All Entries in the "PASSAIC" Category
Man beaten in arrest caught on video receives city settlement
Saturday, July 16, 2011 BY RICHARD COWEN STAFF WRITER The Record Print | E-mail Ronnie Holloway, the schizophrenic man beaten by Passaic Police Officer Joseph Rios III during an arrest two years ago, accepted a $350,000 settlement earlier this year in which he agreed not to sue the city, documents show. Buy this photo The [...]
Passaic man arrested in ATM robbery
CLIFTON — Police on Friday arrested a Passaic man in connection with the June 10 robbery of a local man as he withdrew money from a Ackerman Avenue ATM. Capture from a surveillance camera footage of an alleged robbery inside the Kathy Grocery bodega on Ackerman Avenue in Clifton. Capture from a surveillance camera footage [...]
Passaic’s 3rd Ward is Traditional Swing District in Council Race
BY ALEXANDER MACINNES The Record Staff Writer City’s 3rd often crucial to candidates’ success LESLIE BARBARO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Buy this photo LaTasha Mann and fellow volunteers join Kasim Washington, a candidate for City Council in Passaic, to kick off the fundraising event for the families displaced by the recent fire Saturday in Passaic. no cuts, label [...]
Passaic man charged in baseball bat attack
PASSAIC — A city man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly struck another man with an aluminum bat, authorities said. Witnesses told police that the victim was walking on Gregory Avenue with his girlfriend around 2 p.m. Thursday when a man hit him in the head from behind with a bat, said [...]
Passaic BA charged with cocaine possession in Hoboken, fired by Mayor Blanco
Hoboken Police last night arrested Passaic Business Administrator Anthony Iacono and charged him with cocaine possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, Possession of prescription legend drugs, tampering with physical evidence, driving while under the influence, and numerous motor vehicle infractions, according to Chief Anthony Falco. Police stopped Iacono at First and Grand after he allegedly drove [...]
Grand jury indicts three in drug bust that ended in death of innocent bystander
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 BY JOHN PETRICK The Record STAFF WRITER A grand jury has indicted three suspects in a Passaic drug-bust-gone-bad last year that left an innocent bystander dead, while finding that police officers who made the stop were justified in using deadly force. The March 1 incident started when officers with Passaic‘s narcotics [...]
Passaic councilman won’t seek re-election
BY MATTHEW MALYSA The Record STAFF WRITER PASSAIC – The only commissioner not targeted for firing during Governor Christie’s cleansing of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection as a member of the Passaic City Council. Buy this photo LUCIANIN Kenneth J. Lucianin, 49, who was appointed to the [...]
One resident hospitalized in five-alarm blaze that destroys Passaic building
PASSAIC — A stubborn five-alarm fire that gutted a three-story brick apartment building on Washington Place kept firefighters busy for more than four hours on Friday and sent a resident to a hospital with critical injuries, authorities said. LESLIE BARBARO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Firefighters battling a five-alarm blaze in a three-story brick apartment building at [...]
Man stabbed in Passaic robbery
PASSAIC — A man was stabbed Friday night and hospitalized with serious injuries after what authorities described as a robbery, authorities said. The victim, whose name and age were not immediately released, was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with two stab wounds to his back, police said. Authorities said the man’s [...]
Suspicious package forces evacuation in Passaic
PASSAIC — Residents and students were evacuated Tuesday night while a bomb squad from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department disarmed a “suspicious” package left near the corner of Temple Place and Harding Court, a sheriff’s spokesman said. There were no injuries. The package — a cooler with wires protruding — turned out to be “non-explosive,” [...]
Passaic man charged in murder of Cliffside Park man outside club
Police early Saturday arrested a man charged with murdering a Cliffside Parkresident outside a night club in September. Passaic police Detective Sgt. Gabriel Guzman said several agencies teamed up to bust Farad Anthony outside aWallington gas station at 12:45 a.m. Anthony, 20, of Passaic, fled to Maryland after the Sept. 10 shooting death of Louis Morilla, 20, [...]
Passaic blaze in midst of blizzard displaces 24 tenants
Passaic — Two dozen tenants were displaced by a two-alarm fire Sunday night that city firefighters brought under control in a “quick knockdown” under blizzard conditions, a fire official said. “It was a small miracle,” said acting Passaic Deputy Fire Chief Jim Bonelli, referring to the fire at 74 Fourth St. in which there were [...]
Garfield man Anthony Velez arraigned in Passaic murder
BY JOHN PETRICK The Record STAFF WRITER Anthony Velez of Garfield pleaded not guilty in state court Wednesday to murder and weapons charges in connection with the shooting death of 22-year-old Manuel Lugo, who was found dead in the hallway of a Passaic apartment building Friday. DAVID BERGELAND / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Velez, 27, was arraigned [...]
Passaic woman is charged in child porn probe
A 29-year-old sales associate was arrested Thursday on child pornography charges, acting Passaic County Sheriff Charles Meyers said. Dara Curtis of Passaic was found with 50 child pornography videos, an unregistered .32-caliber handgun and identification tags issued by the New Jersey Department of Corrections, according to a statement released by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department. [...]
Marjorie Bunnell, Passaic educator for 52 years, dies
Marjorie Bunnell’s career at Passaic High School spanned half a century — from the “no gum chewing era” to the “let’s break up that fight in the hallway era,” said her last boss, Passaic schools Superintendent Robert Holster. Times changed, and Miss Bunnell, who retired as principal in 1995, changed with them. What did not [...]
Body found in Passaic park
PASSAIC — Police were investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found in the bushes along Wall Street late Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. A passerby discovered the body in a park just before 6 p.m. as he was walking his dog along Wall Street, said Detective Sgt. Roy Bordamonte of the Passaic [...]
Passaic company looking to restart cheese factory
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 BY ALEXANDER MACINNES Herald News STAFF WRITER PASSAIC — A division of one of the city’s most prominent Mexican food manufacturing companies has been shuttered by order of a federal judge after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cited the company for selling contaminated cheese. Felix Sanchez, president and co-owner of [...]
Paterson’s New Community Development is Jones’ Gamble.
PATERSON — Mayor Jeffery Jones is betting big with his choice of an inexperienced director he hopes can turn around one of the city’s most troubled, complex and important departments. Jones tapped newcomer Lanisha Makle to head the Department of Community Development, an agency with 10 divisions, at least 50 employees and a budget of [...]
Passaic textile company could face closure if Girl Scouts end contract
Full Story:Northjersey.com PASSAIC — A local textile company could be forced to lay off 90 employees and shut its doors if its only client, The Girl Scouts of the USA, decides to take its business to China. AMY NEWMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Buy this photo Passaic Mayor Alex Blanco, who toured the factory Thursday morning, said he [...]
Passaic fire displaces 39 people
Full Story:Northjersey.com PASSAIC — A two-alarm morning fire in the cockloft of a three-story building left 39 people displaced early Saturday morning, fire officials said. TARIQ ZEHAWI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Buy this photo Sylvestre Gonzalez, the building’s superintendent, looks at the damage done to an apartment on the second floor by an early morning fire [...]
Emotions high as Paterson residents discuss recent violence
Full Story: Northjersey.com PATERSON — Tensions were high Wednesday night at a meeting called by the grandmother of a city teenager who was gunned down earlier this month. City councilman Anthony Davis listens as Cheryl Burke discusses the death of her 18-year-old son Nyjavar Jackson, who was shot dead in Paterson, during a community forum [...]
Mom, child injured after car strikes baby stroller in Passaic
BY NICK CLUNN The Record STAFF WRITER Full Story: NorthJersey.com A driver making a left turn in Passaic struck a baby stroller Wednesday in a crosswalk, sending a city woman and her baby girl to the hospital, Detective Andy White said. “The carriage flew while the mother held onto it,” White said. “It struck a pole.” [...]
Passaic man faces drug, burglary charges.
Full Story:Northjersey.com WALLINGTON — A man who police say was caught hiding behind a machine at a scrap metal shop that had closed for the night also faces a drug charge for allegedly having a crack pipe. Pablo Marcus Guerreo, 45, of Passaic, remained lodged at the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, one week after [...]
City of Passaic welcomes Richard Berdnik as the Democratic candidate for Sheriff.
The Passaic county Democrats introduced their nominee for Passaic County Sheriff, Richard Berdnik, to the city of Passaic. There was a great festive mood at El Sol De Cuba a restaurant in the City Passaic, where the event was held.
State panel again blocks effort to cut Passaic crossing guard jobs, benefits
PASSAIC — The state’s Public Employment Relations Commission rebuffed Mayor Alex Blanco — for the second time — in his attempt to strip 34 crossing guards of their jobs and health insurance, a move intended to save the city more than $500,000. The commission last week denied the city’s appeal of an “unfair practice charge” [...]
Passaic schools superintendent Robert H. Holster talks about Governor Christie’s budget cuts.
BY ALEXANDER MACINNES The Record STAFF WRITER PASSAIC — Education officials are sifting through a hefty pile of résumésto fill six principal and vice principal openings. Two positions were left vacant by the retirements of principals from the city’s largest schools. Schools Superintendent Robert H. Holster said the positions will be filled based on merit, [...]
