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Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare
Living With Chronic Lyme Disease: NJ Woman's Never-Ending Nightmare It took four years for doctors to figure out what was wrong with Jasmin Perdomo. And still, that didn't solve her problem. Perdomo was 27 and living in Puerto Rico when symptoms presented as headaches, body aches and extremely swollen joints in 2014. All tests were coming back normal as the Elizabeth native was getting worse. Symptoms progressed to vertigo, heart problems, and a laundry list of cognitive issues like memory loss, inability to balance, slow speech, and facial paralysis. Sometimes, Perdomo would get in her car to go somewhere, only to find herself on the roads and completely…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Four $50K Powerball Tickets Sold In North Jersey Four $50K Powerball Tickets Sold In North Jersey
Four $50K Powerball Tickets Sold In North Jersey Four second-tier prizewinning Powerball tickets from the Saturday, Oct. 29 drawing were sold in North Jersey. Each ticket is good for $50,000. Here's where the tickets were sold: Bergen County: 7-Eleven #34554, 35 Madison Ave., Cresskill; Bergen County: Montvale Snack Shop, 108 Spring Valley Rd., Montvale; Essex County: El Caballo Blanco #2, 690 Mount Prospect Ave., Newark; and, Union County: Archie’s Corner, 562 Elizabeth Ave., Elizabeth. The winning numbers were: 19, 31, 40, 46, and 57. The Red Power Ball number was 23. The Power Play was 3X.  The Powerball jackpot rolls to $1 bil…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
'RHONJ' Star's Stolen Porsche Found Totaled After North Jersey Pursuit 'RHONJ' Star's Stolen Porsche Found Totaled After North Jersey Pursuit
'Rhonj' Star's Stolen Porsche Found Totaled After North Jersey Pursuit "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Dolores Catania found her stolen Porsche — but it's completely destroyed, Daily Voice has learned. The car — which was purchased for her by ex-boyfriend David Principe for her 50th birthday in Season 11 — was stolen by thieves from her current boyfriend Paulie Connell's Edgewater apartment last weekend, Connell tells Daily Voice. Police pursued thieves in the car from Elizabeth before it was found totaled in Linden, having crashed into a pole, Connell said. "[Dolores] had just finished with Bravocon and she had a lot of stuff in the car b…

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by Cecilia Levine
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New Jersey Deportees Freed After Being Subject To 'Inhumane Conditions' In Haitian Prison New Jersey Deportees Freed After Being Subject To 'Inhumane Conditions' In Haitian Prison
New Jersey Deportees Freed After Being Subject To 'Inhumane Conditions' In Haitian Prison A pair of New Jersey men being held in a Haitian prison in deplorable and frightening conditions have been released, NorthJersey.com reports. Elizabeth residents Billy Balisage, 42, and Patrick Julney, 38, were among 30 deportees released seemingly at random on Monday, Oct. 24, the outlet said. Both had been deported by US officials for non-citizens who had committed crimes, for Balsiage that was a drug conviction and for Julney those were drug and robbery convictions, the outlet said.  Deportation should not be a death sentence. Despite the United States’ clear recognition of the enorm…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Feds: 'Extensive' Video Shows Gunman Robbing Trio Of NJ Phamarcies For Drugs Feds: 'Extensive' Video Shows Gunman Robbing Trio Of NJ Phamarcies For Drugs
Feds: 'Extensive' Video Shows Gunman Robbing Trio Of NJ Phamarcies For Drugs Three different pharmacies in Elizabeth were robbed of medications by an Irvington man with the same MO, federal authorities charged. Charles Johnson, 28, was arrested after investigators reviewed "extensive" surveillance video following the holdups in June and July, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Johnson took a similar approach each time, including "using a firearm, committing the robberies in the morning, demanding that employees of the pharmacies provide Johnson with oxycodone, promethazine, and other prescription medication, and threatening to shoot individuals i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Bar Patron Killed In Elizabeth Hit-Run ID'd Bar Patron Killed In Elizabeth Hit-Run ID'd
Bar Patron Killed In Elizabeth Hit-Run ID'd Authorities have identified the 31-year-old bar patron killed in an Elizabeth hit-and-run crash last weekend. Adi Castillo was struck and killed by a Jeep speeding toward Newark as he was leaving Nugents Tavern around 3 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8 near 844 Newark Ave., Elizabeth police said. The vehicle's plates were removed, but a VIN search indicates the owner is a Newark resident. Police were in the process of obtaining a search warrant for the Jeep, which was towed to the city's secure bay.  A GoFundMe in Castillo's memory had raised more than $4,800 as of Saturd…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Jersey City Killer Learns His Fate For Elizabeth Murder Jersey City Killer Learns His Fate For Elizabeth Murder
Jersey City Killer Learns His Fate For Elizabeth Murder A 28-year-old Jersey City man has received his punishment for the 2019 killing of an Elizabeth man. Anthony Reciofigueroa was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 6 to 55 years in New Jersey state prison for the shooting death of Carlos Rodriguez, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel said. Reciofigueroa in June was found guilty of murder and unlawful weapon possession after a three-week trial before Union County Superior Court Judge John Deitch.  Reciofigueroa's sentence requires him to serve at least 85% of the 55-year term on the murder charge before the possibility of pa…

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Speeding Jeep That Killed North Jersey Bar Patron Abandoned Half-Mile From Crash Scene Speeding Jeep That Killed North Jersey Bar Patron Abandoned Half-Mile From Crash Scene
Speeding Jeep That Killed North Jersey Bar Patron Abandoned Half-Mile From Crash Scene A speeding Jeep that struck and killed a 31-year-old man leaving an Elizabeth bar was abandoned about half-a-mile from the crash scene overnight, authorities said. The Jeep was apparently speeding toward Newark when it struck the victim near 844 Newark Ave., as he was leaving Nugents Tavern, Elizabeth police said. The vehicle's plates were removed, but a VIN search indicates the owner is a Newark resident. Police were in the process of obtaining a search warrant for the Jeep, which will be towed to the city's secure bay. 

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Arrests Made In Route 3 Gas Station Gunpoint Robbery Arrests Made In Route 3 Gas Station Gunpoint Robbery
Arrests Made In Route 3 Gas Station Gunpoint Robbery Two men have been arrested in connection with a robbery on July  10, at a Secaucus gas, authorities announced on Monday, Sept. 19.  Taquan Andrews, 20, of Newark, NJ and Ramir Skipwith, 24, of Elizabeth, NJ were arrested in connection with a robbery at the Exxon Gas Station located at 209 Route 3 East at 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller tells Daily Voice.  Secaucus Police Department Anti-Crime Unit filed the following charges against the two men Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Theft, Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, a Handgun, Possess…

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by Jillian Pikora
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TERRIFYING MOMENT: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat TERRIFYING MOMENT: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat
Terrifying Moment: Carjackers Rush Lyndhurst Mom With Child In Back Seat The rampant crime wave involving stolen vehicles took a terrifying turn when a Lyndhurst mother was rushed by two carjackers as she pulled her SUV into her garage with her child in the back seat. Three bandits in all were "casing the area targeting high-end vehicles" in an Audi stolen out of Elizabeth a short time before the frightening incident on Sanford Avenue around noon Thursday, Sept. 15, Lyndhurst Police Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. "One of them forcefully opened the driver's side door," Auteri said. "He ordered the woman out of the vehicle. "However, we believe he was startle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Teen Brothers Attacked By Mob After Football Game At Elizabeth McDonald's Teen Brothers Attacked By Mob After Football Game At Elizabeth McDonald's
Teen Brothers Attacked By Mob After Football Game At Elizabeth McDonald's Two brothers from Elizabeth were hospitalized after being beaten — one of them badly — by a crowd after a high school football game Friday, Sept. 16, authorities said. The 17-year-old brother was found unconscious after apparently being pummeled and stomped behind the football stadium on Fillmore Street, according to the spokesperson for the city police department and RLS Media. His 19-year-old brother was treated for minor injuries to his head, police said. Authorities were seeking those responsible for the incident and spoke to the brothers' mom.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
MURDER: Elizabeth Man Bludgeoned Woman To Death, Prosecutor Says MURDER: Elizabeth Man Bludgeoned Woman To Death, Prosecutor Says
Murder: Elizabeth Man Bludgeoned Woman To Death, Prosecutor Says An Elizabeth man has been arrested on accusations he bludgeoned a woman to death over the weekend, authorities announced. Victor H. Rodriguez Gomez, 33, struck 30-year-old Carmen Lopez Barahona in the head, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel, Elizabeth Police Director Earl J. Graves, and Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca said. Barahona was found around 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11 on the the 200 block of Lt. Glenn Zamorski Drive, and Gomez had fled the scene, police said.  His car was found by the Perth Amboy Police Department and he was arrested and transferr…

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by Cecilia Levine