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ROAD RAGE: NYC Man Charged With Shooting NJ Driver Off Route 80 Captured By State Police, Feds ROAD RAGE: NYC Man Charged With Shooting NJ Driver Off Route 80 Captured By State Police, Feds
Road Rage: NYC Man Charged With Shooting NJ Driver Off Route 80 Captured By State Police, Feds GOTCHA! A broad-daylight road-rage shooting on Route 80 led to the capture of a Manhattan man by federal marshals and New Jersey State Police, authorities said. Lamont Griffin, 22, opened fire and struck the 39-year-old driver from Newark twice in the area of Route 20 off the eastbound highway around 3:30 p.m. March 2, they said. The wounded victim was taken in a private vehicle to the A+ Urgent Care treatment center in Clifton before being transferred to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick…

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SWAT STANDOFF: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle SWAT STANDOFF: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle
SWAT Standoff: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle A suspect in a stabbing set fire to his clothes, then began tossing furniture at police cars out the window of his second-floor Clifton apartment Thursday before a Passaic County Sheriff's SWAT team stormed in and seized him, authorities said. Police tried negotiating with the combative 32-year-old tenant after they determined the fire was extinguished in the Lexington Avenue apartment above a city business, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. But he only "became more angry and began to toss chairs and other hard objects from the second-floor window, damaging patrol cars that were parke…

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Detectives: NJ Man Charged With Stabbing Mom On NY Eve Intended To Kill Her Detectives: NJ Man Charged With Stabbing Mom On NY Eve Intended To Kill Her
Detectives: NJ Man Charged With Stabbing Mom On NY Eve Intended To Kill Her UPDATE: An Elmwood Park man who stabbed his mother in the back with a kitchen knife on New Year's Eve told detectives that he intended to kill her -- and actually thought she was dead when he left the house, authorities said. Emiliano Domi, 25, told investigators he'd confronted the victim in the family's Martha Avenue home because she laughed at him when he complained about her moving a jacket of his from a living-room couch, an affidavit filed in Superior Court in Hackensack alleges. After pushing her down, Domi said, he grabbed a 6-inch kitchen knife and angrily stabbed the victim in the…

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Police In NJ Subdue Knife-Wielding Suspect Who Refused To Relent Police In NJ Subdue Knife-Wielding Suspect Who Refused To Relent
Police In NJ Subdue Knife-Wielding Suspect Who Refused To Relent An incident that could have easily gone sideways ended successfully Monday when a pair of Elmwood Park police officers subdued a suspect who stabbed himself and then refused to relinquish the knife. Nasir Clark, 21, of Paterson had violated a court order by going to his ex-girlfriend's home off River Drive, Police Chief Michael Foligno said, noting that his department has "dealing with this with him the past couple of weeks now." Clark was charged earlier this year with punching and pistol-whipping the victim. SEE: Fugitive Wanted For Punching, Pistol-Whipping Woman Surrenders To Elmw…

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NJ Man Charged With Murder In Blunt-Force Death Of 2-Year-Old Child NJ Man Charged With Murder In Blunt-Force Death Of 2-Year-Old Child
NJ Man Charged With Murder In Blunt-Force Death Of 2-Year-Old Child A Paterson man was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 2-year-old child. Ricardo Rivera, 30, remained held Thursday in the Passaic County Jail following his arrest the day before, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. Her office was contacted by Paterson police after the child was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson at 6:44 a.m. Oct. 20, Valdes said.  An autopsy three days later found the youngster had died of blunt-force trauma, she said. “The subsequent investigation, including numerous witness statements, resulted in the …

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NJ Lawyer, 79, Attacked In Office, IT Worker Charged With Attempted Murder NJ Lawyer, 79, Attacked In Office, IT Worker Charged With Attempted Murder
NJ Lawyer, 79, Attacked In Office, IT Worker Charged With Attempted Murder An IT worker was charged with attempted murder after a 79-year-old attorney was beaten in his Fair Lawn office, authorities said. Associates said Friday that Ira J. Levine was out of the intensive care unit following Tuesday’s attack, in which he was struck with what Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella described as a “wooden baton.” His accused assailant, Mohammad Ramadan, 34, of Rochelle Park remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges that also include aggravated assault causing serious bodily…

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Drugged Driver Takes Plea In NJ Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teen Son Drugged Driver Takes Plea In NJ Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teen Son
Drugged Driver Takes Plea In NJ Gas Station Crash That Killed Dad, Teen Son 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…

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NJ Couple Charged With Murder In Death Of 8-Month-Old NJ Couple Charged With Murder In Death Of 8-Month-Old
NJ Couple Charged With Murder In Death Of 8-Month-Old A 20-year-old Wallington woman and an accused heroin dealer from Paterson were both charged with murder in the death of her 8-month-old baby. Ashley Roman and Joshua Delgado, 22, brought the infant to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center on Oct. 25, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim M. Baycora said in a joint announcement. The child died soon after, they said without elaborating on the cause or circumstances. The New Jersey Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide, Valdes and Baycora said. Both Roman and Delgado, who they said i…

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UPDATE: Pennsylvania Driver Critical After NJ Tree Crash UPDATE: Pennsylvania Driver Critical After NJ Tree Crash
Update: Pennsylvania Driver Critical After NJ Tree Crash A Pennsylvania driver was critically injured when her compact car struck a tree in West Milford during the Independence Day weekend, authorities confirmed Tuesday. The 32-year-old Bethel, PA resident was driving a 2006 Toyota Scion xB that crashed outside the Secluded Acres Horse Boarding farm on Union Valley Road shortly after 6 p.m., they said. Both she and a 34-year-old male passenger from Lake Hopatcong were taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and West Milford Police Chief James DeVore said. The driver remained there in…

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Police Find NJ Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk Police Find NJ Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk
Police Find NJ Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk You don't see this every day: Police responding to a stolen car crash in Clifton said they found the driver and his female passenger both naked on the sidewalk. Both seemed to be under the influence of some type of drug when city officers found them in the 400 block of Clifton Avenue around 11:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The 2014 Honda Civic they were in had just been stolen from Richfield Village when it struck another vehicle in an intersection and then a parked car, Bracken said. Hansel Moreno-Tavarez, 28, of Clifton, and his female passenger were treated for minor injur…

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Easton Man, 20, Charged With Attempted Murder In NJ Shooting Easton Man, 20, Charged With Attempted Murder In NJ Shooting
Easton Man, 20, Charged With Attempted Murder In NJ Shooting An Easton man was extradited to face attempted murder charges in New Jersey for a shooting sparked by a family dispute. Twyleak Sexton, 20, was taken into custody near his Easton, PA home after a city officer there found a warrant for his arrest out of Passaic County, NJ, authorities said. Sexton opened fire in the first block of North 2nd Street and Haledon Avenue in Paterson in a dispute between two families – one from Easton, the other from there – on Sept. 17, authorities said. A 23-year-old male Paterson resident who was struck was taken to nearby St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center …

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