On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, shortly after 12:30 a.m., West New York Police Officers responded to the intersection of 60th Street and Jefferson Street in West New York on a report of a motor vehicle collision. Upon arrival, the responding officers found that two vehicles...
On June 12, 2019, shortly after 11:45 p.m., officers from the North Bergen Police Department responded to the Fountain Motel on Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen on the report of an alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old female victim who had traveled to the...
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, following a seven-week investigation, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Gang Task Force along with officers from several partnering law enforcement agencies involved in the Jersey City Violent Crime Initiative executed multiple search warrants and arrest warrants. Approximately 100 law enforcement...
On Friday, June 7, 2018, Darryl Smith, age 35, of Jersey City, was convicted by a Hudson County jury of Attempted Sexual Assault, a second-degree crime....
On Thursday, June 6, 2019, Jose Morel, age 61, of Jersey City, was found guilty of murdering his wife, 38-year-old Milagros Rodriguez de Morel in Jersey City on October 18, 2017. The Honorable Mitzy Galis-Menendez, P.J.S.C. presided over the bench trial in which she also...
On June 4, 2019, detectives from the Special Victims Unit of the Office of the Hudson County Prosecutor arrested Oscar Juracan-Juracan, age 26, of North Bergen, in connection with an aggravated sexual assault during a burglary which occurred inside a residence on 4th Avenue in...
On May 31, 2019, Michael Hansen, age 40, of North Bergen, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree Death by Auto related to the deaths of Russell Maffei and Marie Tauro in a North Bergen fatal collision that occurred on April 2, 2017....
On May 31, 2019, Superior Court Judge Mirtha Ospina sentenced David Cooper, age 28, of Jersey City to life in state prison for the September 19, 2016, murder of 20-year-old Ahmin Colclough which occurred on Forrest Avenue in Jersey City. Judge Ospina also sentenced Cooper...
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Public Integrity/Insurance Fraud Unit arrested George Tomasik, age 62, of Kenilworth, following an investigation into allegations of insurance fraud....
On Thursday, May 23, 2019, Superior Court Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez sentenced Scott Hahn, age 39, of Hamilton Township, to two 16-year state prison terms for convictions in the Aggravated Manslaughter of Bayonne residents Timothy O’Donnell and Bridget O’Donnell, as well as two five-year state prison...