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Staten Island Driver Charged In NJ Crash That Killed Theater Teacher: Prosecutor Staten Island Driver Charged In NJ Crash That Killed Theater Teacher: Prosecutor
Staten Island Driver Charged In NJ Crash That Killed Theater Teacher: Prosecutor A 28-year-old Staten Island woman has been charged in a crash that left a 31-year-old Bayonne theater teacher dead, authorities said. Amanda Rivera faces charges of aggravated assault, reckless manslaughter, and assault by auto weeks after sending her the 2019 Nissan passenger car she was driving into the back of a parked tractor trailer on Route 185 and Linden Avenue in Jersey City on Feb. 3, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. As a result, Stephanie Weymouth was killed. Rivera was arrested Monday, March 4 at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Secaucus and tr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Details Released In Bayonne Officer-Involved Shooting Details Released In Bayonne Officer-Involved Shooting
Details Released In Bayonne Officer-Involved Shooting Authorities have released details in an officer-involved shooting early Thursday, July 13 in Bayonne. Bayonne police responding to a report of theft from a gas station on 53rd Street near Avenue E around 6:45 a.m., found a suspect in the parking lot of Burger King on Broadway and 54th, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The suspect fled the scene in his vehicle, striking two police vehicles and an unoccupied civilian vehicle, Suarez said. An officer discharged his weapon. The suspect was located soon after at Linden Avenue and Scott Street in Jersey City with apparent gunshot wou…

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by Sam Barron
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Robbers Who Dragged Victim In Costco Parking Lot Nabbed By NJ Town's Mayor: Police Robbers Who Dragged Victim In Costco Parking Lot Nabbed By NJ Town's Mayor: Police
Robbers Who Dragged Victim In Costco Parking Lot Nabbed By NJ Town's Mayor: Police The mayor of a North Jersey town helped apprehend a pair of robbers who stole a woman's purse and then dragged her through a Costco parking lot before fleeing, authorities said. The 60-year-old victim was loading her vehicle with a companion in Bayonne's Costco lot around 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Police Capt. Eric Amato said. Two male passengers later identified as Pedro Henrique, 19, and a 17-year-old boy, both of Newark, pulled up in a maroon vehicle and tried taking her purse from a shopping cart, Amato said. The victim and her friend quickly grabbed the purse in an attempt to regain possessi…

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by Cecilia Levine