NJ.COM HAS REPORTED AN UPDATE ON A PREVIOUS STORY, WHERE A CLIFFSIDE PARK MAN NOW FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES AFTER A CAR CRASH IN BOGOTA LEFT HIS PASSENGER SEVERELY INJURED AND HOSPITALIZED. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, THE CRASH OCCURRED ON FRIDAY AT 8:33 PM ON QUEEN ANNE ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF MAPLE STREET. BOGOTA POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED TO FIND A 2018 KIA ON ITS SIDE WITH 71-YEAR-OLD YUN S. KANG AND A 70-YEAR-OLD MALE PASSENGER TRAPPED INSIDE. OFFICERS PULLED BOTH MEN OUT OF THE VEHICLE. KANG WAS UNINJURED, WHILE THE PASSENGER SUSTAINED SERIOUS INJURIES AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE REMAINS IN STABLE CONDITION, AUTHORITIES SAID. INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED KANG WAS DRIVING SOUTH ON QUEEN ANNE ROAD WHEN HE STRUCK A LEGALLY PARKED AND UNOCCUPIED VEHICLE, CAUSING THE KIA TO ROLL ONTO ITS SIDE. OFFICERS SUSPECTED KANG WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH. IN AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR MARK MUSELLA (MEW-ZELL-UH), KANG WAS ARRESTED ON SATURDAY AND CHARGED WITH THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT BY AUTO, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED, AND OTHER RELATED MOTOR VEHICLE OFFENSES.
NJ.COM HAS REPORTED THAT A JURY HAS CONVICTED THREE MEN IN THE 2019 FATAL SHOOTING OF A BARBER AT A NEWARK BARBER SHOP, FOLLOWING AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR THEODORE N. STEPHENS ON MONDAY. THE CONVICTIONS STEM FROM THE SHOOTING OF 22-YEAR-OLD MAPLEWOOD RESIDENT SABOR TOWNES ON NOVEMBER 19TH, 2019, AT CUT CREATORS BARBERSHOP ON CLINTON PLACE IN NEWARK. 25-YEAR-OLD MAPLEWOOD RESIDENT DAEZHON PETERSON, 24-YEAR-OLD IRVINGTON RESIDENT WILLIAM JAMES IV, AND A THIRD UNIDENTIFIED SHOOTER, FIRED OVER 25 ROUNDS AT TOWNES, AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. TWO OTHER PEOPLE WERE STRUCK BY GUNFIRE AND SURVIVED THEIR INJURIES. 25-YEAR-OLD HILLSIDE RESIDENT WATSON DELCEY WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE GETAWAY DRIVER OF A STOLEN TOYOTA COROLLA. FOLLOWING THREE DAYS OF DELIBERATIONS, THE JURY CONVICTED JAMES AND PETERSON OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, FIRST-DEGREE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, TWO COUNTS OF SECOND-DEGREE AGGRAVATED ASSAULT, THREE COUNTS OF SECOND-DEGREE UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM, AND THREE COUNTS OF SECOND-DEGREE POSSESSION OF A WEAPON FOR AN UNLAWFUL PURPOSE ON OCTOBER 29TH. DELCEY WAS ALSO CONVICTED OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, FIRST-DEGREE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER, AND THIRD-DEGREE RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTED A GYNECOLOGIST HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING THREE PATIENTS DURING APPOINTMENTS AT HIS MOUNT LAUREL OFFICE. ACCORDING TO THE BURLINGTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, JEROME CHECK, 80, OF MELROSE PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, FACES THREE COUNTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. PROSECUTORS ALLEGE THE ASSAULTS OCCURRED BETWEEN DECEMBER 2024 AND MARCH 2025 WHILE CHECK, SPECIALIZING IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE, WAS ALONE WITH THE PATIENTS IN AN EXAMINATION ROOM. INVESTIGATORS SAID TWO OF THE PATIENTS THOUGHT THEIR APPOINTMENTS WOULD BE INFORMATIONAL ONLY, AND DID NOT EXPECT AN INVASIVE EXAMINATION, UNTIL CHECK SAID ONE WAS NECESSARY. CHECK WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN SEPTEMBER AND RELEASED FOLLOWING AN APPEARANCE IN SUPERIOR COURT IN MOUNT HOLLY. PROSECUTORS SAID THE CASE IS BEING PREPARED FOR PRESENTATION TO A GRAND JURY FOR POSSIBLE INDICTMENT. INVESTIGATORS ARE SEEKING ADDITIONAL POTENTIAL VICTIMS OR ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE BURLINGTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.
CNN REPORTED THE CO-PILOT IN THE HORRIFIC AIRPLANE CRASH SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS 20 YEAR OLD NATHALIA GADELHA FILGUEIRAS. FILGUEIRAS’S MOTHER, CAMILA, AND HER STEPFATHER CONFIRMED THAT THE LEARJET 60 WAS FLYING FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, TO THE BAHAMAS WHEN IT ENTERED A STEEP NOSEDIVE, PLUMMETING AT OVER 20,000 FEET PER MINUTE. THE INCIDENT KILLED ALL NINE ON BOARD. THE CRASH LEFT A FIERY CRATER NEAR PASSING CARS. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED ON THE GROUND. THE RECORDING OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL RADIO CALLS CAPTURED BY LIVEATC.NET CAPTURED THE CO-PILOT REPORTING ON ICE ACCUMULATING ON THE AIRCRAFT, WITH AN OUTSIDE AIR TEMPERATURE OF -52 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, AS WELL AS TURBULENCE THAT BOUNCED THE PLANE BY UP TO 700 FEET. THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID THE PLANE HIT THE GROUND SHORTLY BEFORE 1 P.M. ON MILITARY TRAIL, A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE BETWEEN CRESTHAVEN BOULEVARD AND 10TH AVENUE NORTH. CNN AVIATION ANALYST AND FORMER INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, MARY SCHIAVO, SAID DASHCAM VIDEO SHOWING THE CRASH WILL BE IMPORTANT TO INVESTIGATORS PIECING TOGETHER WHAT HAPPENED. AUTHORITIES HAVE YET TO IDENTIFY THE OTHER EIGHT PEOPLE ON BOARD, INCLUDING THE PILOT , WHO DIED IN THE CRASH. THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD IS EXPECTED TO RELEASE A PRELIMINARY REPORT WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE CRASH. A FINAL REPORT, INCLUDING THE PROBABLE CAUSES OF THE CRASH, COULD TAKE ONE TO TWO YEARS TO COMPLETE.