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Escape
Police & Fire
Update
: Passaic Escapee In Clifton Parental Abduction Surrenders
UPDATE: A young dad from Passaic who escaped after being charged with parental abduction ended a manhunt when he surrendered late Monday, authorities confirmed. Isaiah Felix, 20, of Passaic had been arrested by Clifton police and charged with unlawfully entering a residence in town and taking his young son without permission on Sunday, July 2. Felix was arrested without incident after police found him with the boy at a relative's home a short time later, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The child wasn't in any danger, they said. Officers who took Felix to the Passaic County Jail …
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Prisoner
Escapes
: Passaic Dad, 20, Accused In Abduction Captured
UPDATE: A young dad from Passaic who escaped after being charged with parental abduction ended a manhunt when he surrendered late Monday, authorities confirmed. Isaiah Felix, 20, of Passaic had been arrested by Clifton police and charged with unlawfully entering a residence in town and taking his young son without permission on Sunday, July 2. Felix was arrested without incident after police found him with the boy at a relative's home a short time later, law enforcement sources told Daily Voice. The child wasn't in any danger, they said. Officers who took Felix to the Passaic County Jail h…
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Tense
Moment
: Post Office Burglar From Teaneck Grabs Bogota Officer's Gun: Police
A burglar from Teaneck found by police moments after he broke into the Bogota post office tried grabbing an officer’s gun while resisting arrest, authorities said. Calvin Torres-Vaughan, 33, already had a plastic bin of mail in his car when Officers Lewis Duenãs and Michael Torres responded to a burglar alarm at the West Main Street post office shortly after midnight Saturday, April 8, Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. They found a front window pried open and Torres-Vaughan inside, the sergeant said. Torres-Vaughan, who was carrying a flashlight and a crowbar, “resisted by kicking and punchin…
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Gotcha
! Detectives Nab Homeless 'Escapee' Who Fled Paterson Police HQ After Minor Drug Bust
UPDATE: A homeless man who fled Paterson police custody even though he was about to be released now finds himself jailed on an escape charge after being captured by detectives. Justin Ranko, 22, wasn’t exactly on the crime-fighting priority list in Paterson, where authorities and citizens have been dealing with shootings on both sides of the law lately. He was being processed for a minor drug bust when he bolted from the cellblock area of Paterson police headquarters on Feb. 16. Ranko managed to remain free for nearly three weeks before narcotics investigators from the Passaic County Pros…
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Armed Ex-Con Once Involved In Police Shootout Seized After South Hackensack Motel Standoff
It was a close call when an ex-con who was once wounded in a shootout with police barricaded himself in a South Hackensack motel room, authorities said. Dereen Wofford, 43, who'd been accused of threatening two people with a gun, had a cell phone in his hands as he emerged from a room where he'd been living and then quickly advanced on officers who'd responded to the Travelodge Motel on Huyler Street, Chief Robert Chinchar said. Exercising restraint, the officers got Wofford into custody without incident, the chief said. They also seized an all-black .177 caliber BB gun from his waistband,…
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Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
A suspect who nearly drowned after jumping into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thursday. Borou…
Lifestyle
Ford Recalling Nearly 3 Million Vehicles Over Rollaway Concerns
Ford announced a recall of nearly three million vehicles that may have gear-shifting issues that could cause them to move in an unintended direction upon parking. “Ford Motor Company is recalling certain 2013-2019 Escape, 2013-2018 C-Max, 2013-2016 Fusion, 2013-2021 Transit Connect, and 2015-2018 Edge vehicles," the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wrote in its report. "The bushing that attaches the shifter cable to the transmission may degrade or detach.” A damaged or missing bushing may prevent the vehicle from shifting into the intended gear, and cause t…
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Manhunt
: Prisoner Escapes From Palisades Park Police HQ
GOTCHA! The manhunt for a purported MS-13 gang member who escaped from Palisades Park police headquarters in handcuffs three days ago ended with his capture in Rhode Island, authorities announced. Working around the clock, Palisades Park police "were right with" Adilson Estrada-Garcia of Cliffside Park when he arrived in Providence to stay with a cousin, Detective Lt. Alex Monteleone said. Members of the US Marshals Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task Force nabbed the 24-year-old Guatemalan national without incident at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, March 6, Monteleone said. Estrada-Garcia -- whose fami…
Police & Fire
Lyndhurst Man Tried To Steal Ambulance In Hoboken: Report
A Lyndhurst man was arrested Sunday morning on multiple charges after he jumped into an ambulance at a Hudson County hospital and tried to drive off, according to a published report. Security called police because Nicholas Soto, 30, refused to leave the waiting room at Hoboken University Medical Center. Soto was waiting for treatment or for another patient, police told NJ.com. Officers escorted Soto out of the building but he lingered near an ambulance, then jumped inside, locked the doors and attempted to put it into gear, police said. Soto was arrested and taken to poli…
Police & Fire
Paterson Street Shooting Produces Two Arrests
Authorities investigating an August shooting in Paterson wound up charging both the accused gunman and another city man who they said was involved in an incident months earlier. Ex-con Jetor Brown, 25, was charged with shooting a 19-year-old city man on Park Avenue on Aug. 24, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement Wednesday. Counts include aggravated assault and various weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Authorities also charged him with having a gun in a June 12 incident …
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Mt. Olive PD: Handcuffed Suspect Nabbed After Bolting Into Woods
A man in handcuffs didn't get very far after Mount Olive police said he bolted during an arrest. Officers responding to a suspicious-person call Wednesday night found 19-year-old Johnathon Cruz of Oxford parked in his 2015 Acura at the end of Lenape Trail, Cpl. Marianne Wurtemberg said. A computer check turned up an active warrant from the Sussex County Sheriff’s Office, she said. Cruz was cuffed, but as the officer unlocked his patrol vehicle, he took off into the woods, Wurtemberg said. Mt. Olive officers set up a perimeter, summoned a Morris County sheriff's K9, then found C…
Police & Fire
Seen
HIM? Manhunt On For Deportee Who Escaped ICE Agents At JFK
A Senegalese national escaped ICE agents who were deporting him at JFK Airport, said authorities who were searching for him. Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke, 31, "was in ICE custody awaiting removal via a commercial airline flight through JFK Tuesday before absconding" at Terminal 4's Gate B23, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Khaalid Walls. The agents apparently had removed Mbacke's handcuffs to bring him through screening when he bolted, authorities said. He hopped into a cab around 9 p.m. and was gone, Walls said surveillance video show. Mbacke, who'd been living in D…
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