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CRIME & SAFETY
Parents Who Provided Car Guilty of Teen Car Accident Death
Sean Smith (40) and Deo Ramnarine (43) received a sentence in what is believed to be the first prosecution of its kind in New York. The charges were for providing the car that their at-the-time-16-year-old son crashed in Queens last May. The driver, who had only a “junior driver’s license,” had not yet earned the privilege of driving without supervision or within the boundaries of New York City. The boy was driving a bright red 2005 BMW E46, which he slammed into a UPS truck while allegedly doing 101 miles per hour in a 35 zone. Tragically, the boy’s passenger, 14-year-old Fortune Williams, was pronounced dead at the scene.
$8K, Oxy, More Drugs Seized From Passaic County Dealers After Wayne Investigation: Cops
A concerned resident tipped Wayne police off, who launched an investigation with help from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, the Haledon Police Department, the Pompton Lakes Police Department and the Wayne Police Patrol Division, police said. Police began surveillance on Louis C. Colao, 50, of Prospect Park, and Armando...
Fire burns through row of stores, destroying popular Fair Lawn bakery
A two-alarm fire burned through a row of stores in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, including a popular bakery.Heavy fire spread through the strip on Fair Lawn Road just after 2:30 a.m. Friday.A Jewish bakery, Zadies Kosher Bake Shop, sustained heavy damage."All our recipes are inside, they are all handwritten, they're four generations old, all on a piece of paper," the owner said. "On Friday, shabbas, we're a kosher bakery, there will be a lot of people here trying to get their stuff. I can't even contact all of the people who have orders for today."A Jewish deli, a restaurant, a...
Driver dies in crash after dangerous multi-town NJ police pursuit
🚨 Driver refused to stop for Bloomfield police in Newark, authorities say. 🚨 Officials say the pursuit continued into Bloomfield and then East Orange. 🚨 Crash with three other vehicles ended the pursuit in East Orange, officials say. A driver was killed and several passengers were injured...
'STAY INSIDE': Police in NJ warn of 'large swarm' after bees attack 3 workers, severely sting 1
Three workers were stung by bees while trimming trees in New Jersey on Thursday morning, leaving one of them with severe injuries, police said as they urged residents to take shelter in their homes.
12 North Jersey residents arrested for alleged gun trafficking as 74 firearms seized
PATERSON — New York authorities seized 74 firearms — including 17 assault weapons — in busting an alleged North Jersey gun-trafficking ring coordinated by a 24-year-old Paterson man who reportedly got help from his 42-year-old mother. Twelve of the 13 people arrested in the takedown lived in Paterson, Hackensack, Wayne, and Passaic, according...
Officials identify man killed in fiery New Jersey crash
CLIFTON, N.J. (PIX11) – Officials identified the man killed in a fiery crash on Route 3 Monday as a 55-year-old from Linden. Luis Santiago, 55, was found dead after the tractor-trailer he was driving burst into flames on the eastbound Route 3 around 9 a.m. Monday, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. The truck […]
North Jersey Doctor and Accomplices Busted in Oxycodone Prescription Scam
Two women from North Jersey have pleaded guilty to helping a local doctor give out thousands of oxycodone pills without any real medical reason. Two women conspired with Dr. Lisa Ferraro to distribute over 36,000 oxycodone pills without a real medical reason. Ferraro prescribed thousands of pills to fake patients...
Another baby has died in NJ this week after being left in hot car
EAST HANOVER — Another infant has died after being left in a car in New Jersey. Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll said East Hanover Police were called after a 6- month-old girl was noticed inside a vehicle parked in a parking lot on South Ridgedale Avenue at Route 10 in East Hanover around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 17. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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