Pair Charged With Killing Prospect Park Man Who Was Beaten, Thrown In Passaic River To Drown
Two Prospect Park men were charged with the murder of another man whom authorities said they beat and threw into the Passaic River to drown.
Jorge Alcalde-Alfaro, 26, "was beaten up pretty good, but he was still technically alive when he got tossed in the river," an investigative source with direct knowledge of the homicide told Daily Voice at the time.
On Saturday, authorities announced that they'd charged Luis Salas, 27, and Jonathan Cristobal, 23, with the May 1 killing in Westside Park in Paterson.
Paterson and Prospect Park police handled the arrests following an investigati…
Lyndhurst Crash Sends Car Into One Church, Truck Into Other: Driver, 92, OK
LYNDHURST, N.J. -- Two tree company drivers accidentally sandwiched a 92-year-old motorist between their trucks, sending his car onto the stairs of one Lyndhurst church and one of theirs into another one across the street, police said.
The elderly driver wasn't seriously injured in Friday's mishap, authorities said.
However, the United Presbyterian Church on Ridge Road sustained some damage, including a "Spring Fling & Craft Fair" sign that police helped reattach to the portico.
The first truck had stopped, as did the passenger vehicle, Police Chief James O'Connor said.
The …
