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Barbershop worker slashed in Clifton
CLIFTON — Police are looking for a man who slashed a barbershop worker from his face to his chest in what investigators believe was a random act of violence. The 20-year-old employee at a Lexington Avenue barbershop was closing up just after 10 p.m. Tuesday when a man in his 20s walked in and slashed [...]
Clifton police seek suspects in two stabbings
BY MARLENE NAANES STAFF WRITER The Record Print | E-mail CLIFTON — Police arrested an 18-year-old and are seeking another suspect in two stabbings that happened during a brawl that broke out after a house party this weekend, authorities said. The brawl stemmed from a comment made about someone’s song selection during the house party [...]
Keller Williams Realty celebrates 3rd Annual Red Day
Clifton– Keller Williams Realty the second largest real estate company in the nation celebrated it’s third Annual Red Day Event. Dozens of volunteers from the Clifton office collected donations, and assembled care packages that will be sent to our troops that are fighting for our freedom over seas. ” Renew, energize, and donate” are some [...]
Charges against Clifton councilwoman to face grand jury review
BY JOHN PETRICK The Record STAFF WRITER The prosecution forwarded assault charges against Clifton Councilwoman Mary Sadrakula Wednesday to a Passaic County grand jury for possible further action. MICHAEL KARAS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Councilwoman Mary Sadrakula during a meeting at town hall in July 2010. Sadrakula made a brief scheduled appearance Wednesday with her attorney [...]
Burglars caught due to colorful pajamas, say police
CLIFTON — Bright-colored pajama pants led to the capture of two burglars in the act on Sunday, said detective Capt. Robert Rowan. An off duty Clifton deputy fire chief was on Phyllis Place when he noticed a couple trying to break into a home, Rowan said. The female’s white pajama pants with bright red hearts [...]
Embattled Clifton High principal steps down
CLIFTON — Clifton High School Principal Jimmie Warren has resigned from the school district four months after the mother of two high school students accused him of criminal sexual contact and filed a civil lawsuit against Warren and the school district. MICHAEL KARAS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER JIMMIE WARREN Warren, 66, who served as the principal [...]
Fire in Clifton claims life of elderly man despite rescue attempt
Monday, March 7, 2011 Last updated: Monday March 7, 2011, 11:06 AM BY DEENA YELLIN AND MICHELLE LEE The Record STAFF WRITER CLIFTON – Police officers arriving at a raging fire borrowed a ladder from a neighbor and hoisted it to a second-floor window but an elderly man remained in a chair in his bedroom [...]
Clifton man charged with sexually assaulting 13-year-old Bloomfield girl
Friday, March 4, 2011 Last updated: Friday March 4, 2011, 1:11 AM BY ALBINA SPORTELLI Clifton Journal EDITOR Colon, Jr. CLIFTON – A Clifton man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Bloomfield girl. Victor Colon, Jr., 59, of Clifton, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated criminal sexual [...]
Council meeting draws crowd
BY ALBINA SPORTELLI Clifton Journal EDITOR CLIFTON — Councilwoman Mary Sadrakula has been charged with an additional crime stemming from the Feb. 20, emergency 911 call from her Dwasline Road home. Detective Lt. Robert Bielsten, a member of the Special Investigations Divisions formerly known as Internal Affairs, consulted with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s office and [...]
Clifton man accused of passing counterfeit bills in Hackensack, North Bergen
BY MARLENE NAANES NorthJersey.com STAFF WRITER NORTH BERGEN — Police arrested a Clifton man Tuesday for using counterfeit $100 bills at a township deli and two Hackensack McDonald’s restaurants, authorities said. LAW ENFORCEMENT PHOTO Samuel Garcia-Fuentes, 29. Police in both Hackensack and North Bergen arrested Samuel Garcia-Fuentes, 29, in separate cases. In North Bergen, he [...]
Clifton bus passenger stabs another in argument about seat
MARLENE NAANES The Record STAFF WRITER CLIFTON — A bus rider slashed another passenger during an argument over a seat and fled on another bus, police said. The men argued about the seat on a minibus that runs between New York City and Paterson and Passaic. One of the passengers slashed the other and fled [...]
Clifton temple proposal generating lots of heat, but still no decision
BY DEENA YELLIN The Record STAFF WRITER CLIFTON — The question is a simple one, but the answer is proving complex and laden with explosive emotion: Which municipal review board should be hearing plans to construct a temple? MICHAEL KARAS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Opponents of the Shomrei Torah temple project waved signs accusing board Vice [...]
Construction worker dies after being hit by car on Garden State Parkway
CLIFTON — A 44-year-old construction worker was killed early Thursday morning when he was hit by a car on the Garden State Parkway, police said. Albert Marques, of Staten Island, N.Y., was crossing the roadway near a construction site at the Colfax Street overpass about 1:40 a.m. when he was hit in the center lane [...]
Former N.J. union leader from Clifton gets 33 months in mob scheme
BY JUSTO BAUTISTA The Record STAFF WRITER A former labor union business manager from Clifton who conspired with reputed organized crime figures to provide jobs to friends and criminal associates was sentenced on Monday to 33 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said. Michael Urgola, 50, formerly served as business manager for Local [...]
Two attackers admit to beating 15-year-old in Clifton
CLIFTON — Police arrested two teens in an attack that left a 15-year-old city boy injured and frostbitten, authorities said. Clifton Police Detective Capt. Robert Rowan said the incident began when a 14-year-old Clifton High School student suspected another teen had propositioned his girlfriend. He recruited a 16-year-old friend, also a high school student, to [...]
Clifton police search for grocery store robber
CLIFTON — A man walked into a store asking about the price of soap before robbing the clerk at knifepoint and running off with $300 and the soap, police said. The man walked into Barrales Grocery on Main Avenue about 6:45 p.m. Friday, picked up a bar of soap in the back of the store [...]
CHS student charged with stealing teacher’s money
CLIFTON – A 16-year-old Clifton High School student was charged with stealing cash from his teacher’s purse. According to police reports, the teacher reported about $500 in cash was stolen from her purse on Jan. 3 at 12:40 p.m., said detective Capt. Robert Rowan. The teacher was approached by other students who reported a student [...]
Car hits Clifton teen pedestrian, seriously injures him
CLIFTON — A 15-year-old city boy was seriously injured when a car hit him as he crossed Route 46 Sunday night, police said. A Honda Civic driving west on Route 46 hit the boy at Seventh Street just before 8:30 p.m., a police statement said. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center with [...]
Man threatened with handgun at Clifton gas station
CLIFTON — A Brooklyn man armed with an automatic weapon allegedly threatened to “put a hole in” a gas station owner and a 17-year-old attendant outside the Sunoco station across the street from police headquarters, authorities said. CLIFTON PD Police say Thomas Davtian, 27, of Brooklyn, was arguing with gas station owner, Gagik Grigorian, 44, [...]
Residents angered by Clifton’s response to blizzard aftermath
CLIFTON — Several city residents say they’re so dissatisfied with the city’s snow-removal performance after last week’s blizzard that they’ll show up in force for the council meeting tonight to voice their anger. “It was deplorable, pathetic,” said Anthony Disalvo of Breezy Hill Court about the lack of attention to his neighborhood. “They never showed [...]
Man charged with having knives, Taser
CLIFTON — Police have arrested and charged a Clifton man with possession of three knives and a 50,000 volt Taser. Police Officer Charles Kling stopped a 2011 Toyota Sienna for a motor vehicle infraction on Harding Avenue at Fifth Street on Dec. 20 at about 5 p.m. and believed something was amiss as he talked [...]
Bail for suspected child rapist set at $1 million
A judge has set a $1 million bail for a suspected child rapist who returned from Peru Wednesday to face charges in the Clifton attack, authorities said. TYSON TRISH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Leonardo Quintero, with Public Defender Margaret Kean, was in court Thursday. Leonardo Quintero, 20, of Paterson, was in county jail Thursday morning and expected at [...]
Suspected child rapist who fled to Peru taken into custody by Clifton police
CLIFTON — A suspected child rapist who fled to Peru last week was transported to the Clifton Police Department after detectives took him into custody at Newark Liberty International Airport Wednesday morning. Leonardo Quintero, 20, ofPaterson, returned voluntarily after his family convinced him to return from Lima, Peru, said Detective Capt. Robert Rowan. He left the [...]
Police say they found car used to transport 12-year-old who was raped
Thursday, December 23, 2010 Last updated: Thursday December 23, 2010, 1:32 PM BY MARLENE NAANES NorthJersey.com Staff Writer CLIFTON — Investigators found the car used to transport a 12-year-old Paterson girl to a city apartment where she was videotaped while two men raped her, police said Thursday. Detective Sgt. Robert Bracken found the car at [...]
Clifton man arraigned in alleged rape of 12-year-old girl; accomplice flees country
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 Last updated: Wednesday December 22, 2010, 4:18 PM BY JOHN PETRICK AND MARLENE NAANES The Record STAFF WRITERS As a 19-year-old Turkish native was arraigned in state court Wednesday in the kidnapping, intoxication, rape and videotaping of a Paterson fourth-grader in the basement of a Clifton apartment building, police reported that [...]
Second suspect in Clifton jewelry theft turns himself in
Second suspect in Clifton jewelry theft turns himself in Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Last updated: Tuesday November 16, 2010, 11:12 PM BY KAREN SUDOL The Record STAFF WRITER CLIFTON — The second of three suspects wanted for their alleged roles in a jewelry store theft and subsequent chase on Monday turned himself into police Tuesday [...]
Clifton commercial building damaged by fire.
A four-alarm fire damaged a large commercial building on Main Avenue Sunday night, a fire official said. The fire at 1154 Main Ave. was reported shortly after 9 p.m. when smoke was seen pouring from the 2 1/2-story building. Firefighters from eight surrounding communities were called in to help city firefighters battle the “at least four-alarm” [...]
