Mostly Cloudy 40°
Tag:

Hudson County Prosecutor

Police & Fire
UPDATE: One Dead, Two Wounded In Jersey City's First Homicide Of '24: Prosecutor UPDATE: One Dead, Two Wounded In Jersey City's First Homicide Of '24: Prosecutor
Update: One Dead, Two Wounded In Jersey City's First Homicide Of '24: Prosecutor UPDATE (March 27): A Hoboken man was charged with murder and aggravated assault in a triple shooting in Jersey City earlier this month. Authorities confirmed on Wednesday, March 27, that Joseph Del Valle, 36, was arrested by members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit the day before. He remained held in the Hudson County Correctional Facility along with a second accused gunman, Francisco Salcedo, 42, of Jersey City, they said. City resident Christoph Terrero Marte, 33, was gunned down on Jordan Avenue off Mercer Street near McGinley Square shortly before 6:30 a.m. …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Jersey City Man Convicted Of Stabbing Woman To Death In Her Apartment Jersey City Man Convicted Of Stabbing Woman To Death In Her Apartment
Jersey City Man Convicted Of Stabbing Woman To Death In Her Apartment UPDATE: Jurors in Jersey City convicted a local man of stabbing a city woman dead in her apartment 5½ years ago. Ishmeal "Rico" Coleman, 46, of the Salem Lafayette Gardens housing complex was found guilty of murder and multiple weapons offenses in the Aug. 12, 2018 stabbing death of Takeela Wilson, 38, in her home in the 300 block of Forrest Street. People who knew both of them identified Coleman in a photo array, authorities said. Police sat on Wilson’s car, then grabbed Coleman when he approached it carrying the keys. Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor Najma Rana secured the guilty verd…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina 2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina
2½ Years A Fugitive: Accused Killer From Jersey City Captured In South Carolina On the same day that U.S. Marshals announced a reward for help capturing an accused killer from Jersey City who’d been on the run for 2½ years, they nabbed him in South Carolina. Tybear Miles, a 28-year-old ex-con, remained held in the Spartanburg County Detention Center pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and illegal weapons possession charges in the June 5, 2021 shooting death of Ahmad McPherson in Jersey City. Spartanburg police, working with the U.S. Marshals Service’s New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, nabbed Miles on Wednesday, Jan. 10, Hudson County …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TRIBUTE: Jersey City Officer Killed In Crash Was Loving Dad Who Treated Colleagues Like Family TRIBUTE: Jersey City Officer Killed In Crash Was Loving Dad Who Treated Colleagues Like Family
Tribute: Jersey City Officer Killed In Crash Was Loving Dad Who Treated Colleagues Like Family A Jersey City police officer is not all that Morton Otundo was. The 40-year-old city resident killed in a motorcycle crash last week remembers him as a doting dad to his son, Andrew, and a coworker who treated his fellow officers as family, according to a GoFundMe campaign launched in his memory. More than $62,200 had been raised on that campaign -- started by Otundo's former colleague Melagne Ramirez -- as of Monday morning. All funds raised will go toward Andrew. "[Otundo] strived to educate and mold younger officers to be great at every turn," Ramirez writes. "Morton was a phenomenal…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Jersey City Police Find Elderly Woman's Corpse After Three-Hour Standoff With Barricaded Tenant Jersey City Police Find Elderly Woman's Corpse After Three-Hour Standoff With Barricaded Tenant
Jersey City Police Find Elderly Woman's Corpse After Three-Hour Standoff With Barricaded Tenant Jersey City police who were held at bay for three hours by a barricaded city tenant found the deteriorated corpse of a 78-year-old woman when she finally let them in, authorities confirmed Sunday. Police went to the fourth-floor apartment at the corner of Arlington Avenue and Harmon Street on a welfare check shortly before 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. However, a 53-year-old woman living there barricaded herself in the unit and refused to let them in, the prosecutor said. About an hour into the standoff, officers detected what was described as a foul odor…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count
Union County Con Who Had Jersey City Murder Conviction Overturned Pleads Guilty To Lesser Count A convict from Union County who's spent the past 13 years behind bars will be eligible for release in four years after pleading guilty to a lesser charge for killing a Jersey City man. Zia Berisha, 46, of Linden, had his murder conviction for the Nov. 6, 2007 shooting and beating death of Michael Marro Jr. of Jersey City in a downtown high-rise killing overturned in 2019 by a state appeals court that sent the case back to Hudson County for a do-over. Jurors found in 2010 that Berisha killed Marro, 39, during a robbery at his Portside Tower home that involved high-grade marijuana. In addit…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco