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NJ Transit Rider Who Spit On, Beat Driver With Umbrella Sought By Police NJ Transit Rider Who Spit On, Beat Driver With Umbrella Sought By Police
NJ Transit Rider Who Spit On, Beat Driver With Umbrella Sought By Police Police are on the hunt for a woman who they say assaulted a New Jersey Transit bus driver in Newark. Surveillance video shows the suspect spitting on and hitting the driver with an umbrella around 1 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Clinton Avenue, Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara said. The driver told officers that as she stopped the bus so that a woman could board when she saw her running toward the bus, they said. After she got on the bus, the woman apparently started screaming and yelling. The bus driver claims she tried to calm the …

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by Nicole Acosta
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SEEN HER? Police Seek Missing Newark Girl, 13 SEEN HER? Police Seek Missing Newark Girl, 13
Seen HER? Police Seek Missing Newark Girl, 13 Police in Newark are turning to the public in locating a 13-year-old girl. Lalilani Vargas was reported missing from the 100 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard Monday, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. Lalilani was last seen at 7:40 p.m., wearing a black and yellow plaid shirt, brown crop top, light denim jean jacket, black Nike sneakers, black small nap sack with red lips on it and a black baseball cap. She may have been headed to Queens, NY via public transportation. Director Ambrose urges anyone with information on the whereabouts of Lalilani Vargas to ca…

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by Cecilia Levine