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Jersey City, NJ
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Victim Of Triple Fatal Jersey City Crash Was Actor With Passion For Entertaining
A 26-year-old Jersey City resident was identified as one of three people killed in a violent crash Monday, Oct. 16. Dylan Weidenfeld was operating the Kia that collided with a BMW on Paterson Plank Road around 12:45 a.m., Hudson County prosecutor Esther Suarez said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Relatives identified Dylan as an actor with a passion for entertaining. Honestly, this is the hardest post I ever thought I would share and the last thing I could have ever imagined would... Posted by Lisa Lieberman-Wang on Monday, October 16, 2023 Two passengers in the BMW, which was ca…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Reckless Manslaughter Among New Charges For Driver In Fatal Route 1&9 Wreck
Additional charges have been filed against a New Jersey driver involved in a fatal wreck, authorities said. Gabriel Melo, a 22-year-old Newark resident, was behind the wheel of a car when it crashed and killed 21-year-old Daniella Rosario, of Bloomfield, last month, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced on Thursday, Oct. 5. Melo was originally charged with death by auto, but is now facing charges of aggravated manslaughter, reckless manslaughter and assault by auto, the prosecutor announced. Melo was operating a 2018 Audi that collided with a tractor trailer on the Rou…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
North Bergen Man Drove Drunk When He Struck Pedestrian: Prosecutors
A 40-year-old North Bergen man was arrested and charged on Tuesday, Oct. 3, after they drove while intoxicated and struck a pedestrian last month, authorities said. On Friday, Sept. 8 at 3:30 a.m., Steven Inoa, was driving a Honda Pilot at Bergenline Avenue and 92nd Street when it struck a 65-year-old woman, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The woman was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Suarez said. Inoa was charged with assault by auto while driving while intoxicated and causing serious bodily injury. He was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office i…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Member Of Notorious Jersey City Street Gang Gets 7½ Years, No Parole, In Stabbing
UPDATE: A member of a ruthless Jersey City street gang must spend the next 7½ years in federal prison for stabbing a rival during an ambush. Sheldon “Thottie” Mays, 23, was among eight members of a street gang at the Curries Woods public housing complex in Greenville who rolled up on the victim in two vehicles, seeking revenge for a previous incident, as he walked down a city street in August 2020. The Tay Tay Shrimp Gang members parked in the middle of the street, hopped out and descended on the victim. They were punching and kicking him, authorities said, when Mays stabbed him, infli…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
DUI Essex County Sheriff's Officer Charged In Wrong-Way Crash That Injured 8: Prosecutor
An Essex County Sheriff's Officer has been charged in a 2022 wrong-way crash that left eight people injured, during which he had been under the influence, authorities in Hudson County said. Michael Johnson, 36, was under the influence when he drove a Jeep Cherokee east in the westbound lanes of the Route 280 entrance ramp near Harrison Avenue around 11:20 p.m. Saturday, June 4, 2022, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Johnson, of Irvington, struck a Chevy Traverse and a Nissan Rogue, leaving eight people injured, Suarez said. He was not on duty at the time of the crash. …
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Man Struck Two Pedestrians In Kearny, Fled Scene: Prosecutors
A 24-year-old Elizabeth resident was charged on Thursday, Sept. 21, with striking two pedestrians in Kearny before fleeing the scene back in February, prosecutors said. On Sunday, Feb. 19, at 6 p.m., Ivo DaSilva-Oliveira struck two women, ages 55 and 77, with his vehicle at the intersection of Belgrove Drive and Wilkinson Terrace, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. DaSilva-Oliveira then left the scene, Suarez said. Both women were transported to University Hospital for treatment, Suarez said. DaSilva-Oliveira was charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle collisio…
Jersey City, NJ
Obituaries
Prominent Attorney, Former Hudson County Prosecutor Harold Ruvoldt Dies, 81
Harold Ruvoldt, Jr. a prominent attorney in North Jersey, died on Sunday, Sept. 17 at the age of 81, according to his obituary. Ruvoldt, who lived in Haworth and Jersey City, was a graduate of St. Peter's College, Seton Hall Law School and Rutgers University Business School, according to his obituary. Ruvoldt was a trial and appellate lawyer working as a partner in private practice while also serving as a Hudson County prosecutor, Hudson County Counsel and Jersey City Counsel, his obituary reads. "I met Harold when he...helped me with a personal legal issue," wrote one mourner …
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Driver Charged In Route 1&9 Crash That Killed Passenger: 'She Slayed Too Hard For This World'
A 22-year-old Newark man has been arrested in connection with a crash that killed a 21-year-old Bloomfield resident on Friday, Sept. 1, authorities said. Gabriel Melo was behind the wheel of the 2018 Audi that collided with the tractor trailer on the Routes 1 & 9 North ramp at Route 139 West, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Melo was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office on Thursday, Sept. 7, Suarez said. Daniella RosarioGoFundMe Melo's passenger, Daniella Rosario, of Bloomfield, and formerly of Paramus and Haledon, ultimately died, while two other passengers…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fairview Pre-Teen Sexually Assaulted By Guatemalan National From North Bergen: Prosecutor
A 25-year-old Guatemalan national who lives in North Bergen was seized after sexually assaulting a pre-teen in neighboring Fairview, authorities charged. Angel Chavix, who works as a construction framer, became the subject of an investigation after the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office contacted their counterparts in late July, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from his Special Victims Unit determined that Chavix “sexually assaulted a child who was under the age of 13 on one occasion in Fairview,” the prosecutor said. The 5-foot-3-inch, 160-pound Chavix was charged wit…
Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey City Woman Used Housing Authority Funds For Own Benefit: Prosecutors
A 53-year-old Jersey City woman was arrested on Thursday, Aug. 10 and charged with using funds for her own benefit from the Jersey City Housing Authority, prosecutors said. Tyest Bryant, in her capacity as a resident board member for the Booker T. Washington Housing Complex misused over $20,000 in funds for her personal benefit between 2017 and 2022, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Bryant is charged with theft by unlawful taking in the third degree, Suarez said. She was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in Secaucus and released on a summons pending a court appea…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
NY Dealer Gets 11 Years, No Parole, For Moving Fentanyl, Meth, Coke By The Pound Into NJ
A dealer who admitted flooding four North Jersey counties with massive quantities of fentanyl, meth and coke is headed to federal prison for more than a decade. Juan Carlos Merced Moreno, 45, of Manhattan must serve out just about all of his plea-bargained 11-year sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Moreno and his partners operated a fentanyl mill in Washington Heights that supplied traffickers in New Jersey with at least 25,000 pills that were distributed throughout the Garden State, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Authorities disco…
Jersey City, NJ
Breaking News
Man Sexually Assaulted Woman In Jersey City: Prosecutors
Vernard Doe, a 43-year-old man was arrested on Friday, July 14 for sexually assaulting a 29-year-old woman in June, prosecutors said. The sexual assault occurred inside a building on Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Doe was known to the victim, Suarez said. Doe was charged with numerous counts of sexual assault and was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in Secaucus. He was transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending his first court appearance on Wednesday, July 19.
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