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Wasting little time, a 27-year-old Passaic driver admitted severely injuring another city resident in a hit-and-run pedestrian crash last fall.
Matthew Cancel didn’t wait for a grand jury to determine whether the case should proceed, pleading guilty Friday to knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving serious bodily injury.
Cancel admitted he was behind the wheel of a 2015 Mercedes-Benz that struck the 64-year-old victim at Market and Hudson streets last Oct. 25, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said.
The victim was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson for serious bodily injuries, they said.
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A Paterson man raped and otherwise sexually abused an underage child for several years, beginning when the victim was only seven, authorities charged.
The assaults by James Jackson, 37, began in September 2012 and continued for the next three years, the victim – who’s now 16 – told city police, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement.
Detectives from the Valdes’s Special Victims Unit then interviewed the teen, as well as several witnesses, before arresting Jackson, they said.
They charged him with two counts each of aggravated asexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment, then sent him to the Passaic County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.
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A Paterson woman was released pending court action after beating a teenager with an electrical cord, authorities said.
City police notified the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit after receiving a report of the 15-year-old requiring treatment for injuries that they said were inflicted by Julissa Rosario, 33.
Authorities arrested Rosario after interviewing the victim and witnesses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release.
They charged her with aggravated assault, child endangerment and weapons possession, then released Rosario pending an upcoming first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson.
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A driver who struck and seriously injured a pedestrian from Wayne as he crossed a Wanaque street has remained a fugitive, authorities said.
A judge released Fredi Landero, 41, of Fall River, Massachusetts, with conditions following the December 2019 crash on Ringwood Avenue, which sent the 62-year-old victim to the hospital.
Landero was driving without a license at the time, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said.
A judge in Paterson released him from the Passaic County Jail the following day with pretrial monitoring after which Landero took off, she said.
A grand jury in Paterson recently indicted Landero on charges of causing serious bodily injury while driving unlicensed, a crime that could send a convicted offender to state prison for up to 18 months, Valdes said.