Area College Athlete, 19, Dies After Six-Story Fall In NYC
A freshman student-athlete at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut has been identified as the person found dead on the ground near The Vessel, a sculpture at Hudson Yards in Manhattan.
Peter DeSalvo, 19, a member of Sacred Heart's rugby club, leaped to his death around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, according to a report in the New York Post.
Screams broke through a crowd of visitors and tourists and some people began to cry, according to the Post report.
DiSalvo was reportedly by himself at the time of the incident.
DiSalvo was pronounced dead at Bellevue H…
Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark
A former high school rugby star from Basking Ridge leaped to his death from a landmark structure at the brand-new Hudson Yards in Manhattan over the weekend, authorities confirmed.
Peter DeSalvo, 19, a freshman at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, jumped to his death from the sixth story of The Vessel, 150 or so feet above West 33rd Street near the Hudson River, around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to published reports.
He didn’t leave a note, loved ones said.
DeSalvo, who was a member of SHU's rugby club, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, after jumping fr…
Paterson PD Works Both Sides Of Street, Seize Raw Heroin, Cocaine, Shotgun
Paterson police raided two homes directly across the street from one another, arresting two ex-cons and five alleged buyers while seizing raw and packaged heroin, cocaine and a sawed-off shotgun.
Members of the Paterson Narcotics Division also seized $568 in suspected proceeds during the simultaneous Monday afternoon strikes, Police Director Jerry Speziale said.
The primary arrests involved two men with criminal histories: Filiberto Feliciano, 65, who lives in one of the Cedar Street homes, and Carlos Torres, 43, of Summer Street.
Both were charged with drug and weapons offenses after dete…
Bergen, Somerset Businessmen Con Bank Out Of $17 Million, Feds Charge
A former Bergen County marble and granite wholesaler and his Somerset County partner cooked the books while also posing as customers as part of a $17 million bank fraud, federal authorities allege.
A U.S. District Court judge in Newark allowed the release Monday afternoon of Rajendra Kankariya, 61, of Tenafly, who was the now-defunct company’s president, and his chief financial officer, 44-year-old Rakesh Sethi of Basking Ridge, following their arrests by the FBI.
Property secured bonds of $500,000 for each of them, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
Kankariya and Sethi pulled the scam fr…
