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Veteran Responder Charged With Torching Service Vans At Bergen Optimum Store Veteran Responder Charged With Torching Service Vans At Bergen Optimum Store
Veteran Responder Charged With Torching Service Vans At Bergen Optimum Store A veteran firefighter from Passaic County torched two Optimum service vans behind the company’s Oakland store, said authorities who arrested him on Thursday. Randy S. McMaster Jr., 42, of Bloomingdale, intentionally set the fires that were reported behind the Potash Road store at 3:15 p.m. Oct. 19, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The blazes were quickly suppressed, leaving both service vehicles with fire and smoke damage, before emergency responders arrived, the prosecutor said following McMasters's arrest on Nov. 16. A father of two, McMaster lives in the Waterfall Village off…

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COUPLE MURDERS: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say COUPLE MURDERS: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say
Couple Murders: Doorbell Video Shows Ex-Con Repeatedly Stabbing Hackensack Woman, Police Say UPDATE: A doorbell camera captured horrific video -- and audio -- of an ex-con from Paterson repeatedly stabbing a Hackensack woman outside her home, law enforcement sources said Thursday. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, apparently had come to see Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery on Wednesday evening to discuss living in a room in their Fairmount Avenue home. An argument over what would be the terms of his stay erupted before turning deadly, an investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Police responding to a 911 call captured Stokes after they found him "walking down the stree…

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Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room
Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room UPDATE: A Hackensack couple was stabbed dead by an ex-con who came to their home looking for a room, authorities said. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, got into an argument with the victims over what would be the terms of his stay before stabbing Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery around 8 p.m. Wednesday, a law enforcement investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Gunter, a 67-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, was pronounced dead in a living room on the second floor of the Fairmount Avenue home after he'd been stabbed in the torso, responders said. Doorbell video with audio shows Avery…

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Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room
Hackensack Couple Stabbed Dead By Ex-Con Seeking Room UPDATE: A Hackensack couple was stabbed dead by an ex-con who came to their home looking for a room, authorities said. Clarence S. Stokes, 42, got into an argument with the victims over what would be the terms of his stay before stabbing Stanley Gunter and Latrice Avery around 8 p.m. Wednesday, a law enforcement investigator with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Gunter, a 67-year-old U.S. Navy veteran, was pronounced dead in a living room on the second floor of the Fairmount Avenue home after he'd been stabbed in the torso, responders said. Doorbell video with audio shows Avery…

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by Jerry DeMarco