CRIME & SAFETY
School placed on lockdown, streets closed in Bayonne ‘swatting’ incident
Bayonne police are investigating a ‘swatting” incident at William Shemin Midtown School on Avenue A Monday morning that forced students to shelter in place and closed streets around the school. A threat was made against the pre-K through eighth-grade elementary school, which serves approximately 1,200 students, at 9:57...
Bayonne Woman Flees Attempted Robbery Inside ATM Vestibule, Police Make Arrest
BAYONNE, NJ - A Bayonne man was arrested on April 24 and charged in connection with an incident during which he reportedly followed a female victim into the Bank of America and attempted to force her to withdraw $900 in cash. According to Captain Eric Amato, Saliu Konate, 20, was charged with Robbery and Possession of an Imitation Firearm.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER A police reports says that at approximately 7:15 p.m. on April 21, Konate opened the door for the victim from inside the vestibule of Bank of America. When she passed through...
Homicide: Man Shot, Killed Near Jersey City State College
Police responding to a 12:45 a.m. April 30 call on College Street said they found the injured man with a bullet wound in his arm and the dead man near Audubon Avenue. A house on Audubon also was struck, responders said. Witnesses reported seeing a black vehicle speed from the...
NYC firefighter, 36, dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants — leaving his family with nothing
An FDNY firefighter has died of a heart attack just months after he was fired as part of the city’s effort to free up funds for its migrant crisis — leaving his grieving widow and kids struggling to keep a roof over their heads. Derek Floyd, 36, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away April 15, four months after the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple. Floyd was one of about 10 fire department employees who had been...
ParentalAbduction: Jersey City Woman Found In Lodi
Jahlea Jones, 28, was charged with child endangerment, interfering with custody, contempt of court and receiving stolen property, among other offenses, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Jones had taken the child on Wednesday, April 24, knowing that she was not privileged to do so," the prosecutor said. Members of...
Cars careen into fence, store on Staten Island; 2 taken to hospital
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A two-car crash sent two people to the hospital and damaged a retaining wall, fence and storefront along a major street in West Brighton on Tuesday morning. The crash was reported at 10:28 a.m. at Richmond Terrace and Bodine Street, according to a spokesman for...
Cops raid illegal NYC pot shop just one day after defiant worker dared NYPD to shut down the store
It didn’t take much to smoke these guys out. Cops raided an illegal pot shop in Brooklyn Monday – a day after an irate, weed-puffing worker dared authorities to shut down the store and boasted he doesn’t “give a f–k.”. The sheriff’s office and NYPD...
Man stabbed in face and head fighting off early morning Jersey City robbery
A man was stabbed in the face and the head in a robbery early Sunday morning in Jersey City, police said in radio transmissions. Police received a call at 5:20 a.m. that a man was “trying to kill” another man with a knife on Virginia Avenue between West Side and Mallory avenues, according to the radio transmissions. Blood was located inside and outside the building and in the nearby alleyway.
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