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Cecilia Levine

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NJ Man Convicted Of Killing 2 Siblings, College Student Over Facebook Post An Essex County man has been convicted of killing a female college student and two juvenile siblings, and trying to kill three other victims who were ultimately saved by responders in 2016, authorities said. The attack was apparently prompted by a comment on Facebook. Jeremy Arrington, 31, broke into the Whitehurst family home on Hedden Terrace in Newark with a loaded gun in November 2016, and tied up everyone who was inside of the home, authorities said citing arguments from 25 witnesses. There, Arrington shot and killed 23-year-old Syasia McBurroughs, stabbed 7-year-old&nbs…

by Cecilia Levine

03/06/2022

Police & Fire

Kearny Police Release Details In Hours-Long SWAT Standoff Police in Kearny have released details in an hours-long SWAT standoff that ended peacefully on Saturday, March 5. Officers and a mental health screener from Jersey City Medical Center’s Mobile Crisis Unit were trying to perform a welfare check on a man inside of a home near Webster and Passaic avenues when he barricaded himself inside around 8:45 a.m., KPD Chief George King said. The man may have been experiencing a mental health crisis and may have displayed a shotgun, authorities later learned. With assistance from the Hudson County Regional SWAT Team, Kearny Police officers secured…

by Cecilia Levine

03/06/2022

Police & Fire

IDs Sought For Pair In Gunpoint Baltimore Rape: Police Police in Baltimore are seeking the identity of two individuals wanted for raping a female victim at gunpoint last month, they said. The victim was walking on the 2500 block of Garrison Boulevard when two unknown males driving in a white 4-door sedan pulled up around 10 p.m. on Feb. 11, city police said. The passenger, Suspect 2, got out and pulled out a gun, forcing the woman to the back of an apartment building on the 2600 block of the road, police said. Once there, he proceeded to rape her while Suspect 1, the driver, stood by and acted as a lookout, authorities said. Suspect…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

Schools

North Jersey High School Placed On Lockdown After Student Shows Up With Gun: Police A Union County high school was placed on lockdown when a student brought handgun to school Friday, March 4, authorities said. The Arthur L. Johnson High School student was taken into custody and the firearm was recovered, Clark police said. Members of the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, Union County Police Department and Union County Sheriff’s Office responded to help secure the building. The juvenile student was arrested on weapons related offenses.

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

Police & Fire

Mom Wanted In NJ Motel Child Abuse Case That Gravely Injured 3-Year-Old Daughter: Prosecutor A 21-year-old woman is wanted in connection with a child abuse case that left her 3-year-old daughter fighting for her life, authorities said. Shaqwana Baker brought her daughter to NYU Langone Hospital on Jan. 23 with life-threatening injuries suffered at a motel in North Bergen, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Baker's boyfriend, Edward Smith, 29, of Far Rockaway New York, was also at the motel. Baker's daughter was later transported to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Bellevue Hospital, where she is receiving treatment for the injuries that are&n…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

Police & Fire

Murder Victim Found At Eagle Rock Reservation ID'd As NYC Man, 31 The victim of a homicide whose body was found last week at Eagle Rock Reservation has been identified as a 31-year-old man from New York City, authorities announced. Kelsey Steels' body was discovered by hikers along a trail inside of the West Orange on Friday, March 4, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said. He was believed to have been shot and killed, Stephens said. Steels was pronounced dead at the scene around 2:15 p.m. No arrests had been made as of Friday, March 11. No suspects have been identified. Anyone with information is asked to contact the E…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

Police & Fire

Maryland Couple Killed Elderly Man Then Stole His Car: Authorities A Maryland couple were arrested on accusations they killed an elderly man whom they knew then stole his car, authorities in Maryland said. Ashley Pearl Zentz, 34, and Armando Moreno, Jr., 50 — both of Edgewood — were charged in the February murder of Gerald Wayne Champ after his car was found in Baltimore County, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. Champ, 71, was found dead in his home on Perry Avenue in Edgewood on Feb. 18, authorities said. His body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsy, where it was determined he died from trauma to the u…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

Police & Fire

NJ Man Bound, Tortured Ex For 6 Hours Days After Prison Release: Prosecutor A 43-year-old man has been convicted of kidnapping an ex-romantic partner, bound him with duct tape, strangled him and forced him to take sleeping pills with alcohol — just hours after being released from jail, authorities in Essex County said. The jury remained deadlocked on the charge of attempted murder against James Pilotti, 43, of Union City, who was ultimately convicted of several other charges including strangulation on a domestic violence victim, weapon offenses, assault and more, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said. The horrifying act took p…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

News

Russia-Ukraine Conflict Has NJ's Gas Prices Hovering Just Below $4 Gas prices in New Jersey are skyrocketing due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hovering just under $4 a gallon. The national average for a gallon of regular gas shot up 11 cents to $3.72 as of Wednesday since Monday, AAA reports. Surging oil prices will likely cause the price at the pump to climb even higher, experts say. Have #gasprices spiked where you live? 🚀 😳 Yesterday alone we saw the national average price of gas rise almost 6¢/gal. — GasBuddy (@GasBuddy) March 3, 2022 West Texas Intermediate climbed to $7.19, settling at $110.60 by the end of Wednesday's formal trading session…

by Cecilia Levine

03/04/2022

News

Woman Lost 'Ride Or Die' Man Before Being Found Dead In PA Basement A Pennsylvania woman found dead in the basement of a home where a belligerent man was shot and killed by police trying to perform a welfare check on the descendant is being mourned by those who knew her. As if the circumstances around Angela “Angie” Grace Faidley's death were not depressing enough, it later came to light that she died just three days after her partner, identified only as "Tom." Faidley, 45, of Connellsville, was discovered by authorities in the basement of a home in Connellsville Borough on Tuesday, March 1 around 4:30 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police said. The cause of dea…

by Cecilia Levine & Jillian Pikora

03/04/2022

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