Friday, May 24, 2013
Linda Stimmel-Keay will serve three years probation after pleading guilty to 11 counts of theft by deception, prosecutor says.
A Wayne woman who pleaded guilty to 11 counts of theft by deception after authorities said she stole money from an elderly person she was caring for was sentenced Friday to three years of probation and a suspended sentence of 364 days in the Morris County Correctional Facility, Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said. Linda Stimmel-Keay, 47, was working as a home health care aid for an elderly person when she stole more than $285,000 from three separate bank accounts under the patient's name, Knapp said. A total of $90,835.93 was stolen from the patient's Ameriprise Financial account; $131,400.82 stolen from E-Trade and $62,994.58 stolen from Lakeland Bank Checking, as discovered by an audit conducted by the Morris County …
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Montville Township bust could lead to charges from police departments in East Hanover, Boonton Township, Harding, Chester Township and Wayne, authorities say.
Montville police say the arrests of three people in connection with an alleged burglary at Condurso's Garden Center in the township could help solve thefts from other garden centers and floral shops in Morris and Passaic counties. After a burglar alarm was triggered at Condurso's around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, Montville Ptl. Robert Koetzner pulled over a woman who was driving on side streets away from the area of the garden center and farm market. The driver, Natalie Johnson, a 27-year-old whose last known address was in Morristown, and two passengers, who police say were sitting low in the car—Eric Allred, a 25-year-old Morristown resident, and Michael Blackman, a 19-year-old Randolph resident—were arrested in connection with the incident at…
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Georgios Spyropoulos was charged with conspiracy to commit murder after police said he tried to hire a hitman to kill his uncle, the owner of the famous Tick Tock Diner.
The manager of the Tick Tock Diner charged with hiring a hitman to kill his uncle is free after posting $600,000 bail Tuesday, NorthJersey.com reported. Georgios Spyropoulos, 45, of Clifton, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, attempt to commit murder and unlawful possession of a weapon in April. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. In an effort to advance himself financially, Spyropoulos hired a man who turned out to be a confidential informant for the state police, to kill his uncle Alexandros Sgourdos, co-owner of the famous Clifton Diner. A trooper played a would-be assassin after authorities began investigating Spyropoulos. The trooper was told by Spyropoulos to make his uncle's body disappear, so any ensuing investigation …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Chris Gialanella, an officer with the Newark Police Department, helped tackle an armed drug dealer to the ground after a traffic stop earlier this year.
A Wayne resident recently received a Valor Award from the 200 Club of Essex County for risking his life to apprehend a man carrying a loaded gun after a traffic stop. Chris Gialanella, a sergeant with the Newark Police Department, was working a narcotics detail Jan. 30 when he pulled over a driver for speeding. Gialanella observed the driver reach for a gun he had on him and attempted to apprehend the man. Gialanella was knocked to the ground when the man put the vehicle in reserve and attempted to flee. Gialanella received serious injuries to his arm and shoulder but managed to run after the man who ran from the scene, tackling him. The man had a stolen 9mm semiautomatic handgun and Ecstasy tablets on him. “Throughout this incident, Sgt. …
Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, 34, charged with killing Joseph Galfy of Clark.
Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, dubbed "Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker," was arrested Thursday evening at the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Philadelphia by members of the Philadelphia Police Department, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said. McGillvary has been charged with the murder of Joseph Galfy, Jr., 73, which allegedly occurred in Clark on May 12. McGillvary will be processed in Philadelphia and returned to New Jersey in the coming days. His bail was previously set at $3 million, and he will be lodged in the Union County Jail in Elizabeth, Romankow said. "I am grateful for the overwhelming response and dedicated effort by the public and law enforcement that led to this arrest," Romankow said. "I believe that everyone is a …
Man was on the bridge over the Passaic River near Hobson Avenue.
A Chilean man was killed Tuesday night when he was struck by a NJ Transit train on a bridge over the Passaic River. Nelson Felipe Guerra Concha, 35, was in New Jersey visiting family in Little Falls, said Nancy Synder, a spokesperson for NJ Transit. Concha was struck shortly before 7 p.m. by a train on the Montclair-Booton line. The bridge is located near Hobson Avenue. Concha was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:10 p.m., Wayne Police Lt. Paul Dring reported in a news release. Service was temporarily suspended on the Montclair-Boonton line after the accident. The NJ Transit Police Department, with the assistance of the Wayne Police Department, is investigating the incident, Dring said.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends reducing the limit. Some say it would save lives. Others say it's unreasonable.
One drink could be the standard for drunken driving – at least for some people if the National Transportation Safety Board has its way. On Tuesday, the NTSB recommended states lower the blood-alcohol threshold for driving under the influence from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. What do you think? Is this a reasonable proposal? According to a 2011 Mothers Against Drunk Driving report, the latest available data shows New Jersey ranked 31st out of 51 states (including the District of Columbia) in drunken driving injuries and deaths. That year, there were 193 DUI fatalities, MADD said. About 10,000 deaths nationwide a year are related to drunken driving. The NTSB says the lower limit would save 500 to 800 lives a year. Officials at the American …
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Mark McGrath saved Officer Bob Franco's life after a tree fell on his vehicle during superstorm Sandy.
Police Capt. Mark McGrath, who helped save Officer Bob Franco’s life the night of superstorm Sandy, will be honored for his heroic act at the White House on Saturday. McGrath will be one of more than 40 officers from nine states, and the only one from New Jersey, that President Obama will honor as a National Association of Police Organizations Top Cop. McGrath crawled under live wires and wedged himself into a small space in Franco’s vehicle after an oak tree fell on top of it, pinning Franco inside. The tree also pinned Assistant Company 5 Fire Chief John Neukem inside his vehicle. Franco was out responding to a ruptured gas line. “I felt him, I heard him go to work,” Franco said in a news release issued by the White House. “The whole …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Authorities spend $112,000 to take 'lethal weapons out of circulation.'
An AK-47 assault rifle and a 12-gague, double-barred shotgun were two of the more than 850 firearms that were turned in at a two-day gun Passaic County buyback program held last week. Of the weapons that were turned in, 53 were illegal to own, either because they had unlawfully high magazine capacities or had been illegally modified. In addition to the AK-47 and the shotgun, two Tec 9 guns with 32-round magazines, an M1 rifle with a 20-round magazine and a sawed-off shotgun were handed in. Nearly 390 of the weapons were handguns. “It’s a credit to the citizens of Passaic County, as well as the other counties we’ve visited, that we’ve managed to take so many lethal weapons out of circulation,” Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said in a …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Grant will fund overtime time for police to be on the lookout for drivers without seatbelts.
Police officers will actively look for unbuckled drivers in the coming weeks as part of the nationwide Click It or Ticket program. Between May 20 and June 2 police will man checkpoints and step up patrols to make sure drivers and passengers are using their seat belts. Wayne police officers will look for commuters sitting in the back of vehicles. According to the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety (DHTS), only 36 percent of people sitting in rear seats use seat belts. "Using a seat belt is the simplist way for a driver and his or her passengers to protect themselves when traveling," said Gary Poedubicky, acting director of the DHTS. A grant from the DHTS will be used to fund overtime pay the officers incur while on patrol as part of …
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7:57 pm on Saturday, May 25, 2013
Wonder if they looked into other people that were taken advantage of ? Who NOSE how many more their was ? more ›