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HARDCORE AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release HARDCORE AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release
Hardcore AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release A 21-year-old ex-con from Paterson who’s already spent three years behind bars had been free all of four months when he shot someone, then shot someone else while police searched for him this week, authorities charged. A SWAT team led a raid that ended a brief standoff at an Essex Street apartment in Paterson with Memphis Morales on Friday, Jan. 12, they said. Morales was previously convicted of a 2020 shooting and was incarcerated for three years before being released from New Jersey State Prison last May. Three months later, Morales shot a 34-year-old Secaucus man during a Sept. 17 robbe…

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MIRACULOUS RESCUE: Construction Worker Impaled At Paterson Construction Site Dangles In Air MIRACULOUS RESCUE: Construction Worker Impaled At Paterson Construction Site Dangles In Air
Miraculous Rescue: Construction Worker Impaled At Paterson Construction Site Dangles In Air A construction worker’s life literally hung in the balance after he fell through an upper-floor opening at a Paterson construction site and was impaled by a length of rebar. City firefighters needed a truck with a 75-foot ladder to get to the 7th floor and then free the 43-year-old worker from two steel reinforcing rods on Saturday, Dec. 10, responders said. The rods went through his chest and hip, miraculously missing vital organs and leaving him suspended in the air, they said. The worker was conscious and alert as his rescuers carefully lowered him to the ground from the seventh floor …

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UPDATE: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson UPDATE: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson
Update: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street and sped off…

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Prosecutor: Speeding SUV Kills One, Injures Others, Hits Parked Police Car In Downtown Paterson Prosecutor: Speeding SUV Kills One, Injures Others, Hits Parked Police Car In Downtown Paterson
Prosecutor: Speeding SUV Kills One, Injures Others, Hits Parked Police Car In Downtown Paterson UPDATE:  A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street and…

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One Dead, Others Injured: Police Vehicle Struck In Chain-Reaction Paterson Crash One Dead, Others Injured: Police Vehicle Struck In Chain-Reaction Paterson Crash
One Dead, Others Injured: Police Vehicle Struck In Chain-Reaction Paterson Crash UPDATE: A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street …

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Police: Just-Released Convict From Passaic Nabbed With Gun, Heroin For Sale, Torches Cell Police: Just-Released Convict From Passaic Nabbed With Gun, Heroin For Sale, Torches Cell
Police: Just-Released Convict From Passaic Nabbed With Gun, Heroin For Sale, Torches Cell Adonis Reyes had been free all of six weeks after serving 2½ years in state prison for a gun conviction when Passaic police investigating a shooting caught him with a loaded handgun and 265 heroin folds this past weekend, authorities said. Not only that: Reyes, 28, set fire to the holding cell at Passaic police headquarters and assaulted a city officer and EMT who tried to help him, they said. Police responding to a report of shots fired in the area of Main Avenue and Washington Place found Reyes in the passenger seat of a nearby motor vehicle shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, April 24, investi…

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Paterson Detectives Seize 2,162 Heroin Folds, Coke, Xanax, Loaded Gun From Accused Dealer, 23 Paterson Detectives Seize 2,162 Heroin Folds, Coke, Xanax, Loaded Gun From Accused Dealer, 23
Paterson Detectives Seize 2,162 Heroin Folds, Coke, Xanax, Loaded Gun From Accused Dealer, 23 Paterson police detectives nabbed a 23-year-old drug dealer with 2,162 heroin folds, cocaine, Xanax, Percocet and a loaded handgun, authorities said. Detectives also seized more than $1,100 in drug cash when they raided the second-floor Madison Avenue apartment of Justin Velez off Market Street around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Velez was carrying 100 heroin folds when they arrested him moments earlier, Speziale said. In his apartment, the director said, police found a .380-caliber Keltec handgun loaded with hollow- and ball-point rounds. Also seiz…

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Gun Found, Owner Charged As Detectives Raid Paterson Street Gang's After-Hours Club Gun Found, Owner Charged As Detectives Raid Paterson Street Gang's After-Hours Club
Gun Found, Owner Charged As Detectives Raid Paterson Street Gang's After-Hours Club Pot smoke was thick as Paterson detectives tried to disperse a crowd of 75 or so partiers -- most of them gang members -- who'd gathered in a space above a downtown business in a high-crime neighborhood. Then the investigators found a gun. A man who identified himself as the owner stepped forward and was taken into custody as reinforcements arrived and broke up the illegal gathering, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives were cruising the 5th Ward "hotspot" neighborhood on Market Street in an effort to "disrupt gang and narcotics activity as well as to prevent…

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PATERSON GANG WAR: Indictment Names 16 Heavily-Armed Members Of Drug-Dealing '400 Block' Crew PATERSON GANG WAR: Indictment Names 16 Heavily-Armed Members Of Drug-Dealing '400 Block' Crew
Paterson Gang WAR: Indictment Names 16 Heavily-Armed Members Of Drug-Dealing '400 Block' Crew Sixteen Paterson drug dealers who authorities said defended their turf against rivals by heavily arming themselves with guns and large-capacity magazines have been indicted by a state grand jury. Six handguns were seized, including a “community gun” shared by members of the “400 Block” set of the Trinitarios, who authorities said dominated the heroin, cocaine and opioid pill trade in the center of the city. So were nearly 800 rounds of ammunition and six large-capacity magazines, they said. The indictments stem from an eight-month investigation dubbed “Operation Park and Pennington,” which…

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Paterson Vice: Patrons Scatter At Barber Shop Turned Gambling Den, Illegal Nightspot Draws 500 Paterson Vice: Patrons Scatter At Barber Shop Turned Gambling Den, Illegal Nightspot Draws 500
Paterson Vice: Patrons Scatter At Barber Shop Turned Gambling Den, Illegal Nightspot Draws 500 Patrons of a barber shop turned after-hours gambling den scattered in all directions -- some of them stuffing cash into their pockets as they fled -- during a raid by members of Paterson's vice squad, authorities said. Meanwhile, in an industrial area on the city's south side, police responding to a large fight discovered a warehouse that they said two Glen Rock women had illegally converted into an event space -- complete with bar, DJ and no fewer than 500 patrons. Detectives who raided the 9J Barber Shop on Park Avenue seized $1,943 while arresting Maximo Beltray, 51, on charges of promot…

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Two 14-Year-Olds Struck By Gunfire In Paterson Two 14-Year-Olds Struck By Gunfire In Paterson
Two 14-Year-Olds Struck By Gunfire In Paterson Two 14-year-olds escaped serious injury during a shooting Friday night in Paterson, authorities said. Police found one victim with a gunshot wound at the scene of the Market Street shooting near Madison Street at 10:40 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. The second, who’d been grazed, showed up at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via a private vehicle a short time later, they said. Valdes and Baycora didn’t say whether any suspects had been arrested or identified.

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'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations 'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations
'Disaster Waiting To Happen': Paterson PD Raids Illegal After-Hours Club Rife With Violations Maskless patrons and employees scrambled to hide evidence when Paterson police raided an illegal after-hours club that had become a death trap, authorities said. Police found the door to La Café Hookah on Market Street locked when they showed up around 10:30 p.m. Saturday – a full half-hour after Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID curfew required them to close, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. City officers looking through tinted windows saw people “scrambling inside removing hookahs and bottles of alcohol and taking them out a back door that led to a small area with no exit,” Speziale sai…

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Police Wanted Him For Murdering An Innocent Man, But Someone Else Got To Him First Police Wanted Him For Murdering An Innocent Man, But Someone Else Got To Him First
Police Wanted Him For Murdering An Innocent Man, But Someone Else Got To Him First The life of a violent Paterson ex-con wanted for killing an innocent man ended in what some may consider karma. Michael Richardson first went to state prison after a shot fired during a home invasion just missed the head of a 9-year-old boy. Richardson served two stretches of nearly seven years combined. The second time was for being a convicted felon in possession of a gun. He was paroled this past April and, barely three months later, became the target of a manhunt. City resident James “Weedy” Timmons had gotten into a beef with a group of men, including Richardson, on the porch of a ho…

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