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! Manhunt Ends In Out-Of-State Capture Of Accused Child Molester From Bergen County
An accused child molester from Bergen County who remained on the run for two years was captured by US Marshals in South Carolina, authorities said. Cesar de Jesus Perez Acosta, 37, of River Vale is accused of touching the pre-teen victim's breasts and vagina in October 2021, court records show. River Vale police obtained a warrant for Perez Acosta’s arrest following interviews with those present at the time of the alleged assault, a criminal complaint filed in Superior Court in Hackensack says. A DNA swab of the girl's breast provided physical evidence, the complaint says without elaborat…
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: Convicted Child Molester Charged In Shooting Death Behind Paterson Library
A convicted child molester from Paterson was the gunman who shot and killed an out-of-county man behind the city public library last week, authorities said. Ex-con Jaquan Housey, 33, was charged with murder and weapons offenses in the slaying of Rodney Phelps, 39, of Warren County’s Washington Township. Responding officers found Phelps’s body in the middle of Van Van Houten Avenue between the library and the Edward W. Kilpatrick School shortly before 11:30 p.m. last Friday, Feb. 4. He’d been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Val…
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Passaic Man Molested Three Underage Victims Over Course Of Decade, Authorities Charge
Three people reported being molested by a Passaic man while they were children, authorities said Wednesday. Ricardo Palma, 31, was arrested Tuesday detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and Passaic police. A separate incident at a residence in Passaic last October drew the attention of both agencies, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said Wednesday. They “identified and interviewed” three alleged victims who “reported being touched sexually” by Palma while in his care from April 2008 through September 2019, be…