Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen
Fort Lee Parking Lot Attendant Charged With Sexually Assaulting Fairview Pre-Teen A parking lot attendant from Fort Lee sexually assaulted a pre-teen in Fairview, authorities charged. Brian Granados, 32, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, Feb. 23, four days after his arrest by Fairview police. They charged him with sexual assault and child endangerment, jail records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed the arrest and said his Special Victims Unit was handling the case with borough police.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Fire Inspector In Morris Who Lives In Bergen Busted For Child Porn Fire Inspector In Morris Who Lives In Bergen Busted For Child Porn
Fire Inspector In Morris Who Lives In Bergen Busted For Child Porn A fire inspector who works in Morris County was caught trafficking child porn, authorities said following a raid on his Rutherford home. Juan P. Bonilla-Correa, 44, was arrested following a warranted search of his Union Avenue garden apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Friday, Feb. 17. Members of his Cyber Crimes Unit found that the divorced Bonilla-Correa “used the Internet to view, download, possess, and distribute files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children,” the prosecutor said. They charged him with possession and distribution of child porn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
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Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor
Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor A 28-year-old New Milford man who had worked as a security guard at Paterson Eastside High School was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student in the borough. Everald Palmer, 28, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, Feb. 17, following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of sexual assault by a supervisory adult and child endangerment. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Special Victims Unit arrested Palmer on Monday after New Milford police alerted them to a single alleged incident that he sai…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire
Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire Authorities have identified the teen killed in this week's Midland Park house fire as a 16-year-old male resident. Alexander Lopez-Pena's body was found by responders on the first floor of the 222 Franklin Ave. home on Thursday, Feb. 2, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He was brought to an ambulance before being pronounced dead at the scene, responders said. There was no immediate indication of a possible cause of the Midland Park fire. An investigation was continuing, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.Kyle Mazza for DAILY VOICE A 16-year-old boy was killed Thursd…

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by Cecilia Levine
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire UPDATE: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire
Update: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire A teenage boy was killed Thursday night in a ferocious, fast-moving house fire in Midland Park. UPDATE: Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire Two other victims were hospitalized in the blaze, which apparently ignited on the first floor of the two-family home on Franklin Avenue home next to the borough public library shortly after 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Firefighters found the 16-year-old boy in the front left side of the home -- apparently his bedroom -- soon after arriving, responders said.  He was brought to an ambulance before being pronounced dead at the scene, they said. …

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by Cecilia Levine
Fort Lee, NJ
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Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB
Video Shared Of E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority Cruiser That Killed Hudson Man Near GWB It happened in an instant: A North Bergen man on an electric motorcycle zooms by a surveillance camera near the George Washington Bridge – then collides with a turning Port Authority police vehicle. A video released by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office shows both vehicles, although a column blocks a view of the crash that killed Rolando Quevedo, 38, at the corner of Lemoine Avenue and Bruce Reynolds Boulevard on Oct. 17. State authorities released the video as part of a mandatory investigation that is required by New Jersey law whenever a civilian dies in an encounter …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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ICE Looks To Deport Salvadoran National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Englewood Children ICE Looks To Deport Salvadoran National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Englewood Children
ICE Looks To Deport Salvadoran National Charged With Sexually Assaulting Englewood Children Federal immigration officials plan to take custody of a 31-year-old cashier who was charged this week with sexually assaulting two Englewood children between 7 and 9 years old, Daily Voice has learned. ICE placed a detainer on Salvadoran national William Hernandez almost immediately after he was arrested on Wednesday, Jan. 25, with an eye toward deporting him. The detainer will hold Hernandez in the Bergen County Jail – without exceptions -- until he can be brought before a federal judge at an immigration status hearing in Newark. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Laborer Charged With Torching Vehicles On Local Bergen Street Awaits Move From Rikers To NJ Laborer Charged With Torching Vehicles On Local Bergen Street Awaits Move From Rikers To NJ
Laborer Charged With Torching Vehicles On Local Bergen Street Awaits Move From Rikers To NJ A Bronx laborer wanted for setting a fire that consumed a pickup truck and a sedan on a quiet Wallington street remained held on Rikers Island following his capture in the city. An extradition hearing for Eliezer Bisono Aguilera, 22, is scheduled for next Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Bronx Supreme Court, according to New York City Department of Correction records. Aguilera was wanted for a 4:30 a.m. arson fire last Nov. 15 on Morrissee Avenue that was doused by Wallington firefighters, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Destroyed by the flames were a 2009 Chevrolet Colorado and a 2016 Kia…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Caretakers Bound, Left Disabled Man For Dead On Bergen County Road: Reports Caretakers Bound, Left Disabled Man For Dead On Bergen County Road: Reports
Caretakers Bound, Left Disabled Man For Dead On Bergen County Road: Reports Two Bergen County caretakers face manslaughter charges after they allegedly tied up a disabled man, stuffed a sock in his mouth and dumped his body, NJ Advance Media reports. Michael Kestenbaum, 62, was found dead at about 7:20 p.m. on Dec. 8, 2022, along Ackerman Street near Route 4 West in River Edge, authorities said. Charged on Thursday, Jan. 19, were Tyrone Closs, 32, and Aniesa Samad, 24, Musella said in a press statement. In addition to aggravated manslaughter, the couple was charged with desecration of human remains, criminal restraint, elder abuse and obstruction, Musella said…

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by Jon Craig
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
Allendale Officer Pretended To Be In Crash So Real Driver Could Get Away: Prosecutor Allendale Officer Pretended To Be In Crash So Real Driver Could Get Away: Prosecutor
Allendale Officer Pretended To Be In Crash So Real Driver Could Get Away: Prosecutor An Allendale police officer from Mahwah has been charged with hindering apprehension after he took responsibility as the driver in an accident so that the real driver could leave, authorities said. Victor T. Bartoloma, 35, told the Ridgewood officer arriving at the scene that he was the one who'd been in the crash on Jan. 15, but he really had brought his personal vehicle to the scene so that the individual initially in the accident could drive off, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Surveillance cameras showed that Bartoloma was not the driver and was not present at the time …

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by Cecilia Levine
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Bail Reform Was Once This Bergen Serial Burglar's Friend — Not Anymore: Authorities Bail Reform Was Once This Bergen Serial Burglar's Friend — Not Anymore: Authorities
Bail Reform Was Once This Bergen Serial Burglar's Friend — Not Anymore: Authorities Charges continue to mount against a one-man crime wave – and onetime bail reform poster boy – whom judges have kept held in the Bergen County Jail since mid-October. Police in Glen Rock and Wyckoff became the latest to charge Nicola Torres, 40, of Passaic, with commercial burglaries in their towns. That makes more than a dozen municipal police departments in four New Jersey counties just this year alone. Torres has a criminal record that stretches back more than 15 years, mostly for business break-ins. More recently, the 6-foot-2-inch, 240-pound felon has been repeatedly arrested and the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Amityville Man Gunned Down In New Jersey As Police Search For Killer Amityville Man Gunned Down In New Jersey As Police Search For Killer
Amityville Man Gunned Down In New Jersey As Police Search For Killer A Long Island man who was gunned down at an apartment complex in New Jersey last month is being laid to rest this coming weekend as the hunt for his killer continues. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella identified the victim shot in the head in the rear of the Bookchester Apartments in New Milford in the 900 block of Boulevard on Nov. 26 as Jacques McDonald, age 25, of Amityville. McDonald was taken in traumatic arrest to Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m., roughly an hour after the call, the prosecutor said. Investigators have ye…

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by Jerry DeMarco