Garfield Bar Murder Suspect Extradited
The fifth and final fugitive wanted in a 2024 stabbing outside of a Bergen County bar has been extradited to New Jersey.
Ricky “Angel” Vargas, 37, was lodged in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, May 26, after being arrested at a home in Longview, TX, Thursday, May 7. Vargas, of East Stroudsburg, PA, had spent more than two years as a fugitive in the February 2024 killing of 31-year-old Hawthorne resident Richard Franceschi, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Garfield police responded to the stabbing at approximately 12:44 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2024, at JoJo's Ba…
Man Who Fatally Stabbed Neighbor In Mount Vernon, Then Fled State Gets Decades Behind Bars
A man who admitted to fatally stabbing his neighbor in Westchester County before fleeing to Virginia will spend more than 20 years in state prison, prosecutors announced.
Ronald Hechavarria, 36, was sentenced to 25 years in state prison on Friday, May 8, in Westchester County Court after previously pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the killing of 37-year-old Michael Clay, the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday, May 11.
The fatal stabbing happened on Aug. 1, 2024, at 204 Union Ave. in Mount Vernon. Authorities said Hechavarria stabbed Clay multipl…
US Marshals Capture Edison Woman Wanted In Stabbing 482 Miles Away
A New Jersey woman wanted in connection with a stabbing in Edison last year was arrested in Ohio on Wednesday, April 22, after fleeing the state, authorities said.
Dawn Burge, 36, was taken into custody by members of the U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force in Elyria, Ohio, officials announced.
The arrest stems from a June 29, 2025 incident on Morgan Drive in Edison, where police responded to a reported domestic dispute and found a man suffering from stab wounds, authorities said.
An investigation determined Burge was involved, and a warrant was issued for her arrest by …
Three Arrested After Stabbing At Atlantic City Resort: Police
Two Newark residents and a Maryland man were arrested and charged after a man was stabbed and a woman assaulted at a resort in Atlantic City, authorities announced Wednesday, April 15.
At 10:37 p.m. on Sunday, April 5, officers responded to the Showboat Resort and and located a 38-year-old Severn, Maryland woman who had been assaulted, Atlantic City police said. She was transferred to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The stabbing victim, Quheem Whitehead, a 38-year-old Newark resident, later arrived at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
After a…
Cold Case Twist: Mantua Twp Double Murder Suspect Has Been Dead For 25 Years, Prosecutor Says
A more than 30-year-old New Jersey double homicide cold case has been closed thanks to help from newly-analyzed DNA. But the suspect has been dead since 2000, authorities said.
Francis "Frank" T. Schooley, of Mantua Township (Camden County) who died in 2000 at the age of 39, murdered 24-year-old Marebeth Welsh of Woodlynne in 1993 and 16-year-old Jennifer Persia of Magnolia in 1994, Camden County Prosecutor Grace MacAulay said on Thursday, April 9.
On Sunday, Nov. 14, 1993, at 4:24 a.m., Camden police found Welsh with blood coming from her nose on the sidewalk of the 300 block of Jackson St…
