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Passaic Sheriff Berdnik's Death By Suicide 'Unfathomable Loss' For NJ, Attorney General Says Passaic Sheriff Berdnik's Death By Suicide 'Unfathomable Loss' For NJ, Attorney General Says
Passaic Sheriff Berdnik's Death By Suicide 'Unfathomable Loss' For NJ, Attorney General Says Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik died by his own hand on Tuesday in his hometown Clifton, in what the Garden State's attorney general called "an unfathomable loss for New Jersey." Emergency responders rushed to Toro's Turkish Restaurant on Hazel Street a few minutes after 3:30 p.m. Jan. 23. Berdnik had just taken his life in the men's room, the sudden gunshot through the heart startling staff and patrons alike, sources told Daily Voice. Not even 15 minutes earlier, the popular sheriff had posed for cellphone photos. Then he got a phone call with some very unsettling news, reliable so…
Port Jervis Duo Had Pistol In Case, 250 Bags Of Heroin In Secret Compartment, Police Say Port Jervis Duo Had Pistol In Case, 250 Bags Of Heroin In Secret Compartment, Police Say
Port Jervis Duo Had Pistol In Case, 250 Bags Of Heroin In Secret Compartment, Police Say It was a casual comment that led a serious arrest: One of two Port Jervis men arrested on their way home from buying heroin in Paterson, New Jersey off-handedly asked about a gun-carrying permit, local police said. Officers immediately obtained a search warrant and found a silver pistol with two magazines inside a briefcase in the back seat of their car – as well as 250 glassine envelopes of heroin stashed in a secret compartment, Hawthorne Police Detective Capt. Jeffrey Vanderhook said. Officers took Kurtis Rumsey, 25, and Dashell Powlus, 22, into custody after stopping their vehicle on Go…
Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death
Passaic County Extradition Hearings Set For 6 In Brutal NYC Stabbing Death An extradition hearing was scheduled Tuesday for six suspects captured in Paterson in connection with the mistaken-identity stabbing death of a 15-year-old boy in the Bronx. Video shows five reupted members of the Dominican Trinitarios gang – one with a large knife -- dragging Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz out of a bodega on East 183rd Street and hacking him late Tuesday night. He made it to St. Barnabas Hospital but died after being repeatedly stabbed, including in the neck, the NYPD said. They also said the attackers got the wrong person: They thought he was someone recorded h…