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The 64-year-old victim of last week's 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 County View Screenshot via YouTube. By John Heinis/Hudson County View This morning just before 1 a.m., members of the Jersey Police and Fire Departments responded on a call of a disturbance at 18 Virginia Ave. Responding units found a female victim in the building’s first floor in critical condition, Prosecutor Esther Suarez said in a statement. The victim, later identified as Jacqueline Nelson, 60, was transported to the Jersey City Medical Center where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at approximately 4:14 a.m. The cause and manner of death are pend...
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 after he turned himself in. The alleged arson occurred at approximately 6:18 a.m. Members of the Jerse...
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 Prosecutor's 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 shop's two owners, Amado Gonzalez-Abreu, 38, and Francisca Duran-Tejada, age 47, were charged last October, Suarez said. Gonzalez-Abreu and Duran-Tejada were charged with arson for insurance fraud purposes, while w...