NEWARK, NJ — Three Essex County correctional officers and one sergeant have been charged with conspiring to violate a pretrial detainee’s civil rights, acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced March 5. Officers Angel Chaparro, 38, Damion James, 40, and Luis Ortiz, 29, and Sgt. Herman Pride, 51, are each charged by complaint with one count […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced March 2 that a Montclair man has been arrested for attempting to lure a boy under the age of 16 for sex and sending child sexual abuse materials via social media to persons he believed were underage. Keith F. Matheis, 67, of Montclair, was arrested March 1 […]
TRENTON, NJ — Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced March 2 that the owner of a Paterson-based school bus company, its manager and the company were indicted for allegedly providing false information to school districts — including in Essex County — in connection with contracts to cover up the fact that the company hired unqualified drivers, […]
NEWARK, NJ — Three Essex County men admitted to conspiring to defraud two banks of $250,000 using stolen credit cards and blank checks, acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced March 4. Alexander Varice, 22, and Dashawn Duncan, 27, both of South Orange, and Nasheed Jackson, 24, of Newark, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield police arrested Elvis Holder, 53, of East Orange, for allegedly pouring an unknown substance on the counter at DJH News Stand and threatening to light the substance on fire if he was not given all the money in the register, according to a Feb. 24 press release. On Monday, Feb. 22, […]
NEWARK, NJ — A corrections officer has been charged with smuggling contraband at the Essex County Correctional Facility, located on Doremus Avenue in Newark, in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-6b, according to a Feb. 25 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Keith Peterman, 29, of Newark, has been charged with knowingly introducing contraband into […]
NEWARK, NJ — A Newark man admitted his role in a large international money laundering conspiracy and to using a stolen identity in furtherance of the scheme, acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced Feb. 18. Edwin Deleon-Batista, 37, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden to an information charging him with one […]
TRENTON, NJ — An Essex County woman admitted to unlawfully possessing stolen mail in Hunterdon and Monmouth counties, acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced Feb. 17. Michele Dearaujo, 37, of Newark, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson to two counts of unlawfully possessing stolen mail. According to documents filed in this […]
NEWARK, NJ — A Hudson County corrections officer has been charged in a Newark double homicide as part of an investigation conducted by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, according to a Feb. 17 press release from the ECPO. John Menendez, a 24-year-old Hudson […]
ORANGE, NJ — Police Director Todd Warren and Chief of Police Vincent Vitiello commend Orange police detectives on removing another weapon off of the streets of the city of Orange, according to a Feb. 17 press release. On Feb. 16, members of the Orange Street Crimes Gang and Narcotics Task Force were seeking an individual […]