Elmwood Park
CRIME & SAFETY
Responders put out fire at Marcal Paper Plant in Elmwood Park
ELMWOOD PARK − History fortunately did not repeat itself Friday when a fire broke out at Marcal Paper as an afternoon blaze was extinguished with no injuries. This factory was the site of a devastating fire back in 2019 that destroyed 30 of the 36 structures that stood on the property including...
'She Was A Survivor:' Loved Ones Mourn Loss Of Woman, 32, Killed By Train In Garfield
She was a two-time liver transplant recipient. She was nine months sober. The 32-year-old Wallington resident had a new boyfriend, Richard Black, and the two were in love. But on Wednesday, July 3, Tara died by suicide, throwing herself in front of a train near the Plauderville Station in Garfield, behind her boyfriend's home, loved ones and NJ Transit officials tell Daily Voice.
Investigations into Paterson Shootings Lead to Multiple Arrests
PATERSON, NJ - Law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of three individuals as well as charges against a juvenile in connection with multiple shooting incidents in Paterson. The arrests were made following a collaborative investigation by the Paterson Police Department Shooting Investigation Unit, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, the New Jersey State Police Violent & Organized Crime Control North Bureau, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER June 4 Shooting Gabriel Mercado, a 23-year-old resident of Lodi, New Jersey, was apprehended on June 27, 2024, in connection...
11-year-old survivor of deadly July 4th NYC crash faces long road to recovery: ‘He witnessed everything’
The youngest victim of the suspected drunk driver who plowed into a Fourth of July celebration on the Lower East Side faces a long road to recovery — after narrowly escaping with his life and losing the father-figure who raised him in the horrific crash. Jakob Velazquez, 11, was cared for almost his entire life by Herman Pinkney, who was one of the three people killed when self-proclaimed “addict” Daniel Christopher Hyden, 44, allegedly drunkenly ran his 5,000-pound pickup truck into a group of revelers at Corlears Hook Park Thursday night. “Jakob is very emotional,” his grandmother Donna Rosario, 59, told The...
Paterson Police Investigating Friday Morning Shooting
PATERSON, NJ - A Passaic man that showed up at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center for treatment of a non-fatal gunshot wound early Friday morning was struck by gunfire in the area of Park Avenue and East 18th Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Department Officer-In- Charge Isa Abbassi announced. The incident remains under investigation. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office asks anyone with additional information about this incident to contact them on their tips line at 1-877-370-PCPO or tips@passaiccountynj.org or to contact the Paterson Police Shooting Investigation Unit at 973-321-1342. For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
NJ officer charged with DUI had wine bottle in police cruiser, video shows
HARRISON — A police officer charged with DUI after a patrol car crash months ago had a full wine bottle inside his cruiser at the time, as seen in body camera footage from responding officers. East Newark Patrolman Brian Aparicio was arrested after field sobriety tests, during the early-morning...
Video shows road rage lead to innocent bystander stabbed to death in Bronx
NEW YORK -- Family members of an innocent young father stabbed to death in the Bronx are calling for justice after they say he was killed for simply witnessing a road rage incident. The victim's sister told CBS New York the suspect should turn himself in. Friends started to leave candles Wednesday for 29-year-old Ronald Gomez-Mesa, who they say was loved and well known in the Morris Heights neighborhood. They said he was just hanging out on Tuesday afternoon when he got caught in the middle of a road rage incident he wasn't even involved in. "Now we're not gonna...
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