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Loaded Gun, High-Capacity Magazine Found On Unlicensed Route 17 Driver, Police Say Loaded Gun, High-Capacity Magazine Found On Unlicensed Route 17 Driver, Police Say
Loaded Gun, High-Capacity Magazine Found On Unlicensed Route 17 Driver, Police Say A motorist from North Carolina was found with a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine during a routine motor vehicle stop on Route 17 in Paramus this week, police said. Officer Cesar Hurtado stopped a gray 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe heading north near the Garden State Parkway for a traffic violation around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. A registration check revealed that the registered owner had a revoked driving privilege, Guidetti said. Hurtado identified the driver as Shenita J. King, 38, of Rocky Mount, NC, who said the vehicle was not hers…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Man Wanted By US Marshals Captured During Traffic Stop In Morris County: Police Man Wanted By US Marshals Captured During Traffic Stop In Morris County: Police
Man Wanted By US Marshals Captured During Traffic Stop In Morris County: Police A 33-year-old man wanted by the U.S. Marshals was arrested following a traffic stop in Morris County, police said. Marcus Olivera-Leon, of Elizabeth, was stopped in an unregistered vehicle for having a brake light out on Augusta Street and Legion Place in Denville around 9:40 p.m. on Aug. 23, local police said. Olivera-Leon, had active warrants for his arrest, and had been wanted by the United States Marshals, according to police. Police said only that he was wanted for violating probation. Olivera-Leon was arrested and transported back to police headquarters. He was committed to the count…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Fugitive Arrested In Secaucus: Police Fugitive Arrested In Secaucus: Police
Fugitive Arrested In Secaucus: Police A 45-year-old Brooklyn resident was arrested on Friday, Sept. 15 in Secaucus after it was discovered there were multiple warrants out for his arrest, authorities said. At 5:25 p.m., during a motor vehicle stop, Kevin Dadaille was discovered to have a outstanding warrants out of Middlesex County, Pohatcong and in Connecticut, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. Dadaille had been been charged with two counts of larceny in Enfield, Conn. in May. In 2019, Dadaille was wanted by New York State Police for stealing a wallet at a department store in Orange and making charges on a stolen credi…

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by Sam Barron
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WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard
Wild Ride: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard Nearly a dozen jitney passengers survived a wild ride after their 71-year-old driver first pulled over for police in Fairview, then hit the gas and sped from the stop. Adrian Marin was driving erratically when Fairview Police Officer Diego Porras stopped the bus on Bergen Boulevard and Harding Place back on the morning of June 30. Two officers doing jitney bus inspections at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church on Anderson Avenue headed over as backup as Porras asked Marin for his paperwork, Detective Lt. Michael Martic said. "He started to get his documents, then took off with the 10 passe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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BAIL REFORM: Paterson Man Wanted On Haledon Warrant Nabbed By Sheriff's Officers, Then Released BAIL REFORM: Paterson Man Wanted On Haledon Warrant Nabbed By Sheriff's Officers, Then Released
Bail Reform: Paterson Man Wanted On Haledon Warrant Nabbed By Sheriff's Officers, Then Released A Paterson man wanted on an outstanding warrant was busted by Passaic County sheriff’s officers only to be released a short time later under New Jersey’s bail reform law. Khalif Johnson, 21, tried to flee a stop on Hamburg Turnpike near Ratzer Road in Wayne around 10 a.m. Monday, April 11, but officers seized him following a brief struggle, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. They charged Johnson with resisting arrest and issued several motor vehicle summonses before turning him over to Haledon police, who released him pending further court action, the sheriff said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Wrong-Way Hit-Run DWI Driver Mounts Ridgewood Sidewalk, Plows Over Parking Signs Police: Wrong-Way Hit-Run DWI Driver Mounts Ridgewood Sidewalk, Plows Over Parking Signs
Police: Wrong-Way Hit-Run DWI Driver Mounts Ridgewood Sidewalk, Plows Over Parking Signs An Upper Saddle River motorist was drunk when he drove into oncoming traffic and onto a Ridgewood sidewalk, knocking over parking signs, before his SUV slammed into another vehicle several blocks away, authorities said. One of the damaged signs was wedged into the front bumper of his Kia when police found Kenneth Nelson, 53, several blocks away, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. After at first driving into oncoming traffic and on the sidewalk on Cottage Street, Nelson continued down Franklin Avenue to North Maple Avenue around 6 p.m. Wednesday, Luthcke said. He made it to East Glen Av…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Baltimore Driver Pleads Guilty In Deadly Hudson County Hit-Run Baltimore Driver Pleads Guilty In Deadly Hudson County Hit-Run
Baltimore Driver Pleads Guilty In Deadly Hudson County Hit-Run A Baltimore man admitted guilt as part of a plea deal Thursday in the July 2020 hit-and-run crash that killed a 35-year-old woman in Hudson County, authorities said Friday. David Ceausu, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and a motor vehicle summons for leaving the scene of an accident, before Superior Court Judge Paul M. DePascale, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Ceausu was behind the wheel of a 2020 Chevy Tahoe when he struck Reyna Huerta-Flores, of Union City, while she was walking home from work ne…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River
Jersey Shore Driver Stopped By Garfield PD Jumps Into Passaic River A Jersey Shore man stopped by a Garfield police officer on Friday hopped out of his car and into the Passaic River, authorities said. Officer Jaroslaw Wdowiak stopped the 46-year-old driver from Toms River in the parking lot of the Custom Gas Station at the intersection of River Drive and DeWitt Street shortly after 12:30 p.m. Wdowiak was returning to his cruiser to write summonses when the driver suddenly got out, dashed around a fence and clambered down the riverbank and into the water, Deputy Police Chief Ronald Polonkay said. Two civilians helped the officer pull the man from the…

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by Jerry DeMarco