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Newton, MA
News
'That Was Close,' Says Pilot Of Delta Flight With 295 On Board After Near Miss At Boston Logan
A Delta Air Lines flight carrying 284 passengers and 11 crew members narrowly avoided a collision with a smaller aircraft at Boston Logan International Airport. The near miss occurred around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, when air traffic control instructed the Delta flight to perform a go-around — a last-minute maneuver to abort a landing — because the Cape Air flight was cleared to take off from an intersecting runway, according to a statement by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “This was close,” the Delta pilot said over the radio after successfully avoiding the other plane. The …
New Windsor, NY
Police & Fire
Fugitive Wanted For Rape In New Windsor Arrested After Hiding In Philippines: Police
A fugitive wanted in Orange County on multiple rape and sexual abuse charges has been captured in the Philippines and returned to face prosecution, authorities announced. On Friday, Aug. 29, the New Windsor Police Department, working with the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, Homeland Security Investigations, and international law enforcement partners, arrested 46-year-old Dominic Mamaat upon his arrival at JFK Airport in Queens, the department said. Mamaat was wanted on a warrant for first-degree rape issued in May 2020 and had been indicted by an Orange County grand jury in Augus…
Valley Stream, NY
News
Doctor Who Smuggled Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Through JFK Lands In Club Fed
A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind bars. Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, was sentenced to six months in prison in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday, Aug. 27, after pleading guilty to four counts of smuggling. Eldarir, a licensed physician in Egypt, became involved in artifact smuggling during the country’s Arab Uprising in 2011, when looting of archaeological sites surged, prosecutors said. Between April 2019 and January 2020, he smuggled artifacts into the United States on at least four occasions. He later used fal…
Lititz, PA
News
Measles Exposure Alert: Out-of-State Visitor With Virus Stops In Lititz: PA Dept. Of Health
A person from another state who was contagious with measles visited four Pennsylvania counties earlier this month, prompting a public health alert from the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday, Aug. 21. The individual, who has since left the Commonwealth, may have exposed others while stopping in Adams, Clearfield, Lancaster, and York counties between Aug. 4 and Aug. 12. People may have been exposed to measles if they were at one of the following locations during the specified times: Sapp Bros. Travel Center, Clearfield — Aug. 5, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Farmhouse Restaurant at the Bar…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
They Set Stolen Car On Fire In Rochelle Park, And One Was Caught At JFK Airport: Prosecutor
Two New York men have been charged in connection with a stolen vehicle fire that lit up a Rochelle Park parking lot last winter, authorities said. Ethan Olivo, 19, and Starlin Siri, 21, both of the Bronx, were charged in the Dec. 3, 2024, blaze that consumed a 2020 Honda Accord on Rochelle Avenue just after 7 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a Thursday, Aug. 7 release. The car was found fully engulfed in flames by Rochelle Park firefighters, who extinguished the fire and contacted police, Musella said. Officers from Rochelle Park and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office …
Arlington, VA
Lifestyle
Show Popular White Lotus Star Created For Hulu Gets Canceled
A popular actress who appeared on two of the three seasons of HBO's popular satirical comedy-drama series White Lotus has seen another show of hers canceled. Natasha Rothwell was both the creator and star of How to Die Alone, which was dropped after one season by Hulu. On the show, Rothwell played Melissa, known as Mel, a broke JFK Airport employee in her mid-30s who never experienced love, but who was inspired to live life again after a near-death accident. Related story - Netflix Cancels 4 Shows: Here's Rundown "This is hard to comprehend," the 44-year-old Rothwell wro…
Reading, PA
News
67 Pounds Of Weed Seized As Reading Man Busted For Firearm Trafficking At JFK: DA
A man accused of fueling gun violence through illegal firearm sales was caught smuggling 67 pounds of marijuana at JFK Airport, authorities announced on Monday, March 17. Ian Diaz-Reales, 27, of Reading, Pennsylvania, was arrested on March 2 while attempting to board an outbound flight with the massive drug stash, according to the Berks County District Attorney’s Office. Diaz-Reales had already been wanted for allegedly purchasing multiple firearms and illegally funneling them to criminals involved in drug trafficking, gang activity, and violence, authorities said. The Berks County Gun Viol…
Paramus, NJ
News
Man Who Tracked Victim With GPS Before Attempted Armed Robbery Pleads Guilty: Bergen Prosecutor
A 27-year-old Bergen County man admitted to planting a tracking device on the vehicle of a man he tried to rob at gunpoint, officials said. Zef Hajdari, of Edgewater, pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery of a Teaneck resident in 2022, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. his co-conspirator, Jeremy Chico, was being held on Rikers Island. On June 16, 2022, Teaneck police were called to a home where they learned the victim was approached by a suspect, later identified as Hajdari, who pointed a gun at him and tried to rob him when he pulled up to his house, Musella's office sai…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
23-Year-Old Taiwanese Operator Of $100 Million Dark Web Drug Market Seized By Feds At JFK
Federal agents at JFK Airport seized a 23-year-old Taiwanese national who the Justice Department said owned and operated a dark web drug bazaar that produced well over $100 million in sales. The “Incognito Market” created by Rui-Siang Lin enabled its users to anonymously buy and sell drugs around the globe for nearly 3½ years, US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and other federal officials announced on Monday, May 20. Lin -- also known as Ruisiang Lin, 林睿庠, Pharoah, and faro – mastermineded a clandestine e-commerce network where buyers could browse thousands of listings for heroin, LSD, …
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
NJ Flight Attendant Smuggled Millions In Drug Cash To The DR Through Special Airport Lane: Feds
A flight attendant from New Jersey smuggled $2.5 million of an estimated $8 million in drug money from the United States to the Dominican Republic through a scheme that capitalized on flight crews’ easy access through airports, authorities charged. Charlie Hernandez, 42, of West New York and three other accused mile-high drug mules used code words such as “lotions” – meaning drug cash – and “los tigres” (for their drug-dealing partners), an indictment alleges. Each got a cut for slipping the cash through unscreened TSA security lanes for international commercial airline employees at JFK Air…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Estranged Paterson Husband Seized At JFK After Threatening To 'Shoot Up' Airport, DA Says
A Paterson man with multiple loaded weapons in his car threatened a mass shooting at JFK Airport as his estranged wife was returning from an overseas trip, authorities charged. The woman was inside Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy International Airport when she got a text and video from Darnell King, 39, shortly before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 30, according to the Queens County District Attorney's Office. A black and silver gun is visible on the passenger seat of his car as King says in the video that he's on his way to the Queens airport and is recording his "last will and testament," authori…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Mid-air
Pile-on
: Drunken, Unruly Passenger Bound For JFK Restrained By Fellow Flyers (
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A drunken JetBlue passenger on a flight to New York from Great Britain had to be restrained by other passengers when he began abusing the cabin crew, video posted by a fellow traveler shows. “The man was drunk and was getting loud and aggressive, moving seats," said Grant Saunders, a hypnotist by trade who was headed to Las Vegas. "Then when the crew asked him to calm down, he started getting worse. Then he started wandering about the aisle. "The crew asked him to sit in his seat and he then started getting aggressive,” Saunders said. “[Four] men from the back of the plane came down to assi…
Amherst, MA
Obituaries
'Family Came First': Western Mass Mom Killed In CT Crash Was Going Home For Daughter's Birthday
For Paula Garcia, there was nothing more important than her family. The Hampshire County, Massachusetts, mother of three lived for her children, her husband Joe Bock said in an interview with the Daily Voice. Paula was killed Tuesday, Jan. 9, while returning to her Easthampton home after the car she was in was hit by a tractor-trailer in Hartford, Connecticut, state police said. It was her daughter Alba's 13th birthday, Bock said. Paula's birthday was a day later. Paula Garcia poses for a photo with her children — Alba, age 13, Matteo, 9, and Lia…
Englewood, NJ
Police & Fire
Images Of 26 More Heroes Added To Port Authority PD Line-Of-Duty Death Memorial
The images of 26 Port Authority police officers who died in the line of duty before and after 9/11 were added to a striking memorial on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. The memorial at Port Authority Police Benevolent Association headquarters off East Palisade Avenue in Englewood Cliffs originally was created to honor the 37 PAPD officers killed in the 9/11 terror attacks on America. They included K9 Sirius, whose handler put him into what was believed to be a safe place at the World Trade Center before the buildings fell. "At that time, we had what we believed to be ei…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Trio In Clifton Attacked, Knife-Wielding Assailant Caught Trying To Flee US: Police
Two men were stabbed and another cut during a fight in Clifton with a Lodi man who was later caught trying to flee the country, police said. Mirsad Kolasinac, 51, was captured by federal agents at JFK Airport in Queens, Police Lt. Robert Anderson said. He remained held on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Bergen County Jail. Officers responding to an overnight fight outside the Village Square shopping center early this month found two men who'd been stabbed with a large kitchen knife at the Botany Lounge, Anderson said. One victim, 26, had multiple stab wounds in his legs, as well at facial injuries…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Deputy US Marshal Accused Of Drunken Abuse On JFK Flight To London
A deputy United States Marshal based in Brooklyn was arrested in London following what was described as drunken abuse aboard a flight from JFK. Michael Brereton, 39, of Staten Island, remained in the custody of British authorities after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and charged on Thursday, Dec. 7, with entering an aircraft while drunk. He was expected to appear in court in Uxbridge, England, on Friday. Both he and another deputy who work together in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn had been drinking on a Delta flight to London to extradite a defendant in a fra…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Gun At JFK Airport: Philly Traveler Busted By TSA With Loaded 9MM Firearm, Two Mags In Carry-On
A traveler from Philadelphia was arrested at JFK Airport after TSA officers found a loaded gun in his carry-on bag along with two extra magazines holding two dozen bullets, authorities said. The officers immediately notified Port Authority police, who seized the 9mm handgun and the ammo and took the man into custody on Sunday, Oct. 29, said Transportation Security Administration Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein. In addition to the criminal charges will be a fine that potentially could reach $15,000 for bringing a weapon to an airport checkpoint, Farbstein said. SEE: Civil Penalties For Trying T…
Teaneck, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: 'Chopped' Kosher Chef Jailed On New Child Sex Assault Charges Out Of Teaneck
A kosher chef from Teaneck who appeared on the Food Network show "Chopped” was jailed after a grand jury in Hackensack indicted him on charges of sexually assaulting a child. Shalom "Sal" Yehudiel, 41, was arrested at JFK Airport last month when authorities said he tried to flee the country. He'd only just had previous child sex assault charges against him dismissed by a judge in Hackensack at the time. A new indictment charges Yehudiel with sexually assaulting a girl who was 14 and 15 twice in Teaneck between November 2016 and April 2017. Yehudiel -- now lives in Aventura, FL -- surr…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Chef Arrested At JFK Airport Days After Sex Assault Charges Dismissed: Officials
Just days after a judge dismissed charges against him, Bergen County kosher chef Shalom "Sal" Yehudiel was arrested again on similar, new ones, authorities said. Shalom "Sal" Yehudiel, 41, was arrested at Terminal One of JFK Airport on Tuesday, Aug. 8, Port Authority Spokesperson Lenis Valens said. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol notified PAPD that they had a fugitive in custody with a warrant out in New Jersey, Valens said. Yehudiel was charged with one count of second-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, announced Union…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
Overserved Delta Passenger Gropes Girl, Mom On JFK Flight, Attendants Do Nothing: Lawsuit
A Delta Air Lines passenger downed at least 10 vodkas and a glass of wine before groping a 16-year-old girl and her mother during a nine-hour flight from JFK Airport to Greece, a lawsuit alleges. Flight attendants “blatantly ignored” the situation, then let the abuser leave the plane when it landed in Athens without notifying the authorities, says the suit filed in the U.S. Eastern District of New York Court in Brooklyn. The unidentified predator -- who claimed to be from Connecticut -- put his hands on the girl, made obscene gestures and pressed her for her address and other personal detai…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
TSA Begins Busy July 4th Holiday Period Seizing Gun From Now-Ex JFK Airport Store Employee
An employee at a shop in JFK Airport lost his job after TSA agents caught him carrying a loaded gun in his backpack, authorities said. Port Authority police arrested the Queens resident and seized the .45-caliber handgun, Transportation Security Administration Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. He also was forced to surrender his airport security badge, which is required of everyone who works on the secure side of the airport, Farbstein said. Without it, he couldn't continue working at the retail shop, she said. In addition to his arrest, the man faces a potential fine of up to $15,00…
Kingston, NY
Police & Fire
Man From Region Caught With Gun, Bullets At JFK, TSA Says
A man from the region was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a handgun and bullets in his carry-on bag at a JFK airport security checkpoint. The Sullivan County resident, from the town of Liberty, was charged on Wednesday, April 19 after the unloaded firearm was found alongside five bullets in a gun magazine said TSA officials. The man's name is pending release by the New York New Jersey Port Authority. The handgun was detected when the man entered the security checkpoint with his carry-on items. The checkpoint X-ray unit triggered…
Fort Lee, NJ
Police & Fire
'Not Mine,' Says Traveler Caught With Gun, Ammo At JFK Airport: TSA
An upstate New York man not only insisted he had "no idea" how a gun and ammunition for it ended up in his carry-on bag at JFK Airport, authorities said. "He also claimed the gun didn't belong to him," TSA Spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said. The firearm with a separate box containing five bullets triggered an alarm at a Transportation Security Administration X-ray unit on Wednesday, April 19, Farbstein said. Port Authority police summoned to the checkpoint took the Liberty, NY, man into custody and seized the gun and ammo, she said Thursday. “It is the busy spring travel season," said John…
Hagerstown, MD
News
Drug Distributor From Maryland Cops To 'Expansive' Drug Trafficking Conspiracy: Feds
Federal officials say that a Maryland man has admitted to his role in a wide-ranging drug trafficking conspiracy that spanned several states in the region and now faces a million-dollar fine. Daniel “Danny” Inoa-Rodriguez, 23, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, fentanyl, cocaine base, and cocaine hydrochloride in West Virginia, according to federal investigators. In July 2021, a 30-count indictment was levied against 34 people from West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Dominican Republic. According to prosecuto…
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Crew Turned Boston Logan Airport, Others Into Personal Piggy Banks: DA
A New Jersey man accused of being the driver for a crew of thieves who swiped passenger's luggage filled with cash and jewels from Logan International Airport returns to court this week. Luis Arellano-Corrales, 30, of Paterson, is accused of working with a trio of thieves to steal a woman's bag with more than $13,000 in jewelry and cash inside from the Boston airport in February 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney said. It wasn't exactly an "Ocean's 11" style heist, but it took some coordination to pull off, authorities said. Three men worked as a team to swipe the bag be…
Yonkers, NY
News
Stranded, Seething: 2.5K Southwest Flight Cancellations Leave Passengers In Post-Christmas Mess
More than 2,500 Southwest Airlines flights were canceled and 8,3072 delayed as of Wednesday, Dec. 28, leaving even more passengers across the US stranded and seething. Processes and computer systems that haven't changed since the 1990s are to blame, Captain Casey Murray, the president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, tells CNN. “It’s phones, it’s computers, it’s processing power, it’s the programs used to connect us to airplanes," he said, "that’s where the problem lies, and it’s systemic throughout the whole airline." The federal government said it plans on investigating. Cu…
Fort Lee, NJ
News
Peanut Butter Pistol Time: Gun Parts Stashed In Jars Of Jif Jam Up JFK Airport Traveler
A traveler at JFK Airport might've thought he was smooth, but spread the word: Gun parts hidden in jars of peanut butter aren't going to make it past the TSA. A screener found several parts of a disassembled .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun wrapped in plastic and stuffed into two jars of Jif -- both creamy -- at the Queens airport, the Transportation Security Administration's Lisa Farbstein said. "The gun’s magazine was loaded with bullets," she said. "When the checked bag triggered an alarm in a Terminal 8 X-ray unit, a TSA officer opened the bag and upon closer inspection uncovered the…
Fort Lee, NJ
News
Update
: Tabby Found In Suitcase At JFK Airport Returns Home For Holidays
A frisky feline who was recently rescued from a checked bag at JFK Airport enjoyed Thanksgiving at home, the TSA reports. Smells snuck into a suitcase on an Orlando-bound pre-holiday flight in what the Transportation Security Administration's Lisa Farbstein jokingly called a bid to pursue "a big mouse he heard was running around Disneyworld." The orange tabby "belonged to someone else" in the Brooklyn household and apparently stowed away when no one was looking, Farbstein said at the time. Kitty owners noted that it was paws-able, given cats' love for warm, secure spaces. We’re lettin…
Fort Lee, NJ
News
Look What The TSA Screener Dragged In: Frisky Feline Found In JFK Airport Luggage
It's not what you think: TSA agents at JFK Airport rescued a cat found in a traveler's luggage, but it wasn't caused by someone's cruelty. The orange tabby "belonged to someone else in the household" but apparently hopped into the traveler's suitcase when no one was looking, Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said. It is paws-able, kitty owners say. Good thing the stowaway was found, given the temperatures of pressurized cargo holds during flights. The suitcase had been checked before a flight to Atlanta, with a connector to Melbourne Orlando Airport in Flo…
Newark, NJ
News
Commuters, Others Warm Up With Port Authority Police At 'Coffee With A Cop'
Lines were long at Newark Airport one recent morning, but not for the usual reason. Port Authority police put a twist on the "Coffee With a Cop" initiative by taking java and donuts directly to the public. Instead of meeting with community members at a local coffee shop, the PAPD fanned out to the area transportation hubs that the men and women in blue protect. Port Authority police "Coffee With A Cop" at Newark International Airport.PORT AUTHORITY PD Sweetening the morning Joe were safety and crime prevention tips and other information provided by PAPD command members at: Newark, JF…
Massapequa, NY
News
Irate Passenger Booted From Flight To NY After Tirade Over Lap Dog (
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An altercation over a passenger’s furry flight companion on a plane to New York led to an epic meltdown that was all caught on video and has since gone viral online. The incident occurred Wednesday, Oct. 12, on a Delta flight from Atlanta to JFK, according to a Reddit user who posted a video of the outburst. Flight attendants reportedly asked the woman to remove her dog from her lap and place it in a pet carrier, but she refused. The video then shows flight attendants ordering the woman off the plane, to which she is heard saying, “Oh no, no, honey we are about to fight then.” She then pr…
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