A 26-year-old Bronx man carrying cocaine for a New York City drug-trafficking ring walked into a trap Wednesday when he tried to sell an ounce of cocaine to narcotics officers.
Police are investigating the connections between three people arrested in the city Monday and the victims of a shootout in New York that left two people dead and two in the hospital.
A 24-year-old man who escaped from a New York mental hospital by driving a dump truck through a fence and then stole a car in Hackensack was being held in lieu of $15,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after Atlantic City police captured him Thursday.
The labor feud between the Daily News and its workers spilled into North Jersey Thursday morning as a management employee and security guards for the newspaper chased a striker through the streets of Washington Township in their cars, police said.
A 33-year-old New York City man arrested Thursday by city police and charged with possessing a stolen car was wanted for a shooting in Englewood a year ago, police said.
New York City police are investigating the shooting death of a 21-year-old Closter man found lying next to his car Thursday on an exit ramp of the Henry Hudson Parkway in upper Manhattan.
Englewood Cliffs police have arrested a Queens, N.Y., couple they suspect of belonging to a group of Soviet emigres who steal designer sunglasses in the United States to sell on Russian black markets.