Online Stranger Raped Woman At Manassas Park Before Driving Her Home, Police Say
A Virginia woman who agreed to meet a stranger she'd been messaging online was allegedly driven to a park, sexually assaulted, then dropped back off at home by the very man accused of attacking her, police said.
Jose Manuel Maya Ozuna, 30, of Alexandria, was arrested following an investigation into the October assault at Fairmont Park on Fairmont Avenue in Manassas, according to Prince William County police.
The two had connected online and exchanged messages before Ozuna picked up the woman and drove her to the park, investigators said.
There, police allege, Ozuna sexually assaulted her. …
Clark Mayor Recycles Letter Urging Attacks On Somali Neighbors, Residents Sound Alarm
Residents of one New Jersey town are sounding the alarm over troubling anonymous letters urging attacks on Somali families. Even more troubling, they say, is that local officials who received the same letters didn't think to report them.
The letters, postmarked Oct. 30 and mailed to homes in Clark, Union County, identified residents as "somali in heritage" and named a specific street, telling recipients that if "trouble begins," their "first return attack should be there," according to the community Facebook page Stronger Clark.
The sender identified itself as "Americans For Safety," the gr…
Man Vanishes Beneath Voorhees Lake Behind Library As Police Watch, Search Underway
A man disappeared beneath the surface of a lake in Camden County late Friday, Nov. 13, as police officers tried to reach him, authorities said.
Voorhees police responded to a 911 call near the Camden County Library on Laurel Road around 11:50 p.m., Capt. Daniel Scheets said. Officers spotted an unidentified adult man in a nearby lake, but he went underwater as they attempted to make contact with him, Scheets said.
Surveillance footage showed the man running toward the water's edge before the incident, according to police. Firefighters, emergency management personnel, dive teams, a…
20+ Shots, Boy Wounded Playing Basketball, Teen DC Gunman Walks Free With Probation: Feds
More than 20 gunshots rang out across a DC neighborhood, leaving a boy playing basketball wounded.
The gunman won't spend another day behind bars.
Darius Drew, 19, of DC, walked out of custody on Friday, Nov. 13, after a judge suspended his two-year prison sentence and placed him on probation for the shooting that sent bullets flying across a Northwest DC court in May.
Federal prosecutors had pushed for five years behind bars, arguing that Drew's decision to fire more than 20 rounds from two different locations warranted the maximum sentence under his guidelines.
Instead, DC Superio…
Emerson Widower Says Prosecutors Won't Return Slain Wife's Belongings In New Lawsuit
A Bergen County man whose wife was reportedly stabbed 55 times and found dead in Overpeck County Park six years ago is suing prosecutors, claiming they have refused to return her personal belongings despite her killer's conviction (see lawsuit attached at the bottom of this news article).
Victor Rosasco, of Emerson, filed the lawsuit Monday, Nov. 9, in Bergen County Superior Court, seeking the return of items belonging to his late wife, Divna Rosasco, 51, who was murdered in Cresskill on June 14, 2020.
When reached by email for comment, the BCPO's Chief of Detectives, Jeff Angermeyer, said …
100 MPH Chesterfield Tornado Rips Roof Off School, Collapses Barn: NWS
A tornado packing winds of 100 mph tore through Burlington County, collapsing a barn, ripping part of a school roof off, and sending wooden beams flying into neighboring yards, the National Weather Service confirmed Friday, Nov. 13.
The EF-1 tornado touched down in Chesterfield around 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, traveling 1.5 miles in five minutes with a maximum width of 100 yards, according to the NWS.
On Friday morning, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that a tornado touched down near Old York Road in Chesterfield, New Jersey. https://t.co/jjrnfawiAv — NBC10 Philadelphia (@NB…
Mom, Stepdad Charged In Torrington Teen With Cerebral Palsy's Drowning, Cruelty: Cops
A 19-year-old Connecticut man who could not walk or stand without help was left alone in a home where police say his mom and stepdad had locked away food. He was later found dead in a bathtub.
Now, a year after Marcos Pichardo Almonte drowned at a Torrington home, his mother and stepfather face criminal charges in his death, police announced on Friday, Nov. 13.
Torrington police arrested Martha Almonte, 39, and Jeickson Perez-Barahona, 37, on Thursday. Both face charges of cruelty to persons and criminally negligent homicide, authorities said.
Police found Pichardo Almonte dead…
Robbinsville Liquor Store Sells $18.4M Lottery Ticket
Someone who bought a lottery ticket at a New Jersey liquor store is now $18.4 million richer — at least before taxes.
A single Pick-6 ticket sold at Washington Wine & Liquors, 2317 State Highway 33 in Robbinsville, matched all six numbers in Thursday's drawing, Nov. 12, New Jersey Lottery officials announced Friday, Nov. 13.
The winning numbers were 01, 10, 18, 26, 42, and 45.
The jackpot is worth $18.4 million, with a cash value of $7,855,932, lottery officials said.
The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
The winner has one year from the drawing date …
