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August 24, 2016, Newark – Nearly one quarter of a million dollars in illegal narcotics and prescription medicines, along with two fully loaded shotguns, were seized yesterday afternoon during the arrests of an alleged Latin Kings gang member and his accomplice during a raid at a residence in the city’s North Ward by a law enforcement task force comprised of detectives from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office and officers from the Bloomfield and Irvington police departments. Sheriff Armando F Read More...
Newark – An alleged drug dealer and an alleged drug buyer were arraigned today following their arrests yesterday by Essex County sheriff’s detectives. In response to numerous neighborhood complaints of open-air drug trafficking near the intersection of Victoria Avenue and Stone Street in the city’s North Ward, Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that his department’s Bureau of Narcotics conducted a plainclothes surveillance operation at that location on Wednesday. “Here, a suspect, later i Read More...
Impaired Driving Enforcement Crackdown to be Conducted in Essex County as Part of National Campaign Newark – New Jersey’s largest annual drunk driving crackdown will be here soon. Law enforcement officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office will be participating in the 2016 Labor Day Statewide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. Beginning August 19 and running through September 5, local and state law enforcement officers will conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, Read More...
Newark – A suspect was arraigned today on multiple drug charges following his arrest yesterday afternoon by Essex County sheriff’s detectives. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that detectives from his department’s Bureau of Narcotics were conducting plainclothes quality of life operations in the area of Newark’s Spruce and Barclay streets on Tuesday when a 2016 Lincoln MKX illegally passed an unmarked police cruiser at a high rate of speed. “The suspect vehicle then ran the red light at Read More...
Newark – A reputed Crips street gang member was arraigned today on multiple weapons and drug charges following his arrest Thursday night by Essex County sheriff’s detectives. Sheriff Armando Fontoura stated that plainclothes detectives from his department’s Bureau of Narcotics were conducting quality of life operations in the area of Frelinghuysen Avenue and Center Terrace in Newark yesterday evening when the observed a 2015 Hyundai Accent traveling at a high rate of speed and in a careles Read More...
Newark – Essex County sheriff’s officers arrested two male suspects in separate incidents last night in the city’s North and West wards. Sheriff Armando Fontoura said that officers from his department’s Patrol Division were flagged down by a 54-year-old male victim on South 16th Street who stated that he had just been assaulted and robbed of $500 in Indian rupees by a male suspect. “Moments later, our officers spotted the suspect walking along South 16th Street at a very rapid pace,” Read More...