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Monroe, NY
Police & Fire
Man Who Stepped In Front Of Warwick-Bound Train In NJ Had Just Killed Roommate, Authorities Say
A man struck and killed by a Warwick-bound commuter train in New Jersey on Saturday had just killed his roommate in their illegal basement apartment, authorities said. The body of the 25-year-old victim was found on the floor. He'd been beaten with a blunt object, authorities told Daily Voice. "There was a lot of blood throughout the place," one responder said after city police found the body in the MacArthur Avenue apartment around 10:30 p.m. Saturday and alerted the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Nearly 6½ hours earlier, the victim's 55-year-old roommate stepped in front of an NJ Tra…
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Garfield Train Suicide Victim, Slain Roommate Identified
UPDATE: A man who committed suicide by running in front of a commuter train in Garfield on Saturday hours after law enforcement officials said he beat his roommate to death in their illegal basement apartment was identified Monday, along with the murder victim. Manuel Ortega-Pimentel, 55, "ran into the path" of an NJ Transit train on Saturday and was killed, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "During an attempt to locate next of kin for Ortega-Pimentel, a check of his last known address was conducted and the basement apartment was checked by a resident of the first floor," th…
Hackensack, NJ
Politics
Report: NJ State Investigators Probing Harassment, Immigration Fraud Claims At Trump Golf Club
State authorities were reviewing harassment and immigration-fraud claims raised by former and current undocumented housekeepers at President Trump’s Garden State golf club in Bedminster, the Daily News reported Friday. Attorney Anibal Romero of Newark told the newspaper that investigators from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal’s office contacted him about claims by five of his clients that they’d been “routinely threatened and called racial slurs” while working at the club, the Daily News report says. Romero told the News he also contacted federal authorities. All five claim tha…
Fairfield, CT
News
Sex Offender In Danbury Sent To Prison for Illegally Reentering From Ecuador
A sex offender from Ecuador, who most recently lived in Fairfield County, is heading back to prison after illegally entering the country for the second time. Enrique Fajardo Marin, 40, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States in June. This is the third time he has been arrested while living illegally in the country. Fajardo was convicted in Danbury Superior Court of illegal sexual contact with a minor and risk of injury in December 2011. He was sentenced to a term of 18 years in prison, execution suspended after 10 years, wi…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
ICE Places Detainer On Hackensack Day Laborer Charged With Sexually Assaulting Youngster
A day laborer living in Hackensack was charged with having sex with a young teen. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has placed a detainer on Hugo Remache, a 41-year-old Ecuadoran national, prohibiting a judge from releasing him and calling his immigration status into question. Remache was taken into custody by Hackensack police on Friday following a call for assistance, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He “had engaged in sexual activity with a juvenile under the age of sixteen,” Calo said Tuesday, following an investigation by city police and his Special Victi…
White Plains, NY
Lifestyle
Rally Held For Father Of Three Who Lived In Westchester 18 Years Before Being Deported
A rally was held and thousands of dollars raised for the family of a man who lived in Westchester for nearly two decades before he was taken by ICE agents and deported. Dozens of Westchester residents gathered on Monday in White Plains for Cristobal Paute, who illegally emigrated to the country with his parents 18 years ago from Ecuador. He was deported over the weekend after being picked up by ICE agents at 6 a.m. on Feb. 23. Paute left behind three kids and a wife in Sleepy Hollow. He was first taken to Louisiana, and sent back to Ecuador on Saturday. In response, supporters and immigrat…
Northern Highlands, NJ
Obituaries
Midland Park Student-Athlete Samuel Sullivan Dies, 16
Samuel Joseph Hoon Raphael Sullivan of Midland Park died on Feb. 6. He was 16 years old. Sam was born on Oct. 9, 2001 in South Korea and became part of his family on June 1, 2004 by adoption. Sam was a scholar-athlete at Midland Park High School. He loved fast sports, cars and especially meeting new people. He was the “mayor” of any social event and loved greeting people with enthusiasm and a genuine interest in their lives. Sam was a Star Scout and Den Chief with Midland Park Boy Scout Troop 157, an award winning skipper with the Highland Lakes Sailing Club, varsity runner with the Midlan…
Rutherford, NJ
Police & Fire
ICE Puts Detainers On East Rutherford Restaurant Trio Charged In Gang Rape
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – ICE has placed detainers on three restaurant workers charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman in East Rutherford. Records show that dishwasher Rene Jimenez, 29, and kitchen helper Emeterio Castelan, 25, are both Mexican citizens sharing an East Rutherford apartment across from the borough post office and a day-care center. The third defendant, 20-year-old Luis Tenecela, is an Ecuadoran citizen living in Hackensack. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers allow federal authorities to take custody of the trio for deportation purposes if a loc…
Danbury, CT
News
Ecuadorian In Danbury Who Failed To Register As Sex Offender Is Deported
A 39-year-old resident of Danbury and citizen of Ecuador has been charged with illegally reentering he United States and failing to register as a sex offender. He was deported on Tuesday, according to federal officials. John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that on Feb. 1, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging Enrique Fajardo Marin with one count of illegally reentering the U.S., and one count of violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Fajardo appeared Wednesday, Feb. 7 before U.S. Magistrate Jud…
Mahopac, NY
News
Illegal Immigrant Loses Appeal In Wife's Christmas Eve Murder In Mahopac
An illegal immigrant from Ecuador who was convicted of brutally murdering his teenage wife in Mahopac on Christmas Eve in 2010 has lost an appeal of his conviction. Paul Amay, now 32, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Nov. 2011 for killing 19-year-old Mahopac High School grad Gloria Zhingri in an apartment attached to her parents home. According to Putnam County Sheriff's statements and press releases directly after the murder, Amay, strangled and then stabbed his wife of a year. Her body was discovered by a sheriff's deputy found lying in the apartment after someone asked for a wel…
