Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Mark Lugo, 31, appeared in New York superior court on Tuesday.
Hobokenite Mark Lugo pled guilty to one count of grand larceny in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan on Tuesday and will go to prison for as much as three years, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Lugo, 31, pled guilty to walking out of the Chambers Hotel in midtown Manhattan with five paintings and the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side with a painting worth $350,000, according to the DA's press release. In July, Lugo was arrested in San Francisco Lugo after taking a drawing by Picasso from a gallery in San Francisco. Later that month, more than $500,000 worth of art work was found in Lugo's uptown Hoboken apartment. Lugo is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 28.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Police blotter.
After three years of living together, two roommates in Hoboken may have to think about moving out. According to a police report, a 31-year-old Hoboken resident reported her roommate, claiming that her roommate has been stealing from her since September 2011. The victim is claiming that her roommate, with whom she shares a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment on uptown Madison St., has been stealing items from her room and selling them back to department stores, police said. An altercation between the two women took place last week, police said. No arrests were made.
Jubilation, but no arrests.
Eli can be proud of his hometown. No arrests were made in Hoboken on Super Bowl Sunday, police said. Unusual for even a regular—football free—weekend, there were few fights and altercations. The fights that were reported took place on Saturday night, but didn't result in any arrests. Police said that Super Bowl Sunday could be a barometer for March 3, Hoboken's St. Patrick's Day (or, this year, Leprecon). But it's still unclear what will happen on that day, and how many house parties will be thrown, even though the parade has been canceled.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Councilman Tim Occhipinti provided an update on the situation on the corner of First and Jackson Streets.
The owner of the former Nardine's Restaurant, which burned down in December, will have to comply with the city's request to demolish at least part of the building by March 3, according to an update on the matter from Mayor Dawn Zimmer, before the city will have to step in and do the work itself. On Jan. 3, the owner of the building—Esmat Zaklama, who also owns the lot across the street—was given a notice to partially demolish the building, to keep the structure from collapsing. On Jan. 9 he was told to remove unsafe debris from the site, according to city documents. Councilman Tim Occhipinti, who represents the area where the building stands on First and Jackson Streets, said he would like to see a small park be built there, as well as …
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Police blotter.
Talk about a rough night. A 24-year-old Jersey City man was the victim of not one, but two assaults on Saturday around 2:20 a.m. after a night of partying at 200 Lounge, according to a police report on the matter. The man walked out of the club around 2 a.m. to smoke a cigarette, police said, when a girl in the street started talking to him. The girl's boyfriend told the victim to stop talking to the woman and the altercation turned physical, police said, with the victim getting punched in the face. Then, the victim walked back into the club to get his 21-year-old cousin. As the two were leaving the club, police said, another man allegedly assaulted the man. The second assault was unrelated to the first one, police said. The two …
Monday, January 30, 2012
Police blotter.
In what seems to have become a weekly tradition, a 24-year-old Basking Ridge man was assaulted at McDonald's on Washington St. on Saturday around 1 a.m. According to police reports, the 24-year-old was eating at the restaurant around 1 .m. on Saturday when two men started arguing with him. The Basking Ridge man was punched in the face, causing a contusion on his left temple, police said. The alleged assaulters left the establishment through the Third Street entrance and fled, police said. The men weren't found and no arrests were made, according to police.
Police blotter.
Three men were arrested on Saturday after being involved in a fight, obstructing arrest and spitting bodily fluids at a police officer, according to reports. Around 2:25 a.m. on Sunday, police responded to a large fight at 460 Fifth St., where approximately 30 people were fighting, spectating and yelling, according to reports. Police first arrested Bryant Arguto, 23 from North Bergen, who had left the fight and was walking the street without his shirt on allegedly pushing and shoving people in the street, police said. After Arguto was placed in a police car, four women came up to the officers and told them a man was unconscious in the hallway of the building, according to reports. Police found 23-year-old Christopher Macias, from North …
Monday, January 23, 2012
A fire at Fox Hill Gardens displaced some residents and caused some minor injuries.
A small fire broke out on the third floor of a senior building at around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, causing several residents to be evacuated and some minor injuries due to smoke inhalation, according to reports. When police arrived at the scene—the Hoboken Fire Department was already present—multiple people were standing outside the 10-story building at 311 13th Street. Other residents, standing on their balconies, told police that a fire had broken out on the third floor of the building. The building—the Fox Hill Gardens senior building—is owned by the Hoboken Housing Authority and, according to police, Executive Director Carmelo Garcia was notified right after the fire started. Garcia could not immediately be reached for comment on …
Police blotter.
Nobody likes to get parking tickets, but violence is never the answer. Last Monday, 48-year-old Alan Rudolph learned this the hard way when he was arrested for allegedly pushing a parking utility employee who was writing him a parking ticket, police said. The 28-year-old woman was writing Rudolph a ticket at Tenth and Garden around 3 p.m. on Monday, according to police. Rudolph stood in front of the car's licence plates, police said, to obstruct the woman's view. When she kept writing the ticket, Rudolph allegedly became very angry and pushed the woman, causing her to fall to the ground, police said. After police arrived at the scene, Rudolph apologized to the woman, according to reports.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Hoboken Fire Department responded to a fire alarm on 13th Street on Sunday afternoon.
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