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FBI Busts Hawthorne Dad On Child Porn Charges FBI Busts Hawthorne Dad On Child Porn Charges
FBI Busts Hawthorne Dad On Child Porn Charges A 49-year-old father from Hawthorne was arrested by federal agents on child porn charges, authorities said. Edward M. O’Hagan, 49, “used one of his email accounts to send video files containing images of child sexual abuse to himself,” U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. “He also used two email addresses to create accounts on an encrypted file storage platform that was used to upload or create files containing images of child sexual abuse,” the U.S. attorney added. A U.S. District Court judge in Newark denied O’Hagan’s release on Monday, May 22 and ordered that he remain held pending f…

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Coffee Shop Manager Moonlighting As Food Runner Charged With Leading NJ Child Porn Ring Coffee Shop Manager Moonlighting As Food Runner Charged With Leading NJ Child Porn Ring
Coffee Shop Manager Moonlighting As Food Runner Charged With Leading NJ Child Porn Ring A Route 23 donut shop manager who moonlights as a food runner for a Route 46 Tex-Mex restaurant was also leading a child porn trafficking network, authorities charged. Imad Uddin, 24, of Paterson shared child sex abuse videos on Facebook Messenger, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Videos shared by Uddin depict making children ranging from two to 12 years old "engaged in sexual acts," Berdnik said in a joint news release with Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes. Members of his sheriff’s Internet Crime Against Children Task Force arrested Uddin, a Bangladeshi immigrant, a…

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Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates
Bail Reform Fuels Deal For Bergen County Jail To House Passaic County Inmates UPDATE: Bail reform is one of the key reasons why the half-empty Passaic County Jail will close its doors for good and send all of its current and future inmates to Bergen County's lockup, officials said. Bergen County officials say they’ll receive a minimum $18.9 million the first year and somewhere in the neighborhood of $195.5 million over the course of the 10-year deal. Their counterparts in Passaic County say they won’t have to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on a new jail to replace the decrepit 164-year-old lockup on Marshall Street, which has remained half empty for some time now…

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Wanaque Man Busted In Domestic Incident With Illegal Weapons, Explosives Wanaque Man Busted In Domestic Incident With Illegal Weapons, Explosives
Wanaque Man Busted In Domestic Incident With Illegal Weapons, Explosives A Wanaque man who damaged his sister’s cellphone as she recorded him threatening her had an illegal gun and explosives, among other contraband, in their home, authorities confirmed Wednesday. Some of the items that were seized from Michael Wierciszewski, 23, were also found in his car following a call to the Jackson Street home in Haskell on Nov. 24, they said. Neighbors said the Passaic County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad removed several items that were set out and inspected on a table set up in the driveway. Wierciszewski was charged with a host of offenses, Passaic County Prosecutor Cameli…

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HIT-RUN: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers HIT-RUN: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers
Hit-run: Driver Flees After Injuring Two Passaic County Sheriff's Officers Two Passaic County sheriff's correctional officers were struck by a hit-and-run driver while heading to work in Paterson early Sunday. Both officers were treated at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center before being released, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. A late-model four-door sedan struck them at 6:45 a.m. while rounding a corner from westbound Grand Street to southbound Main Street a block from the Passaic County Jail, responders said. One of the officers was struck on the leg and the other hit in the arm by the driver's side mirror, they said. The driver apparently sl…

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West Milford Man, Underage NY Boy Exchanged Sexual Videos, Photos, Indictment Charges West Milford Man, Underage NY Boy Exchanged Sexual Videos, Photos, Indictment Charges
West Milford Man, Underage NY Boy Exchanged Sexual Videos, Photos, Indictment Charges A Passaic County man who’s been jailed since last summer was indicted by a grand jury that said he exchanged sexually explicit videos and photos with a boy as he pursued an in-person meeting, authorities announced Thursday. New York State Police alerted detectives from Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to Tekanand V. Singh, 29, of West Milford after they said they learned that he’d been communicating with the boy online. “During the course of their exchange, [Singh] directed the victim to send him sexually explicit images and videos,” Pa…

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