A Good Samaritan flagged down a Jersey City police officer about a 3-year-old boy alone in the area of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Virginia Avenue Thursday afternoon.
A Bayonne man who hit a 2-year-old girl so hard that her liver split open claims he thought a plea deal would net him three years in prison instead of the 30-year sentence he received.
Anthony Cosma, 32, gave up his position as a Guttenberg cop on Thursday. The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office says he also forfeited his right to any public employment now or in the future.
Leiner Miranda Lopez has been a fugitive since February when Cesar Santana was arrested. Both men are accused of killing the Jersey City mother, burying her in Kearny.
Two hitmen in a 2014 Jersey City murder-for-hire plot, George Bratsenis and Bomani Africa, were sentenced Thursday for the killing of Michael Galdieri.