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Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park
Teen Charged With Bias Attempted Murder For Savage Beating In North Hudson Park A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore teen on bias attempted murder charges for savagely beating a learning-disabled man in a Hudson County park because he thought he was gay. José Tobias Carranza Serrano, 18, was captured by police in Bayonne who found him and his clothes covered in blood while arresting him on a trespassing charge hours after the June 21 attack in James J. Braddock Park in North Bergen, authorities said. The indictment returned Wednesday charges Carranza Serrano with attempted murder, bias intimidation, aggravated assault and robbery. The 37-year-old victim from West New…

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‘Are You Jewish?’ Hammer-Wielding Man In Rampage At Teaneck Medical Office Reportedly Asks ‘Are You Jewish?’ Hammer-Wielding Man In Rampage At Teaneck Medical Office Reportedly Asks
‘Are You Jewish?’ Hammer-Wielding Man In Rampage At Teaneck Medical Office Reportedly Asks An attack on a Teaneck pediatric office and dry cleaners by a man wielding a hammer should be considered a bias incident, said a mom who hid in a bathroom with her terrified daughter. “Are you Jewish?” Jill Gordon said he asked her and others during Sunday’s rampage at the Riverside Medical Group on Palisade Avenue. Camwren T. Cole, 23, of Teaneck – who’d apparently cut himself while smashing windows -- also screamed “They tried to turn me trans!” Gordon said. Responding officers nabbed the bloody Cole moments later and sent him, in custody, to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? Police Call Swastika Found Painted On Wayne Road 'Affront To Our Community' SEE ANYTHING? Police Call Swastika Found Painted On Wayne Road 'Affront To Our Community'
SEE Anything? Police Call Swastika Found Painted On Wayne Road 'Affront To Our Community' Wayne police were trying to determine who spray-painted a swastika on a local street. At this point, the incident is considered vandalism and not a hate crime, authorities said Monday. That could change, depending on what an investigation finds. “While no specific victim or target of this graffiti has been determined at this time, such conduct is an affront to our community as a whole,” Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Social media reports pointed police to the symbol on the pavement at Audubon Parkway, Daly said. (NOTE: Daily Voice has chosen not to re-publish any of the photos.) “Once it…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters
NJ Man Accused Of Harassing Black Neighbor In Video Gets Jeered By 100 Angry Protesters A Mount Laurel man seen in a viral video harassing his black neighbors was arrested, sparking a protest involving nearly 100 people outside of his home on Monday. The crowds gathered outside of Edward Cagney Mathews' condo in the Essex Place development for hours, three days after the 45-year-old resident was charged with harassment and biased intimidation. Dozens of rioters jeered and threw objects at Mathews, who was escorted out of his home by police for unknown reasons.  Mathews' arrest came after a neighbor reported being continually harassed by him, police said.  It was around that…

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Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay
Sheriff: Attacker Admits Beating, Leaving Hudson Man For Dead Because He Thought He Was Gay A Baltimore man admitted luring and then savagely beating a learning-disabled man from West New York in North Hudson Park, leaving him for dead, because he thought he was gay, authorities said. José Tobias Carranza Serrano, 18, was captured by police in Bayonne who found him and his clothes covered in blood while arresting him on a trespassing charge, it was revealed Wednesday. Carranza Serrano confessed to them that he lured the 37-year-old victim into a wooded area of the North Bergen park, where he tried to kill him because he "does not like homosexuals," an affidavit filed by the Hudson…

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Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Fort Lee Synagogue Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Fort Lee Synagogue
Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Fort Lee Synagogue A repeat offender accused of threatening law enforcement officers and members of the Jewish community in New Jersey and on Long Island did it again in Fort Lee, authorities said. Bradley Goldberg, 47, of Cedarhurst, LI, had already spent a week in the Bergen County Jail after Fort Lee police said he pretended to be an abused 11-year-old as part of a relentless harassment campaign against them when he was arrested again. Goldberg had been free all of 10 days when, they said, he stood outside Chabad of Fort Lee “harassing worshippers entering and exiting the building,” Lt. Edward Young said. …

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Retired NJ Police Chief Who Lied To FBI In Assault On Black Suspect Gets 28 Months In Fed Pen Retired NJ Police Chief Who Lied To FBI In Assault On Black Suspect Gets 28 Months In Fed Pen
Retired NJ Police Chief Who Lied To FBI In Assault On Black Suspect Gets 28 Months In Fed Pen A retired South Jersey police chief whose racist rants made international headlines must spend the next 28 months in federal prison for lying to the FBI about assaulting a black suspect. Frank M. Nucera Jr., 64, of Bordentown was convicted in October 2019 of making false statements to FBI agents who were interviewing him about what was the alleged violation of the 18-year-old suspect’s civil rights during an arrest. Nucera is also awaiting a retrial in U.S. District Court in Camden on additional charges of hate-crime assault and depriving the suspect’s civil rights. The former chief must s…

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Pennsylvania Native, 29, Stabbed Dead By Seattle Neighbor For Not Wearing Face Mask Pennsylvania Native, 29, Stabbed Dead By Seattle Neighbor For Not Wearing Face Mask
Pennsylvania Native, 29, Stabbed Dead By Seattle Neighbor For Not Wearing Face Mask A Pennsylvania native was stabbed to death near his Seattle-suburb home on Sunday, according to police in Washington. John Huynh, 29, formerly of Ephrata, was stabbed in the heart following a disagreement with a neighbor -- over wearing a face mask -- according to charging documents filed in King County Superior Court. Huynh, two friends and his wife walked out of the Villas at Beardslee apartments in Bothell shortly before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, according to court documents. Ian Patrick Williams, 25, “gave the middle finger” to Huynh so the group stopped to speak with him, according to the do…

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by Jillian Pikora
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NJ Neo-Nazi Admits Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews NJ Neo-Nazi Admits Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews
NJ Neo-Nazi Admits Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews A New Jersey member of a hardcore neo-Nazi group admitted Friday that he convinced two fellow white supremacists to vandalize property owned by Blacks and Jews. Richard Tobin, 19, of Brooklawn, dubbed the nationwide campaign “Operation Kristallnacht,” after a 1938 pogrom in which German Nazis slaughtered more than 90 Jews and burned their homes, synagogues, stores and schools, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Tobin told a federal judge via video conference Friday that he “implored” two other members of “The Base” to break windows and slash tires, among other destru…

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Homeowner: Fair Lawn String Wasn’t A Noose Homeowner: Fair Lawn String Wasn’t A Noose
Homeowner: Fair Lawn String Wasn’t A Noose UPDATE: The Fair Lawn woman who found a piece of string in a disturbing shape outside her home said it belonged to a utility company and wasn’t a noose. Police and firefighters “were able to locate a piece of string in the utility wires that matched [it],” Kelli McCloud’s said Monday. “Apparently, some moron with a utility company did it and failed to remove the rope." Authorities were still trying to determine exactly who that was and what company the person works for. A former Optimum executive told Daily Voice that telecommunication companies "use that kind of rope to pull the new fibe…

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Fair Lawn Mayor Insists Twisted Twine Tied To Tree Is A Noose Fair Lawn Mayor Insists Twisted Twine Tied To Tree Is A Noose
Fair Lawn Mayor Insists Twisted Twine Tied To Tree Is A Noose UPDATE: The Fair Lawn woman who found a piece of string in a disturbing shape outside her home said it belonged to a utility company and wasn’t a noose. Police and firefighters “were able to locate a piece of string in the utility wires that matched [it],” Kelli McCloud’s said Monday. “Apparently, some moron with a utility company did it and failed to remove the rope." Authorities were still trying to determine exactly who that was and what company the person works for. A former Optimum executive told Daily Voice that telecommunication companies "use that kind of rope to pull the new fiber…

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Police Say Twine Tied To Tree In Fair Lawn Doesn't Appear Suspicious, Mayor Not Buying It Police Say Twine Tied To Tree In Fair Lawn Doesn't Appear Suspicious, Mayor Not Buying It
Police Say Twine Tied To Tree In Fair Lawn Doesn't Appear Suspicious, Mayor Not Buying It A length of string with a loop found tied to a tree in Fair Lawn apparently was used by a utility company and doesn't appear to be a noose, as some had suspected, police said. "At this point, we do not believe this is a hate crime but a rope that was put up by a utility company (Verizon, Optimum, etc.) to help with utility wires that had been down in the area," Sgt. Brian Metzler said Sunday afternoon.  "We have calls in with the utility companies and are awaiting responses," Metzler said. "This will be referred to our detective bureau either way." Resident Kelli McCloud of the borough's …

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by Jerry DeMarco