On Sunday, June 23, 2019, Alyssa Matos, age 20, from Queens, New York, was pronounced dead at approximately 2:15 a.m. at Jersey City Medical Center where she was being treated for life-threatening injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision. Matos was a passenger in the...
On Friday, June 21, 2019, Superior Court Judge Patrick Arre sentenced Travis Plummer to a maximum sentence of 20 years in state prison — 10 without parole — following his conviction for the Unlawful Concealment of Human Remains relating to his daughter’s body being found...
On June 20, 2019, at approximately 6:15 p.m., members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit arrested Estibenson Lopez, also known as Steven Lopez, age 31, of Paterson. Lopez was arrested without incident at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City....
On June 14, 2019, the Secaucus Police Department contacted the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit to report an alleged sexual assault of a 6-year-old female. After an investigation by SVU, a Union City man was arrested and charged with five counts related to...
On June 19, 2019, a Hudson County Grand Jury returned an Indictment against Jorge A. Rios, age 33, of Jersey City, charging him with four counts related to the death of Carolina Cano that occurred on March 24, 2019 in Jersey City....
On April 21, 2019, at approximately 11:45 a.m., Jersey City Police Officers were dispatched to Jersey City Medical Center on a report of a patient that had been involved in a domestic incident. Upon arrival to the hospital, police officers found Sonia Drouet, age 57,...
On June 13, 2019, at approximately 5:50 p.m., the Union City Police Department contacted the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit to report an alleged sexual assault of an 11-year-old female from Garfield. The sexual assault was reported to the Union City Police Department...
On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, shortly after 12:30 a.m., West New York Police Officers responded to the intersection of 60th Street and Jefferson Street in West New York on a report of a motor vehicle collision. Upon arrival, the responding officers found that two vehicles...
On June 12, 2019, shortly after 11:45 p.m., officers from the North Bergen Police Department responded to the Fountain Motel on Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen on the report of an alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old female victim who had traveled to the...
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, following a seven-week investigation, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Gang Task Force along with officers from several partnering law enforcement agencies involved in the Jersey City Violent Crime Initiative executed multiple search warrants and arrest warrants. Approximately 100 law enforcement...