On July 20, 2019, at approximately 12:45 a.m., the Jersey City Police Department received a report of shots fired in the area of New Heckman Drive in Jersey City. Responding Jersey City Police Officers found two injured males at that location....
On July 19, 2019, Superior Court Judge Patrick Arre sentenced Jeffrey Harley, age 53, of Jersey City to life in state prison for the February 6, 2016, murder of his neighbor, 81-year-old Lucila Cardenas-Viejo. The life sentence is subject to the No Early Release Act...
On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, Silver Iwuchukwu, age 28, of Jersey City, was found guilty by a Hudson County jury of Aggravated Sexual Assault, a first-degree crime, following two days of trial testimony. The jury deliberated for approximately 20 minutes before returning their guilty verdict...
On July 15, 2019, at approximately 7:20 p.m., members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Xavier Patten, age 21, of Bayonne, without incident at the Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City....
On Thursday, July 11, 2019, Superior Court Judge Mark J. Nelson sentenced 21-year-old Kahsaun Bell of Roselle to 18 years in state prison for aggravated manslaughter. Bell pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter on April 16, 2018, in the shooting death of 18-year-old Angel Cruz of...
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Luis Burgos-Santos, age 28, of Bayonne, in connection with a Jersey City sexual assault that reportedly occurred on Saturday, June 29, 2019, at an unknown location in Jersey City....
A Union City man has been arrested and charged for his involvement in the May 5, 2019, head-on collision on Paterson Plank Road in Jersey City that caused the death of Adriana Riano, a 32-year-old woman from North Bergen....
On Tuesday, July 3, 2019, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit charged Darell McRae, age 30, of Jersey City, in connection with two separate Jersey City incidents involving sexual assault that occurred on Monday, July 1, 2019....
On Saturday, June 29, 2019, at approximately 8:50 a.m., members of the Jersey City Police Department responded to a residence in Jersey City on a report of a sexual assault. Responding police officers received a report from a 25-year-old Jersey City woman that she was...
On Saturday, June 29, 2019, shortly after 4:00 a.m., members of the Jersey City Police Department responded to a report of a sexual assault that occurred at the Courtyard by Marriott located at 540 Washington Blvd. in Jersey City....