Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report
Comic Artie Lange Leaving Jail, Will Head Back To Rehab: Report Comedian Artie Lange will be released from the Essex County jail at the end of the week to resume his participation a drug rehabilitation program, Radar Online reported Monday.  “He will remain in the Essex County Jail, which is located in Newark, until the end of the week when he is expected to be moved to a treatment facility for a variable length stay,” a spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor told Radar. “He will continue in Drug Court probation.” Lange, a 51-year-old Union native, was arrested last month for violating the conditions of the court-ordered rehabilitation progra…
Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase
Newark Police Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting Following High-Speed Chase A Newark police officer has been indicted on manslaughter, assault, official misconduct and other charges for shooting and killing a fleeing suspect earlier this year, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday night. Crespo was being held at the Essex County jail and was expected to make an initial court appearance tomorrow or Thursday. Around 11:30 p.m. Jan. 28, a car containing Gregory Griffin, 46, and Andrew Dixon, 35, was stopped at Clinton Avenue and Thomas Street. The officer believed she saw a gun in the vehicle, authorities said. Griffin and Dixon fled the stop and …
Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect
Security Footage Leads To Arrest Of Bloomfield Armed Robbery Suspect An East Orange man who held up a Bloomfield liquor store at gunpoint Wednesday was arrested yesterday after he was seen on security footage entering a taxi, Bloomfield police said.  Alfonzo Jenkins, 49, entered Discount Liquor on First Avenue shortly before noon and pointed a silver revolver at an employee, demanding money and cigarettes, police said. The woman handed over a large amount of cash to Jenkins, who then fled the store.  A canvass of the area did not turn up any suspects but police did see surveillance footage of a man entering a silver Ford Crown Victoria taxi. With t…
Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies' Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies'
Police: Route 46 Supplement Store Owner Sold 'Catnip Cocktail' Similar To Date-Rape 'Roofies' A Route 46 supplement store owner was peddling an illegal catnip cocktail that could be used as a date-rape drug, police in Fairfield charged. John Sirico, 48, of Tafton, PA was taken into custody after a warranted search at the Nutrition Zone turned up 61 bottles of catnip cocktail, 29 bottles of human growth hormone (HGH) and 13 bottles of Prohormones, Police Chief Anthony Manna said. Also seized were seven high-capacity handgun and rifle magazines and 20 bottles of a mixing agent, the chief said. Ordinarily used to sedate felines, catnip cocktails have similar properties to gamma-hydrox…
Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom
Bergen SWAT Joins Fairview Search For Man Accused Of Abducting His Kids, Stabbing Their Mom A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was deployed to a Fairview home in search of a man who authorities said abducted his children after stabbing their mother. Pedro Vaca, 29, apparently visited a relative there after signing the kids out of school and dropping them off with a family member in North Bergen around 3 p.m., authorities said. Police pinged his cellphone to Fairview, where Vaca "had been laying his head" with another relative on Greeley Avenue, borough Police Chief Martin Kahn told Daily Voice. The SWAT team was dispatched to Fairview at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday, Kahn said. V…
Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say
Career Car Burglar Took iPad, Cash In 7-Car Spree, Paramus Police Say A 22-year-old Passaic man who has been arrested multiple times for burglarizing cars in North Jersey towns was slapped with similar charges Tuesday in Paramus, authorities said. Rashawn Vaughan was arrested and charged with burglary to auto and theft after breaking into at least seven cars in the borough last month, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. He is currently lodged in the Essex County Jail on other unrelated crimes, awaiting his bail hearing,  On Sunday, June 10, multiple cars parked between Village Circle Drive and Prospect Street were burglarized. All of the cars had be…
Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash
Driver Who Rammed Wayne, Fairfield Cruisers Jailed After Chase, Crash WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police on Wednesday identified a man who they said tried to run over a police officer at the Willowbrook Mall, crashing a car he'd just stolen into the officer's patrol cruiser and then, later, another police car, before he was captured on Route 46 in Fairfield. Alterick Harris, 42, of Newark became "became irate and argumentative" with the owner of the silver BMW as they were driving outside the mall, then took the keys and sped off after she got out, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Flagged down by the woman, responding Officer Pawel Jadczak positioned …
Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46 Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46
Police: Suspect In Wayne Chase Rams Cruiser, Heads Wrong Way On Route 46 WAYNE, N.J. -- Wayne police on Wednesday identified a man who they said tried to run over a police officer at the Willowbrook Mall, crashing a car he'd just stolen into the officer's patrol cruiser and then, later, another police car, before he was captured on Route 46 in Fairfield. Alterick Harris, 42, of Newark became "became irate and argumentative" with the owner of the silver BMW as they were driving outside the mall, then took the keys and sped off after she got out, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Flagged down by the woman, responding Officer Pawel Jadczak positioned …
Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic
Port Authority PD: Con Man Chased Through Newark Airport Traffic Drivers swerved to avoid an accused Florida con man chased by Port Authority police as he darted across several lanes of traffic at Newark Airport. Andrew Mack, 58, climbed an embankment behind a nearby 7-Eleven, shed his jacket and bolted across traffic on the airport entrance bridge after he and another man tried to rent a car with a stolen credit card, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said. Officers caught up with Mack and arrested him on a roadway adjacent to an FAA control tower about 10 minutes later, he said. Mack, of Miami Gardens, and Michael Hill, 48, of Lauderhill, FL tried to …