Some 70 street racers and their entourages had eluded authorities who tried to clear them from clogging a corner of JFK Airport before they began tearing up area highways. So Port Authority police went all Vin Diesel on ‘em. Uniformed officers in surge patrols had trouble corralling the 60 to 80 wannabe drift kings who’d […]
UPDATE 4:30 p.m.: The Transportation Security Administration confirmed that a female passenger made a verbal bomb threat during the flight. Officials swept the plane and found nothing dangerous on-board. The passenger was taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation, according to TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein. The woman was not publicly identified. NEWARK — Police boarded […]
A city judge sent a chronic “hack hustler” who’s been busted 44 times for illegally offering rides to travelers at Newark Airport to jail for 120 days. Mahmoud Yasin, 62, pleaded guilty to illegally soliciting transportation and criminal trespass in connection with six separate arrests by Port Authority police before Municipal Court Judge Marvin Adames […]
Four of the 27 Royal Caribbean passengers screened for coronavirus after the cruise ship docked in Bayonne on Friday morning were sent to hospitals for further evaluation, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said. The other 23 were cleared and permitted to disembark from the Anthem of the Seas along with the ship’s other passengers, who said they […]
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus driver claims he was assaulted while working. Alan Brown, 54, says he was about to leave Terminal 5 at JFK Airport Saturday night when he claims a passenger hit the side of the B15 bus he was driving—demanding to get on. When Brown says he let the man on, he […]
A Connecticut man who authorities said fired at a police officer following a Jersey Shore traffic stop was indicted on attempted murder, kidnapping and other charges, authorities said. Miguel Angel-Villegas, 29, of New Haven had threatened to kill his then-girlfriend if she didn’t drive him from Connecticut to New Jersey, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. […]
