Jersey City, NJ
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NJ Lottery Player Wins $400K At Red Bull Arena NJ Lottery Player Wins $400K At Red Bull Arena
NJ Lottery Player Wins $400K At Red Bull Arena The big winner at the Red Bulls game on Saturday, June 3 wasn't on the field. At halftime of the Red Bulls-Orlando FC game on the turf at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, a man spun the Bigger Spin, New Jersey Lottery's newest wheel based $10 scratch off ticket and won $400,000, the biggest prize available.  The crowd roared as the lucky winner jumped in the air and began celebrating, overwhelmed with happiness. The winner plans to invest in a house, save for retirement and donate to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. 

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by Sam Barron
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Two Kilos Of Cocaine Seized In Harrison, Man Arrested: Prosecutors Two Kilos Of Cocaine Seized In Harrison, Man Arrested: Prosecutors
Two Kilos Of Cocaine Seized In Harrison, Man Arrested: Prosecutors Two kilograms of cocaine were seized and a 60-year-old Harrison man was arrested on Wednesday, May 10, following a weeklong investigation by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office Narcotics Task Force and the Department of Homeland Security, authorities said. Jose Estrado-Castillo was found to be in possession of 200 grams of cocaine at the time of his arrest, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. He was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine in the first degree and was also hit with charges for intending to sell cocaine near a public property and a school, Suarez sa…

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by Sam Barron
Jersey City, NJ
Business
Car Barrels Through Juicy Platters Harrison Storefront Day Before Paramus Shop Opening Car Barrels Through Juicy Platters Harrison Storefront Day Before Paramus Shop Opening
Car Barrels Through Juicy Platters Harrison Storefront Day Before Paramus Shop Opening Juicy Platters won't be putting the brakes on the upcoming opening of its Paramus location on Saturday, April 8, despite a driver barreling through the front of its Harrison location the day before. The driver apparently hit the gas instead of the brake, sending her car through the front of the Bergen Street store around 8:50 a.m., a spokesperson for the restaurant said. No injuries were reported and the store remains open. Meanwhile, a soft opening will be held at the new Juicy Platters Paramus location, located at 393 Route 17, Saturday, April 8 through Friday, April 14. "Even though it’…

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by Cecilia Levine
Rutherford, NJ
Lifestyle
Married Bakers Bring Sweetness To Bergen County With New Cake Shop Married Bakers Bring Sweetness To Bergen County With New Cake Shop
Married Bakers Bring Sweetness To Bergen County With New Cake Shop Andy Carl knew since high school he was going to run his own bakery. Now he gets to live his dream with his wife by his side. Andy and Lucy recently opened Cake It!, a new bakery in Bergen County, offering custom cakes and cupcakes.  Previously, the pair had been baking cakes out of their home in Harrison for five years. Andy, who attended culinary school, bakes the cakes while Lucy decorates them. The journey began for Andy when he was a child, making pumpkin pipes and cakes with his grandmother for the holidays. "She is my inspiration," Andy said.  View this post o…

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by Sam Barron
Lyndhurst, NJ
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UPDATE: Shots Fired, Two Seized In SWAT-Assisted Drug Probe In Kearny, Lyndhurst UPDATE: Shots Fired, Two Seized In SWAT-Assisted Drug Probe In Kearny, Lyndhurst
Update: Shots Fired, Two Seized In Swat-assisted Drug Probe In Kearny, Lyndhurst Narcotics detectives arrested two men, one of whom surrendered without incident in Lyndhurst and the other who was seized by a Hudson County SWAT team after shots were fired in Kearny. Boosted by heavily-armed tactical squads, detectives from the Bergen and Hudson county prosecutor's offices simultaneously hit both locations early Wednesday, Jan. 25, as part of a drug investigation, ranking law enforcement officers told Daily Voice. The first suspect was immediately seized at a single-family home on Union Avenue, they said. The second proved more problematic. He barricaded himself in an a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Son Stabs Mom Dead, Injures Man In Harrison Son Stabs Mom Dead, Injures Man In Harrison
Son Stabs Mom Dead, Injures Man In Harrison A 67-year-old woman was stabbed dead by her son and a 50-year-old man was  injured in a Harrison stabbing early Tuesday, Jan. 17, authorities said. Victor Temoche, 32, is believed to have stabbed Rosa Massoni and the man around 1:20 a.m. at the Harrison Gardens apartment complex, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Both victims were transported to University Hospital in Newark where Massoni was pronounced dead just after 2 a.m. It wasn't immediately clear how Temoche knew the second victim. Temoche was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and weapons offen…

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by Cecilia Levine
Newark, NJ
News
Feds: Knifepoint Robber Who Choked Out Female Harrison Cab Dispatcher Gets 9½ Years Feds: Knifepoint Robber Who Choked Out Female Harrison Cab Dispatcher Gets 9½ Years
Feds: Knifepoint Robber Who Choked Out Female Harrison Cab Dispatcher Gets 9½ Years UPDATE: An ex-con who choked out a female dispatcher while robbing a Harrison taxicab company at knifepoint was sentenced to 9½ years without parole in federal prison. Alfuquan Turner, 46, of Newark took his chances with a jury rather than take a deal from the government after he was charged with robbing the Harrison Cab Company on Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard in Sept. 2019. Turner had his face covered with a plastic bag when he demanded money from the dispatcher, who told him there wasn't any in the office, prosecutors told jurors in U.S. District Court in Newark earlier this year. Turner …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
North Jersey Catholic School Dean Tried Meeting Teen For Sex: Prosecutor North Jersey Catholic School Dean Tried Meeting Teen For Sex: Prosecutor
North Jersey Catholic School Dean Tried Meeting Teen For Sex: Prosecutor A North Jersey high school dean of senior students has been fired after being arrested on accusations he tried meeting a teen for sex, authorities said. Didier Jean-Baptiste, 54, of Jersey City — a dean at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark — arranged to meet a person who he believed was a teen for sex in Harrison, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The crimes did not involve any students, Suarez said.  Jean-Baptiste was charged with luring and child endangerment. He was arrested on Oct. 6 at his home and released on a summons. Jean-Baptiste is tentatively scheduled to a…

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by Cecilia Levine
Newark, NJ
Business
Chef Behind NYC Michelin-Starred Restaurant Expands North Jersey Viennese Bistro Chef Behind NYC Michelin-Starred Restaurant Expands North Jersey Viennese Bistro
Chef Behind NYC Michelin-Starred Restaurant Expands North Jersey Viennese Bistro A North Jersey Viennese bistro whose chef helms a Michelin-starred New York City restaurant is opening another location, JerseyDigs reports. Charley's at the Urby development in Harrison is apparently coming to Newark’s Urby development with a liquor license, the outlet said. The restaurant's chef is Kurt Gutenbrunner, the owner and executive chef of Wallsé in the West Village. Charley's originated between hospitality investor David Barry and Guternbrunner, who grew up in a small village outside of Vienna and "always wanted to create his interpretation of a casual Viennese bistro," the rest…

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by Cecilia Levine
Jersey City, NJ
News
Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death
Fugitive Dubbed 'Real-Life Tony Soprano' Couldn't Hide From The Law, Even In Death He was considered one of the last of the old-time mobsters, a "real-life Tony Soprano" listed as one of New Jersey's most wanted fugitives. Even six feet under, though, Tony Mota couldn't evade his pursuers. After eluding capture for nearly 25 years for a gruesome murder committed in Hudson County, Anthony Mota was found buried in the country where he was born, the Dominican Republic. Mota had been collecting debts for high-level Colombian drug dealers in New York City when he and a group of accomplices abducted a Queens man on Dec. 13, 1997, authorities said. The victim, 38-year-old …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
One Of NJ's 'Most Wanted' Fugitives In Torture Execution Found Dead In Dominican Republic One Of NJ's 'Most Wanted' Fugitives In Torture Execution Found Dead In Dominican Republic
One Of NJ's 'Most Wanted' Fugitives In Torture Execution Found Dead In Dominican Republic One of New Jersey's most wanted fugitives in a kidnapping and execution of a Queens, NY man was found dead in the Dominican Republic, authorities announced. Anthony Mota kidnapped the victim on Dec. 12, 1997, then bound and tortured him with others for days until they got a ransom amount of $23,000 from the victim's family, United States Marshal for the District of New Jersey Juan Mattos, Jr., and NJSP Superintendent Col. Patrick J. Callahan said. Soon after, Mota took the victim to an area along Interstate 280 in Harrison, and shot him in the head and neck, ki…

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by Cecilia Levine
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
5 Alarm Fire Tears Through Kearny Home 5 Alarm Fire Tears Through Kearny Home
5 Alarm Fire Tears Through Kearny Home A fire-alarm fire brought Hudson County firefighters o Kearny Sunday, June 26. The blaze broke out at 210 Laurel Ave. around 10:45 a.m., and was still raging as of 2 p.m. Firefighters from Jersey City, Kearny and Harrison were at the scene.

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by Cecilia Levine