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Abused Woman Held Captive By NJ Man During Year-Long Cross-Country Trip Escapes: Authorities Abused Woman Held Captive By NJ Man During Year-Long Cross-Country Trip Escapes: Authorities
Abused Woman Held Captive By NJ Man During Year-Long Cross-Country Trip Escapes: Authorities A South Jersey man kidnapped a woman in New Mexico, then held her hostage during a nearly year-long cross-country trip before she managed to escape, authorities said Friday. James W. Parrillo Jr., 57, may have done the same thing to other women in other states, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and State Police Supt. Colonel Patrick J. Callahan said in a joint statement on  Feb. 17. Parillo was captured after the woman escaped from a residence in Bass Township where she’d been confined and fled to a nearby gas station, they said. Authorities charged Parillo with first-deg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HEROES: Hackensack Officers Capture Kidnapper, Rescue Victim HEROES: Hackensack Officers Capture Kidnapper, Rescue Victim
Heroes: Hackensack Officers Capture Kidnapper, Rescue Victim A laborer was dragging a kidnap victim down a driveway in broad daylight when two Hackensack police officers rushed to the rescue, authorities said. Officer Wanda Rivera and Special Police Officer Nicholas Mazzaccaro were on patrol on Hudson Street when they saw the victim being dragged behind a building around 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, Capt. Michael Antista said. Following the sounds of the victim’s shouts, the officers seized city resident Omer Alvarado, 46, the captain said. They found that Alvarado had assaulted the victim, who was known to him, and was dragging the person back into a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel
Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel A missing woman who’d been held against her will and forced into prostitution at a local motel was rescued by Carlstadt police who arrested her combative captor, authorities said. Officer Matthew Bartlett responded to the Super 8 on Washington Avenue just north of Route 120 after the woman’s cell phone was traced there, Acting Police Chief Thomas Cox said on Monday, Feb. 13. Bartlett spoke with employees, then was joined at the motel by backup Officers James Winand and Anthony Rivezzi, the acting chief said. They found the woman with Kevin Williams, 32, of Newark, he said. Williams initia…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Passaic Pedophile Sexually Assaults Kidnapped 5-Year-Old Girl, Authorities Charge Passaic Pedophile Sexually Assaults Kidnapped 5-Year-Old Girl, Authorities Charge
Passaic Pedophile Sexually Assaults Kidnapped 5-Year-Old Girl, Authorities Charge You can hardly get your mind around it: A 44-year-old pedophile from Passaic kept a 5-year-old girl captive while sexually assaulting her in his car, authorities charged. The victim is familiar with Oscar Fuentes-Sierra, 44, who was arrested without incident this week by members of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit, authorities said. Fuentes-Sierra is charged with aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping, as well as child endangerment and sexual assault, Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman said in a brief release. The incident occu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Father Charged With Kidnapping In Baby's Abduction In South Jersey Father Charged With Kidnapping In Baby's Abduction In South Jersey
Father Charged With Kidnapping In Baby's Abduction In South Jersey UPDATED: A 22-year-old Vineland man faces multiple charges including kidnapping after he allegedly abducted his 7-month-old daughter. The abduction triggered an Amber Alert when the father declined to turn himself in, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said on Thursday, Jan. 5. Ramon B. Rivera, Jr., of Florence Ave. in Vineland, allegedly fled with the child from a Chick-fil-A at the Cumberland Mall on Wednesday evening, the prosecutor said. Through investigation, City of Vineland detectives were able to contact Rivera and verify that the child was in his custody.  …

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by Jon Craig
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Girlfriend Of Fugitive Elmwood Park Shooter Didn't Originally Know His Violent Past: Neighbors Girlfriend Of Fugitive Elmwood Park Shooter Didn't Originally Know His Violent Past: Neighbors
Girlfriend Of Fugitive Elmwood Park Shooter Didn't Originally Know His Violent Past: Neighbors UPDATE: The death of fugitive James Allandale during an exchange of gunfire with police at a Route 46 motel came days after his girlfriend -- whose friend he'd shot -- made a public plea to “end this nightmare.” Lisa Dolack included the police wanted poster while asking folks on Facebook to help authorities track down and capture ex-con James Allandale. “I am pleading to all my friends, please post on your page this below. We need to end this nightmare! please copy and paste," she wrote on Thursday, Dec. 29. "Flood Facebook today with this please help me.” Allandale, 61, who police said s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ
Southern Fugitives Charged With Posing As Feds In Violent Bergen Home Invasion Brought To NJ UPDATE: Three Georgia men charged earlier this month with shooting a Bergen County resident while posing as FBI agents during a summer home invasion have been brought to New Jersey to face charges. Two others remained held down South pending the outcome of extradition proceedings. Aaron Thomas Perry, 53, of Dunwoody, Ali Sadeeq Muhammad, 33, of Atlanta, and Roderick Moracle Carmichael, 50, of Stockbridge will remain held in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack while the case against them and two other co-defendants proceeds. They were brought up separately over the past several days -- Car…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal
Accused Kidnapper Of Couple In Paterson Has Been Jailed Since Last Week, Authorities Reveal Authorities revealed on Monday that one of several men who carjacked and abducted a couple in Paterson last week was actually captured in Bloomfield later that night. City resident Juan Montero-Pena, 30, was among several men who accosted the 38-year-old Paterson woman and her 47-year-old male companion from Long Island in the area of Jackson Street and Washington Avenue around 8 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 1, authorities announced on Dec. 5. Bloomfield police located the vehicle and captured Montero-Pena in the area of Arlington and Watsessing avenues in their town shortly after 9:30 p.m., Pa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DATING APP HELL: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say DATING APP HELL: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say
Dating APP Hell: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say An 18-year-old New Jersey woman texted 911 for "help escaping" after being held against her will in Pennsylvania for a year by a man she met through a dating app, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Voice.  32-year-old Nikolaus Breland, of Monongahela, was arrested on Sunday, Nov. 20, according to the complaint. The teenager said that her abusive boyfriend who had been holding her captive was asleep and she wanted help escaping, she told the Washington County 911 center around 9:45 p.m., according to the criminal complaint   ***WARNING the following…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Hamilton Man, 34, Sexually Assaulted Missing Trenton Teen Over Two Months, Police Say Hamilton Man, 34, Sexually Assaulted Missing Trenton Teen Over Two Months, Police Say
Hamilton Man, 34, Sexually Assaulted Missing Trenton Teen Over Two Months, Police Say A 34-year-old Hamilton man was charged with kidnapping a missing Trenton teen and sexually assaulting her over the course of two months, authorities said. Officers responding to someone in need of help via a text message on the 911 emergency system were told that the victim was sitting in a red Toyota near Lamont Avenue and Klockner Road around 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, Hamilton Police said. Police found the vehicle parked on the 1800 block of Klockner Road with a 14-year-old juvenile reported missing out of Trenton. The teen allegedly told officers that the Toyota belonged to her friend,…

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NJ Man Kidnapped 2 Young Girls To Sexually Abuse One At NY Hotel: Report NJ Man Kidnapped 2 Young Girls To Sexually Abuse One At NY Hotel: Report
NJ Man Kidnapped 2 Young Girls To Sexually Abuse One At NY Hotel: Report A 19-year-old New Jersey man was behind bars for kidnapping two young girls from their home in upstate New York, and sexually assaulting one, authorities said. The man, identified by WNYT as Yusef Illeez, of Cherry Hill, was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 8, following a joint investigation that included State Police, Schenectady County Child Protective Services, and the FBI. According to New York State Police, Illeez kidnapped the girls, ages 9 and 11, from their Schenectady home in January 2022 after meeting one of them online. He allegedly took them to a hotel, where he sexually abused the …

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by Michael Mashburn
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East Rutherford Tenant Convicted Of Female Neighbor's Horrific Murder East Rutherford Tenant Convicted Of Female Neighbor's Horrific Murder
East Rutherford Tenant Convicted Of Female Neighbor's Horrific Murder UPDATE: Jurors in Hackensack convicted an East Rutherford man on Tuesday of kidnapping and killing a female neighbor. Francis "Frank" Tattoli, 30, was found guilty on Nov. 1 of murder, kidnapping and felony murder in the death of Monet Thomas, 25, in the apartment building where both lived. The jury also found him not guilty of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. Thomas, who was born in Teaneck, lived with her family in Kearny before moving to East Rutherford, where she lived with her boyfriend and her bulldog. She worked as a manager of group sales for a hotel in Secaucus.…

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by Jerry DeMarco