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UPDATE: NJ Police Officer Wounded, Domestic Violence Suspect Killed In Shootout UPDATE: NJ Police Officer Wounded, Domestic Violence Suspect Killed In Shootout
Update: NJ Police Officer Wounded, Domestic Violence Suspect Killed In Shootout A gunman was killed and a local police officer in Mercer County wounded multiple times in a shootout following a domestic violence incident Friday night, New Jersey's top law enforcement official confirmed. A 911 domestic violence call brought Hamilton Township police to an Orchard Avenue home around 10 p.m. March 8, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said on Saturday. "During the encounter, a civilian armed with a rifle exchanged gunfire with two officers," Platkin said. "The civilian was fatally wounded and pronounced dead at the scene. One officer was also struck and is being tr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ Police Officers Cleared Of Misconduct In Civil Suit That 'Cost Taxpayers Thousands' NJ Police Officers Cleared Of Misconduct In Civil Suit That 'Cost Taxpayers Thousands'
NJ Police Officers Cleared Of Misconduct In Civil Suit That 'Cost Taxpayers Thousands' A lawsuit that allegedly cost taxpayers thousands was dismissed against an Atlantic County police department accused of misconduct during a domestic violence arrest, authorities said. A jury ruled in favor of three police officers with the Egg Harbor Township Police Department on Wednesday, Feb. 14, according to court documents and a police department news release. The civil suit was dismissed by the jury on Thursday, Feb. 15. Officers Nathan Lahr, Patrick Daly, and Katrina Cantell responded to a domestic violence report at a home on Primrose Circle on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, …

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
Hackensack Tenant Charged With Slashing Woman Less Than Half Her Age Hackensack Tenant Charged With Slashing Woman Less Than Half Her Age
Hackensack Tenant Charged With Slashing Woman Less Than Half Her Age A 24-year-old Hackensack resident was hospitalized after she was attacked with a razor by a 52-year-old city woman in a local apartment building, authorities said. The victim was expected to survive a leg laceration after being taken to Hackensack University Medical Center around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11. Jenny Cabrera De Jimenez, who responders said lives at the scene of the stabbing in the Cambridge Arms on Polifly Road, a few blocks from westbound Route 80, was arrested a short time later. The married De Jimenez, who's employed as a gym maintenance worker, was charged with aggravated …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Ex-Con Accusing Of Pinning Hackensack Woman Down By Her Hair, Plunging Knife Next To Her Head Ex-Con Accusing Of Pinning Hackensack Woman Down By Her Hair, Plunging Knife Next To Her Head
Ex-Con Accusing Of Pinning Hackensack Woman Down By Her Hair, Plunging Knife Next To Her Head A transient ex-con was charged with domestic violence after authorities said he pinned a Hackensack woman to the floor by her hair and threatened her with a knife before dawn Monday. Robert Raghoenathsingh, 40, formerly of Lodi but more recently of Passaic, plunged the knife into the floor next to the victim's head in her Prospect Avenue apartment around 2 a.m. Feb. 5, the woman told police. He then stood on her hair so she couldn't get up, her report says. Raghoenathsingh -- who jail records show is a divorced Yemeni national -- made headlines in 2019 when he brought what proved to be bas…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
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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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Ron Returns: MTV Hints At Reunion With Ex Sammi Sweetheart In New 'Jersey Shore' Trailer Ron Returns: MTV Hints At Reunion With Ex Sammi Sweetheart In New 'Jersey Shore' Trailer
Ron Returns: MTV Hints At Reunion With Ex Sammi Sweetheart In New 'Jersey Shore' Trailer Old wounds could resurface from the dramatic relationship at the center of the original run of MTV's "Jersey Shore." A trailer for the seventh season of the spinoff "Jersey Shore: Family Vacation" was released on Thursday, Jan. 5. MTV said the reality TV show will return on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. EST. The sneak peek heavily promotes the return of Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, whose on-and-off relationship with Hazlet's Samantha "Sammi Sweetheart" Giancola was featured on "Jersey Shore" from 2009 to 2012. The couple split up in 2016. After all, the two were captured filming with the rest of the c…

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by Chris Spiker
Police & Fire
MURDER UPDATE: Mom Shot Dead On New Year's Eve In Bergen, Gunman Surrenders In Montclair MURDER UPDATE: Mom Shot Dead On New Year's Eve In Bergen, Gunman Surrenders In Montclair
Murder Update: Mom Shot Dead On New Year's Eve In Bergen, Gunman Surrenders In Montclair UPDATE: An intense search for a man who authorities said shot and killed his girlfriend at their workplace in Ramsey on New Year's Eve ended when he surrendered to police, multiple law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The body of 41-year-old Crystal (Camargo) Peterson was found shortly before 7:30 p.m. Sunday in a cafeteria area at Konica Minolta's headquarters just off Route 17 near the Rockland County border, sources with direct knowledge of the domestic violence homicide said. She'd been shot in the head, they said. Charged with murder and possession of a firearm for an unlawful pu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
'Champion For Women's Empowerment:' NJ Mom Theresa Hester Dies At 55 'Champion For Women's Empowerment:' NJ Mom Theresa Hester Dies At 55
'Champion For Women's Empowerment:' NJ Mom Theresa Hester Dies At 55 Support is pouring in for the family of Morris County native Margaret ‘Theresa’ (Nunn) Hester, a devoted public servant and beloved mother who died on Monday, Dec. 11 following a brief battle with cancer at the age of 55. Born in Morristown, Theresa graduated from Dover High School in 1986 before attending Centenary University, her obituary says. Theresa dedicated her career to uplifting women and families in many different capacities. She worked for the NJ state Division on Women since 1998, both with the Department of Community Affairs and the Department of Children and Families. Her wor…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds
Man Poses As Nurse To Kidnap, Sexually Abuse Women In NJ, NY: Feds A Hudson County man who posed as a nurse on Facebook and the Hinge dating app kidnapped, assaulted and sexually abused several women in New Jersey and New York, federal authorities charged. Herman Calvin Brightman, 30, abducted one of the women and her 2-year-old child in the Bronx and brought them to his West New York home at knifepoint, said Damian Williams, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It was only one of what NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban called many “deeply disturbing and heinous acts” that included threats to kill his victims. Brightman also stalked a wom…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Complaint Alleges How NYPD Captain Kidnapped, Brutally Beat Woman In Paterson Complaint Alleges How NYPD Captain Kidnapped, Brutally Beat Woman In Paterson
Complaint Alleges How Nypd Captain Kidnapped, Brutally Beat Woman In Paterson An off-duty NYPD commander kidnapped and brutally beat a New Jersey woman outside a restaurant in Paterson, authorities charged. Capt. Hariton Marachilian, a 45-year-old Long Island resident, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, Dec. 7, following his arrest for the alleged Dec. 10, 2022 incident. In what to some might resemble staged professional wrestling violence, a complaint filed by Paterson police says Marchilian viciously grabbed the victim by the hair and smashed her head into the dashboard of his car. But that was only the beginning, it says. Marchilian then chased…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Murder-Suicide: NJ Mom Of 4 ID'd After BF Shot Her In Gated Pocono Community Murder-Suicide: NJ Mom Of 4 ID'd After BF Shot Her In Gated Pocono Community
Murder-Suicide: NJ Mom Of 4 ID'd After BF Shot Her In Gated Pocono Community A domestic incident turned into an apparent murder-suicide in a gated community near the resorts in the Poconos on Tuesday night, authorities announced.  Leilani Ramos, a 37-year-old mom of four from Newark, NJ, died from a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds at 8:33 p.m. on Nov. 28, Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio, detailed in a release the following morning. Pocono Township police were called by Leilani to a "domestic-related shooting" in the private gated community on Ski Side Drive, near Camelback Road in Tannersville around 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 28, as sta…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole
NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole UPDATE: An upstate New York man who admitted assaulting a fellow passenger on a flight from Denver to Newark must spend two plea-bargained years in federal prison. Ryan Manuella, 30, of Erie County, “moved to a vacant center seat next to a female passenger, who was sitting in a window seat” on the April 16, 2021 flight, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Manuella, who didn't know the woman, then "touched the passenger without her consent," Sellinger said. "The victim then yelled at him and left the row of seats," the U.S. attorney said. Defense attorney Andrew Olesnyck…

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by Jerry DeMarco