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Newark Man Sentenced To 15 Years For Aggravated Sexual Assault; Defendant Shot After Pointing Weapon at Police Officer
Thu, 07/16/2009 - 00:07 — admin
By The Alternative Press Staff
7/14/2009
Police on patrol nab man who fired gun in downtown Newark
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 08:03 — admin
NEWARK — A patrolling police officer captured a 21-year-old city resident minutes after he had fired his gun near the busy downtown area yesterday, police said.
Morning gunfire in Newark wounds man, 7-year-old gir
Mon, 01/09/2012 - 16:03 — admin
NEWARK — A spray of gunfire left an unidentified man and a 7-year-old girl injured this morning in the city's Central Ward, police said tonight.
Chilling details emerge in Newark schoolyard murders, as suspect pleads guilty
Mon, 12/26/2011 - 22:42 — admin
NEWARK — Providing the most detailed account yet of the night four college-aged friends were shot execution-style in a Newark schoolyard, one of the accused killers pleaded guilty Friday to reduced charges in exchange for his testimony against another defendant whose murder trial is just days away.
Ex-convict charged with strangling woman in Newark was a friend, authorities say
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 04:07 — adminBy
NEWARK — Authorities now say a 32-year-old ex-convict charged with strangling his co-worker in her car last month in Newark was a friend of the married mother of two, though a motive for the killing remains unclear.
N.J. woman pleads not guilty to giving man fatal penis enhancement injection
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 04:06 — adminBy
NEWARK — A 34-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to homicide charges today for allegedly administering a silicone injection into the penis of a 22-year-old man, who later died.
Newark cop fires gunshots at suspect in West Ward
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 04:01 — admin
NEWARK— A police officer who happened upon a shooting while off-duty in a Newark West Ward neighborhood today fired gunshots at the gunman, police said.
When shots rang out about 4 p.m. near Mount Vernon Place and Eastern Parkway, the officer went to investigate and found a wounded person on the ground, said Sgt. Ron Glover, a city police spokesman.
Shootings, stabbing mark bloody weekend in Newark
Mon, 11/14/2011 - 17:57 — admin
NEWARK — A violent 48 hours in Newark left several people hospitalized during a string of shootings, stabbings and carjackings in the state’s largest city.
Paterson man, Newark woman charged in shooting death of Detective Michael Morgan
Fri, 11/11/2011 - 08:05 — admin
PATERSON — The man accused of killing an off-duty Newark detective earlier this week outside a Paterson nightclub was arrested near Philadelphia this morning with his 19-year-old girlfriend, authorities said.
Newark man arrested for alleged possession of hundreds of heroin packets
Fri, 11/11/2011 - 08:01 — admin
NEWARK — Detectives from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office executing a search warrant arrested a 34-year-old man caught trying to hide a plastic bag containing hundreds of heroin packets, authorities said.