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North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ
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Serial Public Masturbator Caught Again On Guttenberg Bench, Police Say
A 63-year-old man with a history of lewd acts was caught masturbating on a bench in Guttenberg, exactly one year after a similar incident in Hackensack, authorities said. Officers responded to an apartment complex near John F. Kennedy Boulevard East and 71st Street around 10:25 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 5, for a report of a man publicly pleasuring himself, the Guttenberg Police Department said in a news release. The man was identified as Mark R. Schmitt, 63, of Hackensack. Police said he gave officers a fake name when questioned. Once they confirmed his identity, they discovered he had an active…
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Lyft Driver Heard Sex Offender Loading Bullets Into Mag Before North Arlington Standoff: Cops
Authorities have released new details in the police-involved shooting of a suspected carjacker whose violent rampage stretched across North Jersey. Emmanuel Etienne, 42, a registered sex offender from Bayonne, was identified Monday, June 16, by Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella as the suspect behind the incident, which began in Kearny and ended in North Arlington on Saturday, June 14. According to the criminal complaint, the victim — a Lyft driver in a gray 2012 Honda Accord — picked up Etienne at an address in Bloomfield, with a destination of Jersey City. When the driver arrived, he …
North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ
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Loaded Gun, Drugs Found On Sleeping WNY Motorist In Front Of Guttenberg School: Cops
A man found asleep behind the wheel of a car near a Hudson County school was arrested after officers spotted a loaded handgun in plain view and later discovered cocaine, pills, and cash, authorities said. The incident happened around 8:24 a.m. on Friday, May 16, on Hudson Avenue in Guttenberg, according to Police Chief Frank Pelaez. Officers were alerted by a concerned passerby who reported a man passed out in a vehicle, police said. When officers arrived, they found the car in reverse and angled into the roadway, with the driver asleep and bleeding heavily from his finger. The man, later …
North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ
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North Bergen Scooter Thief With Bloodied Clothes Busted After Robbery In Guttenberg: Police
A North Bergen man was arrested after violently beating a victim and stealing his scooter in Guttenberg early Friday morning, April 25, authorities said. Ariel Sandoval-Paulino, 36, was charged with robbery and disorderly conduct after officers found him with the stolen scooter and blood on his clothing, according to a statement from Guttenberg Police Chief Frank Pelaez Police said the attack happened around 12:26 a.m. on April 25, 2025, near the intersection of 68th Street and Bergenline Avenue According to authorities, officers from the West New York Police Department were first notifi…
Jersey City, NJ
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Inmates Dies At Hudson County Correctional: Prosecutor
A 63-year-old Jersey City inmate died at Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny on Friday, March 21, authorities said. At 12:15 p.m., the Hudson County Correctional Facility found Derrick Ellis unresponsive in his cell, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. He was transported to Jersey City Medical center where he was soon pronounced dead, Suarez said. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General was notified and the incident remains under investigation, Suarez said.
Hoboken, NJ
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Search Underway For Three Hoboken Shooting Suspects, Police Say
Three suspects remain at large following a shooting in Hoboken last December, authorities said. At 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19, two groups known to each other got into a dispute, resulting in shots being fired near the intersection of Fourth and Jackson Streets, a spokesperson for the Hoboken Police Department said. All involved parties dispersed the area immediately following the gunfire, authorities said. Elias Mercado, an 18-year-old Kearny resident was arrested and charged with criminal attempted murder for his role in the shooting, authorities said. He remains at the Hudson Coun…
North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ
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Guttenberg Man Arrested For Serial 9-1-1 Calls Damaged Apartment Complex: Police
A 34-year-old Guttenberg man was arrested and charged for the second time this month, this time with causing thousands of dollars in damage to an apartment complex on Sunday, Oct. 6, authorities said. At 10:54 p.m., officers responded to Galaxy Towers for a report of fire alarms activated and were informed there was a partially dressed man, Alfredo Gonzalez, running from the 26th floor to the 20th floor, behaving erratically, Guttenberg police said. Officers made their way to the 26th floor and heard loud screaming and banging, which led them to the 20th floor, police …
Bayonne, NJ
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Bayonne Bar Fight Leaves Man With Brain Hemorrhage, Jersey City Man Arrested: Police
A 30-year-old Jersey City man was arrested and charged on Monday, Oct. 28, after an assault outside a bar left another man with a hemorrhage in Bayonne, authorities said. Erick Vargas was involved in a verbal/shoving altercation inside of Thai O'Brien's bar that continued after the bar closed, Bayonne police said. Vargas struck the victim with his right hand, causing the victim to fall and hit his head on the ground, police said. The victim suffered a ganglia hemorrhage on the left side of his brain, police said. This was not Vargas' first bar fight. On St. Patrick's Day 2023 at Eddy…
Bayonne, NJ
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Bayonne Burglar, 'Heavyset' Getaway Driver Tracked Down In Jersey City: Police
A Jersey City man trying to break into a Bayonne home and his getaway driver are in custody, police said. Kenneth Dowdy, 43, was dressed in all black and trying to pry open an apartment door at 233 Avenue B in Bayonne when he was confronted by a building resident around 7:25 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11, police said. "A witness then saw the actor enter the passenger seat of a vehicle that was parked nearby, which was being driven by a ‘heavy-set” female," police said in a release. The getaway driver was later identified as April Sanders, 50, of Jersey City. Bayonne police arrived at the scene and…
North Bergen-Guttenberg, NJ
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Man Ran Off With Guttenberg Teen After Mom Found Them Lying Naked Together: Police
A 20-year-old man was arrested and charged on Thursday, Oct. 10 after he ran off with a 15-year-old girl in Guttenberg, authorities said. Earlier in the week, the 15-year-old's mother found her daughter lying naked on a couch with Mario Astudillo-Mendieta, who she believed was her daughter's friend, Guttenberg police said in a release. Following a verbal dispute, Astudillo-Mendieta and the girl left the home, police said. The girl did not possess a cell phone and the mother had no way of contacting her, police said. Officers were able to locate Astudillo-Mendieta's cell phone…
Bayonne, NJ
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Man Intentionally Set Fire To Bayonne Home: Police
A 39-year-old Bayonne man was arrested and charged on Tuesday, Sept. 17 with setting a home ablaze in the city in July, authorities said. On the early morning of Monday, July 22, officers and firefighters responded to West 32nd Street on a report of a structure fire, the Bayonne Police Department said. The residents were not home and no injuries were reported, police said. A follow-up investigation conducted by the City of Bayonne Police Department Detective Bureau in conjunction with the City of Bayonne Fire Department determined that fire was incendiary in nature, police said. …
Jersey City, NJ
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North Bergen Man, 26, Stomps On Victim's Head In Brutal Guttenberg Assault, Police Say
A 26-year-old North Bergen resident was arrested in Guttenberg after an assault and a foot pursuit on Thursday, Aug. 8, authorities said. At 12:41 p.m., officers responded to Bergenline Avenue and 70th Street upon a report of a fight, Guttenberg police said. Officers found a man who had sustained injuries to his head and face and noticed another man, Jazzy Vasquez, walk away from the scene, police said. Witnesses identified Vasquez as the assailant and police ordered him to stop. Vasquez fled on foot but after a brief pursuit, was apprehended, police said. Police obtained video foota…
Jersey City, NJ
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Former Cop Flashed Police Badge Before Sexually Harassing Woman In NJ Flower Shop: Cops
A 52-year-old Cliffside Park man and former police officer was arrested and charged on Friday, July 26, after he flashed a police badge and sexually harassed a woman in Guttenberg, authorities said. On Tuesday, July 23, a woman told police she was working inside a flower shop when Ytalo Savinovich made criminal sexual contact with her while brandishing a Union City police badge, Guttenberg police said. Savinovich was a police officer in Union City from 1998 to 2008, NJ.com reports citing public records. Following an investigation, police arrested Savinovich and charged him with c…
Jersey City, NJ
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: West New York Man, 27, Charged With Repeatedly Raping Girl, 15, He Met In Park
A 27-year-old West New York man was charged with raping a 15-year-old girl multiple times over nearly a week and a half after meeting her at a park in town. Christian Felipe would face a mandatory five to 10 years in state prison if convicted only of the sexual assault charge that was filed by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit following his arrest at his home last week. They also charged Felipe with criminal sexual contact and child endangerment, however, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez noted. “The investigation found the defendant met the victim at a West New York…
Jersey City, NJ
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JC Man Surrenders After Stabbing Man Who Tried To Stop Him Breaking Into Cars: Hoboken PD
A 21-year-old Jersey City man was charged with attempted murder after stabbing an out-of-town man who tried to stop him from breaking into cars on a Hoboken street, authorities said. Randy Barrett Jr. stabbed one of four men who confronted him near the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets around 4:15 a.m. March 16, city police said. Sgt. James Barbaro and Officer Aaron Font applied a chest seal and administered oxygen before Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps members brought the victim to a local hospital with a collapsed lung, among other injuries. He survived and was released a few days…
Jersey City, NJ
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: Car Thief Pulled From Frigid Meadowlands Creek Is Violent Career Criminal
UPDATE: A Union City man who jumped into a frigid Meadowlands creek during a dramatic police chase is an ex-con with nearly 50 arrests in no fewer than five North Jersey counties over the past 35 years. Career criminal Gregory Calvo, 53, is the very embodiment of the phrase “known to police.” He's been convicted nearly two dozen times in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Morris and Essex counties since 1989 – for offenses that include robbery, theft, burglary, drug dealing, domestic violence and aggravated assault -- and has been in and out of state prison and county jails since that time only to be…
Jersey City, NJ
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Drug Raid Turns Up Heroin, Oxy, $22K At Hudson County Home: Police
Two Guttenberg residents were arrested following an investigation into narcotics trafficking in the Town of Guttenberg, authorities said. On Friday, Jan. 26 at 5:05 a.m., the Guttenberg Police Department's Criminal Investigations Bureau and the Drug Enforcement Administration executed a search warrant at a home on 69th Street, officers said. Detectives recovered over an ounce of suspected heroin, prescription pills believed like oxycodone, cutting agents used to manufacture controlled dangerous substances, packaging materials used to distribute narcotics and $22,000 in cash, police sai…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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DJ From Paterson Among Five Charged With Armed Carjacking In Edgewater Target Lot
A deejay from Paterson was one of five carjackers who robbed a victim at gunpoint in the Target parking lot along the Hudson River in Edgewater earlier this year, authorities charged. Giancarlo Rodriguez -- known as "Jaycee973" -- and the others "approached the victim and forcibly removed him from his vehicle" shortly after 3:30 a.m. April 13, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. They then "assaulted the victim and stole his vehicle, chain necklace, and cell phone," the prosecutor said. Led by SWAT teams from Hudson and Middlesex counties, Musella's detectives conducted raids and ex…
Jersey City, NJ
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Home Invader Swiped $3.5K In Valuables While Residents Slept, Friend Kept Lookout In Guttenberg
One person was arrested while a second remains at large in a Hudson County home invasion, police said. Albert A. Ayala, 34, of Guttenberg, is believed to have acted as the lookout while another man, who police have not identified, went into the home at 68th Street and Hudson Avenue while the victims slept in a locked bedroom on Friday, Sept. 22, Guttenberg Deputy Police Chief Frank Pelaez said. Video surveillance footage from inside of her apartment shows a man walking through the victim's apartment and taking various belongings, valued over $3,500, Pelaez said. "Officers and detecti…
Jersey City, NJ
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Officers Hospitalized Breaking Up Fight At Hudson County Bar
Two people were arrested and three police officers were hospitalized while breaking up a fight at a Hudson County bar, authorities said. Jersey City's Luis M. Baca-Turcios, 34, and Union City's Napoleon Anduray-Romero, 29, were each charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, and more, in connection with the incident early Monday, July 17, in Guttenberg, police said. Baca-Turcios was also charged with a weapons offense in the 1:30 a.m. incident at the M Bar and Restaurant, Guttenberg Police Capt. Aleksander Ramadanovic said. Police were called to th…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Three Charged In $3 Million Burglary Of 50 Cent’s Bergen County Crib
A stolen car helped tie three ex-cons to the $3 million burglary of 50 Cent’s luxury apartment above the Hudson River, authorities said. The rapper, songwriter, TV producer and actor posted on Instagram that he was in Miami the third week of January, which law enforcement sources said afforded the thieves the opportunity. 50 – whose real name is Curtis Jackson – reported the break-in of his apartment to Cliffside Park police on Jan. 17. It “involved an estimated loss of approximately three million dollars in U.S. currency and jewelry,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday, wit…
Jersey City, NJ
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Death Of Hudson County Inmate Who 'Fell From Bed' Under Investigation
The death of a 50-year-old inmate at the Hudson County Correctional Center is under investigation. Corrections officers responded to the cell of Jason Sworn after his cellmate told them he had fallen out of bed and was complaining of chest pain around 10:45 p.m. Monday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The responding officers attempted to perform CPR and used the defibrillator on Sworn. The nurses at the facility, as well as the EMTs from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, also responded. Sworn was pronounced dead at 11:37 p.m. The in-custody death is be…
Jersey City, NJ
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Loaded Handgun Recovered From Unlicensed Driver In Routine Secaucus Traffic Stop
A Jersey City man had a loaded handgun on him when he was stopped by police for having tinted windows, front license plate and a bogus rear license plate in Secaucus, authorities said. Darrion Pierce, 25, was stopped around 10 a.m. Sunday, when police smelled marijuana in his car, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. A search of Pierce's car turned up a loaded Smith and Wesson revolver, along with other drug paraphernalia, Miller said. Pierce, an unlicensed driver, was arrested and charged with several weapons, drugs and motor vehicle offenses. He was lodged in the Hudson County Corr…
Jersey City, NJ
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Charges Upgraded For NJ Daycare Teacher Whose Son, 3, Tested Positive For Methadone
Charges were upgraded for a 44-year-old New Jersey dad and daycare worker whose 3-year-old son was found unresponsive and later tested positive for Methadone, authorities said Monday. Roberto Delgado-Gonzalez, of Guttenberg, was arrested last Monday evening and charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. On Oct. 19, he was charged with aggravated assault, and processed at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny. Police responded to Delgado-Gonzalez's home at 68th Street between Park Avenue and Broadway …
Jersey City, NJ
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Charges Upgraded For NJ Daycare Teacher Whose Son, 3, Tested Positive For Methadone
Charges were upgraded for a 44-year-old New Jersey dad and daycare worker whose 3-year-old son was found unresponsive and later tested positive for Methadone, authorities said Monday. Roberto Delgado-Gonzalez, age 44, of Guttenberg, was arrested last Monday evening and charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. On Oct. 19, he was charged with aggravated assault, and processed at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny. Police responded to Delgado-Gonzalez's home at 68th Street between Park Avenue and B…
Jersey City, NJ
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Three Arrested In Jersey City 'Revenge Robbery'
Three people have been arrested -- one with help from the U.S. Marshal's -- in connection with an armed Jersey City robbery planned by one of the suspects as revenge for another incident, authorities said. Orasha Wilkes, 40, arranged the armed robbery of Colin Baskerville, her boyfriend, whom she said hit her in the face and head with the same handgun she used to rob him, Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari said. Wilkes, Larry Johnson, and Tyrone Baskin were all involved in robbing Baskerville at gunpoint, taking his wallet, shoes and phone while he was sitting in his car near the…
Jersey City, NJ
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Arrest Made In Sex-Assault Murder Of Nanny Pulled From Jersey City Lake
A Jersey City man was charged with kidnapping, raping and killing a local nanny. Jorge Rios, 33, was arrested after the body of 45-year-old nanny Caroline Cano was pulled from a lake in Lincoln Park, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office announced Sunday morning. He's charged with murder, felony murder, kidnapping, and aggravated sexual assault, they said. Cano apparently was jogging near her home last Sunday when she was killed. Her body was retrieved from a lake in the park with strangulation marks on her neck around 7:30 a.m., authorities later said. A Medical Examiner said …
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Fresh From Prison, Mahwah Career Criminal Busted Yet Again -- For Purse Theft
A Mahwah ex-con with a 25-year criminal history was arrested in Secaucus by police who said they found him with a woman’s purse stolen during a pair of car burglaries. Only just released from state prison six months ago, 45-year-old Christopher Murano was caught with the goods just before 1 a.m. last Tuesday, Secaucus police said. He also had an outstanding warrant, they said. Secaucus police charged Murano with two counts of theft and sent him to the Hudson County Correctional Center. Records show he subsequently was released pending further court action. Murano was released from state p…
