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Bergen Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Hoboken Stabbing, Police Say
A Lyndhurst man was arrested in connection with a weekend stabbing in Hoboken, authorities announced Thursday.
Andre Mateus, 26, stabbed a 22-year-old North Bergen man around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Det. Lt. Danilo Cabrera said.
Mateus was arrested with help from Lyndhurst police Wednesday, on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, authorities said. He was being held in the Hudson County Jail.
Officers responding to 1st and Hudson Street just before 2:30 a.m. Sunday found a man lying on the sidewalk, and a bystander applying pressure to his wound, Hoboken police pr…
Gotcha! City Man Caught, Charged With Murder In Paterson YMCA Stabbing
Paterson police arrested a city man who they said stabbed another to death at the YMCA on Friday.
Jasmir Cleaves, 32, was charged with murder and weapons possession following his arrest shortly before 7 p.m., authorities said.
Cleaves had stabbed Gabrae Sams, 29, on the fifth floor of the Y, on Ward Street, around noon Friday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement.
No motive was given.
Responding officers valiantly tried to save Sams’s life, responders said.
He was brought by ambulance, with CPR in progress…