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Videos Show Moment 'Bling Bishop' Robber Was Shot Dead At NJ Motel By US Marshals Agents
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released body-worn camera and surveillance footage of an officer-involved shooting that left a 41-year-old New York man dead. Just after 2 p.m. on Jan. 24, 2024, 2:05 p.m., US Marshals agents arrived at a Route 1 motel in Monmouth Junction within South Brunswick to execute an arrest warrant on Shamar Leggette, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. As previously reported by Daily Voice, Leggette had been wanted for robbing "Bling Bishop" Lamor Whitehead from Paramus in Bergen County. About 40 minutes after authorities…
Police & Fire
Slain Philly Officer's Handcuffs Used To Arrest NJ Suspect Who Police Say Killed Him
The handcuffs Philadelphia Police Officer Richard Mendez was carrying when he was fatally shot were the ones authorities used to arrest the gunman accused of killing him, Daily Voice has learned. Yobranny Martinez Fernandez, of Cherry Hill, NJ was arrested by the US Marshals Service at approximately 4 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 16, in connection with Mendez's Oct. 13 death at Philadelphia International Airport, PPD brass said at a press conference. Slain PPD Officer Richard Mendez's handcuffs were used to arrest his suspected killer, Yobranny Martinez Fernandez, authorities said.US Marshals S…
Police & Fire
Details Released In Bayonne Officer-Involved Shooting
Authorities have released details in an officer-involved shooting early Thursday, July 13 in Bayonne. Bayonne police responding to a report of theft from a gas station on 53rd Street near Avenue E around 6:45 a.m., found a suspect in the parking lot of Burger King on Broadway and 54th, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The suspect fled the scene in his vehicle, striking two police vehicles and an unoccupied civilian vehicle, Suarez said. An officer discharged his weapon. The suspect was located soon after at Linden Avenue and Scott Street in Jersey City with apparent gunshot wou…
Police & Fire
Officers Justified In Downing Gunman In Jersey Shore Shootout, Grand Jury Finds
UPDATE: Police in Long Branch were justified in taking out a gunman who wounded a detective, started a fire and then came out shooting while trying to flee with an infant in his arms, a grand jury has found. New Jersey law requires that all civilian deaths involving police be investigated and presented to a grand jury no matter the circumstances. Grand jurors in this case had plenty of evidence supporting the Nov. 6, 2021 shooting death of Mark D. Walker II, 34, of Woodbridge, Virginia, after a nine-hour standoff. A Monmouth County prosecutor's detective was trying to serve a warrant that …
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: State Authorities Release Bodycam Videos Of Police Shooting Knife-Wielding Englewood Man
A chilling trio of bodycam videos released by state authorities shows a fatal Labor Day encounter between Englewood police and a city man who’d just stabbed three people. Bernard Placide has a bedroom door in a West Englewood Avenue home partially open in the video when Officers Brian Havlicek and Luana Sharpe find him shortly before 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6. “Put your hands up now or you’re gonna get shot. I’m not kidding,” Havlicek tells Placide as he and fellow Sharpe stand outside the door, their guns pointed, in the video from three police body cameras. Both of them repeatedly t…
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AG: Armed Robber Shot, Killed After Stabbing Officer At Jersey Shore Drugstore (
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UPDATE: An armed robber who stabbed a Keansburg police officer was shot and killed by police at a local drug store Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Multiple officers fired at the robber at the Keansburg Pharmacy in Keansburg Plaza on Main Street shortly before 3:30 p.m., Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, the attorney general said. His identity was temporarily being withheld. The officer was taken to Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel. Three other officers were hospitalized for evaluations, responders said…
Police & Fire
Video Footage Shows Deadly Police Shootout That Killed Gunman In Long Branch
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released video footage of a deadly police shootout that left a gunman dead in Long Branch. Mark D. Walker, 34, of Woodbridge, Va. shot a detective in the leg before barricading himself inside the Chelsea Avenue apartment Nov. 5, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. The incident occurred as the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office was attempting to carry out a search warrant. Several hours later, Walker fled the building with the infant, firing several rounds from a handgun at officers, who returned fire, killing him. …
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Secaucus PD Properly Handled Suicidal Gunman Who Fired At Them, Grand Jury Finds
As expected, a grand jury found that Secaucus police bore no responsibility in the death of a gunman who exchanged shots with them before turning the weapon on himself, authorities announced Tuesday. Officers responding to a shots-fired call in the 300 block of Sea Isle Key in the Harmon Cove development on Dec. 1, 2019 found town resident Anthony Rosso, 68, armed with a handgun, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. Rosso opened fire at the officers, who shot back, grazing his arm, Bruck said. He then shot himself in the head, the attorney general said. Rosso was prono…
Obituaries
Legendary Rockland Police Chief Who Captured Three Brinks Murderers Dies
TRIBUTE: When they consider true heroes, crimefighters in North Jersey invariably include a lawman from just across the state line who single-handedly captured a trio of self-proclaimed revolutionaries after they killed two police officers and a guard following a $1.6 million armored car robbery. Alan Colsey, who died Wednesday at 69, had an impressive law enforcement career. He helped Rockland law enforcement computerize police records, get mobile data terminals in patrol cars and establish a radio system for first responders. Yet it was the Nyack native’s heroism on Oct. 20, 1981 tha…
Police & Fire
Undercover 'Officer-Involved' Shooting Leaves Suspect Critically Wounded In Mercer County
A suspect was listed in critical condition early Tuesday in connection with "an officer-involved shooting," authorities said. The shooting, in Hamilton Township, is under investigation by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force at the direction of the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. The shooting occurred at about 9 p.m. in the parking lot of the Krauszer’s Food Store on Greenwood Avenue in Hamilton during a federal investigation involving the ATF and the FBI according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office A preliminary investigation suggests a suspect entered a vehicle wi…
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Authorities Release ID Of Samurai-Sword Wielding Man Shot, Killed By Police In Pennsylvania
Authorities have identified a sword-wielding man shot and killed by police Tuesday night as a 27-year-old Pennsburg man. Upper Perk police officers responded to 8th Street and Long Alley after one of Trey Bartholomew's family members called 9-1-1 reporting a man armed with a sword threatening to harm others around 7:40 p.m., Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. A responding officer who arrived with his vehicle lights and sirens activated was charged at by Bartholomew, who was wielding a samurai-type sword, Steele said. Neighbors reported hearing three sh…
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