Stony Point, NY
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Police Officer Nabbed For Illegally Selling Firearms, Orange County DA Says Police Officer Nabbed For Illegally Selling Firearms, Orange County DA Says Police Officer Nabbed For Illegally Selling Firearms, Orange County DA Says
Police Officer Nabbed For Illegally Selling Firearms, Orange County DA Says An area police officer has been arrested for illegally selling more than five firearms over the past year. Gregg Marinelli, 38, of Plattekill, a police officer with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Police, who holds the rank of Sergeant and is a Team Leader of with an EMS unit located outside of New York City, is accused of manufacturing dozens of handguns and assault rifles, including at least one fully automatic assault rifle, and selling them to individuals who are legally barred from possessing such weapons, said the Orange County District Attorney's Office.  Th…

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by Kathy Reakes
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Prosecutor: Driver In Ridgefield Park I-95 Stop Had Crack, Heroin, Hollow-Nose Bullets Prosecutor: Driver In Ridgefield Park I-95 Stop Had Crack, Heroin, Hollow-Nose Bullets Prosecutor: Driver In Ridgefield Park I-95 Stop Had Crack, Heroin, Hollow-Nose Bullets
Prosecutor: Driver In Ridgefield Park I-95 Stop Had Crack, Heroin, Hollow-Nose Bullets A traffic stop on Route 95 in Ridgefield Park turned up crack, heroin and hollow-point ammunition, authorities said. Jose A. Bello, 22, of Camden was released pending a Nov. 14 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following his arrest Tuesday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Members of Calo's Narcotics Task Force found 51 vials of cocaine, several decks of heroin and $1,125 in suspected drug proceeds, along with the .45-caliber bullets, after they stopped Bello on the southbound highway, Calo said. Bello was charged with illegal drug an…

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by Cecilia Levine
Rutherford, NJ
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Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes
Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes UPDATE: A Jersey City man accused of repeatedly slashing and stabbing a 24-year-old Rutherford woman Monday morning was still wearing blood-stained clothing when he surrendered to authorities who charged him with attempted murder, police told Daily Voice. Family members alerted to the manhunt brought Gabriel Mercado, 22, to the Essex County Sheriff's Department in Newark, where Rutherford detectives picked him up, Capt. Patrick Feliciano said. "He was still wearing clothing with blood on it," Feliciano said. The victim was in surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes
Police: Man Who Slashed, Stabbed Rutherford Woman Surrenders In Blood-Stained Clothes UPDATE: A Jersey City man accused of repeatedly slashing and stabbing a 24-year-old Rutherford woman Monday morning was still wearing blood-stained clothing when he surrendered to authorities who charged him with attempted murder, police told Daily Voice. Family members alerted to the manhunt brought Gabriel Mercado, 22, to the Essex County Sheriff's Department in Newark, where Rutherford detectives picked him up, Capt. Patrick Feliciano said. "He was still wearing clothing with blood on it," Feliciano said. The victim was in surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne Police Nab Pint-Sized Jewelry Store Robbers -- With Help From Owners Wayne Police Nab Pint-Sized Jewelry Store Robbers -- With Help From Owners Wayne Police Nab Pint-Sized Jewelry Store Robbers -- With Help From Owners
Wayne Police Nab Pint-Sized Jewelry Store Robbers -- With Help From Owners A Wayne jewelry store owner and his son helped police catch a pair of armed robbers -- one of whom pointed a shotgun at them and another who sprayed both with Mace, authorities said. They held a female robber until she was taken into custody by police, who later caught her alleged accomplice as he was about to board a plane at Newark Airport. With police headquarters barely 1,000 feet up the block, Lt. Robert Simpson reached Massola Jewelers on Preakness Avenue within seconds of the 11:15 a.m. call Tuesday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Simpson arrested 5-foot, 115-pound Emily Lopa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Blood On The Tracks: Jury Returns Murder Conviction In Paterson Stabbing Blood On The Tracks: Jury Returns Murder Conviction In Paterson Stabbing Blood On The Tracks: Jury Returns Murder Conviction In Paterson Stabbing
Blood On The Tracks: Jury Returns Murder Conviction In Paterson Stabbing PATERSON, N.J. – Following a day of deliberations, jurors in Paterson convicted a Hudson County man of stabbing a city man to death along a stretch of railroad tracks known to attract prostitutes. Samuel Rua III, 33, of Union City was convicted of first-degee murder, along with six illegal weapons counts, following a week-long trial in which prosecutors presented video and other evidence that pointed to him as the killer of Nadjhier Barner-Timmons. Rua stabbed the victim as they walked along the tracks near 26th Street and 18th Avenue in Paterson on April 25, 2015, Assistant Passaic County …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
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Westchester Man Had Marijuana Grow House, Illegal Weapons, Police Say Westchester Man Had Marijuana Grow House, Illegal Weapons, Police Say Westchester Man Had Marijuana Grow House, Illegal Weapons, Police Say
Westchester Man Had Marijuana Grow House, Illegal Weapons, Police Say More than a dozen pounds of marijuana and several illegal weapons were seized by Westchester County Police executing a search warrant at a Cortlandt grow house. County Police detectives launched an investigation into Thomas Corrigan, 53, earlier this year after receiving a tip regarding illegal activity at a residence in the Lake Allendale neighborhood of Cortlandt. On Wednesday, investigators executed the warrant, where they discovered a marijuana grow operation in the basement of the home. Police said that 17 pounds of marijuana and four illegal handguns were seized during the operation. …

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by Zak Failla
Yorktown, NY
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Pair Nabbed With Drugs, Illegal Gravity Knife After Yorktown Stop Pair Nabbed With Drugs, Illegal Gravity Knife After Yorktown Stop Pair Nabbed With Drugs, Illegal Gravity Knife After Yorktown Stop
Pair Nabbed With Drugs, Illegal Gravity Knife After Yorktown Stop A late night Valentine’s Day traffic stop led to multiple charges for a Hudson Valley man violating an Order of Protection while in possession of drugs and an illegal weapon in Yorktown. Officers from the Yorktown Police Department stopped Carmel resident David Gonzalez, 44, at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday while on patrol on Lexington Avenue after he allegedly failed to maintain his lane and had a broken brake light. During the subsequent traffic stop, police said that a driver’s license check determined that Gonzalez was in violation of a duly served Order of Protection involving …

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by Zak Failla