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The 64-year-old victim of last weeks Jersey City apartment fire died on Monday, authorities announced.Leon Howard was left critical following that blaze that broke out in his apartment in the Berry Gardens at 92 Danforth Ave., around…

The Hudson County Regional Arson Task Force is probing a Jersey City fire that left a 64-year-old man in critical condition last night.

Hudson Reporter Third man charged in 2019 Jersey City alleged arson × The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Regional Arson Task Force has arrested and charged a third person in an arson fire at La Tribu Minimart on Princeton Ave. in Jersey City on June 9, 2019. Jersey City resident Jeremiah Lane, 29, is charged with Aggravated Arson and Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Arson. Officers arrested Lane on Monday, April 19,  at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City af...

Read / Add Comments A 29-year-old man was the third person to be charged with torching a Jersey City bodega in 2019, authorities announced Tuesday. Jeremiah Lane surrendered at the Hudson County Prosecutors Office Monday, and was charged in connection with the June 9, 2019 blaze at Tribu Minimart on Princeton Avenue, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The shops two owners, Amado Gonzalez-Abreu, 38, and Francisca Duran-Tejada, age 47, were charged last October, Suarez s...

More than $52K raised for family of children who died in MLK Drive fire Updated Feb 17, 2021; Facebook Share A two-alarm blaze at 470 Martin Luther King Dr. on Feb. 11 killed 8-month-old Keyon Robinson and 11-year-old Desire Reid, while their mom, Angie Reid, and their 6-year-old brother Aamil Reid escaped the fire. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office’s Regional Arson Task Force is investigating the fire and has not announced the cause of the fire. While there was one anonymous donor who...