Brentwood, NY
News
Officer Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked By Woman At Long Island Bar, Police Say Officer Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked By Woman At Long Island Bar, Police Say
Officer Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked By Woman At Long Island Bar, Police Say An officer was hospitalized after being violently attacked by a woman at a Long Island bar overnight, according to police. The incident occurred just before 11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10 in Oyster Bay at Cooper Bluff Waterfront Bar on Bay Avenue.  Upon arrival, officers located an injured woman and began rendering aid.  While officers were helping the victim, Celeste Rodriguez, 27, of Brooklyn, who is an acquaintance of the woman, became irate and violent towards the officers, Nassau County Police said. Rodriguez began to punch, kick, head butt, and bite one of the officers,…

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by Joe Lombardi
New Haven, CT
Police & Fire
Dodge Charger Crashes Into Police; Driver Turns Himself In Dodge Charger Crashes Into Police; Driver Turns Himself In
Dodge Charger Crashes Into Police; Driver Turns Himself In A man who allegedly hit a police officer with a Dodge Charger turned himself in to authorities the morning of Friday, Sept. 18. After Roznovsky Machado, 24, of Waterbury, went to the Naugatuck Police Department around 3 a.m., he was arrested and received seven charges: - Criminal attempt at assault in the first degree - Assault in the second degree - Reckless endangerment in the first degree - Engaging police in a pursuit - Evading responsibility with physical injury - Operating under suspension - Assault on an officer. The arrest stems from a Monday, Sept. 14, motor vehicle stop fol…

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by Kristin Palpini
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Authorities: Contractor Fires Shots, Wrestles With Westwood Police Authorities: Contractor Fires Shots, Wrestles With Westwood Police
Authorities: Contractor Fires Shots, Wrestles With Westwood Police A fencing contractor with a criminal past was jailed after he fired an illegally owned gun inside his Westwood home and then fought with the responding officers, police said. No one was struck when Philip Pinto, 60, fired two shots from a Smith & Wesson handgun inside his home around 8 p.m. Monday, Police Capt. Jay Hutchinson said. Pinto then wrestled with several officers who rushed to the house off the corner of Roosevelt and Palm streets, Hutchinson said. Police eventually subdued Pinto and took him into custody. They charged him with six counts of aggravated assault on a law enfo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
Police & Fire
Lyndhurst PD: Officer Injured In Brawl With Drunken Assailant Lyndhurst PD: Officer Injured In Brawl With Drunken Assailant
Lyndhurst PD: Officer Injured In Brawl With Drunken Assailant A drunken Lyndhurst man who was sent home after screaming obscenities at police on a local street before dawn Wednesday turned and came back swinging before being subdued, authorities said. Officer Angel Batista was on patrol when he spotted a vehicle stopped in the eastbound lane of Kingsland Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. Standing in the roadway on the passenger side was 27-year-old John Parise, who began yelling obscenities at him, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. The driver of the stopped car then suddenly accelerated, making a U-turn, Auteri said. Batista got out of his cruiser and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: School Dropoff Mom Who Blocked Traffic Bites One Officer, Punches, Kicks Others Hackensack PD: School Dropoff Mom Who Blocked Traffic Bites One Officer, Punches, Kicks Others
Hackensack PD: School Dropoff Mom Who Blocked Traffic Bites One Officer, Punches, Kicks Others A Hackensack mother who blocked a lane of traffic while dropping her child off at school Monday morning bit a police lieutenant on the neck, punched a captain in the chest and kicked a third officer before being subdued, authorities said. After a license plate check found that the registration for the vehicle driven by Parona Brown was expired, police Lt. Tina Cappadonna asked her to park and allow a growing line of other parents at Fairmount Elementary School to drop off their children while she spoke to her around 8:30 a.m., Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Brown, 30, "refused to cooperate," DeW…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
VERDICT: Paterson Man Fatally Shot One Man In Face, Wounded Other In Back VERDICT: Paterson Man Fatally Shot One Man In Face, Wounded Other In Back
Verdict: Paterson Man Fatally Shot One Man In Face, Wounded Other In Back UPDATE: A Paterson man who killed one man by shooting him in the face and wounded another by shooting him the back must serve nearly 58 years in state prison before he'll be eligible for parole. https://southpassaic.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/58-years-minimum-for-paterson-gunman-who-shot-killed-one-man-in-face-wounded-other-in-back/742082/ ****** Jurors in Paterson needed five days of deliberations to convict a 21-year-old city man of murder and other counts for killing another man by shooting him in the face. Bullets fired by Tamaj Lennon also struck another victim in the back in the Apr…

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by Jerry DeMarco