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Hackensack, NJ
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Bergen County Jail Inmate Sexually Assaulted By Violent Paterson Ex-Con, Authorities Charge
An ex-con with a violent history sexually assaulted a fellow inmate in the Bergen County Jail, authorities charged. Nasir Newsome, 25, of Paterson was being housed in the Bergen County Jail under an overflow agreement with Passaic County authorities after being charged with resisting arrest earlier this year, records show. Passaic County is paying Bergen County a little over $100 a bed per night to house each of up to 200 inmates as a means of easing overcrowding while officials determine the fate of the aging jail in Paterson. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said the county sheriff’…
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack Man, 23, Charged With Child Sex Crime At Local Park
A 23-year-old Hackensack man was arrested following what authorities called a sexually inappropriate incident with an underage partner at a local park. Angel Jonathan Cadme-Avendano, who works as a technician for a biomedical engineering company in Allendale, was sent to the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. The NJIT graduate committed the offense at a Hackensack park last month with a minor who was between 16 and 18 at the time, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. "Sexual contact" is defined under state la…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Bergen Prosecutor: Fair Lawn HS Teacher Had Sex, Shared Drugs With Student
UPDATE: A Fair Lawn High School graphic arts teacher had sex and shared drugs with a student, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Detectives from Musella's Special Victims Unit were notified by the Institutional Abuse Investigation Unit of the New Jersey Department of Children and Family on Wednesday that Christine E. Knudsen, 44, had "engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student at the school where she is employed," the prosecutor said. "An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and the Fair Lawn Police Department revealed that Knudsen, of…
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Child
Porn
: Ex-Mahwah Councilman Gets Probation
UPDATE: A former Mahwah councilman who admitted having child porn avoided prison time and won't have to register as a Megan's Law offender thanks to a plea deal. Charles Jandris, a 56-year-old father of two, was sentenced to five years probation in Superior Court in Hackensack late last week as part of the deal. Jandris was operating a children's day care center with his mother when he was arrested in February 2019, authorities said at the time. SEE: A former EMT captain and Mahwah councilman who co-owns and operates a children's day care center with his mother was charged with posses…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Update
: Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland
UPDATE (JULY 31): A bus company employee who stabbed and killed a fellow Palisades Park resident fled to Maryland, where he was captured, authorities said. Jose M. Rivera Mes, 29, remained held in the Prince George’s County Jail in Upper Marlboro, MD pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and weapons charges in Superior Court in Hackensack. Rivera-Mes stabbed Danilo Gonzalez-Flores, 37, with a kitchen knife outside the ShopRite on Roosevelt Avenue shortly after 7 p.m. last Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd been gashed so deeply across his stomach that organ…
Northern Valley, NJ
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Bergen County-Run Nursing Home Closing
Officials promised to help find new "high-quality and compassionate" accommodations for residents of the Bergen County-run Health Care Center in Rockleigh before closing the facility by the end of this year. "The [c]ounty is consolidating its in-patient health care services into one facility, Bergen New Bridge Medical Center [in Paramus], and will guarantee a new home at BNBMC for residents who have not transferred to an alternative long-term care facility by the end of the year," Bergen County Health Department Director/Health Officer Hansel F. Asmar said in a letter to residents, families…
Hackensack, NJ
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Hudson Landscaper Charged With Sexually Assaulting Hackensack Pre-Teen
A landscaper from Union City sexually abused a Hackensack pre-teen, authorities charged. Alejandro Morales, 49, was charged by Hackensack police with aggravated criminal sexual contact, sexual assault by contact and child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The Mexican national’s arrest late last week followed an investigation by city police and Musella’s Special Victims Unit of alleged “sexual conduct” over the course of two years dating back to 2014, reports show. He remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Pro…
Hackensack, NJ
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Hackensack Store Manager Charged With Collecting, Sharing Hundreds Of Child Porn Images
A retail store supervisor from Hackensack was caught collecting and sharing hundreds of child porn images, authorities said Friday. Ryan McVey, a 33-year-old Maywood native, was arrested during a raid Thursday of his Quail Heights apartment on Prospect Street, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit learned that McVey “used the Internet to view, download, and possess more than 400 digital files and distributed multiple digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” the prosecutor said. McVey remain…
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Teterboro Aero School Stabbing: Ridgefield Park Man Seized, North Bergen Victim Hospitalized
A 27-year-old student from Ridgefield Park pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed a classmate in the stomach during an argument at the aeronautics school at Teterboro Airport, authorities confirmed. The 20-year-old victim from North Bergen was reported in stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center following the night-class stabbing shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. The Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad teamed up with HUMC paramedics to treat the victim befor…
Englewood, NJ
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Police: ‘Zoombombers’ Invade Asian-American Virtual Church Service
Several people hijacked a virtual service of a predominately Asian-American church in Englewood, uttering ethnic slurs and posting pornographic images, authorities said. More than 150 congregants and others with the Bergen County church were subject to the bias attack on Zoom, Police Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Saturday. Although invasions of video conferences were once dismissed as trolling, that changed once the spread of COVID-19 made Zoom the app of choice for many forced to communicate remotely. The FBI considers the systemic “weaponization” of Zoom as hate speech and harassme…
Englewood, NJ
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Englewood Police Chief Lawrence Suffern Retires
Englewood Police Chief Lawrence Suffern retired on Wednesday. Suffern, who’d been on vacation and was due to return Wednesday, was Bergen County's only Black police chief. He retired effective Thursday, city officials announced in a release. “Best chief ever to have served our great city,” Mayor Michael Wildes said following the announcement. “Respected in the county and serving since he was 18 years old for the last 33 years.” "What a sad day in Englewood this is!" wrote Rasheed J. Goins. "Thank you for your leadership and serving our community with such grace for all these yea…
Teaneck, NJ
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New Child-Sex Charges Filed Against Onetime Teaneck Personal Trainer, Total Increases To 16
Child sex abuse charges continue to pile up against a former personal fitness trainer from Teaneck. The total number of related counts against August Samek increased to 16 when Bergen County prosecutor's detectives charged him late last week with sexually assaulting a pre-teen. Overall, jail records show that prosecutor's investigators have now charged Samek over the past year and a half with: seven total counts of sexual assault on a victim under 13; two counts of aggravated sexual assault on a victim under 13; five total counts of child endangerment through sexual conduct; two counts o…
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