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Police: Driver Who Plowed Car Into Morris County Supermarket Was DWI, Had Heroin Police: Driver Who Plowed Car Into Morris County Supermarket Was DWI, Had Heroin
Police: Driver Who Plowed Car Into Morris County Supermarket Was DWI, Had Heroin A 37-year-old man being held in the Morris County Jail had been drinking and using drugs when he plowed his car into a a local supermarket Friday, said authorities who charged him. John Cilurso, of Mount Arlington, was behind the wheel of a vehicle that had hopped the curb and struck a brick wall containing shopping carts at Acme Supermarket on Man Street around 5:15 p.m., Denville police said. An investigation turned up heroin and related paraphernalia in Cilurso's vehicle, police said. He was arrested on drug and alcohol charges and served summonses for careless driving, driving without …

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by Cecilia Levine
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34-Year-Old Boonton Mom Charged In Daughter's Death To Be Released From Jail, Report Says 34-Year-Old Boonton Mom Charged In Daughter's Death To Be Released From Jail, Report Says
34-Year-Old Boonton Mom Charged In Daughter's Death To Be Released From Jail, Report Says A 34-year-old Boonton mom charged in the death of her 11-year-old daughter will be released from jail, the Daily Record reports. Shay Mooney, 34, will be released from Morris County Jail and confined to her apartment on Monday, the article says. Mooney's daughter last month was found unresponsive next to a bottle of pills with Mooney’s name, documents say. Mooney was subsequently charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she gave her daughter Oxycodone and Seroquel in an effort to treat her esophagus pain, the Daily Record says. The apartment where they found the gi…

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by Valerie Musson
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Madison Woman Arrested For Making Up Violent Knife Attack, Police Say Madison Woman Arrested For Making Up Violent Knife Attack, Police Say
Madison Woman Arrested For Making Up Violent Knife Attack, Police Say A Madison woman was arrested after filing a false police report claiming she was attacked with a knife by a man in a ski mask, authorities said. Analive Ramirez-Arias, 40, was charged with filing a false police report and employing a juvenile to commit terroristic threats, Madison Police Lt. John R. Miscia said. Police were dispatched to the rear lot of a Main Street apartment complex on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 2 a.m. after Ramirez-Arias reported she was attacked by a man in a ski mask at her home, Miscia said. Ramirez-Arias claimed her attacker assaulted her with a knife, causing substantia…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Parsippany ShopRite Thief Flees In 2 Stolen Vehicles, Crashes Both, Police Say Parsippany ShopRite Thief Flees In 2 Stolen Vehicles, Crashes Both, Police Say
Parsippany ShopRite Thief Flees In 2 Stolen Vehicles, Crashes Both, Police Say Good Samaritans risked their own safety to help police stop a Kearny man who swiped three beef tenderloins from a Parsippany ShopRite before fleeing in a stolen minivan that he later crashed, authorities said. ShopRite workers spotted Alcides Moreira, 50, walk out of the store with $162 in steaks around 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 12 before taking off in a Chrysler Pacifica, reported as stolen out of Belleville earlier that day, Parsippany police said. Moreira left the parking lot and headed westbound on Route 46, when he hit a 2008 Hyundai Sonata, police said. While Parsippany officers responded t…

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by Cecilia Levine
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NJSP: Route 80 Passenger Tries Swallowing Heroin As Wanted Driver Is Placed Under Arrest NJSP: Route 80 Passenger Tries Swallowing Heroin As Wanted Driver Is Placed Under Arrest
Njsp: Route 80 Passenger Tries Swallowing Heroin As Wanted Driver Is Placed Under Arrest A female passenger tried swallowing heroin while the male driver wanted by the National Crime Information Center was placed under arrest in a Route 80 motor vehicle stop Wednesday in Parsippany-Troy Hills, authorities said. Police stopped a car on the westbound side of the highway at mile marker 45.6 around 8:15 p.m., when they learned the driver -- Javier Torres, 36 of Dover -- was wanted by the NCIC, New Jersey State Police Lt. Theodore Schafer said. At some point during Torres' arrest process, his passenger -- Michelle Krautheim, 35, of Wharton -- began trying to ingest the heroin, …

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by Cecilia Levine
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PROSECUTOR: Mount Olive HS Math Teacher Stalked Student In, Out Of School PROSECUTOR: Mount Olive HS Math Teacher Stalked Student In, Out Of School
Prosecutor: Mount Olive HS Math Teacher Stalked Student In, Out Of School A Mount Olive High School teacher was being held in the Morris County Jail after being charged with stalking and harassing a student, authorities said. Tajinder Tung, 47, of Stewartsville, stalked a student inside and outside school between 2017 and May 2019, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said in a joint release with local police. Tung was a math teacher at Mount Olive High School, the school website says. He "committed acts that constituted a course of alarming conduct," the news release says. Anyone with information should contact Det. Matthew Magnone of the Morris County Prosec…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Overnight Arrest Ends 9-Hour Parsippany SWAT Standoff Overnight Arrest Ends 9-Hour Parsippany SWAT Standoff
Overnight Arrest Ends 9-Hour Parsippany SWAT Standoff A Parsippany man was being held in the Morris County Jail on two outstanding warrants following a nine-hour standoff with local police and the area SWAT team, authorities said. Patrol officers were dispatched to a Smith Road home for a welfare check on Jesus Quintela, 40, around 4 p.m. Tuesday at the request of a family member, Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Chief Andrew Miller said. The family member told officers that Quintela may have a gun -- and that had two outstanding warrants out for his arrest, Miller said. Arriving officers noticed Quintela was inside his house and made multiple at…

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by Cecilia Levine
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FBI, Hanover Police Bust 6 For Prostitution In Undercover Hotel Sting FBI, Hanover Police Bust 6 For Prostitution In Undercover Hotel Sting
FBI, Hanover Police Bust 6 For Prostitution In Undercover Hotel Sting Four women and two men were arrested in an undercover prostitution sting by federal agents and state police at a Hanover hotel. Thursday's operation targeted possible human and sex trafficking, and the exploitation of juveniles, Hanover police said in a news release. The four women charged with prostitution were: Deja Berkelmann, 31 of Paterson Erica Parenti, 35 year of Easton P.A. Katherine Torres, 25 of Paterson  Carolina Mittman, 34 of Townsend D.E. Berkelmann and Torres also face drug charges. Rahj Majid, 22 of Ozone Park, N.Y., and Gerrod Martin, 27 of East Orange, were arr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Morris County Jurors Convict Wayne Cigarette Thief In High-Speed DWI Chase, Crash Morris County Jurors Convict Wayne Cigarette Thief In High-Speed DWI Chase, Crash
Morris County Jurors Convict Wayne Cigarette Thief In High-Speed DWI Chase, Crash Jurors in Morristown convicted a 37-year-old Wayne man who authorities said was drunk during a high-speed Morris County chase that ended in a crash. Pequannock police tried pulling over Derek Schor on Route 23 after he stole cigarettes from an Exxon station in Wayne in August 2017, authorities said. Schor -- who had a suspended driver's license -- kept going, leading a pursuit involving several police units that ended when his Ford F-150 rolled over three times on the I-287 entrance ramp in Riverdale, they said.  Schor bolted, but a K-9 unit found him hiding in waist-deep water i…

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by Cecilia Levine
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POLICE: Budd Lake 'Peeping Tom' Took Cell Phone Video Of Kid Engaged In Sex Act POLICE: Budd Lake 'Peeping Tom' Took Cell Phone Video Of Kid Engaged In Sex Act
Police: Budd Lake 'Peeping Tom' Took Cell Phone Video Of Kid Engaged In Sex Act A 23-year-old man from the Budd Lake section of Mount Olive was arrested after taking a cell phone recording of a juvenile engaged in a sex act, authorities said. Police identified Melquan M. Vargas as a suspect in "peeping Tom" incidents at Hensyn Village apartments that occurred late last year, after he was arrested on charges for possession of more than 50 grams of marijuana, Mount Olive Police said. A search of Vargas' home on Jan. 25 turned up a cell phone video depicting a juvenile in a "prohibited sexual act," along with a pound of marijuana, police said. Vargas was charge…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek
Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek CLIFTON, N.J. -- An Essex County ex-con was the armed robber who held up a QuickChek in Clifton's Allwood section last December, said authorities who charged him with the crime. Wearing a covering over his face, Tione Davis, 35, of East Orange, fled with an undetermined amount of cash from the register after the 4 a.m. robbery of the Market Street convenience store on Dec. 11, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. No one was injured, he said. Morris Plains police arrested Davis on Dec. 20, a day after a chase stemming from another crime. They took him to the Morris County Jail, where he remai…

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by Jerry DeMarco