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May 24, 2017 Contact: Sheriff Armando Fontoura (973) 621-4105 Newark – An armed suspect was arrested on Tuesday by Essex County sheriff’s detectives and weapons and drug charges were filed against him. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that officers from his department’s Bureau of Narcotics staged a plainclothes surveillance operation yesterday afternoon near the intersection of West End Avenue and Howell Place in the Vailsburg section of the city in response to neighborhood complaints of op Read More...
While off-duty, Sergeant John Sherwood (2nd from right), a resident of West Caldwell, responded to a neighbor’s backyard on June 17, 2016 where he observed an unconscious and unbreathing pregnant female on the ground. Sherwood performed life-saving CPR techniques and after a third cycle of chest compressions the female finally began breathing and regained consciousness. For his actions and initiative, Sgt. Sherwood was presented with a Life Saving Award from Sheriff Armando Fontoura (lef Read More...
May 17, 2017 Contact: Sheriff Armando Fontoura (973) 621-4105 Newark – Three alleged members of the Crips street gang, two male adults and a male juvenile, were arrested on Tuesday by Essex County sheriff’s detectives and multiple drug charges were filed against them. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that officers from his department’s Bureau of Narcotics were armed with a search warrant which they executed for Jeff’s Urban Clothing, located at 634 15th Avenue, on Tuesday afternoon. “On Read More...
May 16, 2017 Contact: Sheriff Armando Fontoura (973) 621-4105 East Orange – A Newark man was arrested last night on weapons charges by Essex County sheriff’s officers. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that uniformed officers from his department were on patrol on Central Avenue on Monday at 10:50 p.m. when the observed a 2016 Dodge Charger traveling at a high rate of speed in the eastbound lanes. “Our officers activated overhead lights and sirens in an attempt to conduct a motor vehicle stop Read More...
May 11, 2017 Contact: Sheriff Armando Fontoura (973) 621-4105 Newark – An adult male suspect and his alleged male juvenile accomplice were arrested on multiple weapons and drug charges on Wednesday afternoon by a law enforcement task force comprised of Essex County sheriff’s detectives and Irvington police officers. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that the task force staged a plainclothes surveillance operation at the intersection of Newark’s South 9th Street and Central Avenue in response Read More...
April 26, 2017 Contact: Sheriff Armando Fontoura (973) 621-4105 Newark – Three male suspects were arrested on drug charges on Tuesday afternoon by a law enforcement task force comprised of Essex County sheriff’s detectives and Irvington police officers. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that as the officers prepared to execute a search warrant for the third floor apartment at 214 Littleton Avenue they encountered a suspect, later identified as Derrick Efford, 21 of Newark, who had just exited Read More...