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Woman Admits Setting Paterson Apartment Couch Fire That Ended Up Destroying Half A City Block
A New York City woman admitted Friday that she deliberately set a massive fire that roared through a Paterson block, displacing 60 residents and injuring four firefighters, during an argument last summer. Yanit Valdez took a deal from prosecutors rather than face trial, pleading guilty in Superior Court in Paterson to aggravated arson in exchange for what will be a six-year prison sentence. Valdez, 38, of Manhattan will have to serve five years and a month of the term under New Jersey’s No Early Release law, followed by three years of parole supervision, Passaic County Camelia M. Valdes sa…
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Paterson Hit-Run Driver Gets 7 Years For Killing City Resident
A Paterson man who mowed down a city resident and then sped off was sentenced to seven years in state prison. Jesus Herrera, 65, was driving a 1997 GMC Sierra truck that struck 48-year-old Luis Arango as he crossed the 900 block Main Street in November 2017, authorities said. Herrera, rather than take a plea bargain, went to trial and was convicted by a state jury in Paterson in January 2020 of leaving the scene of a crash result in death and endangering an injured victim. Superior Court Judge Justine A. Niccollai allowed Herrera to serve out sentences for both convictions concurrently, un…