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Corrections Officer Honored For Saving Baby On NJ Turnpike Strangles Estranged Wife: Report
A Manhattan prison corrections officer once honored by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for saving a baby's life on the NJ Turnpike was arrested for beating and strangling his estranged wife on New Year's, the New York Post reports. Shon Brown slashed his wife's car tires then followed her ride home to Yonkers demanding to know where she had been, before screaming at her and throwing her into a glass wall, the outlet says citing a criminal complaint filed in Westchester County, NY. Brown then choked the woman until she passed out and yelled "I'm going to kill you," before leavin…
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Two Dead After Suicidal Man Jumps From Building, Lands On Victim In NY
Two men were dead after one of them jumped from the top of a building, landing on top of the other below overnight in Westchester County, NY. The incident took place around 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 20 at 77 Locust Hill Ave., in Yonkers. A distraught 25-year-old man jumped off the roof of the building, falling 12 stories onto the concrete parking garage roof below and striking a 61-year-old man; both men died at the scene, Yonkers police said. Investigators are interviewing witnesses and family members at this time and reviewing surveillance videos. The incident appears to be a tragic s…
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DWI Driver Admits Guilt In Deadly Garden State Parkway Hit-Run Crash
A 38-year-old man pleaded guilty to drunk driving and vehicular homicide in a hit-and-run crash on the Garden State Parkway that killed a man exchanging insurance information with another driver after a minor crash last year. Roberto Sandoval-Guerrero, of Toms River, admitted guilt on Sept. 15 before Ocean County Superior Court Judge Rochelle Gizinski in connection with the Sept. 5, 2020 crash that left Daniel Cintron dead, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. A sentencing was set for Nov. 19, during which the State will recommend a term of seven years New Jersey Sta…
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FBI: Four From NJ, NY, PA Charged With Kidnapping Man, Demanding $100,000 Ransom
A group of men from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York kidnapped a man on a Camden street, beat him and held him captive while trying to extort a $100,000 ransom from his family, federal authorities charged. The victim was grabbed from behind last Thursday night by his abductors, who “covered his head, bound him with plastic restraints, assaulted him and put him into a vehicle,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. They then drove him to a city residence where they “continued to beat him with a hard object the victim could not see,” she said. “After several hours, the kidnappers …
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Racing Paramus Motorcyclist, 29, Killed In NY Crash, State Police Say
A 29-year-old Paramus man died while racing his motorcycle on I-87 in Westchester County, NY, authorities said. Frank Mahouti was heading northbound on a 2018 Ducati near mile marker 3.5 in Yonkers when he failed to negotiate a curve at a high rate of speed around 1 a.m. Aug. 13, NY State Trooper Tara McCormick said. The Ducati struck the guide rail on the east shoulder, ejecting Mahouti from his bike. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Westchester County Medical Examiner. The crash remains under investigation. Online records show Mahouti is a motorcycle racer, hav…
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Treasure Believed Buried By Mobster Shot In NJ Could Be Worth $100 Million, Report Says
A legendary treasure that was believed to be buried by a mobster shot in New Jersey in the 1930s could be worth tens of millions of dollars, new reports say. Dutch Schultz, whose real name was Arthur Flegenheimer, was a well-known bootlegger and racketeer in the Hudson Valley and Catskills area, the Times Union reports. He muttered odd phrases on his deathbed after the 1935 shooting in Newark, that many believed were coded references to the town of Phoenicia in the Catskills, NY, the outlet said. Schultz is believed to have hidden a combination of paper money, gold coins, bonds and jewelry…
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Hackensack Woman Sexually Assaulted In Broad Daylight, Suspect From Yonkers Nabbed
A Hackensack woman was sexually assaulted in broad daylight on a city street by a Yonkers man who was tracked down and captured a short time later, authorities said. Hackensack police who responded to Euclid Avenue found the 41-year-old victim on the ground with blood on her arms, hands and legs shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday, said Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the department. She told them she’d been walking in her neighborhood when a man she didn't know “forced her to the ground as he sexually assaulted her,” DeWitt said. She fought off the attacker, who fled on foot afte…
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Sleeping Yonkers Man Struck By Stray Bullet In Paterson Home
A Yonkers man was sleeping when he was struck in the arm by gunfire in a Paterson home before dawn Monday, authorities confirmed. It was just after midnight when shots rang out on East 23rd Street off Park Avenue, just around the corner from where city police last week raided an open air drug market, responders initially said. The sleeping 35-year-old victim and three vehicles were struck, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora confirmed Monday morning. An ambulance took him for treatment to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. No potential…
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DWI Yonkers Driver In Head-On Passaic County Crash Reached 106 MPH, Authorities Charge
UPDATE: A Jeep driven by a drunk Yonkers man was doing 106 miles an hour when it crashed head-on into a sedan in Passaic County, authorities said. Derrick Valerio, 33, was headed in the wrong direction on Greenwood Lake Turnpike when his 2021 Grand Cherokee slammed into a 2003 Infiniti I35 in a 45-mile-per-hour zone near Stonetown Road in Ringwood on Monday, they said. A passenger in the Infiniti, 22-year-old Riley Lindholm of Rock Hill in Sullivan County, NY, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious injuries, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Ringwo…
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DMX Marks Spot: Hip-Hop Legend Drops Final Track On Day He Dies
“I make moves to get me where I’m going,” DMX announces on a unique track released just hours before the hardcore hip-hop artist and actor died on Friday. DMX – whose real name was Earl Simmons – teamed up on “X Moves” with fellow legend Bootsy Collins, formerly of Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as Steve Howe, formerly of Yes and Asia, and Deep Purple dummer Ian Paice. DMX, 50, had been on life support at White Plains Hospital since suffering an overdose-induced “catastrophic” heart attack at his Westchester home a week ago Friday. "We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved o…
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‘Daddy Killed Mommy’: Carlstadt Gunman In Murder-Suicide Told Daughter It Was Only A Dream
UPDATE: The 5-year-old daughter of a convicted sex offender who died by suicide after an hours-long SWAT standoff at his Carlstadt home on Saturday was there when he shot and killed his ex-wife the night before, authorities said. The little girl apparently told her grandparents, who lived upstairs, that James Cox had killed Massiel Deoleo, 34, of Mahwah, in the downstairs apartment of the family's 6th Street home sometime Friday night. “Daddy killed Mommy,” she told them, but said Cox had assured her that it was only a nightmare, responders said. Police got the girl and the grandparents o…
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Manhunt Ends: Immigration Detainee Who Escaped From Essex Jail Captured, ICE Says
A Guatemalan national who escaped from the jail in Essex County while awaiting a deportation hearing is back in federal custody, authorities said. ICE agents captured Luis Cordon-Guzman, 31, on Saturday, ending an extensive manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies, Newark ICE-ERO Field Officer Director John Tsoukaris announced. “As a result of the investigatory efforts of the dedicated men and women of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark Field Office, this criminal alien is back behind bars," Tsoukaris said Monday night. “Our officers worked day and night over this past …
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