On Friday, June 7, 2013, I wrote a blog article entitled, “Police Search for East Orange Teen Who Killed Prom Queen,” which detailed law enforcement’s efforts to find Al-Muqqadin Means, an 18-year old East Orange teen charged in the shooting death of 17-year old Aquilla Fields, also of East Orange. Fields’ body was discovered around… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Homicide, Assault & Threat Crimes
Bayonne Man Accused of Threatening Officers With Knife, Assault
According to authorities, Michael Ciccone, a 55-year old Bayonne resident, was taken into custody late last week after he threatened at least two officers from the Bayonne Police Department with a 15-inch kitchen knife. It appears that law enforcement was summoned to Ciccone’s apartment on Avenue A in Bayonne (near 25th Street) to perform a… Continue Reading
Police Search for East Orange Teen Who Killed Prom Queen
The search continues for 18-year old Almuqqadin Means (pictured left), of East Orange, who has been charged with the shooting death of 17-year old Aquilla Fields, also of East Orange. The two – who were rumored to have dated – were both students at Campus High School in East Orange, where Aquilla Fields was recently… Continue Reading
Woodland Park Man Arrested Following Knife Fight at Nutley Bar
Anthony Campisi, a 39-year old Woodland Park man, was arrested this weekend after allegedly stabbing another man during a Saturday afternoon fight at the Midtown Bar and Grill on Franklin Avenue in Nutley. According to law enforcement, the fight occurred just after 2pm on Saturday. Campisi and another man apparently got into an argument which… Continue Reading
Jury Convicts Fairfield Woman of Mother’s Murder
After only a day and a half of deliberations, a jury sitting in the Essex County Superior Court convicted Tina Lunney, a 45-year old Fairfield woman (pictured left), of murdering her mother, Marie Zoppi, who was 81. Specifically, it was alleged by the State throughout the trial that Lunney had strangled her mother with a… Continue Reading
