti went on the lam in January after detectives charged him with criminal homicide for shooting 33-year-old Michael Coover, Jr. several times, killing him, as the victim cooked dinner at a Westmoreland County home, authorities said. The Jacksonville beach reopenings on Sat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized UPDATE: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized
Update: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized UPDATE: Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in Lodi last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and New Jersey State Police Lt. Colonel Fritz Frage. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach, NY; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, NY, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 2…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cliffside Park Fugitive Held On NYPD Warrant For Gang Assault Cliffside Park Fugitive Held On NYPD Warrant For Gang Assault
Cliffside Park Fugitive Held On Nypd Warrant For Gang Assault A repeat-offending ex-con from Cliffside Park was captured after the NYPD came to town with a warrant, authorities said. Now New York City authorities are trying to extradite him. City detectives went to his mother's Anderson Avenue apartment looking for 27-year-old Jason Martinez, who was wanted in connection with a gang assault, authorities said. Other law enforcement agencies wanted Martinez, too. Records show an outstanding warrant for skipping court for obstruction during a domestic violence arrest in Cliffside Park in 2016. Martinez is also facing charges of burglarizing a restauran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Lodi Police Nab Local Repeat Offender Wanted In Connecticut Lodi Police Nab Local Repeat Offender Wanted In Connecticut
Lodi Police Nab Local Repeat Offender Wanted In Connecticut Lodi police seized a local repeat offender wanted on a warrant out of Connecticut. Officer Kristopher Trumper was on a parking enforcement detail on Davis Drive when a license plate check turned up the fugitive warrant out of Wilton, CT for 26-year-old Hasan Roderick, Lt. Robert Salerno said. Roderick, who has a history of drug-related offenses, got out of the car and approached the officer, who ordered him back into the vehicle, Salerno said. Winafield called for backup after Roderick refused, the lieutenant said. Officers Jessie Winafield and Jeanette Velez then assisted in ta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hasbrouck Heights Police Nab Texas Fugitive Hasbrouck Heights Police Nab Texas Fugitive
Hasbrouck Heights Police Nab Texas Fugitive Hasbrouck Heights police nabbed a fugitive from Texas after receiving an emergency call from a local hotel. Varri Special Harrison, 27, was taken into custody on aggravated domestic violence assault charges Sunday after police were called to the Hilton Hotel off Polifly Road between Routes 17 and 80, records show. They then discovered a fugitive warrant out of Dallas County for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Harrison remained held Tuesday in the Bergen County Jail pending extradition proceedings.

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Unlicensed Driver Nabbed By Saddle Brook Police Officer Turns Out To Be Escaped Fugitive Unlicensed Driver Nabbed By Saddle Brook Police Officer Turns Out To Be Escaped Fugitive
Unlicensed Driver Nabbed By Saddle Brook Police Officer Turns Out To Be Escaped Fugitive A Saddle Brook patrol officer making a traffic stop caught an escaped fugitive from Kentucky. Officer Joseph Scrafani ran a computer check after stopping the vehicle on eastbound Route 46 and discovered not only that Peter J. Griffin, 33, Route 46 had both a suspended driver's license and registration. He was also wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Franklin County. Griffin escaped from a minimum-security facility after being convicted in January 2016 of first-degree methamphetamine possession, records show. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending extradition proceedi…

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by Jerry DeMarco