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Hudson Man Kidnaps, Sexually Abuses Mentally Impaired Woman, Shoves Her From Car: Authorities
A Kearny man kidnapped a mentally incapacitated Paterson woman he’d met online, had sex with her in his car, a nearby park and his apartment, then shoved her out of the vehicle when he realized her family was following him, authorities charged.
A four-month manhunt ended when Horus G. Nunez-Velazquez, 35, was captured in Pennsylvania, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim M. Baycora said in a joint announcement on Friday.
Nunez-Velazquez “met the (32-year-old) woman online, picked her up from her residence and took her to a nearby park and subsequentl…
NJ Man Learns His Fate For Beating Parents Dead, Covering Bodies With Laundry: Report
A 34-year-old man from Gloucester County has been sentenced to 80 years in New Jersey state prison for beating his parents to death and then covering their bodies with laundry, NJ Advance Media reports.
Ryan E. Coles, 34, was convicted in March on two murder counts in the 2016 killings of Edward M. Coles Jr., 58, and Rosemarie Coles, 55, in their West Deptford home, the outlet said.
Superior Court Judge Mary Beth Kramer sentenced Coles to two consecutive 40-year terms in prison for the two murder counts, with a requirement that he serve 85 percent of that time before he is eligible fo…
Drugged Driver Takes Plea In Route 23 Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teenage Son, Attendant
UPDATE: A drug-addicted Sussex County driver who killed a father, son and gas station attendant in a horrific crash on Route 23 in Wayne two years ago will be sentenced to a minimum of 25½ years without parole after pleading guilty Friday to three counts of aggravated manslaughter, authorities said.
Jason Vanderee, 29, told a state judge in Paterson that he’d used heroin and fentanyl in combination with other drugs when he blacked out behind the wheel on Feb. 19, 2019.
Jon Warbeck, a former Carlstadt firefighter from Fair Lawn and his 17-year-old son, Luke, of Lincoln Park, had stopped for…
New Balance Sneakers Help ID NJ Murder Suspect Nabbed In Nebraska, Reports Say
A pair of New Balance sneakers helped identify a Trenton murder suspect, authorities said.
Alleged gang member Luis Alfredo Carranza-Andrade, 20, of Northwest, Washington, D.C., was wanted in the fatal shooting of Javier Chaj-Ajtun, 33, of Trenton, last August.
The fancy footwear -- apparently worn by the suspect at the time of the killing -- helped US Marshals to identify him when they tracked him down in Nebraska, according to NJ Advance Media.
Eyewitnesses and area surveillance cameras combined to ID Carranza-Andrade as a suspect, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's O…
