Towson, MD
News
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot The US Marshals have widened a search for a Maryland woman who they say was involved in an interstate murder-for-hire plot with her husband, reports Fox Baltimore. Jessica Erazo-Rosa, 36, is wanted on federal charges and has been on the run for more than a year since the arrest of her husband Rudy Adonaldo-Chaves following a 2019 undercover investigation into an international drug trafficking ring, continues the outlet. Erazo-Rosa is said to have been intimately involved with the plot, which was uncovered after an undercover agent set up an undercover buy. During the operation, he reportedl…

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by Annie DeVoe
Hamilton Township, NJ
Obituaries
Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support
Death Of 14-Year-Old Trenton Girl From Cardiac Arrest Prompts Wave Of Community Support The Trenton community has come together to support a local family after the unexpected death of their beloved 14-year-old daughter from cardiac arrest. Heidy N. Cortez Cruz died on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in a Trenton hospital after suffering from cardiac arrest, according to a GoFundMe created for the family. The funds will be used to “return her body and give her the last goodbye in her native country [of] Guatemala,” reads the campaign, launched by Fatima Marroquin. Nearly $4,500 had been raised before the fundraiser had stopped accepting donations. Meanwhile, a viewing will be held at …

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by Valerie Musson
Brentwood, NY
News
Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg
Central Islip Man Sentenced For Beating Nephews With Metal Pipe, Causing 1 Victim To Lose Leg A Long Island man was sentenced for beating his two nephews with a metal pipe in 2018 in an attack that caused one of the victims to lose a limb. Carlos Ortega, age 42, of Central Islip, was sentenced to eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision for first-degree assault, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced on Monday, Nov. 21. The attack happened on Aug. 5, 2018, when the victims went to Ortega's home to pick up their grandparents, who were visiting from Guatemala, to take them out to dinner, the DA's Office said. Ortega saw the victims par…

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by Nicole Valinote
Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals 'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals
'Distance Was His Sanctuary': 2003 Murder Suspect Who Fled To Guatemala Captured By US Marshals A fugitive who's been on the lam for years and captured last March is back in New Jersey after being extradited, authorities said. Fausto Ramiro Santos Carillo, 56, fled to Guatemala sometime after the Plainfield murder of 49-year-old Martha Morales in July 23, 2003, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel and Plainfield Police Director James T. Abney said. She was found in the East Third Street apartment she shared with Carillo, having suffered multiple stab wounds, authorities said. Following the murder, Fausto Carillo fled the area. In February 2018, the Union County Prosecutor’…

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by Cecilia Levine
Fort Lee, NJ
News
NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB
NJ Attorney General Reviews Fatal E-Motorcycle Crash With Port Authority PD Vehicle Near GWB UPDATE: The death of an electric motorcyclist who authorities said ran a red light before crashing into a Port Authority police car near the George Washington Bridge is being investigated by state authorities. State law requires them to review the Oct. 17 incident in Fort Lee despite the circumstances because the death occurred during an encounter with law enforcement. New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office identified the victim as Fredy Rolando Queveda -- although loved ones and court records identified him as Fredy Quevedo, a 40-year-old Guatemalan immigrant. The officer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
White Plains, NY
News
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.

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by Cecilia Levine
Alexandria, VA
News
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.

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by Cecilia Levine
Towson, MD
Police & Fire
Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip
Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip A pair of Baltimore sisters away on a girls trip were among eight victims of an unprovoked attack on the Las Vegas strip last week. Gabby and Cassy Hewes and the six other people were stabbed near the Wynn Las Vegas around 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, according to loved ones and local police. Two of those victims died. The suspect has been identified as Yoni Barrios, a 32-year-old Guatemalan native who carried out the attack to "let the anger out," abc7 reports. More than $16,000 had been raised for the Hewes sisters on a GoFundMe page as of Tuesday, Oct. 11.

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by Cecilia Levine
Brentwood, NY
News
Long Island Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated Long Island Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated
Long Island Man Admits To Beating Nephews So Severely That Victim's Leg Was Amputated A Long Island man has admitted to beating his nephews so severely that one victim’s leg had to be amputated. Carlos Ortega, age 42, of Central Islip, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in Suffolk County court Monday, Sept. 26. His plea came more than four years after the violent attack occurred in August 2018, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. That’s when the two victims went to Ortega’s Central Islip home to pick up their grandparents, Ortega’s parents, who were visiting from Guatemala, to take them out to dinner. After arriving home and seeing his nephews, Ortega r…

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by Michael Mashburn
Alexandria, VA
Police & Fire
Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument
Leesburg Police Seek Suspect Who Stabbed His Drinking Buddy During Argument Leesburg police are looking for the suspect who stabbed a victim in The Manor parking lot, officials said.  At 9 p.m. on August 13, police arrived to parking lot where they discovered the victim, along with three other adult men, were drinking alcohol together, when an argument broke out and the victim was stabbed in his upper body, according to Leesburg police. The three individuals present during the incident were described as Hispanic men in their mid-thirties, between 5'5 and 5'8, officials reported. Police said the victim believed the suspects were possibly from Guatemala or Mexi…

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by AJ Goldbloom
Quincy, MA
Sports
Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior
Massachusetts' 'Guat Ninja' Brings Inspirational Story To American Ninja Warrior One of the youngest participants on Season 14 of America Ninja Warrior is a Massachusetts resident, but he is using the competition to pay homage to his native Guatemala.  Jacob Arnstein wanted to compete on Ninja since he was about five years old and started training for the competition when he was nine. The now 15-year-old freshman at Blue Hills Regional Technical School in Canton says there are two things that fuel his competitiveness. "I mostly do Ninja because it's really a great way to for me just to release energy," he said. "I also just really like the feeling of flying to the air,…

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by David Cifarelli
Kingston, NY
News
Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region
Two Convicted Of Scheming To Kidnap, Sexually Exploit Children From Region Two more men have been convicted in federal court of scheming to kidnap two children from the region and repeatedly smuggle them over the border into Mexico to be a part of a sexual relationship, authorities announced. Mordechay Malka, age 27, and Matitau Malka, age 30, both US citizens from Guatemala who are members of the extremist Jewish sect Lev Torah, were convicted on multiple charges following a four-week trial in White Plains federal court. Federal prosecutors said that the Malkas participated in a scheme to kidnap a 14-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy in Sullivan County from their…

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by Zak Failla