Newark, NJ
Sports
Wrong Way-Driving Dwight Gooden Busted Again For DUI, This Time In Newark Wrong Way-Driving Dwight Gooden Busted Again For DUI, This Time In Newark
Wrong Way-Driving Dwight Gooden Busted Again For DUI, This Time In Newark Troubled former star pitcher Dwight Gooden was under the influence when Newark police stopped him going the wrong way down a one-way street, authorities said, just weeks after he was busted with cocaine in Holmdel. Gooden's black 2012 Chrysler was pulled over around 11:10 p.m. Monday near Ferry and Vincent streets in the city's Ironbound section, Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. EMS was called to evaluate Gooden, 54, of Piscataway, before he was taken to University Hospital in police custody, Ambrose said.  "Doc" Gooden unanimously won the National League's Cy Youn…

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by Paul Milo
Somers, NY
Police & Fire
Alert Issued For At-Large Suspect Busted With Cocaine In Westchester Alert Issued For At-Large Suspect Busted With Cocaine In Westchester
Alert Issued For At-Large Suspect Busted With Cocaine In Westchester Seen him? New York State Police investigators in Hawthorne have issued an alert for a man wanted in Yonkers following an arrest for cocaine possession. An alert has been issued for Robert Destrange, 56, who is wanted by New York State Police and the city of Yonkers Court for criminal possession of a controlled substance and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in 2007. Police described Destrange as 5-foot-8 weighing approximately 165 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. He is believed to currently be residing in Wappinger. Anyone with information regarding his whereabout…

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by Zak Failla
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Police & Fire
Teen Was Home During Ridgefield Park Drug Heroin, Cocaine Bust Teen Was Home During Ridgefield Park Drug Heroin, Cocaine Bust
Teen Was Home During Ridgefield Park Drug Heroin, Cocaine Bust A teenager was home when authorities seized heroin and dozens cocaine from a couple in a Ridgefield Park residence. Deran Rogers, 45 of Paterson, and Maritza Rodriguez, 52 of Ridgefield Park, were arrested on drug charges and child endangerment, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo announced Monday. Last Wednesday, authorities searched Rodriguez' Ridgefield Park home where they found 350 wax paper folds of heroin and 47 baggies of crack-cocaine -- along with a 13-year-old boy, Calo said. The teen was released to his father at the scene and his mother was charged with one count of ch…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Paterson Trio Busted After Undercover Heroin, Cocaine Buys In Lodi, Elmwood Park Paterson Trio Busted After Undercover Heroin, Cocaine Buys In Lodi, Elmwood Park
Paterson Trio Busted After Undercover Heroin, Cocaine Buys In Lodi, Elmwood Park A pair of undercover drug buys in Lodi and Elmwood Park lead to the arrests of three Paterson men – two of whom Bergen County authorities said are dealers. It began when an undercover detective bought 150 envelopes of heroin from Xaxier M. Classen, 30, in Lodi last month, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. Another buy was set up a little over a week ago in Elmwood Park, where the detectives seized Classen and Juan Carlos Regaldo with 500 envelopes of heroin and more than a half-ounce of cocaine for sale, Calo said. With them was Ernesto Regaldo, who was also arrested…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Newburgh, NY
News
Middletown Man Sentenced To More Than Decade In Prison On Drug Charge Middletown Man Sentenced To More Than Decade In Prison On Drug Charge
Middletown Man Sentenced To More Than Decade In Prison On Drug Charge A Middletown man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing over eight ounces of crack cocaine, according to Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler. Jmin Ward, 36, of Middletown, was sentenced Monday by Orange County Court Judge Craig Stephen Brown to prison, and five years of post-release supervision, the DA's Office said, Ward had pleaded guilty in December to criminal possession of a controlled substance for having possessed over eight ounces of crack-cocaine, the DA said. At the time Ward pled guilty, he admitted that on April 20, he knowingly pos…

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by Kathy Reakes