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Missing Mountainside Hospital Patient Found Safe Missing Mountainside Hospital Patient Found Safe
Missing Mountainside Hospital Patient Found Safe UPDATE: A missing hospital patient has been found safe. Nathaniel Sheppard had been admitted to Mountainside Hospital on March 6 and discharged on March 13, Nutley police said. He was found unharmed Sunday morning, March 26, police said.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NJ Woman Charged With Assaulting Police Officer... Again NJ Woman Charged With Assaulting Police Officer... Again
NJ Woman Charged With Assaulting Police Officer... Again A 24-year-old Essex County woman attacked her cousin with a metal pipe then kicked and spit on officers taking her into custody, authorities said. Jannah Asante was arrested on similar charges in 2019. Police in Montclair responded to a report of a fight between two women on Mission Street just before 1:25 a.m. on Jan. 8, Sgt. Terence Turner said. One of the women told officers she saw Asante of East Orange shatter both the front and back windshield of her cousin’s car, which had been parked on the street, police said. When the woman confronted her, Asante attacked the victim with a …

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack
North Jersey Trucker Beating Coworker With Plank Stabbed With Pocketknife In Parking Lot Attack One man was stabbed with a pocket knife and another beaten with a wooden plank during a brawl between North Jersey truckers that broke out early Friday morning, authorities said. Alptug Akkus and Bryan Tay, both of Paterson, had been working together in Arizona when they got in a dispute earlier in the week, Police Chief Anthony Manna said. Surveillance tapes show Tay, 40, hiding behind a car in the KZY Logistics parking lot on Commerce Road, armed with a plank, apparently waiting for Akkus, 29, to pull in and drop off his tractor trailer, Manna said. As Akkus pulled in, Tay jumped ou…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Man Dead In Essex County Apartment Fire Man Dead In Essex County Apartment Fire
Man Dead In Essex County Apartment Fire An 85-year-old man died in a Bloomfield an apartment fire Wednesday morning. Firefighters found Warren Froehlich inside of 14 Evelyn Pl., shortly after the fire broke out on the first floor of the multi-level building just before 7:30 a.m., reports and authorities said. Froehlich was taken to Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, where he was pronounced dead just more than five hours later, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and Bloomfield Public Safety Director Samuel A. DeMaio said. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. No other information is availabl…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell
Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell A Flanders teen was taken into custody after attacking a teacher and injuring two other staff members at a West Caldwell school, authorities said. The 13-year-old girl attacked the Essex Valley School teacher at 11:04 a.m. on Wednesday, West Caldwell police said. The two staff members sustained minor injuries while intervening, while the teacher initially assaulted was transported to Mountainside Hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries, police said. The Essex Valley School's website says it's a "comprehensive therapeutic alternative school that offers second chances to students…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
State Suspends Health Aide Charged In Death At Cedar Grove Nursing Home State Suspends Health Aide Charged In Death At Cedar Grove Nursing Home
State Suspends Health Aide Charged In Death At Cedar Grove Nursing Home The State Board of Nursing has temporarily suspended the certification of a homemaker-health aide from Bloomfield charged with manslaughter in the death of a nursing home resident in her care,  Attorney General Gurbrir S. Grewal said Thursday.  Monique Beaucejour, 46, of Bloomfield, has been charged with reckless manslaughter, hindering, obstruction and neglect of the elderly. Authorities say that Beaucejour, who worked at the Genesis Waterview Center in Cedar Grove, last month left Fannie McClain, 85, also of Bloomfield, unattended. She fell and sustained serious injuries.&n…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Nurse's Assistant From Bloomfield Charged In Death Of 85-Year-Old Patient Nurse's Assistant From Bloomfield Charged In Death Of 85-Year-Old Patient
Nurse's Assistant From Bloomfield Charged In Death Of 85-Year-Old Patient A nurse's assistant employed at a Cedar Grove nursing home has been charged in connection with the death of an 85-year-old woman in her care, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Friday.  Monique Beaucejour, 46, Bloomfield, has been charged with reckless manslaughter, hindering, obstruction and neglect of the elderly.  Emergency medical personnel were called to the Waterview Nursing Home on Ridge Road Tuesday morning for an injured patient. Fannie McClain, 85, was taken to Mountainside Hospital, where the Bloomfield native died Tuesday afternoon.   Authorities say …

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by Paul Milo