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Wednesday, dec 4
Police & Fire
Authorities: Two Men Lured To Elmwood Park Spot By Women Robbed At Gunpoint
Two men told Elmwood Park police they were robbed of cash, iPhones and sneakers after two women they’d recently met lured them to the spot. The men, from Newark and Belleville, said they were waiting for the women when a silver sedan (no further description) pulled up next to them on Doremus Place around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The pair, ages 25 and 29, told police that one of two men who got out of the sedan pointed a handgun at them. “At gunpoint the victims were robbed of a combined $1,300 in cash, 2 iPhones and Yeezy sneakers,” the chief said. The robbers …
Police & Fire
13 Local Law Enforcement Agencies In NJ Get $15.8M In
Cops
Grants To Hire More Officers
A total of 13 police departments and other local law enforcement agencies in New Jersey will get $15.8 million in federal funding to hire 114 additional officers, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced Tuesday. The Federal Community Oriented Policing (COPS) grants had been suspended since 2018 because of a nationwide injunction that was lifted earlier this year. On Tuesday, Barr announced that the Justice Department was awarding nearly $400 million to 596 law enforcement agencies nationwide to hire 2,732 additional full-time law enforcement professionals. They were chosen from nearly…
Police & Fire
Hip-Hopping NJ Firefighter Channels Wu-Tang Clan:
Covid-
19 'Ain’t Nuthin’ To Be Stuck With'
WATCH: A New Jersey firefighter has tapped into classic hip-hoppers Wu-Tang Clan for a video warning that COVID-19 “ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with.” Some listeners will instantly get the play on words from a classic 1992 Wu cut in the “#CovidCalls” video dropped Wednesday by Michael Sarno, who’s also an EMT and Afghanistan combat veteran. Jump cuts of responders in action mix with Sarno posting up at the Belleville and Bloomfield firehouses: “The Wuhan virus ain’t nuthin’ to be stuck with/There’s no place to hide when we step inside the room/Boys in blue, prepare for this doom and damn/We’…
News
Kearny Man With Love Of Birthdays Dies Of Coronavirus On His 30th, Days After Mom
A Kearny man with a love of birthdays died of coronavirus on his 30th -- nine days after the virus took his mom. Thomas Martins, who had Down syndrome, died of the virus on April 6. His mom, Carolyn Martins-Reitz -- a graphic designer for the Archdiocese of Newark -- passed away March 28 at Clara Maas Medical Center. Surviving them are Reitz' husband and Martins step-dad Rudy Reitz, who mourns alone with his daughter -- Martins' half-sister -- Sharon Reitz. Carolyn and Thomas, born in Belleville, were "each other's whole word," Rudy told BuzzFeed News. The doting mom made sure her son was…
Obituaries
'He Loved His Work': Beloved Kearny Doctor Francis Molinari Dies Of Coronavirus
A beloved Kearny doctor died of coronavirus Thursday. Frankie" Molinari, 70, is being remembered for his passion for medicine and love for his patients. The Newark native had reportedly spent the last week of his life treating hospital patients at the Meadowlands Sports Complex. He was a doctor of internal medicine for more than 40 years with a Belleville practice, and served in several New Jersey communities, his sister Lisa Molinari said in a Facebook tribute. "He truly loved his work," she wrote. "Frankie took an interest in everything and in a conversation, your interest was his. He …
Police & Fire
Feds: Undercover Buys, Wire Snare Members Of Crew That Slung Smack, Crack In Newark Projects
Federal agents arrested three accused members of a crew that the government said has controlled the heroin and crack market in a labyrinthine complex of affordable housing and senior apartments in Newark. ATF agents working with U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito’s office and other local, state and federal law enforcers zeroed in on the privately-owned Pilgrim Baptist Village housing complex. Commonly known as “Pilgrim Village,” the project consists of 46 buildings, each with four units, with interior stairwells leading from each apartment to a common hallway that connects multiple buildings, …
Police & Fire
NJ Authorities: Shoplifter Coughs On Police, Says She Has Coronavirus
A habitual offender coughed on Belleville police and told them she had the coronavirus after they chased her down for shoplifting, authorities said.Vanessa Shaaraway, 35, was charged with making terroristic threats during a state of emergency, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, among other counts. Shaaraway -- whose most recent addresses have been in Kearny and neighboring Belleville -- bolted and refused commands to stop, forcing police to chase her down, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. "When she was caught by two officers, she purposefully coughed o…
Police & Fire
Spitting On Police, 911 Scares: Coronavirus Crimes Spread Throughout NJ
Along with the increase of coronavirus cases in New Jersey are growing numbers of people charged with crimes directly tied to the pandemic, authorities said. No fewer than five of them either spit or coughed on police officers and claimed they’d tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said. Others held weddings or other gatherings in violation of state emergency orders. Another is accused of dialing 911 and claiming she had the coronavirus to try to get a community college to close. All are being held accountable, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “Our police officers are g…
Police & Fire
Video
: See Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze That Killed Animals, Displaced 21 People
UPDATE: A videographer captured vivid images of firefighters battling an intense blaze that consumed a large Clifton multi-family building, killing a dog and a cat, among other animals, and driving 21 people from their homes. The six-alarm blaze broke out on the upper floor of a three-apartment Lexington Avenue home next to a Clifton Avenue gas station around 2:30 p.m. Thursday. It quickly went to two alarms as firefighters who arrived within moments climbed portable ladders looking for occupants and thick black smoke poured into the sky. They rescued one woman who apparently was preparin…
Police & Fire
Firefighters Battle Furious Clifton Blaze
UPDATE: Firefighters rescued a woman while others fled from danger during an intense blaze that consumed a large Clifton multi-family building, killing a dog and a cat and driving 21 people from their homes. The six-alarm blaze broke out on the upper floor of a three-apartment Lexington Avenue home next to a Clifton Avenue gas station around 2:30 p.m. It quickly went to two alarms as firefighters who arrived within moments climbed portable ladders looking for occupants and thick black smoke poured into the sky. They rescued one woman who apparently was preparing to jump from a second floo…
Police & Fire
Federal Heroin Fugitive From Paterson Captured In Georgia, Charged With Shooting Belleville Man
A reputed Paterson gang member who fled to Georgia amid a massive federal investigation of fatal drug trafficking shot and wounded a Belleville man in the city before he left, authorities revealed Wednesday. Keith Brinkley, a 29-year-old reputed member of the 230 Boyz, already was facing heroin-trafficking charges when he skipped town after shooting the 31-year-old victim in the area of Pearl and Carroll streets on Sept. 24, authorities said. Federal agents took Brinkley into custody in Georgia at the end of October, and he was brought to New Jersey this week, records show. While the U.S. …
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