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Police: Pickup Driver Causes Route 17 Pileup, Female Occupant Extricated Police: Pickup Driver Causes Route 17 Pileup, Female Occupant Extricated
Police: Pickup Driver Causes Route 17 Pileup, Female Occupant Extricated A pickup driver was charged with causing a chain-reaction crash that jammed Route 17 for nearly an hour and sent a woman to the hospital after firefighters freed her from the wreckage. The victim was in one of three vehicles stopped for a light on the highway's northbound side near Franklin Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights when a Ford F550 driven by a Belleville man rammed into her Toyota Prius around 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 28, Police Sgt. John Behr said. Wood-Ridge firefighters joined their Hasbrouck Heights colleagues, along with ambulance crews from Hackensack University Medical Center and Holy…

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Essex Ex-Con Wanted In Burglary Spree Captured By Palisades Parkway Police Following Crash Essex Ex-Con Wanted In Burglary Spree Captured By Palisades Parkway Police Following Crash
Essex Ex-Con Wanted In Burglary Spree Captured By Palisades Parkway Police Following Crash An ex-con wanted in a string of burglaries was captured by Palisades Interstate Parkway police after he bailed out of a car stolen out of Lyndhurst following a predawn crash. Englewood police were pursuing the black Audi S5 before breaking off the chase and alerting their area colleagues shortly before 3 a.m. Monday, Nov. 28, Palisades Interstate Parkway Lt. Raymond E. Walter said. The vehicle had been tied to a string of break-ins in Belleville, some of which involved ATMs, he said. A PIP officer pulled up moments after the Audi crashed at the northbound ramp to Exit 2 in Alpine a short t…

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Member Of Paterson '230 Boys' Admits Selling Heroin-Laced Fentanyl That Killed User Member Of Paterson '230 Boys' Admits Selling Heroin-Laced Fentanyl That Killed User
Member Of Paterson '230 Boys' Admits Selling Heroin-Laced Fentanyl That Killed User A reputed member of a notorious Paterson street gang admitted in federal court in Newark on Wednesday that he sold fentanyl-laced heroin that killed a user. Authorities didn't identify the victim who they said died after ingesting drugs sold by Wyzier Peterson, 25. Peterson was among 17 reputed 230 Boys members charged in a coordinated heroin, fentanyl and cocaine trafficking case assembled in September 2019 by a strike force comprised of agents from the DEA, ATF and state, county and local law enforcement. One of them, Keith Brinkley, shot a Belleville man in Paterson and then fled to Geo…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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by Cecilia Levine
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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…

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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…

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