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Violent Robber Who Preyed On Prostitutes At Secaucus Hotels Captured, Police Say Violent Robber Who Preyed On Prostitutes At Secaucus Hotels Captured, Police Say
Violent Robber Who Preyed On Prostitutes At Secaucus Hotels Captured, Police Say One of two men who forced their way into motel rooms and robbed prostitutes and their customers in Secaucus was seized by police, authorities announced Friday. Kendall Smith, 32, of Jersey City and a second man committed at least three violent robberies beginning May 17 at the La Quinta Hotel, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Smith and his companion “forced their way into the victims’ hotel room while brandishing knives,” the chief said. “After a struggle, the suspects fled the area with some of the victims’ money, personal belongings and documents.” Two weeks later, they did the …

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Teaneck Mom Jailed For Not Reporting Child Sex Crimes: Prosecutor Teaneck Mom Jailed For Not Reporting Child Sex Crimes: Prosecutor
Teaneck Mom Jailed For Not Reporting Child Sex Crimes: Prosecutor A Teaneck woman was jailed for not reporting sexual assaults against two different children, records show. Shanasia Taylor, a 32-year-old warehouse worker, “acted in a manner that would endanger the welfare of a child, specifically by not reporting an act of sexual assault against children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, March 4. Criminal records put the time frame of the alleged crimes at May 2022. Taylor, a Paterson native and mother of two, was arrested on Friday and charged by Teaneck police with child endangerment involving sexual conduct. Members of the prosec…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SHOCKER: NJ Teacher Had Sex With Student Starting At 15 In School, Car, House: Authorities SHOCKER: NJ Teacher Had Sex With Student Starting At 15 In School, Car, House: Authorities
Shocker: NJ Teacher Had Sex With Student Starting At 15 In School, Car, House: Authorities A married teacher had intercourse as part of a years-long sexual relationship with a former Garfield Middle School student beginning when the youngster was 15, including several times in a car -- and even at the school, authorities charged. Amy Impero D'Ovidio, a 46-year-old Bergen County native, had worked for the Garfield Board of Education when the alleged encounters began, they said. She was 35 at the time. Locations included “within the Garfield Middle School, at a private residence in Cedar Grove, as well as within a vehicle at unknown locations in Bergen, Essex, and Passaic counties…

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Indian Immigrant Stabbed In Jersey City Park, Local Man Charged In Random Attack Indian Immigrant Stabbed In Jersey City Park, Local Man Charged In Random Attack
Indian Immigrant Stabbed In Jersey City Park, Local Man Charged In Random Attack Jersey City police have charged a 22-year-old city man with repeatedly stabbing an Indian immigrant at a local park in what the victim's friends called a "senseless act of discrimination." The victim, 28-year-old Ojas Junnarkar, was walking alone on the running track at Pershing Field when he was assaulted shortly after 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, friends said. Junnarkar suffered wounds to his kidneys and colon, they said. Jersey City police subsequently announced the arrest of Santos Camacho on aggravated assault and illegal weapons charges. Camacho, who remained held in the Hudson Count…

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Authorities: Ex-Con Who Burglarized Liquor Store Coughs On Hoboken Police, Tears Off Mask Authorities: Ex-Con Who Burglarized Liquor Store Coughs On Hoboken Police, Tears Off Mask
Authorities: Ex-Con Who Burglarized Liquor Store Coughs On Hoboken Police, Tears Off Mask An ex-con who burglarized a Hoboken liquor store coughed on several officers at police headquarters and said he had the coronavirus, authorities charged. Darrell Rude, 33, also “kept biting and ripping off face masks and spit shields placed on his face” during processing before dawn Wednesday, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. He also refused to submit to DNA swabbing for the National Crime Information Center database, police said. Rude shattered a glass window to get into Daniel’s Wine & Liquor on Garden Street shortly after midnight, Grewal said. Sgt. Luke Zeszotarski an…

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Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service
Hackensack, Garfield PDs, Prosecutor's Detectives Derail Ex-Cons' Drug Delivery Service Two repeat offenders – one of whom had been busted and soon after released from jail twice in the past month -- ran a drug delivery service to a “vast clientele” throughout Bergen County, said authorities who arrested them. City narcotics detectives teamed up with their colleagues at the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Garfield Police Department to nab Adebola O. Bamisile, 32, of Hackensack, and Joseph G. Williams, 30, of Garfield, Capt. Peter Busciglio said Friday. They found both heroin and crack, along with drug paraphernalia, and seized a BMW 750i, jewelry and an undisclosed a…

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