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Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Synagogue Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Synagogue
Repeat Offender From Long Island Charged With Harassing Worshippers At Synagogue A repeat offender accused of threatening law enforcement officers and members of the Jewish community in New Jersey and on Long Island did it again in Fort Lee, New Jersey, authorities said. Nassau County resident Bradley Goldberg, age 47, of Cedarhurst, had already spent a week in the Bergen County Jail after Fort Lee police said he pretended to be an abused 11-year-old as part of a relentless harassment campaign against them when he was arrested again. Goldberg had been free all of 10 days when they said, he stood outside Chabad of Fort Lee “harassing worshippers entering and exiting the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody
Ecuadoran Fugitive In Hackensack Child Sex Case Returned After Being Taken Into Custody A fugitive Ecuadoran national from Hackensack who was apprehended on Long Island was returned to New Jersey this week to face charges of raping a pre-teen. ICE placed a detainer on Jorge Luis Mora, 37, whom a local judge in Hackensack ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending trial following his extradition Friday from New York. Mora became a fugitive after detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office charged him earlier this year with sexually assaulting the victim in Hackensack in 2013. He already had a criminal record, with arrests in 2017 for harassment and violating a co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Long Island Pair Nabbed Selling Car Stolen In Suffolk To Online Buyer, Authorities Say Long Island Pair Nabbed Selling Car Stolen In Suffolk To Online Buyer, Authorities Say
Long Island Pair Nabbed Selling Car Stolen In Suffolk To Online Buyer, Authorities Say Police nabbed four men -- two from Long Island -- as they tried to sell a car stolen in Suffolk County to an online buyer in New Jersey, authorities said. The 2014 Mercedes had been reported stolen after the owner’s daughter left it running with the keys inside in Great River, they said. The owner called police in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, at 9:30 p.m. Sunday after the tracking device showed the car at The Station At Lyndhurst Apartments on Chubb Avenue. Sgt. Richard Holicki found the four standing outside the car with the prospective buyer, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Officers Matthe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting 'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting
'Targeted Killing': Long Island Trio Charged In Fatal Shooting Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in New Jersey last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a noon news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella and BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 22, also of Eastport. The defendants were in a 2013 BMW…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Weather
Line Of Strong Thunderstorms Sweeping Through Area Could Cause Flooding Line Of Strong Thunderstorms Sweeping Through Area Could Cause Flooding
Line Of Strong Thunderstorms Sweeping Through Area Could Cause Flooding A quick-moving warm front is bringing a new round of showers and thunderstorms to the area with a noticeable increase in humidity. Showers, along with patchy fog, arrived early in the morning Tuesday, June 25.  A line of strong thunderstorms that could cause flooding is moving from west to east during the morning commute. (See first image above.) At around 7:30 a.m., radar indicated thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Pearl River to near Atlantic Beach and are moving east at 35 miles per hour. Locations expected to be impacted are Jamaica, Yonke…

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by Joe Lombardi