October 16 Evening News
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTED KEARNY FIREFIGHTERS KNOCKED DOWN A VEHICLE FIRE FROM SPREADING TO A NEARBY GARAGE. FIREFIGHTERS QUICKLY KNOCKED DOWN AN INTENSE VEHICLE FIRE THURSDAY NIGHT, PREVENTING THE FLAMES FROM SPREADING. MEMBERS OF THE FIREMEN’S MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AFTER A CAR CAUGHT FIRE CLOSE TO A STRUCTURE. UNION OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHTED THE DELIBERATE AND METHODICAL APPROACH OF THE RESPONDING CREWS. FOOTAGE OF THE INCIDENT CAPTURED A DRAMATIC REACTION NEAR THE STEERING COLUMN. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AND THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED.
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTS POLICE DRONES, FOOT CHASE HELP TRACK DOWN SUSPECTED CAR BURGLARS IN PATTERSON. PATERSON POLICE RELEASED A VIDEO USING A MIX OF TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITIONAL POLICE WORK TO TRACK DOWN A GROUP OF SUSPECTED CAR BURGLARS. THE FOOTAGE HIGHLIGHTS BOTH OFFICERS ON THE GROUND AND THE DEPARTMENTS EXPANDING USE OF DRONE TECHNOLOGY. THE PURSUIT COMES MONTHS AFTER PATERSON ANNOUNCED A MAJOR EXPANSION OF ITS DRONE PROGRAM, WHICH POLICE SAY HELP OFFICERS RESPOND MORE QUICKLY AND MONITOR INCIDENTS FROM THE AIR. POLICE HAVE NOT SAID HOW MANY SUSPECTS WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT.
NBCNEWYORK.COM REPORTS A SERIAL BANK FRAUDSTER FROM NJ SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS FOR TRYING TO STEAL $30 MILLION IN ID THEFT SCAMS. LAQUAN WILLIAMS, OF FLORHAM PARK, NEW JERSEY, WAS SENTENCED IN MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT ON TUESDAY AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT WITH MORE THAN $2 MILLION IN STOLEN CASH, MORE THAN 1,000 STOLEN CHECKS, AND HUNDREDS OF STOLEN CREDIT CARD NUMBERS. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAID THE 42-YEAR-OLD WILLIAMS RAN THE HUGE FRAUD RING ACROSS NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY FROM 2021 THROUGH 2024. THEY SAID THE SCAM TOOK PLACE AFTER HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED FIVE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR SIMILAR CRIMES IN 2018. AS PART OF HIS SCHEME, WILLIAMS PAID OTHERS TO POSE AS BANK CUSTOMERS USING THE IDENTITIES HE STOLE. IN ADDITION, PROSECUTORS IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SAID WILLIAMS WAS CAUGHT WITH TWO HANDGUNS WITH HOLLOW-POINT AMMUNITION. “FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES, WILLIAMS HAS BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM INNOCENT BANK CUSTOMERS,” SAID U.S. ATTORNEY JAMIE MCDONALD.
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTS A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHING INTO TACO BELL’S OUTDOOR DINING AREA IN ELMWOOD PARK. A PICKUP TRUCK CRASHED INTO THE OUTDOOR DINING AREA OF A TACO BELL IN ELMWOOD PARK ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, DAMAGING PART OF THE RESTAURANT AND A NEARBY UTILITY POLE. POLICE SAY A 70-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM LODI WAS BEHIND THE WHEEL WHEN THE TRUCK STRUCK THE RESTAURANT’S OUTDOOR DINING OVERHANG. AUTHORITIES SAY A MEDICAL EMERGENCY MAY HAVE CAUSED THE CRASH. THE IMPACT ALSO DAMAGED A UTILITY POLE AND LIGHTING EQUIPMENT. THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO HACKENSACK HOSPITAL.