Hudson County View Hudson County Corrections Officer John Menendez. Photo courtesy of the Essex County Jail. By John Heinis/Hudson County View John Menendez, 24, a Hudson County corrections officer who lives in West New York, has been charged with two counts of murder and weapons offenses, Stevens and Ambrose said in a joint statement. Yesterday, shortly after 9 p.m., two women were found suffering from gunshot wounds at two separate locations in Newark: the intersection of Edison Place and Bruen Street and the 100th block of Haynes Avenue, respectively, officials said. The two vi...