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Police have named the female suspect wanted for a double shooting in Newark that killed an 18-year-old girl celebrating her high school graduation. Sujeidi Ocasio and another teen were shot at a graduation party outside 196 Lincoln Avenue just after 12:15 a.m. Ocasio was rushed to University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Authorities say the single bullet, allegedly fired by 18-year-old Nicole Guyette, went through Ocasio's neck and struck 15-year-old Jasmine Perez. Perez was treated and released from University Hospital in Newark, officials say. "She got shot for no reason," Perez said. "So the bullet went through her and...

A federal jury today convicted former Newark Mayor Sharpe James of fraud for conspiring to rig the sale of nine city lots to his mistress, who quickly resold them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. Ending a five-week trial, the jury returned its verdict in a courtroom just a block from the City Hall office that James occupied for two decades. Less than an hour into its sixth day of deliberations, the jury found James guilty on all 13 counts in the indictment. James' co-defendant and former girlfriend, Tamika Riley, was also found guilty on all counts. Both...

NEWARK, N.J. - The fate of a former Newark mayor and his ex-mistress on charges of corruption in the sale of city-owned land went to a federal jury Wednesday after five weeks of testimony. Prosecutors alleged that Sharpe James abused his office and betrayed his constituents by arranging for the sale of nine city-owned properties at a discounted rate of $46,000 to former girlfriend Tamika Riley from 2001 to 2005. Riley, 39, who admits to having an affair with the 72-year-old James, quickly sold the properties for $665,000 without starting required rehabilitation work on most of them, prosecutors said. The...

NEWARK, N.J. - Newark Mayor Sharpe James betrayed his city by using his influence to help his one-time mistress rake in more than half a million dollars through shady real-estate deals, a prosecutor said in closing arguments Monday. James is accused of arranging for the sale of nine city-owned properties at a discounted rate of $46,000 to Tamika Riley from 2001 to 2005. Riley quickly sold them for $665,000 without ever starting required rehabilitation work on most of them, prosecutors said. The 41 witnesses heard during the five-week trial did not include James, 72, or Riley, 39, a publicist who...

Newark police are facing more legal troubles stemming from a Sept. 6 confrontation with local journalists who found a woman's decomposing body in a garbage- strewn alley. Roberto Lima, editor of the Brazilian Voice newspaper, charged in a lawsuit yesterday that police ordered him not to publish any pictures of the body, then confiscated a digital camera that held photographs of the crime scene. Later, when he agreed to give up the photos but refused to hand over electronic copies, they cuffed him to a bench in an East Ward precinct station. "This is America, my friend," Lima said in...

The Baby Boomers’ retirement will change the texture of society in ways we’ve scarcely begun to contemplate. A dispatch from America’s coming silver age It is cliché to speak of sleepy little country towns, but my mother’s hometown goes beyond sleepy into Rip van Winkle territory. Newark, New York, has more churches than bars. Neat clapboards and stately Victorians line quiet streets wrapped tight around the Erie Canal. Drive through Newark quickly, and it looks like America’s past. Stay a little longer, and you begin to recognize it as our future. Walk into one of those churches on a typical...

August 7, 2004THE OVERVIEWBin Laden Sent Suspect to U.S., Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM ASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - American intelligence officials now believe that Issa al-Hindi, the alleged Qaeda operative now in British custody, was dispatched to the United States in early 2001 by the mastermind of the Sept. 11 plot at the direction of Osama bin Laden to case potential targets in New York City, senior government officials said Friday. The officials said that Mr. Hindi was the same person as the figure identified in the Sept. 11 commission report as Issa al-Britani. The...

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James billed the city for pornographic movies and body lotions while staying at a Miami hotel, prosecutors allege, according to documents recently filed in federal court. The disclosures shed new light on how the government may be planning to prove its case against James, who was indicted on corruption charges last July after 20 years as mayor of the state's largest city. The government also alleges that James: - Chose which developers could buy property in Newark, rewarded those who gave him tickets to sporting events and "swapped" city land with a developer who steered property...

Part of a Newark Liberty International Airport terminal was evacuated Saturday as authorities investigated a possible gas leak, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. People in a section of the airport's Terminal B noticed a strong odor around 11 a.m. that they thought smelled like natural gas, Port Authority spokesman Pasquale DiFulco said.

Sharpe James The defense team of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James is bracing for testimony about marital infidelity to become part of his high-profile corruption case, according to court papers. Confronting an issue that was only hinted at in a federal indictment this summer, James' lawyers are attempting to filter out potential jurors who may be prejudiced by evidence of philandering on his part.

AP File Photo Triple murder suspect Rodolfo Godinez, center, was escorted by Prince George's County officers for his first extradition hearing on Sept. 19. UPPER MARLBORO, Md - A second extradition hearing was slated for this morning for Rodolfo Godinez, a 24-year-old Nicaraguan national and Newark resident charged in a brutal schoolyard triple murder in August. During a hearing last month, Godinez' court-appointed attorney, Brian Denton said he would argue that the extradition should be blocked because his client was not afforded access to officials at the Nicaraguan consulate after his arrest.

The day before the killing of three Newark students by several illegal immigrants, Gov. Corzine formed a commission to study ways of providing immigrants with GREATER access to public services. The panel included no experts on law enforcement or national security. Immigration is already a costly burden to New Jerseyans. In the 90's Congress commissioned a project under the National Academy of Science to examine immigration's bottom line. Two groundbreaking studies - one on NJ and one on california - found that immigrants used government services at greater rates than native-born residents and at the same time paid far less...

ELMWOOD PARK -- A 27-year-old native Colombian on Monday became the first undocumented resident to be reported to immigration officials by borough police under a new state directive. The arrest of Sabian Velasco, of Third Street, came five days after state Attorney General Anne Milgram said local police must now notify the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of all arrests of illegal immigrants. Velasco was arrested around 1:30 p.m. after he chased people inside his house with a 3-foot machete, said police Sgt. Bryan DiPasquale. DiPasquale described the victims as "in their 40s and familiar with [Velasco]." "He didn't cut...

PROJECT: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SUBJECT: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / RESPONSE ON THE U.S. LOCAL LEVEL WITHIN ILLEGAL ALIEN COMMUNITY/ABROAD FILE: OPPOSITION RESEARCH TRANSLATION: SPANISH to ENGLISH (w/BABELFISH) Original Spanish Title: ("EU Intensifica Medidas Contra Inmigrantes a Todos Los Niveles") (TRANSLATION) "New York, August 26 -- A woman is surrounded by 15 US federal agents on a street corner in Los Angeles, her 8-year old son crying in fear, and she is deported; U.S. politicians denounce a triple homicide in Newark, New Jersey blaming it on the presence of illegal aliens ("indocumentados") in the country, towns across the nation start to approve local measures...

(CBS) NEWARK -- Police in Newark are looking for a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her own home. The brutal crime was committed on Newark's Main St. in the Ironbound section. It started with a home invasion around 6 a.m. Saturday. The victim was a young mother - who police say was approached by a male suspect as she parked her car, and walked into her home. A source familiar with the case tells CBS 2 the suspect forced the woman into her home, then sexually assaulted her, and took $850, all while her two young children...

The thugs who shot four college students reportedly preceded their sick attack by trying to sexually assault two female victims........a family member described the level of savagery......saying the thugs used a machete to hack the victims. "They cut my niece's face off," said John McClain, a great-uncle, and chaplain of the Newark Police Department. "They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging."

Police officers in New Jersey must now notify immigration officials about any undocumented person who is arrested in connection with an indictable crime, under a directive issued Wednesday by Attorney General Anne Milgram. The need for “a uniform state policy on notification” to immigration authorities became evident after a man identified as being in the country illegally was charged in a recent triple homicide in Newark, Milgram said during a news conference. “Some counties and local police departments do it all the time, some sometimes do it, and some never,” she said. That changes “effective immediately,” Milgram said. Milgram emphasized...

Feds To Be Notified Of N.J. Illegal Immigrant Arrests POSTED: 3:14 pm EDT August 22, 2007 TRENTON, N.J. -- State Attorney General Anne Milgram on Wednesday ordered all New Jersey law enforcement authorities to notify federal immigration officials whenever an illegal immigrant is arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving. Milgram said the need "to have a uniform state policy on notification to immigration" became evident after a recent triple homicide in Newark. Before the directive, "all police departments in our state had complete discretion as to if, when and how to notify immigration authorities." The policy, which follows...

Will the execution-style murder of three young students in Newark, N.J., finally turn the tide in the immigration enforcement debate? Will we at last abandon the deadly, chaotic, lawless sanctuary nation experiment and restore America's lost status as a sovereign nation under the rule of law? The death of six innocent men and women and the injury of more than 1,000 at the hands of several illegal alien 1993 World Trade Center bombers wasn't enough to convince politicians in New York and across this country to end illegal alien sanctuary policies. The death of nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and...

The thin stream of blood extended the length of the sidewalk running by the Catholic monastery's front door, trickled around the corner and ended midway down the block. The friars who live inside assumed a gunshot victim had collapsed. There, the monks gathered one night last summer and prayed, as residents of 13th Avenue in Newark's West Ward looked on. Two months later, the friars showed up in religious garb at a fu neral for another young area gunshot victim, and they again drew stares. Last autumn, the friars learned that people liked having them in the neighborhood. A man...

The manhunt's final chapter went by in a flash: no time for meals, no time for a hotel, no time for a shower. And certainly no time for sleep. When it ended early yesterday at an apartment complex in a Washington, D.C., suburb, alleged murderer Rodolfo Godinez turned to the Newark cop who had been tracking him for 60 straight hours and starting asking questions. "How did you catch me? Someone told on me?" Godinez asked Detective Rasheen Peppers. "You must be very smart." Peppers, 34, smiled wryly yesterday afternoon, recounting the story from his home in Essex County. A...

Last week Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced a program that, when fully funded, will operate more than 120 public security cameras in his city. The program, known as the "Community Eye" program, is similar to urban sur veillance programs in New York City and London. The Newark Police Department should carefully evaluate these cities' experiences and consider whether cameras will cure Newark's violent-crime woes. Newark's elected officials should assess whether it is wise or useful to encroach upon the private lives of those who live, work and travel in New Jersey's largest city. It is tempting to believe that new...

One of six men charged with the execution-style killings of three college students in Newark, N.J., said yesterday in Prince George's County District Court that he will fight extradition to New Jersey. "I want to stay here and fight it," said Rodolfo Godinez, 24, a Nicaraguan national who was arrested Saturday in Oxon Hill. Judge Leo E. Green Jr. ordered Mr. Godinez held without bail until a hearing Sept. 20. Mr. Godinez's half-brother Alexander Alfaro, 16, who is being held in the Prince William County jail in Woodbridge, declined to waive extradition yesterday...He will be held pending a court hearing...

Three young people died in Newark, the latest casualties in illegal aliens' war on America. But don't expect even this bloody outrage to end the complacency of the political elite -- or the mainstream media -- as the alien invasion turns our streets into a slaughter house. On August 13, The New York Times, America's newspaper of wretched, covered the Newark murders in its usual, agenda-driven, fashion. In "After Killings, Sense of Unity Surprises Newark," the Times reported, "Political rivals have promised to work together, young men in gangs have signed pledges to put down their weapons, and a mayor...

A 24-year-old man believed to be the ringleader in the startling, execution-style killings of three college students in Newark will be arraigned today in Prince George's County District Court. Rodolfo Godinez was arrested Saturday in Oxon Hill after a extensive search by Newark and federal authorities that led to the arrest of his 16-year-old half brother later that day in Woodbridge, VA. Yesterday, Newark police arrested an 18-year-old man in Elizabeth, N.J. "Now, the process of healing must take center stage and the prosecution of the case begins," Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker said.. Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy credited...

Melvin Jovel A sixth and final suspect in the execution-style slayings of three college students in a Newark schoolyard two weeks ago was arrested early yesterday........Melvin Jovel, 18, was caught in Elizabeth at about 3 AM......captured without incident at a relative's home.

THE grim execution-style shootings that killed three college students in a Newark schoolyard two weeks ago bore many hallmarks of gangland slayings, and the culprits clearly wanted it that way. Three of the four victims, two women and two young men aged 18 to 20, were forced to kneel facing a wall before being shot in the head. Both women, one of whom survived, were slashed in the face with a machete or knife. And the MySpace page of one of the six suspects, a 16-year-old who is still at large, pays loving homage to one of the country’s most...

Newark is a 25-minute train ride across the Hudson River from the skyscrapers of Manhattan. But its tough streets, scarred by violence and drugs, feel a world away. Now, after a brutal multiple murder in a school playground, Newark is at the centre of a bout of national soul-searching about life in urban America and the violence that marks so much of the experience of inner-city black youth. The crime has caused shock across the nation not because the victims were involved in a tit-for-tat piece of ghetto violence, but because they were not. They were four young black Americans...

WASHINGTON -- The debate over illegal immigration has ceased in Congress, but almost nowhere else. Widespread concerns about the impact of illegal immigration on jobs, social services and national security continues to generate intense rhetoric. And some see a dark side emerging, evident in growing discrimination against Hispanics and a surge of xenophobia unseen since the last big wave of immigration in the early 20th century. "I don't think there's been a time like this in our lifetime," said Doris Meissner of the Migration Policy Institute and former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Even though immigration is...

A key suspect in the brutal killings of three college students in Newark was arrested early yesterday in Oxon Hill, where authorities found the 24-year-old Nicaraguan man among a group drinking beer and getting tattooed in a filthy apartment furnished with little more than mattresses on the floor.

One could, I suppose, regard this as one of those unforeseen incremental consequences that happens in the darkest shadows of society. But that doesn't extend to Newark's official status as an illegal-immigrant "sanctuary city." Like Los Angeles, New York and untold others, Newark has formally erased the distinction between U.S. citizens and the armies of the undocumented. This is the active collusion by multiple cities and states in the subversion of U.S. sovereignty. In Newark, N.J., it means an illegal-immigrant child rapist is free to murder on a Saturday night. In Somerville, Mass., it means two deaf girls are raped...

Newark Mayor Cory Booker yesterday outlined a series of measures designed to monitor the flow of guns in and out of the state's largest city and to prevent gun dealers from opening shop in residential neighborhoods or near schools. Booker, joined by Gov. Jon Corzine and Attorney General Anne Milgram at a news conference yesterday afternoon, admitted the initiatives may not stop the bloodshed overnight, but called them necessary steps in order to curtail violence. The announcement comes nearly two weeks after four college-age Newark residents were shot in the head behind an elementary school in the Ivy Hill neighborhood....

(AP) TRENTON, N.J. -- Federal marshals arrested two more suspects in the deadly schoolyard shootings in Newark two weeks ago. Rodolfo Godinez -- a 24-year-old Nicaraguan immigrant described as a principal player in the case -- was arrested in Prince George's County, Maryland. A 16-year-old described as a possible relative of Godinez's was arrested in the Woodbridge, Virginia, area. Jose Carranza, along with two juveniles, has already been charged in the Aug. 4 shootings deaths of three college in a Newark schoolyard. Carranza, 28, is an illegal immigrant from Peru, but authorities said they never checked his immigration status after...

All around the country, certain cities are refusing to inform federal authorities about the activities of illegal aliens, even foreign nationals who commit crimes in their jurisdictions. This week the police department in New Haven, Connecticut issued a memo ordering officers not to cooperate with Homeland Security on enforce warrants for illegal immigrants. This follows New Haven's distribution of ID cards to illegals so they can access city services. This, of course, is outrageous, and verges on anarchy. New Haven officials have violated Federal Statute 1373(a), and if Attorney General Gonzalez still has an office, he should prosecute them. But...

The computer, its screen blank, sat on a table in the living room of Gloria Gomez’s apartment. Two blocks away, four promising young people had been shot, three fatally, and now Ms. Gomez’s two sons were being hunted by the authorities. She did not want to believe that her boys could have played a role in the killings, but she consented to turn on the computer, which one of her sons had brought into the house recently, while she was away visiting her native Nicaragua. In seconds, the monitor filled with a blue-and-white wallpaper emblazoned with gang names, including that...

Any reputable, criminal profiler will tell you that an execution-style shooting involving multiple victims will, invariably, include missiles and a message. It will also involve victims and a target. These are the earmarks of state-sponsored or state-tolerated terrorism. The recent executions of three Black college students in Newark meet these criteria. They attended Delaware State University. A fourth youth survived a gunshot wound to the head. This was not a botched robbery, and the Black community in Newark needs a Black detective, like in the Tawana Brawley case, to side step a cover-up. Assuming arguendo that the murder suspect, Jose...

Well, I won't say I told you so. But I will say Don Cresitello told you so. Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about a rally in Morristown at which Cresitello, who is the mayor, spoke on the question of illegal im migration. His main objective is simply the attainment of 287(g) status for the local cops. That status deputizes them as agents of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement service. This entitles them to hand over any illegal aliens they encounter to the federal government. "We're not going to go after jay walkers," he told me when we...

The Altoona Housing Authority no longer will mail application forms to people who want subsidized housing, a policy change that could help control an alleged influx of New Jersey residents. The authority has been mailing 100 to 150 applications per month for Section 8 and public housing, mostly to people lacking a local preference, including many from New Jersey, authority Executive Director Cheryl Johns said. “We’ve been bombarded,” she said. “If someone wants an application, they’ll have to come and get it.” The new policy would make it less convenient for people to apply and get on the waiting list...

The abject degeneracy of political correctness has reached a high water mark in Newark, New Jersey. Question: what can decent Americans do about it? In that city, four college-bound students were forced to kneel against a schoolyard wall where they were shot point-blank in the head. Three were killed outright. The fourth survived. One of the alleged perps? An illegal alien. But not just any illegal alien. One who had been arrested two previous times, once for assaulting bar patrons ten months ago, and recently for repeatedly raping a five-year-old relative and threatening the lives of her and her family....

He’s pissing into the wind with that idea. Neither Left or Right will wear it Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, never shy of provocative rhetoric, had some sharp words for President Bush and Congress on Tuesday, saying he is “sickened” they are on vacation “while young Americans are being massacred by people who should not be here.” Gingrich said two suspects in the recent murders of three youths in Newark, N.J., turned out to be illegal immigrants with criminal records and that Bush should call Congress into special session to deal with the situation “if he is serious about...

Newark's Mayor, Cory Booker, says he has no plans to change police policy, in the wake of a triple murder where two undocumented immigrants are the prime suspects. BOOKER: In no way is obligation of city police department to be going around and doing the work of INS. REPORTER: Booker's director of police, Garry McCarthy, says the immigration status of the suspects is "irrelevant." He also is dismissing reports that the execution-style murders were related to the violent Central American gang, MS-13. Booker and McCarthy announced today extra video cameras for Newark's high crime neighborhoods. The cameras will be equipped...

Will the execution-style murder of three young students in Newark, N.J., finally turn the tide in the immigration enforcement debate? Will we at last abandon the deadly, chaotic, lawless sanctuary nation experiment and restore America's lost status as a sovereign nation under the rule of law? The death of six innocent men and women and the injury of more than 1,000 at the hands of several illegal alien 1993 World Trade Center bombers wasn't enough to convince politicians in New York and across this country to end illegal alien sanctuary policies. The death of nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and...

Dozens of cities across the nation have proudly become illegal immigrant sanctuaries, but officials in one municipality are pondering the status after a Peruvian man with a felony record massacred three college-bound students. Had authorities in Newark New Jersey contacted federal immigration officials after illegal alien Jose Carranza’s first felony indictment last year he would have been deported and therefore prevented from murdering three innocent youngsters in a schoolyard this month. Instead Carranza was released on bail, despite being charged with raping a 5-year-old girl and aggravated assault and weapons violations. This week he was charged with the gruesome execution-style...

Two possible candidates for President have written on this subject before me. I’m aware of their contributions. I won’t name them; their publicity is their business. I had decided to write my own take on this subject as soon as I heard about the Newark murders. Mr. Carranza has just pleaded not guilty to the execution-style murders of two young men and one woman in Newark, New Jersey, and to the attempted murder of the sister of one of the slain men. She survived. She identified him. That, his fingerprint at the scene, plus the fact that two of his...

In an article headlined, "White Police Chief Could Upset a Balance in Newark," The New York Times reports that Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker "removed the word ‘acting’ from the title of his police chief, Anthony Campos, a Portuguese-American who, along with Police Director Garry F. McCarthy, leads the city’s 1,300-member police force."The Times worries that, "In a city like Newark, where the majority of the population is black and race issues bubble just below the surface, the decision to place two white men at the helm of the city’s Police Department could threaten the good will and unity that...

At a news conference on Tuesday, Newark Police Director Gary McCarthy said the immigration status of a chief suspect in the murders of three college students behind an elementary school August 4 is "irrelevant." "What's relevant to me is that they're murderers, and what's relevant is that a heinous crime has occurred," said McCarthy. Jose Carranza, 28, one of three suspects so far charged in the execution-style killings, is an illegal alien from Peru. However, despite his many encounters with the legal system, his immigration status wasn't determined. Had federal immigration officials known Carranza was arrested in connection with child...

"Enough is enough," thundered Newark mayor Cory Booker at Saturday's funeral of Dashon Harvey. The weekend before Dashon, age 20, and two of his friends had been forced to kneel against a wall at a nearby school playground and shot in the head, execution-style. Dashon had been a student at Delaware State University, eventually hoping to become a social worker. City Journal commentator Steven Malanga reveals the social pathology that lies behind those murders: "An astonishing 60 percent of the city's kids are growing up without fathers ... Studies have also found that about 70 percent of the long-term prisoners...

I was just about to speak to the Republican gathering in Ames, Iowa, Saturday when I learned something so distressing that it caused me to change the topic of my speech.By now you have heard about the three young college students who were murdered execution-style in Newark, N.J., last week. Another student was shot in the head but survived.What you might not have heard is that the shooter in this horrendous crime was in the country illegally.This was not his first vicious crime. He was indicted last month for raping a five-year-old girl repeatedly over a four-year period and threatening...

(CBS) NEWARK -- The city of Newark has a new high-tech plan to combat gun violence. Mayor Cory Booker is set to unveil the new crime-fighting initiative Tuesday, but it comes too late for the victims of last week's execution-style murders. There is anger and frustration over the death of three young friends in a schoolyard. Newark residents are demanding Booker's resignation, but instead, he is planning to unveil a $3.2 million surveillance-type program. New acoustic sensors and surveillance cameras are the latest sign of stepped-up security, as police continue to round up and charge suspects in the killing Iofemi...

Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow has for years drawn criticism - and infuriated police - with her unwritten rule not to issue arrest warrants, or even pursue cases that rely on a lone eyewitness. Court records show more than a dozen Newark murders in the past three years in which witnesses had ID'ed the killers but no charges weren brought by Dow's office. Dow's "policy" seemed about to rear its head in the wake of the triple schoolyard slayings