Passaic County, NJ

Three people were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Rosa Parks Boulevard late Saturday afternoon, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Police said the three men, 30, 24, and 27, all of Paterson, were struck by gunfire at around 4:50 p.m. on Rosa Parks Boulevard and Keen Street. The...

Two teenagers were wounded in a shooting on Market Street late Friday night, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. The victims, both 14-year-old, were struck by gunfire on Market and Madison streets at around 10:40 p.m. Police located one victim at the scene suffering from a gunshot wound. A...

A city man has been indicted for allegedly sexually abusing an 11-year-old child, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Odell Avent, 43-year-old, has been indicted by a grand jury on aggravated sexual assault, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and attempted aggravated sexual assault.

A Paterson man has been sentenced to three years in state prison for engaging in sexual conduct with a 13-year-old Wayne girl left in his care, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Joseph Montgomery, 33-year-old, previously pleaded guilty to second-degree endangering the welfare of a child for engaging in...

A police officer has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, official misconduct for allegedly attacking a victim, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Spencer Finch, 44, of Mahwah, has been charged with official misconduct, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and tampering with public...

ROXBURY – Passaic Valley has been as exciting as any softball team in North Jersey this season not only for the wealth of talent and senior leadership, but mostly for the Hornets’ penchant for late comeback victories in big games. So, when taking on a similarly talented squad in Roxbury with a section title at stake there was no panic when they quickly fell behind. It was a position the Hornets had been in before and thrived in throughout one of the best seasons in school history.

A Jersey Cash 5 lottery ticket worth $496,702 was sold for Thursday’s drawing in Passaic County. The lucky ticket was bought at Union Food Stores on Union Boulevard in Totowa, New Jersey Lottery officials said Friday. Thursday’s winning numbers were: 18, 29, 35, 40 and 41. The XTRA number was:...

HALEDON, NJ – Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Haledon Police Chief Angelo J. Daniele. announce that at approximately 4:24 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, 2021, police responded to the area. of Haledon Avenue and Belmont Avenue in the Borough of Haledon in response to a report of. a...

HALEDON — Police in this Passaic County borough say a woman was struck and killed by an NJ Transit bus Thursday afternoon. According to the county prosecutor's office, a 67-year-old female pedestrian was walking across Haledon Avenue near the intersection with Belmont Avenue when the bus, making a left turn, hit her.

A city man has been indicted for witness tampering in a child sex abuse case for allegedly getting the victim to recant sexual assault allegations, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Ramon Cabrera, 41-year-old, was indicted on third-degree witness tampering.by a Passaic County grand jury. Cabrera allegedly engaged in...

Options for housing the state’s marijuana industry in North Jersey are going up in flames. Since April, officials in more than three dozen communities in Bergen and Passaic have enacted or passed ordinances restricting all six classes of the cannabis business: growers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and deliverers. On June 9, Pompton Lakes councilors confirmed their city’s place on the list.

Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) plan to flow more natural gas to Westchester and New York City is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford (Passaic County), just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY. Two weeks ago we told you area residents and leftwing environmentalists had convinced the county to officially oppose the project (see NJ County Opposes TGP NatGas Compressor Station to Help NYC). In a major about-face, the county has all-of-a-sudden pulled back its opposition.

New York State has banned fracking for natural gas, yet the line is due to carry gas extracted through fracking into the state. Two weeks after blasting the Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s East 300 Upgrade Project, Passaic County's Board of Commissioners on Tuesday pulled a proposed resolution opposing the affiliated construction of a natural gas compressor station in West Milford.

ASBURY PARK - A 74-year-old city man was charged with burglary and theft after he admitted to stealing approximately $15,000 worth of tools from a construction site this past weekend, according to Sgt. Michael Casey. After discovering an active warrant for burglary out of Passaic County, police arrested Andray Glover...

A New Jersey police officer was arrested for allegedly attacking someone with a flashlight while he was on duty last month, prosecutors said Friday.

After less than two years on the job, health and human services director Oshin Castillo has resigned, according to municipal officials. She was hired by mayor Andre Sayegh in September 2019 for $92,000. She had little experience in human services, but shadowed the Passaic County human services director for about a year, officials said at the time.

A Passaic County man who was part of a large-scale cocaine trafficking ring and was found with several kilograms of the drug was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Claire C. Cecchi sentenced Narcisco Ramirez, 46, of Passaic, to 120 months in prison for being part of the drug trafficking ring, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Ramirez, along with two-conspirators, previously pleaded guilty January 2020 to his part in the drug distribution operation.