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Video Shows Mom 4X Legal Limit Picking Up Child From Montvale Elementary School
The video shared by DriveThruTours shows the DUI investigation and subsequent arrest of Mayowa Kubikisha, 28, outside of Memorial Elementary School on Thursday, May 9, as first reported by Daily Voice. Officers conducted a series of field sobriety tests and found 40 airplane bottles of vodka, a bottle of EJ...
Caught: Couple Charged In Cold-Blooded Killing Of Paterson Man
Mathew X. Amaro, 27, shot Twahee Howard in the area of Chadwick and Weiss streets shortly before 9 p.m. June 2, authorities said. Howard, 44, was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center of multiple gunshot wounds a short time later. Amaro is charged with murder, conspiracy, and...
Boy, 13, plunges to his death from five story parking garage roof while playing on bikes with friends
A teenager from the New York City suburb of Westchester fatally fell from the roof of a parking garage while riding his bike, plummetting to his death.Mark Anthony Giordano, an eighth-grade student, was riding his bicycle with some friends on the roof of the Harrison train station parking garage on June 9, when he was propelled off his bike, crashing down five stories, News 12 reported.“The events surrounding his death are under investigation,” the Harrison Town Clerk wrote in a statement. The Independent has reached out to the Harrison Police for more information.Giordano was a “gentle soul and dedicated...
NY teen died after freak e-bike accident catapulted him from 5-story train station garage: officials
A Westchester County eighth grader who was killed in a fall from a five-story parking garage had been catapulted from his e-bike in a freak crash, officials revealed Tuesday. Mark Anthony Giordano, 13, was riding bikes with a group of five friends on top of a garage for the Harrison Metro-North station on Halstead Avenue at about 5:45 p.m. on Sunday when he plunged over the side of the building, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Tuesday. His body was found on the ground nearby, the statement said. First responders rushed him to White Plains Hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival. Video...
‘Main player’ in Bronx drug mill that posed as day care will likely get decades in prison after tot died from fentanyl poisoning
The “main player” in the Bronx drug mill that posed as a day care center — and eventually led to a toddler’s death from fentanyl poisoning — has pleaded guilty and will likely spend decades behind bars, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Felix Herrera Garcia admitted that he’s guilty of all of the charges he’d faced — including conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death — after four kids under the age of 3 were poisoned by the drugs he and his compatriots were dealing at Divino Niño Daycare in Kingsbridge. One of the kids — 1-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici — died last September due to what the city medical examiner’s office ruled a...
Fleeing Suspected Car Thief 19, Plunges To Death At George Washington Bridge
The 19-year-old driver fled from a traffic stop by officers from the NYPD's 52nd Precinct in the Bronx shortly before 1:30 a.m. June 9, they said. The vehicle apparently gave out, at which point the driver bailed and bolted. He was running along the Henry Hudson Parkway toward the southbound...
Bergen-Lafayette Gang Members Charged in Federal Court
Two Jersey City men affiliated with a neighborhood street gang in Bergen-Lafayette are facing federal charges in connection with the distribution of cocaine and heroin. According to documents filed by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Anthony Phillips, aka “Ant,” aka “Little Ant,” 31, and Shannon Tisdale, aka “Doonk,” 32, both from Jersey City, distributed narcotics in the area of Lexington and Bergen avenues in Jersey City, as part of “Lex Mob,” a neighborhood street gang.
NY man charged in Park Ridge crash that left pedestrian seriously injured
A New York man has been arrested on charges of assault by auto and driving while intoxicated in a Park Ridge crash that left a pedestrian seriously injured, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Mark D. Carroll, 65, of Oak Hill, struck a pedestrian on Brae Boulevard in Park Ridge on Saturday...
This North Jersey man's car was stolen. Police found it. Then he got a $419 bill
PATERSON — After his SUV was stolen on May 27, Roshean Mitchell was happy to hear that Paterson police found the vehicle two days later. But when Mitchell went to pick up the Kia Sorento the next morning, he felt victimized all over again. That’s because the company Paterson...
3 N.J. men sentenced in homemade gun sale operation
Three men who ran a homemade gun sale operation have been sentenced to federal prison. The trio participated in the manufacturing and selling of personally made firearms or “ghost guns,” which took place in Hudson and Passaic counties, officials said. Corey Jenkins Jr., 31, of Paterson, was sentenced...
Video shows chaos erupt in NYC coffee shop after stabbing
The NYPD is looking for four males seen running from a Manhattan coffee shop where all-out chaos erupted after a group chased someone inside and stabbed him, authorities say. Surveillance cameras captured the chain of events, starting with a shirtless man stumbling into Milo Coffee Shop on Amsterdam Avenue around 6 p.m. Tuesday, and heading toward the back. Someone appearing to have been chasing him stops at the door. A short time later, a group of males enters the store and one of them stabs him in the neck.
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