Wednesday, 6 January 2021
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Vol. CXXXIII, No. 35
THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Lyndhurst’s Fodera signs scholarship letter with Bryant University in Rhode Island. See Page 9
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SUSPECT IN DOMESTIC CASE JAILED AND FIVE DAYS LATER, HE WAS SOMEHOW
OUT WITHOUT BAIL A
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man involved in a domestic dispute with a family member (not a spouse or partner) where he allegedly used a frying pan as a weapon, and where the victim was severely hurt, was sprung from jail, without bail, just days later, only to return to the scene of the original crime moments after he was let out, the Kearny Police Department said last week. On Dec. 21 at 12:57 p.m., Capt. Paul Bershefski, Sgt. Phil Finch and Officers Jason Rodrigues and John Fearon, responded to a report of an aggravated assault at a private residence in the Arlington section of town. Upon arrival, the officers say they found a severely injured woman in her 50s, who had fled to a neighbor’s apartment, seeking refuge from an attack by a family member. Officers say they learned the suspect, a 27-year-old Kearny man, allegedly brutally beat the woman about the face and head with a
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