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Newark, NJ
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: Man In Million-Dollar W.O. Meth Bust Says He's Innocent
UPDATE, Aug. 7: An attorney for one of the two men charged says he was "not involved" in the meth operation and that state charges against him have been dropped. Click here for more. The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said Tuesday that two men arrested last week following a raid on what authorities said was a methamphetamine production facility inside a West Orange home will now face federal charges. Brian Cheda-Hackembruch, 23, is charged with conspiracy to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and maintaining a drug-involved premises. Eduardo Martinez, 39, is charged with…
Newark, NJ
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: Duo In Million-Dollar Meth Bust Now Facing Federal Charges
UPDATE, Aug. 6: The two men arrested last week have been charged in federal court. Click here for more. Another suspect believed to be involved with a large methamphetamine operation based in a West Orange home was arrested in Maplewood, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said Wednesday. Police and sheriff's officers raided the Lorelei Road home Tuesday and seized meth with a street value of about $1 million, Fontoura said. They also arrested Brian Chedahackembruch, 23, who was at the home at the time of the raid. He's accused of running a meth production facility, among…
Newark, NJ
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: Second Arrest Made In Million-Dollar Meth Lab Bust
UPDATE, Aug. 1: A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the raid. Click here for more. Original story is below: A home on a quiet suburban street in West Orange served as a major drug-production facility where authorities found more than 4,000 grams of methamphetamine, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said Tuesday. Authorities had been investigating for months prior to the raid Monday night, when neighbors saw SWAT and Essex County HazMat personnel encircling 1 Lorelei Road. The sheriff's office spearheaded an investigation that also involved pol…
Newark, NJ
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Boys, Aged 14 And 15, Charged In Newark Carjacking
Teenagers who stole a car at gunpoint Monday morning were arrested after they entered a second carjacked vehicle in an attempt to escape police in Newark, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said in a statement. A man stopped his 2015 Infiniti Q50 shortly before 11 a.m. at the intersection of Lafayette and Madison streets when one of the boys approached, posing as a panhandler. The second boy entered the car on the passenger side and showed a gun, threatening to shoot. He struck the driver with the weapon and the driver got out, then the two boys drove off, accord…
Newark, NJ
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Paroled Gang Member Arrested On Drugs And Weapons Charges In Newark
A member of the Bloods street gang who is on parole for aggravated manslaughter was arrested Tuesday night in an ongoing crackdown of Newark’s drug trade, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said Wednesday. Al-Tariq Carter, 28, who was charged a decade ago in a shooting that left one man dead and another injured, was spotted by sheriff’s detectives who were staking out Nevada and West Kinney streets Tuesday. Carter, who was sitting on the passenger side of a Mercedes, was seen getting cash in exchange for items he handed to two people who approached the car. Detectives smelled burnt mari…
Newark, NJ
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Gang Kept A ‘Fortress’ In Newark For 24/7 Drug Dealing: U.S. Attorney
Several people with ties to the Bloods street gang were arrested on drugs, weapons and other charges for helping run a drug ring that flooded the streets in and around Newark with a steady supply of narcotics, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said Tuesday. “These defendants are charged with orchestrating and participating in a massive drug trafficking organization that pumped heroin and crack cocaine into the streets of Newark and surrounding areas virtually non-stop,” \Carpenito said. “As alleged in the complaint, they operated out of an abandoned home in Newark that they turned…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Morris County Teen Girl, Men Found With $15K In Marijuana 'Candy': Sheriff
A drug buy witnessed by detectives in Newark Thursday led to four arrests as well as the seizure of marijuana edibles with a street value of about $30,000, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. Plainclothes sheriff’s officers were conducting surveillance at Broadway and Bloomfield Place as part of an ongoing operation to stop drug trafficking in Newark’s North Ward. The sheriff’s office says Louis Roselle, 36, of Newark, was standing at 95 Broadway when a Ford Edge approached and a man got out. Roselle handed the man -- 21-year-old Patrick Caloway of Morristown -- two green bags in e…
Newark, NJ
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Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy'
A drug buy witnessed by detectives in Newark Thursday led to four arrests as well as the seizure of marijuana edibles with a street value of about $30,000, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. Plainclothes sheriff’s officers were conducting surveillance at Broadway and Bloomfield Place as part of an ongoing operation to stop drug trafficking in Newark’s North Ward. The sheriff’s office says Louis Roselle, 36, of Newark, was standing at 95 Broadway when a Ford Edge approached and a man got out. Roselle handed the man -- 21-year-old Patrick Caloway of Morristown -- two green bags in e…
Elizabeth, NJ
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Troubled Comedian And Union Native Artie Lange Arrested Again
Artie Lange, the comedian best known as a sidekick on Howard Stern's radio show, has been arrested for violating the terms of a court-mandated drug rehab program, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. Lange, 51, who grew up in Union and lives in Hoboken, has been candid about his struggles with addiction. He was staying at a halfway house in Clinton as part of the program. Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura told NJ 101.5 that Lange had failed to follow a court-ordered regimen imposed as a condition of his rehab. "If they don't follow them the court wants to …
Newark, NJ
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More Than 300 Guns Now Off The Streets Through Essex Buyback Program
A total of 332 guns, including assault weapons, were purchased over the weekend through a buyback program sponsored by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office and the nonprofit Essex County Bar Foundation, which largely funded the effort. “For us to get 332 guns off the street means we just avoided 332 tragedies,” said Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose. “Every gun taken off the street is potentially one life saved.” The Newark Police Department and the Essex County Sheriff's Office assisted in the buyback Saturday at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark. Member…
Hackensack, NJ
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Prosecutor: Bogota Couple Sold Goods Stolen In Dozens Of Cellphone, Cosmetic Store Burglaries
A Bogota husband-and-wife team fenced goods stolen during dozens of burglaries of North Jersey cellphone and cosmetics stores, said authorities who arrested nine people during a massive law enforcement response. The victimized business included: Verizon stores on Route 17 North in East Rutherford and East Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood; an AT&T store on westbound Route 46 in Lodi; a cosmetics store on Van Brundt Street in Englewood. There was also a botched break-in at an AT&T store on northbound Route 17 in Paramus, authorities said. Those involved “typically used large tools to f…
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Police Chase Bentley Stolen From Garfield Gas Station, Nab Driver After Newark Crash
A Clifton police chase that began after a thief stole an unoccupied Bentley convertible while it was being gassed up in Garfield ended soon after it crashed in Newark, authorities said. Officers Zakaria Bernardo and Matthew Fernandes were on patrol on Route 3 near Route 21 just after 3:30 p.m. Monday when they heard an alert that the car was stolen from a Wawa on Jewell Street – and that the nozzle from the gas pump might still be attached, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Moments later, they spotted the Bentley speeding down southbound Route 21, he said The officers tried to get the dri…
