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31-Hour Newark SWAT Standoff Ends With Police Returning Fire On 42-Year-Old Suspect 31-Hour Newark SWAT Standoff Ends With Police Returning Fire On 42-Year-Old Suspect
31-Hour Newark SWAT Standoff Ends With Police Returning Fire On 42-Year-Old Suspect A 31-hour SWAT standoff in Newark ended Friday afternoon when police returned fire on the 42-year-old suspect, police announced. Detectives from the Essex County Narcotics Task Force were executing a warrant at a Clinton Place home around 6 a.m. Thursday when someone in the house fired shots at officers, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, Sheriff Armando Fontoura and Newark Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said. Officers took cover, evacuated residents in the other apartments at 34 Clinton Pl., and evacuated the homes in the two adjacent homes. As a result, eig…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bloomfield Police Nab Accused Porch Pirate From East Orange Bloomfield Police Nab Accused Porch Pirate From East Orange
Bloomfield Police Nab Accused Porch Pirate From East Orange Authorities in Bloomfield nabbed a 27-year-old man who they say stole packages from two local homes. Cesar Pagan Torres, of East Orange, was arrested on May 19 in connection with the incidents, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said. A Chester Avenue (Bloomfield) resident saw a man take a package from his front porch via surveillance video on May 18 around 6:45 p.m., DeMaio said. The video showed a thin white male wearing a black hat, dark colored hooded sweatshirt, riding a red bicycle, police said. The package contained bathing suits valued at $80, police said. Earlier tha…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bloomfield PD: 2 Arrested, 3 At Large In Series Of Stop & Shop Thefts Bloomfield PD: 2 Arrested, 3 At Large In Series Of Stop & Shop Thefts
Bloomfield PD: 2 Arrested, 3 At Large In Series Of Stop & Shop Thefts Two people were arrested and three others at large in a series of thefts from a Bloomfield Stop & Shop, authorities said. Jennifer Gaguancela 21, of Bloomfield and Savanah Diaz 20, of Newark went through self checkout and rang up $84 worth of items at the Franklin Street store on May 5, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said. What they failed to do, however, was ring up an additional $308 of additional items, DeMaio said. Gaguancela and Diaz were charged with shoplifting and have pending court dates. On April 29 and May 4, a black man took health and beauty products…

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by Cecilia Levine
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GOT 'EM! Police Nab Essex County Men Accused Of Robbing Krauszer's Employee At Knifepoint GOT 'EM! Police Nab Essex County Men Accused Of Robbing Krauszer's Employee At Knifepoint
GOT 'EM! Police Nab Essex County Men Accused Of Robbing Krauszer's Employee At Knifepoint Two Belleville men were arrested moments after attempting to rob a Bloomfield convenience store employee at knifepoint last week, authorities said. Ethan Lozado, 20, and Anthony Dagata, 21, walked into the Krauszers Food Mart on Belleville Avenue, brandished a large knife and demanded money in the cash register and several packs of Newport cigarettes on March 10, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said. Lozado and Dagata ran out the back of the store into the Davey Street Apartment Complex, where officers found them, DeMaio said. Both were arrested on the incide…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Newark Gunman Arrested Month After Shooting Bouncer At Bloomfield Recording Studio, Police Say Newark Gunman Arrested Month After Shooting Bouncer At Bloomfield Recording Studio, Police Say
Newark Gunman Arrested Month After Shooting Bouncer At Bloomfield Recording Studio, Police Say A Newark man was arrested nearly a month after shooting a bouncer who turned him away from a Bloomfield recording studio, police said. Andre King was arrested on a warrant at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, after police saw him leave his home and get into a vehicle registered to his fiancé, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel A. DeMaio said. The 47-year-old security guard was stationed at the entrance of an of PLUGG Studio, located at 547 Bloomfield Ave., when he denied access to four males and one female due to capacity restrictions around 3:30 a.m., Police Capt. Anthony Sisco previously…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police: Lotto Player Turned Robber, 53, Threatens To Torch North Jersey Convenience Store Police: Lotto Player Turned Robber, 53, Threatens To Torch North Jersey Convenience Store
Police: Lotto Player Turned Robber, 53, Threatens To Torch North Jersey Convenience Store An Essex County lottery player threatened to burn down a North Jersey convenience store in order to carry out a robbery, authorities charged. Elvis Holder, 53, asked a cashier to play lottery numbers for him at DJH News Stand on La France Avenue around 8 p.m. on Feb. 22, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said. Holder, of East Orange, started pouring an unknown substance from a Nestle water bottle onto the counter, took out a lighter and told the cashier to “give him everything in the register” while threatening to ignite the substance, DeMaio said. Holder escaped with the cas…

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by Valerie Musson
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Bloomfield Carjacker Drives Away With Vehicle Owner On Hood, Off Duty Officer Calls 9-1-1 Bloomfield Carjacker Drives Away With Vehicle Owner On Hood, Off Duty Officer Calls 9-1-1
Bloomfield Carjacker Drives Away With Vehicle Owner On Hood, Off Duty Officer Calls 9-1-1 An off-duty NJ Transit officer called 9-1-1 to help a man who had jumped on the hood of his car as a thief drove off with him on top of it in Bloomfield, authorities said. No injuries were reported when Rasheed Hilton, 30, hopped into the driver's seat of a car that was running with the keys in the ignition in the parking lot of a Davey Street apartment complex Aug. 4, Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel DeMaio said. The vehicle owner jumped on the hood in an attempt to stop the theft, but Hilton drove off anyway heading toward Belleville Avenue, DeMaio said. A nearby off-duty NJ…

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by Cecilia Levine