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2 Broken Thumbs Down: Gambino Family Hothead Nearly Torches Jersey Shore Restaurant, Feds Say 2 Broken Thumbs Down: Gambino Family Hothead Nearly Torches Jersey Shore Restaurant, Feds Say
2 Broken Thumbs Down: Gambino Family Hothead Nearly Torches Jersey Shore Restaurant, Feds Say Life imitated art when a reputed Gambino crime family captain threatened to burn down a Jersey Shore restaurant, then went to a service station across the street and tried to buy and fill a plastic gas can, federal authorities said. In what could’ve been a scene from any number of modern-day mob movies, Joseph Lanni of Staten Island became a walking cliché, the Justice Department said in announcing an organized-crime takedown that stretched all the way to Sicily. Lanni and fellow Staten Islander Vincent “Vinny Slick” Minsquero “became belligerent” after being asked to leave Roxy’s Bar and G…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
'Are You Will?' Popular Cliffside Barber Beaten By Stranger, Manhunt Continues 'Are You Will?' Popular Cliffside Barber Beaten By Stranger, Manhunt Continues
'Are You Will?' Popular Cliffside Barber Beaten By Stranger, Manhunt Continues A well-known barber was attacked in his Cliffside Park shop by a stranger, said authorities who are trying to identify his assailant. The attacker entered The Way Barber Shop on Anderson Avenue across from the NJ TRANSIT bus garage shortly after 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, Cliffside Park Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. He was white and wearing a black coat and black hat, the deputy chief said. He approached owner Willie Ocampo, 42, and asked "Are you Will?" The stranger then smashed Ocampo in the head three times with a metal baton before running out of the store and fleeing down…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
North Hudson Fire Official, Sister Arrested After Domestic Dispute Allegedly Gets Physical North Hudson Fire Official, Sister Arrested After Domestic Dispute Allegedly Gets Physical
North Hudson Fire Official, Sister Arrested After Domestic Dispute Allegedly Gets Physical A North Jersey fire official and his sister were taken into custody after a dispute allegedly got physical, multiple responders have confirmed. Police charged both Kevin Todd, 58, and Monica Todd Lanzara, 57, with simple assault following the incident at their parent's home on Williams Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights on Wednesday, Oct. 18.  Lanzara said she independently went to a CityMD in Teterboro on Thursday, rather than a hospital emergency room on Wednesday, and was diagnosed with fractured ribs. She said Friday that she's sent the report to police. Both siblings were released pendi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury 'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury
'Fearful' NJ Attacker Sentenced In Golf Club Beatdown That Left PA Victim With Brain Injury A New Jersey man said he was acting out of fear when he attacked a Pennsylvania woman with a golf club leaving her with a traumatic brain injury, authorities said. Aiven Rosario, 26, of the 100 block of Park Avenue in East Orange, was sentenced to up to nine years in prison in connection with the March 6 attack in Lancaster County, PA, according to Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams. Rosario followed the woman into a parking lot in the 1400 block of Millport Road, West Lampeter Township around 9:52 p.m. on March 6, as detailed in the release from the Lancaster C…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
CAUGHT! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman CAUGHT! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman
Caught! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman A Woodland Park driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a 31-year-old borough woman is an ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet, including an assault arrest in Hackensack just the other day, Daily Voice has found. Abdullah Parker, 57, was charged with vehicular homicide in the Oct. 15 death of Lillian Zamlout as she walked in the area of McBride Avenue and Hughes Place in town. Zamlout was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center after Parker's black Honda Odyssey bounded onto the sidewalk and hit her, authorities said. She was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later, they sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
East Orange Teen Arrested For Verona Carjacking: Police East Orange Teen Arrested For Verona Carjacking: Police
East Orange Teen Arrested For Verona Carjacking: Police A 16-year-old East Orange boy was arrested and charged on Saturday, Oct. 14 with carjacking a woman in her driveway in Verona last month, authorities said. On Sunday, Sept. 24, a Floyd Road resident was approached by three men who demanded her car keys and proceeded to punch her in the head and face, knocking her to the ground, police said.  Officers spotted the suspects in the area of Bloomfield Avenue and Mount Prospect Avenue and pursued them into West Orange, police said. Officers eventually terminated the pursuit due to the conditions and the suspect's reckless driving, p…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Shoplifting-Turned-Robbery: Home Depot Pair Charged By Mahwah PD Shoplifting-Turned-Robbery: Home Depot Pair Charged By Mahwah PD
Shoplifting-Turned-Robbery: Home Depot Pair Charged By Mahwah PD It might've seemed simple at the start. But that changed quickly. A repeat offender from Midland Park turned a five-finger discount into a robbery when he assaulted a security guard while fleeing the Home Depot on Route 17 in Mahwah, authorities said. Mark Savino, 41, was exiting the store with $1,500 worth of stolen merchandise when he pushed a guard who tried to stop him on Tuesday, Oct. 10, Mahwah Police Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. Savino got into a waiting vehicle that sped off, the captain said. Descriptions were quickly broadcast and Fairfield police soon had the pair in custo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
North Bergen Man Drove Drunk When He Struck Pedestrian: Prosecutors North Bergen Man Drove Drunk When He Struck Pedestrian: Prosecutors
North Bergen Man Drove Drunk When He Struck Pedestrian: Prosecutors A 40-year-old North Bergen man was arrested and charged on Tuesday, Oct. 3, after they drove while intoxicated and struck a pedestrian last month, authorities said. On Friday, Sept. 8 at 3:30 a.m., Steven Inoa, was driving a Honda Pilot at Bergenline Avenue and 92nd Street when it struck a 65-year-old woman, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The woman was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Suarez said. Inoa was charged with assault by auto while driving while intoxicated and causing serious bodily injury. He was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office i…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Man Slashed With Samurai Sword In Jersey City: Authorities Man Slashed With Samurai Sword In Jersey City: Authorities
Man Slashed With Samurai Sword In Jersey City: Authorities A 37-year-old Jersey City man was arrested and charged with slashing another man with a samurai sword on Thursday, Sept. 21. authorities said. At 4:45 p.m., police responded to 11 Van Nostrand Avenue and discovered Darryl Colbourne had used the samurai sword to slash a 24-year-old in the right hand, left chest, left ear and left side of his head, Kimberly Wallace-Scalfione, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office said. The incident began as a verbal dispute and the two men knew each other, Wallace-Scalfione said. Colbourne was hit with multiple weapons charges and also charged with assault, Wa…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Ridgefield Man Shot In Hawthorne, Local Resident Charged Ridgefield Man Shot In Hawthorne, Local Resident Charged
Ridgefield Man Shot In Hawthorne, Local Resident Charged A 32-year-old Ridgefield man was shot in Hawthorne over the weekend, said authorities who made an arrest. The victim was treated at the scene and didn’t require further medical treatment following the 10:37 p.m. shooting on Wagner Place near Midland Avenue on Saturday, Sept. 16, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Hawthorne Police Chief James W. Knepper said. Angel Alberto, 34, of Hawthorne, surrendered to Hawthorne police on Sunday, they said. Alberto, formerly of Paterson, remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: South Jersey Ex-Con Who Shot NJSP Detective Gets 28 Years Without Parole UPDATE: South Jersey Ex-Con Who Shot NJSP Detective Gets 28 Years Without Parole
Update: South Jersey Ex-Con Who Shot Njsp Detective Gets 28 Years Without Parole An ex-con was sentenced to 28 years in prison without parole for shooting a New Jersey State Police detective during an ambush. Tremaine Hadden, 30, of Bridgeton, was one of three men who opened fire on NJSP Detective Richard Hershey as he investigated a home invasion at the Harding Woods mobile home park in the Salem County town of Pittsgrove on April 25, 2020. Five women had been accused of forcing their way into a trailer and assaulting the owner – breaking a rib and lacerating a lung -- while stealing her iPhone. Sometime after Hershey arrived, a hostile group of 15 people connected t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Glen Rock PD: Fair Lawn Teen In RT 208 Crash Says Oakland, Elmwood Park Men Laid Hands On Her Glen Rock PD: Fair Lawn Teen In RT 208 Crash Says Oakland, Elmwood Park Men Laid Hands On Her
Glen Rock PD: Fair Lawn Teen In RT 208 Crash Says Oakland, Elmwood Park Men Laid Hands On Her A 19-year-old Fair Lawn passenger involved in a crash on Route 208 told Glen Rock police that one passenger in the other vehicle assaulted her and another touched her, authorities said. Officers didn’t witness any assaults or immediately find any independent witnesses to corroborate the allegations following the crash on the highway near the Lincoln Avenue overpass last Friday, Sept. 1, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A 35-year-old Oakland man whom the woman claimed hit her said she was the one who actually struck him in the face, the chief said. The other passenger, a 31-year-old Elmwoo…

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by Jerry DeMarco