Newark's Ironbound Grieves Loss Of Beloved Young Police Officer Newark's Ironbound Grieves Loss Of Beloved Young Police Officer
Newark's Ironbound Grieves Loss Of Beloved Young Police Officer TRIBUTE: Portuguese Americans in Newark's Ironbound are reeling from the death of a beloved community police officer who devoted a great deal of his life to helping children. Ricardo Barbosa, 29, of Belleville was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a Bell Street home off White Oak Terrace shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to multiple reports. Belleville officers conducted CPR on Barbosa, who responders said died a short time later. "What can you say about an overall great guy whose love for his community showed in his actions every day?" the Portuguese American Police A…
UPDATE: Stolen Car Chase Ends In Fiery Crash, Two In Custody On Route 3 UPDATE: Stolen Car Chase Ends In Fiery Crash, Two In Custody On Route 3
Update: Stolen Car Chase Ends In Fiery Crash, Two In Custody On Route 3 A stolen car chase from Belleville to Rutherford before dawn Sunday ended with a fiery crash and two arrests, authorities said. Three occupants bailed out of the stolen SUV and fled into a nearby residential area following the crash on eastbound Route 3 just west of Orient Way shortly before 1:30 a.m. Oct. 30, the witnesses said. Rutherford Police Lt. David Dovato nabbed one of them. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 Unit grabbed the other. Both were turned over to Belleville police. The third suspect got away. On eastbound Route 3 near Orient Way in Rutherford.RUTHERFORD FIRE DEPT No seri…
NJ Town's Historians Desperate To Save Cherished Funeral Home Featured In 'The Sopranos' NJ Town's Historians Desperate To Save Cherished Funeral Home Featured In 'The Sopranos'
NJ Town's Historians Desperate To Save Cherished Funeral Home Featured In 'The Sopranos' A historic funeral home dubbed Belleville's "town jewel" is facing demolition. Built in 1887, the Cozzarelli Memorial Home is one of the town's last surviving historical structures, and was featured in "The Sopranos," as Tony mourned his mom's loss. The Washington Avenue building could be designated an "Area in Need of Redevelopment," as a resolution approved during a council meeting last month will allow the Planning Board determine that, NJ Advance Media reports. Michael Perrone, the president of Belleville's historical society, says the town is looking to demolish the building to m…
Police Chase Ends In GWB Crash, Three Suspected Newark, Belleville Gas Station Robbers In Cuffs Police Chase Ends In GWB Crash, Three Suspected Newark, Belleville Gas Station Robbers In Cuffs
Police Chase Ends In GWB Crash, Three Suspected Newark, Belleville Gas Station Robbers In Cuffs A high-speed police chase from Newark ended with a crash on the George Washington Bridge and the arrests of three suspects wanted for the gunpoint robberies of two gas stations, authorities said. Newark police pursued the suspects -- who were wanted for holding up pump jockeys in the Brick City and Belleville -- more than 15 miles to the lower level of the eastbound GWB, where the crash occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. Sunday, responders said. Port Authority police seized one of the suspects and Newark police nabbed the other two, the authority's Rudy King said. There were no injuries re…
Female Carjacker Captured At Jersey Shore After Dumping Son, 7, In Paterson: Authorities Female Carjacker Captured At Jersey Shore After Dumping Son, 7, In Paterson: Authorities
Female Carjacker Captured At Jersey Shore After Dumping Son, 7, In Paterson: Authorities A carjacker was captured at the Jersey Shore hours after abandoning her 7-year-old son in Paterson, authorities said. Two women with an unspecified state agency were transporting Imani McRae, 31, of Paterson and her son in a minivan when she “became agitated and assaulted” both of them in the area of 20th and Railroad avenues Friday afternoon, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a joint statement with police. The women – one 41, the other 47 – told responding officers that McRae forced them both out of their 2019 Caravan before speeding off with her son in the back seat. Ci…
Belleville Man Shoots Paterson Resident During Online-Arranged Meeting, Authorities Say Belleville Man Shoots Paterson Resident During Online-Arranged Meeting, Authorities Say
Belleville Man Shoots Paterson Resident During Online-Arranged Meeting, Authorities Say A Belleville man was charged with attempted murder in the broad-daylight shooting of a Paterson resident. Daniel Jimenez, 37, was identified as the gunman who shot the unsuspecting 26-year-old victim near the corner of East 28th Street and 7th Avenue in Paterson around 2 p.m July 26 after arranging the meeting online for some type of purchase, they said. Police arrived to find the victim gone – he’d been taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in a private vehicle. His assailant had fled in a 2003 Ford Expedition with a registration that came back to a Clifton resident, responders…
Massive Water Main Beak Impacts 100K Newark, Belleville Residents Massive Water Main Beak Impacts 100K Newark, Belleville Residents
Massive Water Main Beak Impacts 100K Newark, Belleville Residents A massive water main break on the Newark and Belleville border Tuesday, Aug. 9 had lingering impacts as of Wednesday. The 140-year-old pipe in Branch Brook Park broke in two places, and caused a sinkhole to open that swallowed a car, NBC4 reports. Most of Newark and all of Belleville had no water on Tuesday, prompting University Hospital to implement its emergency water conservation protocol while Beth Israel canceled and postpone surgeries, according to NBC4. As of Wednesday evening, 99 percent of Newark's water had been restored, Mayor Ras J. Baraka said, noting the boil water advisory i…
Arrest Made In Shooting That Killed Beloved Newark Corner Store Owner Arrest Made In Shooting That Killed Beloved Newark Corner Store Owner
Arrest Made In Shooting That Killed Beloved Newark Corner Store Owner A 24-year-old murder suspect wanted in a corner store killing in Newark was captured in Kearny, authorities said. Quadree Richardson, 24, is accused of fatally killing Rabel Ramos-Gomez, 46, of Belleville, while he was working at a corner store on the 200 block of South 10th Street Sunday, July 17, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said. Richardson was charged with first degree murder and two weapon offenses. Ramos-Gomez's heartbroken step-children launched a GoFundMe, remembering him as a "giving soul." "A tragedy, he was working at the store with his…
GOTCHA! Fugitive Accused Of Trying To Run Down Clifton Police Officer Captured In Belleville GOTCHA! Fugitive Accused Of Trying To Run Down Clifton Police Officer Captured In Belleville
Gotcha! Fugitive Accused Of Trying To Run Down Clifton Police Officer Captured In Belleville A fugitive wanted for hitting a Clifton police officer with his car was captured in Belleville by a Passaic County sheriff's detective and U.S. Marshals. Alberto Maymi-Sepulveda, 42, of Clifton, was exiting the Bank of America on Washington Street when Detective Luis Pagan and his federal companions snatched him up on Wednesday, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Maymi-Sepulveda had eluded a manhunt for just over a month. Officers were responding to a June 18 report of a possible crime in progress on Valley Road near Gillies Street, Clifton Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said la…
Grocery Store Worker Among Three Dead In Series Of Essex County Shootings Grocery Store Worker Among Three Dead In Series Of Essex County Shootings
Grocery Store Worker Among Three Dead In Series Of Essex County Shootings Three people were killed in a series of weekend shootings in Essex County, authorities said. The first incident was on Friday, July 15 on Oak Street in East Orange, where Antwan McAdoo, 42, of North Carolina, was found with gunshot wounds, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said. He was transported to University Hospital in Newark where he pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m. No arrests have been made. The second incident occurred Saturday, July 16, on the 700 block of 20th Street in Newark. There, Rasheed Mells, 24, of Irvington, was found having suffered gunshot w…
Thief Snatches Bergen Woman's BMW With Dog Inside Thief Snatches Bergen Woman's BMW With Dog Inside
Thief Snatches Bergen Woman's BMW With Dog Inside The familiar quiet of a suburban Bergen County neighborhood was broken by the screams of a resident whose new luxury SUV had just been stolen with her dog still inside. The 42-year-old victim told Englewood Cliffs police that she'd left her dog in the 2022 BMW X7 for a moment when a thief got in and sped from outside her and her husband's home on Castle Drive shortly before 1:30 p.m. July 4th. The vehicle "had been left running with the keys inside" when "a black male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt" took it, Detective Lt. Ronald F Waldt said. Police were still at the victim's home when s…
Construction Worker Killed Crossing NJ Street Immigrated To Give Family In Peru Better Life Construction Worker Killed Crossing NJ Street Immigrated To Give Family In Peru Better Life
Construction Worker Killed Crossing NJ Street Immigrated To Give Family In Peru Better Life Support is surging for the family of a 57-year-old Essex County construction worker struck and killed by a car while crossing the street last month. Miguel Vargas was rushed to the hospital after the 10 p.m. incident on Washington Avenue in Belleville, on June 24, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. He died of his injuries the following day. Vargas was in the process of getting his US citizenship, nearly 20 years after immigrating from Lima, Peru relatives tell NJ Advance Media. He was also helping his children, who he hadn't seen since they were toddlers, join hi…