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Garfield Landscaper Charged With Sexually Abusing Youngster Garfield Landscaper Charged With Sexually Abusing Youngster
Garfield Landscaper Charged With Sexually Abusing Youngster A landscaper from Garfield sexually assaulted a pre-teen several times over the past nine months, said authorities who took him into custody. Jose Silva, 45, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing Thursday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. He’s charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. Garfield police on Saturday “received a report that [Silva] sexually assaulted a juvenile victim in Garfield on multiple occasions within the past nine months,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. Calo’s Special Victi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," authorities said. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Urena barricaded himself in the bathroom and began c…

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by Jerry DeMarco