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Hackensack, NJ
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GoFundMe Launched For Maywood Man Charged With Killing Woman Outside Hackensack Party
UPDATE: A GoFundMe campaign seeks to raise money toward "fair representation" for a 21-year-old Maywood man charged with killing a 19-year-old Bloomingdale woman who'd been with him at a party in a Hackensack high-rise apartment. Fund raising for Michael T. Gaffney is necessary "in a world where the media is able to spin anything to match their agenda," wrote his 22-year-old sister, Samantha Gaffney, who organized the campaign. Gaffney recklessly caused the death of Francis Victoria Garcia, who was with him in the back seat of a car parked on the top level of a garage at 140 Prospect Avenu…
Mount Pleasant, NY
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Jury Indicts Surgeon Found With Weapons Cache After Alleged Threat To Wife In Westchester
A grand jury has indicted the Manhattan surgeon from Long Island who was arrested with an arsenal of weapons after allegedly threatening his estranged wife and family in Westchester. Great Neck resident Matthew Bonanno, 47, who practices on the upper East Side, was indicted on felony weapons charges and is scheduled to be arraigned in Westchester County Court this week. Police were contacted by acquaintances of the plastic surgeon on Monday, Aug. 12, who overheard the threats against Bonanno's estranged wife and her family, and when they intervened, he was found with an illegal Glock and a…
Newark, NJ
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Attorney: Man Charged In West Orange Meth Bust Is Innocent
An attorney for one of two men charged following a raid on what authorities said was a major methamphetamine production facility said his client is not guilty of the charges brought against him. Eduardo Martinez "has maintained from the get-go that he was not involved in the production or distribution of meth," attorney Jef Henninger of Clifton said Wednesday. Last week Essex County Sheriff's officers spearheaded a search at a home on Lorelei Road in West Orange. Authorities say they recovered methamphetamine with a street value of about $1 million, drug-production materials and…
New Canaan, CT
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Best-Selling 'Gone Girl' Author 'Sickened' By Comparison In Missing Mom Case
The author of a bestselling novel that was created into a blockbuster movie said she is "sickened" that her work is being used to denigrate the character of missing Fairfield County mother of five Jennifer Farber Dulos. Gillian Flynn, the author of "Gone Girl," a 2012 novel based on a woman who fakes her death and frames her husband, made a statement to News 8 WTNH, after the attorney for husband, Fotis Dulos, said his office is investigating the theory. "It absolutely sickens me that a work of fiction written by me would be used by Fotis Dulos' lawyer as a defense, and as a hypothetical, …
Newark, NJ
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'I Did What I Had To Do,' Says Newark Officer Charged In Fatal Shooting
The Newark police officer indicted for fatally shooting a fleeing criminal suspect in January told News 4 New York Tuesday that he believed his actions "saved lives that day." In the interview, Jovanny Crespo said he had to make "split-second decisions" and that he "could have been dead." Crespo and his partner, who was driving, joined in the pursuit in Newark after two men believed to be armed fled a traffic stop. A high-speed chase ensued that was captured on dash cam and on officers' body cameras. The video, later released in full by the Essex County Prosecutor's Offic…
Newark, NJ
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Group Paying Legal Fees Of Newark Police Officer Charged In Deadly Shooting
A Virginia-based law enforcement organization said Monday it will pay the legal expenses for Jovanny Crespo, a Newark police officer facing life in prison for shooting and killing a fleeing criminal suspect early this year. The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund of Arlington, Virginia, describes its "core mission" as "raising funds to defend the actions of wrongly accused" police officers "acting within the scope of their responsibilities and training." Crespo was indicted last month on charges of manslaughter, assault and other offenses for his actions during a high-speed pursu…
