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Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Struck In Ridgefield Dies
A Ridgefield woman who was struck by a pickup truck while crossing the street near the supermarket where she worked was declared brain dead by doctors on Monday, loved ones and authorities confirmed. A Dodge Ram was turning left from northbound Shaler Boulevard onto westbound Banta Place when it struck Maria Gabriela Andino, a mother of two, in the crosswalk early Saturday afternoon, they said. The driver, who is in his mid 20s, said he didn't see the victim. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where doctors pronounced her brain dead at 5:25 p.m. Monday, a day before her…
DV Plus - Fairfield, CT
Schools
Around Fairfield Schools: Fake News In Ridgefield, Greenwich Dedication, Student Wins
Students recently were alerted to decades-old fake news images thanks to the keen eye of a media specialist at a Ridgefield school. Scotts Ridge Middle School seventh-graders were learning about energy transfer in ecosystems, in their science class when it happened. The widespread burning of the Amazon rainforest was the "phenomenon that we used to kick off this unit," explained their teacher Charlsie Vanderrest. During the lesson, students were asked: How does a disaster affect the systems in place in an environment? The idea to use the science lesson to help the students beco…
Brentwood, NY
News
Huntington Station Mother Arrested For Alleged Murder-For-Hire Scheme To Win Ex-Husband Back
A Long Island mother is facing charges for an alleged murder-for-hire scheme targeting her former mother-in-law and a 5-year-old girl in an effort to win her ex-husband back, prosecutors said. Elsy Rodriguez Garcia, 25, of Huntington Station, was arraigned in Central Islip court on attempted murder and conspiracy charges on Long Island on Tuesday, July 30. She pleaded not guilty and is currently behind held in lieu of $750,000 cash bail or bond. According to prosecutors, Garcia was allegedly angry that her ex was spending so much time with his mother and daughter, who he had with a differen…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Bail
Reform
: Immigrant In Cliffside Park Sex Assault Caught With Good Samaritans' Help Released
A good Samaritan couple helped catch an assailant who grabbed a woman between the legs and then threw her down on a Cliffside Park street, authorities said. A judge in Hackensack released him less than 24 hours later, records show. The victim was on her cellphone on Day Avenue when Dario Camey Curruchichi, 29, came up behind her on Saturday, borough police Capt. Vincent Capano said. Curruchichi -- listed in jail records as an Ecuadoran citizen -- put his hands between her legs and grabbed the woman's vagina, Capano said. The startled victim turned and was thrown to the ground, he said. Cu…
Jersey City, NJ
Obituaries
Kearny Little League Coach Norman Arcos, 46, Leaves Behind 3 Children
Norman Arcos, a father of three and volunteer with Kearny's baseball program, died suddenly on July 2. He was 46. A lifelong New Jersey resident, he was born in Ecuador and worked in the IT department at Colgate-Palmolive in Piscataway for the last 15 years. He was an assistant coach with the Kearny U-8 Little League Rec and All Star Baseball programs. He was the father of Giovanni, aged 8, as well as Sarah Espinel and Chris Dodd. He is also survived by his wife Tina Dodd, parents Carlos and Beatriz Arcos, siblings Carlos Arcos, Beatriz Aquino, and Ana Paton, a…
Newark, NJ
News
13 Illegal Immigrants Arrested By ICE In 4-Day New Jersey Operation
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 13 immigration violators in New Jersey during a four-day surge effort, the agency said. The operation targeted aliens who have been issued a final order of removal in the past five years, have failed to depart the United States, and have received criminal convictions or have pending criminal charges. “As this operation clearly demonstrates, ICE continues to focus its efforts first on public safety threats,” ERO Newark Field Office Director John Tsoukaris said. “The vast majority of the individuals targeted in this effort ha…
Briarcliff, NY
Police & Fire
NY Attorney General Investigating Allegations Of Wage Violations At Trump National, Report Says
The New York State Attorney General is investigating allegations that undocumented employees at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester were instructed to work overtime without pay, according to a Washington Post report. Jose Gabriel Juarez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico working as a head waiter of the Grille Room restaurant at the Briarcliff Manor club, told the Post that his managers would have him clock out, but continue to do side work without receiving overtime pay. The report states that Juarez - and other employees - stayed on for hours, vacuuming carpets, polishing silverwa…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
South Hackensack Handyman Charged With Molesting Pre-Teenage Girl
An undocumented 52-year-old handyman living in South Hackensack molested a pre-teenage girl over the course of a couple of years, authorities charged. ICE put a detainer on Segundo Calle-Calle, an Ecuadoran national who remained held in the Bergen County Jail following his April 1 arrest. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo Hackensack police contacted his Special Victims Unit after receiving a report that Calle-Calle “engaged in sexual acts with a juvenile under the age of thirteen in South Hackensack.” Detectives from the unit arrested Calle-Calle on charges of sexual assault by c…
Hackensack, NJ
News
ICE Arrests 60 Immigrants With Criminal History In North Jersey
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 123 people during a monthlong New Jersey sweep targeting immigrants with criminal records or DUI convictions, the agency announced Monday. Individuals were arrested from Bergen (4), Burlington (4), Camden (4), Cumberland (9), Essex (13), Hudson(8), Mercer (10), Middlesex (14), Monmouth (12), Morris (10), Ocean (3), Passaic (2), Somerset (6), and Union (23) -- a total of 60 in North Jersey. One person was also arrested in Pennslyvania. Some of the arrests include: In Red Bank, a 30-year-old Mexican n…
Mount Pleasant, NY
News
ICE Five-Day
Nyc-a
rea Enforcement Crackdown Includes Arrests In Westchester
Individuals from four Hudson Valley counties were among 118 people from southern New York arrested for violating U.S. immigration laws during a five-day crackdown in mid-January by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The detail, called "Operation Cross Check," was conducted in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley from Jan. 14-18. Persons in Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam and Rockland were among those arrested. ICE did not release a breakdown of the number of arrests by region. Of those arrested, more than 107 were convicted criminals or…
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Garfield Train Death, Roommate Slaying 'Totally' Murder-Suicide, Authorities Say
UPDATE: A man who committed suicide by running in front of a commuter train in Garfield on Saturday hours after law enforcement officials said he beat his roommate to death in their illegal basement apartment was identified Monday, along with the murder victim. Manuel Ortega-Pimentel, 55, "ran into the path" of an NJ Transit train on Saturday and was killed, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "During an attempt to locate next of kin for Ortega-Pimentel, a check of his last known address was conducted and the basement apartment was checked by a resident of the first floor," th…
Monroe, NY
Police & Fire
Man Who Stepped In Front Of Warwick-Bound Train In NJ Had Just Killed Roommate, Authorities Say
A man struck and killed by a Warwick-bound commuter train in New Jersey on Saturday had just killed his roommate in their illegal basement apartment, authorities said. The body of the 25-year-old victim was found on the floor. He'd been beaten with a blunt object, authorities told Daily Voice. "There was a lot of blood throughout the place," one responder said after city police found the body in the MacArthur Avenue apartment around 10:30 p.m. Saturday and alerted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Nearly 6½ hours earlier, the victim's 55-year-old roommate stepped in front of an NJ Tra…
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