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NJ Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 4 Teen Victims, Prosecutor Says NJ Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 4 Teen Victims, Prosecutor Says
NJ Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting 4 Teen Victims, Prosecutor Says A New Jersey man was charged Thursday in connection with the sexual abuse of four different teen victims, authorities said. Ruben Gonzalez, 19, of Morristown, is accused of sexually assaulting four victims between ages 14 and 18 from December 2020 and November 2021, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said in a joint release. The assaults occurred in Morris Township and Morristown, Carroll said. A search of Gonzales’ phone turned up several videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, authorities said. Gonzales was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault on a p…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
NJ Man Charged In Death Of 5-Week-Old Daughter, Prosecutor Says NJ Man Charged In Death Of 5-Week-Old Daughter, Prosecutor Says
NJ Man Charged In Death Of 5-Week-Old Daughter, Prosecutor Says A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with manslaughter Wednesday following a nearly yearlong investigation into the death of his 5-week-old daughter. Officers responding to 67 Willow Ave. in Rockaway Borough found Joseph Tarquini IV, 30, and his infant daughter, M.T., who was in medical distress around 4:55 p.m. on Jan. 21, 2021, Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll said in a joint release. The infant was taken to St. Clare’s Denville Hospital for treatment and pronounced dead a short time later. An autopsy found M.T.’s cause of death to be acceleration/deceleration head injury …

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Alert Issued For Missing 13-Year-Old Morris County Girl Alert Issued For Missing 13-Year-Old Morris County Girl
Alert Issued For Missing 13-Year-Old Morris County Girl UPDATE: Avila-Ulloa was located safely in Virginia, authorities confirmed Wednesday. ----------------------------------------- Police are searching for a missing 13-year-old girl from Morris County. Deris Avila-Ulloa, who also goes by the nicknames Sofia and Daisy, was last seen at her Rockaway Township home around 8 p.m. on Nov. 22, according to Morris County Prosecutor Robert J. Carroll, Chief of Detectives Christoph Kimker, and Rockaway Township Police Chief Martin McParland. She weighs approximately 100 pounds, stands at 5' 5" tall, with brown hair and brown eyes, authoritie…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
NJ Teacher Re-sentenced For Deadly Shooting Of Angelina Jolie's Former Bodyguard NJ Teacher Re-sentenced For Deadly Shooting Of Angelina Jolie's Former Bodyguard
NJ Teacher Re-sentenced For Deadly Shooting Of Angelina Jolie's Former Bodyguard Virginia Vertetis, infamously known as a “lady killer,” was sentenced to 20 years in New Jersey State Prison on Friday, according to a release by the Morris County police and court documents. Vertetis, 59, of Mount Olive, NJ, was first investigated following the murder of her boyfriend Patrick Gilhuley, as CBS News reported during her trial in 2018. Gilhuley, a retired New York Police Department officer and celebrity bodyguard for clients such as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, was found dead at their home at 2 Apollo Way in Flanders on March 3, 2014 just before 10 p.m. Vertetis was cha…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Decades After North Jersey Businessman’s Body Found In Sewer STILL UNSOLVED: Police Seek Clues Decades After North Jersey Businessman’s Body Found In Sewer
Still Unsolved: Police Seek Clues Decades After North Jersey Businessman’s Body Found In Sewer Investigators continue to search for clues more than three decades after the body of a beloved North Jersey businessman was found in a sewer in Morris County. The body of Robert Wunderle, 45, was found by a Rockaway Township Sewer Authority worker in a drainage ditch near Fireman’s Field on Beach Street in Rockaway Borough around 9:10 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, 1989, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. Wunderle, of Canterbury Road in Westfield, was the Vice President of Economics at Supermarkets General Corporation in Woodbridge. He was last seen alive by a coworker at his …

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by Valerie Musson
Sports
NY Red Bulls Building Brand New Training Complex In Morris County NY Red Bulls Building Brand New Training Complex In Morris County
NY Red Bulls Building Brand New Training Complex In Morris County The New York Red Bulls are taking their training to the next level with the construction of a new facility in Morris County. The privately funded 80-acre Training Complex will be located at the former Honeywell site off of Columbia Road in Morris Township. The facility — which will also be home to the New York Red Bulls Academy and Youth Training programs — includes eight full-size soccer pitches as well as space for the team’s front office staff, officials said. "We are fortunate to have the support and commitment from Red Bull to help realize our vision of developing a world-class Traini…

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by Valerie Musson
News
Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M
Real Pain In The Glass: NJ Window Firm Exec Gets 2 Years In Fed Pen For Stiffing IRS By $1.5M UPDATE: A 73-year-old Morris County executive who admitted short-changing the government by $1.15 million on employment taxes was sentenced to a plea-bargained two years in federal prison. Stephen Walloga will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. U. S. District Court Judge Stanley R. Chesler also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release and pay the full $1,150,487 in restitution. As vice president of the Rockaway-based Pain In The Glass window tinting company, Walloga was responsible for collecting, accountin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
IT'S OFFICIAL: NJ Woman Who Drowned Weeks-Old Puppy Gets 180 Days In Jail, Community Service IT'S OFFICIAL: NJ Woman Who Drowned Weeks-Old Puppy Gets 180 Days In Jail, Community Service
IT'S Official: NJ Woman Who Drowned Weeks-Old Puppy Gets 180 Days In Jail, Community Service UPDATE: A Morris County woman was formally sentenced Tuesday to 180 days in jail followed by five years probation for deliberately drowning a 10-week-old puppy in a West Milford lake. Superior Court Judge Marilyn C. Clark, sitting in Paterson, approved the terms of a plea deal under which Tonya Fea, 49, must complete 100 days of community service following her release. She also can no longer own a dog, under agreement with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Fea, of Boonton, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Paterson to third-degree animal cruelty two months ago, admitting u…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
5 More Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In NJ 5 More Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In NJ
5 More Winning Powerball Tickets Sold In NJ Five Powerball tickets each worth $50,000 have been sold in New Jersey (scroll down to see where the tickets were sold). The tickets from the Monday, Oct. 4 drawing  matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn winning the $50,000 third-tier prize. One California Lottery ticketholder won the $699.8 million Powerball jackpot. This was the fifth largest Powerball jackpot on record, and the first jackpot won in a Monday drawing. Five tickets from Saturday's Powerball drawing -- also good for $50,000 -- were sold in New Jersey, too. The winning tickets from Monday ni…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
$50M Suits Accuse Dead NJ Teacher Of Sexually Assaulting 7 Students, Report Says $50M Suits Accuse Dead NJ Teacher Of Sexually Assaulting 7 Students, Report Says
$50M Suits Accuse Dead NJ Teacher Of Sexually Assaulting 7 Students, Report Says The West Essex Regional School District is being sued by seven former students claiming their former history teacher who is now dead sexually assaulted them more than 40 years ago, NJ Advance Media reports. The outlet did not include the name of the teacher, a Morris County resident whose estate is named as a defendant in the lawsuit. The suits say the teacher “created and permitted a severe, pervasive and persistently sexually hostile environment," and sexually assaulted his students between 1977 and 1986. District Superintendent Damion Macioci did not immediately return Daily Voice'…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
NJ Transit: Wise Out-Of-State Boy, 11, Who Got On Wrong Light Rail Reunited With Parents NJ Transit: Wise Out-Of-State Boy, 11, Who Got On Wrong Light Rail Reunited With Parents
NJ Transit: Wise Out-Of-State Boy, 11, Who Got On Wrong Light Rail Reunited With Parents A vacationing 11-year-old boy from Houston who mistakenly boarded a departing light rail in Jersey City without his parents was a cool customer, an NJ Transit officer said. The boy didn’t realize they weren’t behind him when he excitedly dashed onto the wrong Hudson–Bergen light rail Friday morning at Exchange Place. You could understand his enthusiasm -- visiting a busier-than-usual New York City blessed by beautiful weather during a momentous anniversary. Realizing his mistake, the boy got off at the next stop, NJ Transit K9 Officer Michael Brown said. He pulled out his cellphone, calle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Morris County Man, 18, Charged In Deadly Toms River Boating Crash Morris County Man, 18, Charged In Deadly Toms River Boating Crash
Morris County Man, 18, Charged In Deadly Toms River Boating Crash A Morris County man has been charged in connection with the Barnegat Bay boat crash that killed a 19-year-old passenger and injured four others in June, state police said. Juan A. Fernandez II, 18, struck Intracoastal Waterway Marker #26 head-on while operating a 2014 Bennington Pontoon boat just before 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 13, state police said. After meeting Toms River police and first responders at Antiqua Avenue following the crash, Fernandez allegedly stated that there had been six people on board. However, a follow-up investigation showed that there had actually been nine occupa…

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by Valerie Musson