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BUSTED: Reputed Trinitarios Members Living In Fort Lee Charged In Major Drug Ring Takedown BUSTED: Reputed Trinitarios Members Living In Fort Lee Charged In Major Drug Ring Takedown
Busted: Reputed Trinitarios Members Living In Fort Lee Charged In Major Drug Ring Takedown A trio of Trinitarios street gang members who shared an apartment in Fort Lee slung fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin on both sides of the Hudson River before being busted last week, federal authorities charged. Ernesto Adon Martinez, 38, Luis Arismedy Gomez Torres, 28, and Deury Luis Gomez Torres, 25, drove back and forth "on a near-daily basis" between Fort Lee and an apartment just off Dyckman Street in the Fort George section of Manhattan where drugs were packaged and stashed, they said.The Trinitarios emerged in New York City in the 1990s as protection against rival gangs such as th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail
ICE Seeking Detainee Who Escaped From NJ Jail Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are looking for a 31-year-old man who escaped from the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark Friday. Luis Cordon-Guzman, Guatemalan national, was deported from the U.S. on April 24, 2019, and illegally reentered on an unknown date and location, a felony under federal law. He has multiple pending felony charges out Trenton stemming from a March 16 arrest by local police, ICE officials said. Following his arrest, ICE filed an immigration detainer with the Mercer County Correctional Facility (MCCF) in Trenton, and Cordo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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LOCKDOWN: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For COVID-19
Lockdown: Two Inmates At Hudson Lockup Test Positive For Covid-19 The Hudson County Jail went into lockdown Sunday after two inmates tested positive for coronavirus, officials said. The inmates were quarantined in the hospital's rehabilitation center and will be treated according to guidelines established March 13, Hudson County spokesperson James Kennelly told NorthJersey.com. None of the immigration detainees being held at the Kearny jail or staff tested positive for COVID-19, Kennelly said. The news comes days after a corrections officer at the Bergen County Jail tested positive for COVID-19, prompting seven co-workers to self-quarantine as well.…

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by Cecilia Levine
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POLL: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed POLL: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed
Poll: Sussex County's New ICE Ballot Question Similar To Another That AG Nixed The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders unanimously voted to put a question on the ballot similar to the one New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal told them not to: "Should Sussex County aid ICE?"  (Story continues below poll). The board is asking voters to weigh-in on if it should "make county-owned tools, resources, personnel, and real and intellectual property" should be made reasonably available to ICE. Grewal last month criticized a similar ballot question that would have asked the county sheriff to ignore his "immigrant trust directive," and gave the Free…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid
Passaic Teen Challenges ICE Agents During Raid A Passaic teen who refused to open to the door for apparent ICE agents recalled the terrifying experience in a recent New York Times article. The girl -- Liza, who lives with her parents-- said she was startled awake at 1 a.m. Sunday by knock on the door by people she believed to be ICE agents, the article says. “'They said, ‘We need to talk to you, can you come outside, can you open the door?’" The Times reports.  "'I said, ‘Do you have permission to come inside my house, do you have a paper?’'" Liza saw several "know your rights" posts on Instagram -- and knew not to open her door.…

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by Cecilia Levine