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Undercover Operation Busts NJ Smoke Shop Worker Selling Vapes To Underage Customers: Cops
A 24-year-old Passaic County smoke shop employee was arrested after he sold a flavored vape e-cigarette to an officer who was under 21 years old, local police said. Prospect Park police had gotten several complaints regarding activities at Moe's Smoke Shop on North 6th Street, particularly selling restricted products to underage customers, they said in a press release. Aluwyn Gomez-Amarante, an employee at the shop, was charged with one count of selling a flavored vape e-cig to an officer under 21 years old following an investigation that concluded on Wednesday, Oct. 16, police said. Gomez…
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Woman Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Passaic County School
A real estate agent was arrested after she threatened to blow up a Passaic County grammar school, authorities said Friday. Veronika L. Callirgos, 35, allegedly “became irate” during a phone conversation with an administrator at Prospect Park School No. 1 on Wednesday – a day after 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed at a school in Uvalde, Texas. Callirgos said she was going to go to No. 1 school “and beat up the children,” Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari said in a joint announcement. She “also stated she was going to blow up the s…
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NJ Girl, 13, Kidnapped, Raped By Long Island Man, 24, She Met Online, Authorities Say
A 13-year-old Paterson girl was picked up by a 24-year-old Long Island man she met online and taken to a remote area where he sexually assaulted her, authorities said. Floiran Langumas-Montero of Farmingdale traveled to New Jersey around midnight Oct. 29 for "the purpose of picking up and taking” the girl to an unidentified location in Prospect Park, where he “engaged in sexual intercourse” with her, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari said in a joint release Friday. Langumas-Montero had “met and communicated with [her] online for several …
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Bicyclist, 32, Struck, Killed In Prospect Park
UPDATE: A bicyclist was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon in Prospect Park. The 32-year-old victim was struck after riding into the path of 2005 Toyota Corolla near the corner of North 8th Street and Brown Avenue shortly before 12:45 p.m., responders said. He was pronounced dead soon after, they said. "There was nothing we could have done to save him," one said. The 48-year-old Prospect Park driver wasn't immediately charged or summonsed, although Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari said in a joint release. She "remained on scene,…
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Bergen Sports Memorabilia Store Employee Charged With Stealing, Fencing Collectibles
A now-former employee at a Bergen County collectibles and sports memorabilia store was busted after he stole and sold merchandise, authorities said. The owner of the Wyckoff shop called police after he reviewed security video and “determined that an employee was most likely responsible,” Lt. Joseph Soto said. Detective Sgts. Mark Tagliareni and Michael Ragucci tracked some of the items to a Moonachie business that bought them from Thomas Bowers, 33, of Prospect Park, Soto said. They also recovered other items stolen from the Wyckoff shop at another business in Randolph, the lieutenant said…
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Prospect Park PD: Morris County Driver Found With 750 Heroin Folds After Running Stop Sign
A Morris County driver who ran a stop sign was carrying 750 heroin folds for sale, Prospect Park police said. Officer Greg Williams stopped a 2019 Nissan Altima on Hopper Street and Belle Avenue shortly before noon Monday, Detective Sgt. Walter Richmond said. Williams arrested the driver, 20-year-old Jerelle Wright of Riverdale, after finding the heroin and a bag of pot, Richmond said. He charged Wright with drug possession counts, issued several summonses, then released him pending a hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.
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Prospect Park Detectives Crack Burglary Spree
A pair of Prospect Park police investigators cracked a half-dozen borough car burglaries several others in surrounding towns with the arrest of a 20-year-old Paterson man. Detective Sgt. Walter Richmond and Detective Arthur Canestrino obtained surveillance video from several locations that pointed to Justin Tapia, Capt. Ammen Matari said. Soon after, they raided his home, finding items stolen during the borough break-ins and arresting him, Matari said. Tapia was sent to the Passaic County Jail pending a hearing in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on six counts each of burglary…
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