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Setup: Robbery Victim Stripped, Beaten After Being Lured To Hasbrouck Heights Hotel
A Saddle Brook man was beaten, stripped and robbed of more than $1,000 after being lured to a Hasbrouck Heights hotel, said police who nabbed two suspects from town and one from Ridgefield.
Surveillance video shows the 19-year-old victim meeting with Anthony Cuccia, 23, in the parking lot of the Hilton between Route 17 and 80 late last week, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri said.
Moments later, two accomplices are seen jumping him.
The victim ran into the hotel and called police after the fleeing robbers beat him, took his cash and stripped him to his underwear , the lieutenant said.
He lat…
20 Busted With 4,176 Heroin Folds, Crack, Cash In Raid On Paterson Open-Air Drug Market
Paterson police raided an open-air drug market, seizing 4,176 heroin folds, 194 bags of crack and $5,549 in proceeds while busting 20 dealers and buyers, authorities said.
Among the accused buyers was a 72-year-old city man caught with four vials of crack, they said.
The Hamilton Avenue sweep between Summer and Lake streets sought to ease residents’ fears for the safety of their children and themselves, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said Friday.
Speziale said the heavier hitter included a quartet of Paterson residents:
Isaiah Wharton, 24;
Africa Downs, 45;
Dante Harriso…
Major Bust: Authorities Smash Trafficking Ring, Seize $1 Million Worth Of Drugs, Arrest 20
A barber shop and used car lot were fronts for a large-scale North Jersey drug trafficking ring, said authorities who seized nearly 21 pounds of fentanyl, 7½ pounds of cocaine, a loaded gun and more while arresting 20 people in Hudson, Bergen, Essex and Union counties.
Nearly two dozen locations in New Jersey and New York were raided and nearly four pounds of meth, more than a pound and a half of fentanyl and $118,395 in cash were seized by a team headed by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force working with federal Homeland Security Investigations and the NYPD, they said Wednes…
