MICHAEL O. ALLEN

Menu
Tag

Englewood

ARREST OF 12 AVERTS FIGHT, POLICE SAY

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, November 6, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B02

Four men and eight youths from Englewood were arrested Monday night as they headed into Bergenfield to retaliate against borough youths for a fight last week, police said.

Working on an anonymous tip, police were waiting for the suspects when they arrived on Howard Drive about 9:45 p.m., said Bergenfield Police Capt. George Grube.

The suspects, traveling in two cars when Bergenfield police Officers Mark Richards and Russell Stuebe stopped them, had a loaded .22-caliber rifle, three knives, and four baseball bats, Grube said.

“They were looking for some of the guys who were involved in an incident last Monday,” he said. “Fortunately, we got to them before somebody really did get hurt.”

A Bergenfield youth apparently punched a youth from Englewood last week, Grube said. He did not know what sparked the fight.

The suspects were charged with illegal possession of weapons, and Grube said police were considering other charges.

Seven youths were released to their parents, and one was being held in detention.

Louis Aguilar, 20, of 208 Waldo Place, was released on $5,000 bail.

Darrius Griffin, 21, and Edward Russell, 20, both of 245 Central Ave., and Maximo Colon, 18, of 32 Brookway Ave., were being held in the Bergen County Jail on $5,000 bail each.

ID: 17360203 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

November 6, 1991
Love0

FIRED WORKER CHARGED WITH ATTACKING BOSS

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Saturday, November 2, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A02

A 31-year-old man who police said attacked his supervisor when she fired him for showing up drunk for work at the Dwight-Englewood School was being held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday.

Raymond Todd Walker of Morris Avenue, Englewood, was charged with aggravated assault, criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct, said Englewood police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley. Bail was set at $9,000.

The supervisor, whom police declined to identify, noticed that Walker was drunk when he arrived at work shortly before 8 a.m. Friday, authorities said. She told him his employment at the school was terminated. Tinsley said the supervisor told police Walker became irate, showering her with obscenities.

She said Walker then grabbed her by the arms, choked her, threw her over a desk, and banged her head over a partition. She was treated at Englewood Hospital for minor injuries and was released.

Police arrested Walker near the school on Palisade Avenue a few minutes after the incident. School officials could not be reached for comment.

ID: 17359856 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

November 2, 1991
Love0

FOR BLACK YOUTHS, AN UNEASY START

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

by Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 27, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03

Toward the end of his workshop Saturday, the Rev. Clarence L. James Sr. asked boys in the front pew at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack what it takes to be a man on the street.

Sell drugs, someone said. Kill somebody, another said. Beat your woman, replied another boy. And on and on: Fight to get respect, have many women, rape someone, gamble, have a gun, pimp.

The street is one of the primary institutions where black males are initiated into manhood, said James, a Baptist minister and evangelist from Atlanta who has been conducting a weeklong revival at Mount Olive Baptist Church that addresses the issues facing the black family. The other institutions he named were prison, military service, and college.

He scrunched his face in mock disgust and winced with each reply.

“That is not the kind of man we need,” James said. “We need husbands for our daughters, fathers for our children, a provider.”

The audience consisted of 100 males, including 50 boys from Hackensack, Englewood, Teaneck, Westwood, Rutherford, and Paterson. James discussed the role of black men during slavery, black men and education, black men and the military, and black men in the family.

The Rev. Gregory J. Jackson, pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church, said the workshop was an important part of the church’s yearlong celebration of the black family.

“The idea is that we are losing too many of our boys and men to jail, drugs, alcoholism, crime, et cetera,” he said. “We need to develop ways for saving our boys . . . find ways that we can help lost boys make a transition from adolescence to manhood.

“Many of these boys have fathers who are dead or in jail. They are our kids. We’ve got to help the kids grow up as men. You can’t just leave them out there for the world to raise. ”

James said part of their rites of passage into manhood must include educating them about their African heritage and instilling pride in that heritage.

The street, prisons, the service, and colleges have failed the black man because they have failed the black man and his family, James said. He cited the church as an institution where God-fearing Christians can help turn black boys into moral, upstanding men.

Samuel E. Adams, 35, of Englewood said the workshop is a godsend to the black community and that it should be done weekly.

“We first must be taught who we are to love ourselves,” he said. “With this knowledge we are gaining, we must take care of our own. We will never gain respect as a people until we start owning and controlling our community and our resources. ”

Caption: PHOTO – ROBERT S. TOWNSEND / THE RECORD – Youths and their elders joining in prayer at Hackensack’s Mount Olive Baptist Church.

ID: 17359261 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 27, 1991
Love0

MAN’S BODY DUE IN ENGLEWOOD Exumation from Potter’s Field set

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, October 16, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B03

The body of Edward Gee Jr. is expected to be returned home to Englewood this weekend for proper burial 16 weeks after his family first reported him missing and 10 weeks after they discovered he had died in a New York City hospital.

Gee’s family had the body, which was buried July 9 under the wrong name in Potter’s Field, exhumed for verification, which is expected to be done Thursday, William J. Ewing, the family’s lawyer, said Tuesday.

A wake has been planned for 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Nesbitt Funeral Home in Englewood. The funeral will be held at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Saturday, with burial to follow at Fair Lawn Cemetery.

Gee, 32, had disappeared after work on June 20. His mother, father, and a sister went to the Englewood Police Department on June 28 to report that they had not seen him and were worried.

Gee was conscious and was talking with paramedics when the New York City Emergency Medical Service picked him up at 172nd Street and Broadway on June 20 and took him to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Ewing said.

Although he had several pieces of identification in his wallet when he died of acute cocaine intoxication at the hospital that night, the hospital sent Gee’s family a bill for $278 for emergency room services on July 7 and told them that he had been discharged June 27. He was buried on Hart Island, a city burial ground for unclaimed bodies, three weeks later as an indigent with the name Edward Lee Jr.

The city Medical Examiner’s Office and city police said they were not responsible for the misidentification. Leslie Bernstein, a spokeswoman for Columbia-Presbyterian, said the hospital had completed an investigation into the case but said the results were confidential.

“We have not received any formal explanation from the hospital at all,” Ewing said. The family declined comment Tuesday, referring all questions to Ewing.

Following weeks of investigation by Englewood police and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department, and after the family received two bills from the hospital, the family identified a photograph of Gee’s body at the Medical Examiner’s Office on Aug. 5.

“The family didn’t waste any time,” Ewing said. “The family immediately signed all necessary documents and paid the necessary fees for the return of their son. We have no explanation for why so much time was necessary to return the body from the city cemetery.”

A private forensic pathologist hired by the family will observe Thursday when the Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to verify that the exhumed body is the same as the one the family identified in the photograph, Ewing said.

“There is no doubt that the family will file a lawsuit immediately for redress in this matter,” Ewing said. “However, the formal investigation has not yet been completed, and the family specifically wants to complete the autopsy and the positive and definitive identification before the suit is commenced.”

The family filed notice of a $6 million claim with the city on Oct. 9, Ewing said.

Keywords: ENGLEWOOD; MAN; DEATH; NEW YORK CITY; CEMETERY; ERROR

ID: 17358271 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 16, 1991
Love0

ATTACK STIRS HISPANICS ANGER ANEW

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

By Michael O. Allen and Vera Titunik, Record Staff Writers |

Wednesday, October 16, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | 6 Star | NEWS | Page B01

The mugging of a 67-year-old Englewood man well-known in the Colombian community has angered the city’s Hispanics, who were victimized by a series of muggings earlier this year.

Julio Hincapie, who was often seen in the city’s Colombian restaurants or riding his old bicycle and toting an ever-present leather pouch, was beaten and robbed Friday night by four men on Demarest Avenue, near Central Avenue.

He remained in Englewood Hospital Tuesday in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Those who know him say Hincapie sells things and helps people out by conveying messages and running errands.

“He’s a guy who is very popular,” said David Bernal, vice president of the United Latin Lions Club of Englewood. “He’s everybody’s messenger. You need someone to go to the bank, to go to the grocery store, he goes for you.”

The Colombian-born Hincapie is known as “Parranda,” a nickname he picked up in his youth meaning somebody “who likes to party,” Bernal said.

Police responded to his calls for help about 9:15 p.m. Friday and found him bleeding from a cut on the right side of his head, Englewood Detective Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said.

The attackers kicked and punched him and knocked him to the ground, then removed his coat and his leather bag, which contained an undetermined amount of money, Tinsley said. Hincapie was also treated for an arm injury, he said.

Residents came before the City Council in force early last spring after a spate of muggings in a largely Hispanic neighborhood near St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church on Demarest Avenue.

Police responded in the spring by meeting with neighborhood leaders to encourage the formation of a block association. They also set up a mobile police precinct a made-over bookmobile to increase police presence and reach out to the community. But because the mobile precinct became stifling in the summer heat, it was rarely put to use.

“We want to speak to the mayor and police,” Bernal said. “What have they been doing since the problem started in the Hispanic community?”

Mayor Donald Aronson said he deplored the violence and would speak to the city manager, but said his authority was limited. Under the city charter, the city manager, not the mayor or council, is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the city’s departments, including the police.

“The Hispanic community looks at the mayor of Englewood as if he was the mayor of Bogota,” Colombia, Aronson said. “I will bring it up to the people who have authority. I will find out the facts. I will see him [Hincapie] and express the anguish of the city of Englewood.”

Keywords: ENGLEWOOD; ASSAULT; HISPANIC; RACE

ID: 17358279 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

October 16, 1991
Love0

BOGUS WATER WORKERS SOUGHT IN THEFT

By Homepage, The RecordNo Comments

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, July 10, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | Four Star B | NEWS | Page B03

An elderly couple were robbed of $1,500 cash and assorted jewelry by two men who came to their home Monday and claimed to work for the “water company,” police said.
The couple whom police said were 79 and 81 years old but declined to identify further allowed the men into their house around noon, Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said.
The men, clad in matching dark-colored uniforms, said they were checking water theft in the area, Tinsley said. One suspect took the couple upstairs into their kitchen, distracting them while the other man went into a bedroom and took the money and jewelry, Tinsley said.
Cindy Munley, a Hackensack Water Co. spokeswoman, said the men did not work for the water company.
“We ask customers to carefully check the identification of anyone claiming to be from the Hackensack Water Co.,” Munley said. “Anytime that the customer has doubt, they should feel free to call the water company before admitting anyone to the premises.”
Tinsley said anyone with a similar experience should call police. The Hackensack Water Co.’s toll-free telephone number is 1-800-422-5987.

Keywords: ENGLEWOOD; WATER; UTILITY; THEFT; FRAUD

ID: 17348978 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

July 10, 1991
Love0