A drunk driver who fled a New Jersey State Police stop at the Meadowlands hit another trooper's vehicle Thursday night before his car stalled and he was arrested, authorities said.Christian Morel, 23, of Queens kept going after a trooper tried stopping his Infinity shortly before 6:30 p.m., NJSP Lt. Jeffrey Flynn said.The vehicle then side-swiped a marked State Police cruiser in the ...

A New Jersey member of a hardcore neo-Nazi group admitted Friday that he convinced two fellow white supremacists to vandalize property owned by Blacks and Jews.Richard Tobin, 19, of Brooklawn, dubbed the nationwide campaign “Operation Kristallnacht,” after a 1938 pogrom in which German Nazis slaughtered more than 90 Jews and burned their homes, synagogues, stores and schools, Acting ...

The national president of the outlaw Pagans motorcycle gang was in federal custody after he was caught with a gun in New Jersey while returning to his Long Island home from a party in Pennsylvania, authorities announced Friday.Keith Richter – a 62-year-old ex-con known as “Conan the Barbarian” – was returning to his Bay Shore home from a Pagans party in Lancaster, PA when he was stopped ...

A driver escaped serious injury after his luxury sedan skidded off Route 80 and into the new Goodwill warehouse in South Hackensack.The driver told police he lost control of the BMW 650i Wednesday after hitting black ice on the eastbound side of the highway on the warm, nearly 50-degree night.The sedan then hit the rear of the 125,500-square-foot Goodwill Industries Outlet and Donation ...

A passenger in a vehicle stopped by Paterson police detectives had a loaded handgun with a high-capacity magazine tucked into his waistband, authorities said Friday.Detectives Yamil Pimienta and Mohammed Bashir stopped the Hyundai bearing a temporary Delaware license plate for a traffic violation near Summer and Van Houten streets shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday, Public Safety Director ...

A Paterson man sexually abused a pre-teen at different locations for more than three years up until she was 12, said authorities who arrested him Thursday.Daniel Walter Jolon Herrera, 28, will remain in the Passaic County Jail at least until he has a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.Paterson police responded to a city home on a report of the youngster ...

Using prescription blanks stolen from hospitals in Bergen and Passaic counties, a crew used a single pharmacy to get its hands on 30,000 high-dose oxycodone pills, including a year’s worth of painkillers prescribed to a dead man, authorities charged.The volume eventually gave them away, state and federal law enforcement officials said.Milagros Santiago, 43, of Haledon, was working as a ...

What began as a Paterson police pursuit of a fleeing New York State drug buyer led to the seizure of 6,660 heroin folds, a loaded gun and $32,800 in proceeds, authorities said.Paramus and New Jersey State Police joined in chasing down John A. Garulli, 34, of New Windsor on the northbound Garden State Parkway, Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said.Moments earlier, members ...

UPDATE: A 21-year-old Paterson man already jailed for both a shooting and a domestic violence incident is also facing charges of pointing a gun at another victim, authorities announced Thursday.Police arrested Roshane James, 21, for domestic violence last week before detectives connected him to a Jan. 29 shooting at the corner of 9th and Madison avenues.Detectives subsequently accused ...

He's about 5-foot-7, somewhere between 230 and 250 pounds, and was last seen fleeing a Ho-Ho-Kus bank after robbing it.Police on Thursday released a surveillance image of a bandit who they said passed a note to the teller at the Valley National branch on Sheridan Avenue off Franklin Turnpike around 2 p.m. the day before, collected $1,633 in small bills and bolted out the back door.Had ...