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Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase
Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase A driver from Albany tried to outrun detectives in a stolen car but was seized near the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Narcotic Task Force detectives got wind on Tuesday, March 7 that a BMW 550 that had just been stolen during a burglary in Maplewood was headed their way. They tried stopping the driver, John Leroy Johnson, 38, in Englewood, the prosecutor said, but he kept going, apparently bound for the bridge. He “eventually pulled over and surrendered in Fort Lee,” Musella said. Johnson remained held Wednesday in t…

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4½ Pounds Of Fentanyl Seized, Mexican Nationals Nabbed By DEA, Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives 4½ Pounds Of Fentanyl Seized, Mexican Nationals Nabbed By DEA, Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives
4½ Pounds Of Fentanyl Seized, Mexican Nationals Nabbed By DEA, Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Federal agents took custody of two Mexican nationals from Texas who local authorities said were caught with several pounds of deadly fentanyl during a traffic stop in Little Ferry. Camerino Hernandez-Atanacio, 32, and Alexis Araujo-Atanacio, 19, both unemployed, had been living in a small house with an adjacent trailer in the West Texas town of Odessa, records show. DEA agents from New York City and Bergen County narcotics detectives arrested both men last Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into bulk drug shipments being moved through the area, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Mus…

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HACKENSACK HOMICIDE: New Defendant Charged With Murder In Barbershop Ambush Of Maywood Dad HACKENSACK HOMICIDE: New Defendant Charged With Murder In Barbershop Ambush Of Maywood Dad
Hackensack Homicide: New Defendant Charged With Murder In Barbershop Ambush Of Maywood Dad BREAKING NEWS:  A Hackensack teenager was arrested Monday and charged with participating in the calculated cold-blooded killing of a 28-year-old Maywood man outside a city barbershop late last year. Jaheim Robinson, an 18-year-old college student, “acted as an accomplice in the fatal hit on Vidal Nieves” in the area of Essex and Lehigh streets on Nov. 12, 2022, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Robinson was taken into custody on March 6 and sent to the Bergen County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Musella said. He’s with charg…

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BLUNT OBJECTS: 400 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Duo Detained In Bergen Traffic Stop BLUNT OBJECTS: 400 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Duo Detained In Bergen Traffic Stop
Blunt Objects: 400 Pounds Of Weed Seized, Duo Detained In Bergen Traffic Stop Two single, unemployed men from Queens hauling 400 pounds of pot were headed off by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives before they could get any further, authorities said. Wenleng Shen, 29, and Wusong Jin, 30, who live together on 159th Street in Flushing -- between Northern Boulevard and Kissena Park -- remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, March 3, following their arrests two days earlier. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Narcotic Task Force seized the weed and detained the duo after stopping their vehicle as part of a drug investigation. It …

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Raid At New Teaneck Apartment Complex Yields Arrests Of Couple, NYC Murder Suspect From PA Raid At New Teaneck Apartment Complex Yields Arrests Of Couple, NYC Murder Suspect From PA
Raid At New Teaneck Apartment Complex Yields Arrests Of Couple, NYC Murder Suspect From PA A Teaneck couple was arrested along with a Pennsylvania ex-con wanted in connection with a New York City homicide during a raid of the pair’s swanky apartment, authorities said. Rickey D. Richardson, 56, and Taisha Tamika Bramwell, 39, were seized following the SWAT-led operation late last week at the recently opened One500 luxury complex on Teaneck Road, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They were later released pending court action, records show. Also arrested following the Feb. 23 raid was the target of the raid, Ron Reeder, 54, of Windber, PA, who’s being held in the Bergen C…

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Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen
Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen A parking lot attendant from Fort Lee sexually assaulted a pre-teen in Fairview, authorities charged. Brian Granados, 32, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, Feb. 23, four days after his arrest by Fairview police. They charged him with sexual assault and child endangerment, jail records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed the arrest and said his Special Victims Unit was handling the case with borough police.

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Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash
Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Seize $77,500 From Female PA Driver Charged With Laundering Cash Bergen County narcotics detectives seized $77,500 in suspected drug money from an unemployed Pennsylvania woman following a traffic stop, authorities said. Joseline De Jesus-Quinones, 28, of Allentown was charged with money laundering and released on a summons to appear in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He didn't say where in the county the stop was made. Whether the defendant will show is doubtful. Major drug suppliers consider such seizures the cost of doing business. Local authorities, meanwhile, get to keep the money for eq…

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Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens
Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens A Mexican national who lives in Englewood sexually assaulted two different pre-teens on more than one occasion, authorities charged. Robert Martinez-Guzman, a 41-year-old married laborer, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, Feb. 21, following his arrest late last week, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Special Victims Unit was alerted by Englewood police the day after Christmas last year. A joint investigation that followed produced four counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault against Martinez-Guzman, which records show stem from alleged …

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Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor
Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor A 28-year-old New Milford man who had worked as a security guard at Paterson Eastside High School was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student in the borough. Everald Palmer, 28, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, Feb. 17, following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of sexual assault by a supervisory adult and child endangerment. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Special Victims Unit arrested Palmer on Monday after New Milford police alerted them to a single alleged incident that he sai…

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GRISLY FIND: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say GRISLY FIND: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say
Grisly Find: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say UPDATE: The 76-year-old brother of a Westwood woman whose body was found at least a week after she died was arrested on related charges. Joan Winter, 70, formerly of Yonkers and Hartsdale, NY, and her brother Mark, 76, had lived together for several years in what had been their late mother's Kennedy Terrace home on a quiet cul-de-sac near Washington Avenue, those who knew them said. Two friends who’d gone to the house looking for Joan said Mark told them she’d gone, a source with direct knowledge of the discovery said. Westwood police went to the home to conduct a welfare check around 1 p…

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UPDATE: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire UPDATE: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire
Update: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire A teenage boy was killed Thursday night in a ferocious, fast-moving house fire in Midland Park. UPDATE: Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire Two other victims were hospitalized in the blaze, which apparently ignited on the first floor of the two-family home on Franklin Avenue home next to the borough public library shortly after 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Firefighters found the 16-year-old boy in the front left side of the home -- apparently his bedroom -- soon after arriving, responders said.  He was brought to an ambulance before being pronounced dead at the scene, they said. …

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Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB
Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB It happened in an instant: A North Bergen man on an electric motorcycle zooms by a surveillance camera near the George Washington Bridge – then collides with a turning Port Authority police vehicle. A video released by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office shows both vehicles, although a column blocks a view of the crash that killed Rolando Quevedo, 38, at the corner of Lemoine Avenue and Bruce Reynolds Boulevard on Oct. 17. State authorities released the video as part of a mandatory investigation that is required by New Jersey law whenever a civilian dies in an encounter …

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