Cesar Santana is a man from New Jersey who has just been arrested and charged with the murder of his ex wife Luz Hernandez. According to police reports Luz Hernandez was reported missing and a day later the kindergarten teacher would be found buried in a shallow grave. Cesar Santana who is the father of Luz Hernandez children would be arrested in Florida where he was being held on concealing human remains. Luz Hernandez was allegedly beaten to death and the cause of death was blunt force trauma.
Update – Police are searching for Leiner Miranda Lopez who is also involved in the case
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The estranged husband of a beloved Jersey City kindergarten teacher and mother found buried in a shallow grave has been arrested as a suspect in the homicide case, according to the victim’s family.
“An arrest has been made in connection with the death investigation of Luz Hernandez,” the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office wrote in a tweet on Friday.
The message promised “more to follow,” but did not identify the suspect or their alleged role in the death. The family of the teacher, however, told PIX11 News early Friday that Cesar Santana, the estranged husband of Hernandez, had been apprehended in Florida in connection with the case.
Jail officials in Miami-Dade County told PIX11 that Santana was being held as a fugitive from Hudson County, charged with concealing human remains.
Hernandez, a 33-year-old mom of three, was found in a shallow grave in a desolate industrial area of Kearny on Tuesday, one day after she unexpectedly failed to show up for work at the BelovED Community Charter School.
Her death was deemed a homicide on Thursday. Investigators found evidence of blunt force trauma to her head, as well as compressions to her neck.
Relatives on Thursday had called for Santana to come forward to answer questions, saying that he would have been one of the last people to see Hernandez alive while visiting their three kids — ages 3, 9, and 12 — on Saturday morning. Two of the children are students at the school where their mother taught.
John Musbach is a man from New Jersey who attempted to purchase the services of a hit man to murder a 14 year old. According to police reports John Musbach went wandering on the dark web where he came in contact with an alleged hit man. John Musbach would offer $20,000 in bitcoin in order for the hit man to murder a fourteen year old who was going to testify against him in a child pornography case. Well the hit man turned out to be an undercover officer. John Musbach would be arrested and ultimately plead guilty, Musbach now faces ten years in prison.
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A New Jersey man faces up to 10 years behind bars after he hired a hitman and paid $20,000 in Bitcoin to kill a 14-year-old, prosecutors said.
John Michael Musbach, 31, of Haddonfield, pleaded guilty in Camden federal court Thursday to an indictment charging him with one count of knowingly and intentionally using and causing another to use a facility of interstate and foreign commerce, the internet, with the intent that a murder be committed, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey said.
Musbach is accused of exchanging sexually explicit photographs and videos with the then-13-year-old victim living in New York in the summer of 2015, prosecutors said.
The victim’s parents found out about the inappropriate exchange and contacted police.
Musbach was identified in the case and in March 2016 was arrested on child pornography charges and a search warrant of his residence, then in Galloway, New Jersey, was conducted.
Prosecutors said that Musbach had decided to have the victim killed so the minor could not testify against him in the pending criminal case.
From May 7 to May 20, 2016, he “repeatedly communicated with the administrator of a murder-for-hire website” on the dark web, which offered contract killings in return for cryptocurrency payment.
Using that website, Musbach arranged for a murder-for-hire.
“Musbach asked if a 14-year-old was too young to target, and upon hearing that the age was not a problem, paid approximately 40 bitcoin (approximately $20,000 at the time) for the hit,” the release said.
Anthony Stuckey was a school bus driver in New Jersey until he decided to drop a bunch of kids and proceeded to hit a house. According to police reports Anthony Stuckey would drop off kids at Essex County vocational-technical school when he went speeding down a street and proceeded into a house in West Caldwell New Jersey. When officers showed up at the scene they found out Anthony Stuckey had been drinking with a blood alcohol level of at least .04. Now Anthony Stuckey has been charged with:
Driving while intoxicated,
Fifteen counts of endangering the welfare of a child,
DUI with minor passengers,
And operating a commercial vehicle without a proper CDL, among other charges.
Needless to say Anthony Stuckey will be looking for a new job and hopefully one that does not require a license.
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Police say a school bus driver who crashed into a New Jersey home was driving drunk at the time.
Anthony Stuckey, 37, faces charges of driving while intoxicated and 15 counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The school bus driver had just dropped off students at Essex County Technical School when his bus slammed into a home around 8:30 a.m. Friday in West Caldwell, New Jersey.
Police pulled Stuckey out of the wreckage, and he was treated for minor injuries on scene. No one else was on the bus at the time of the crash.
It appears the bus driver failed to manage a tight turn nearby. Police were investigating to see if there was another cause for the crash.
“It can be managed, but people who are driving at excessive speed limit or not paying attention, it creeps up on them quick,” said Police Chief Dennis Capriglione.
Police also say that Stuckey did not have a proper commercial driver’s license to operate the bus.
Neighbors have seen similar accidents in the area previously, which is why there is a steel barricade to protect homes as drivers come around the bend in the road.
In this case, Stuckey seemed to oversteer. Police say he crossed the dividing line and clipped a black minivan before careening into the house
The homeowner is a man named Siva Thangam. He left around 5:15 a.m. to get to work at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he teaches.
The crash left the home’s foundation compromised, which means Thangam will have to find somewhere else to live until repairs can be made.
Caleb McGillvary who is better known as Kai The Hitchhiker has recently had a Netflix documentary aired regarding his story and a brutal murder. According to court reports Caleb McGillvary had met the victim 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr at New York City Times Square and the retired lawyer invited him back to his home in New Jersey. Two days after their initial meeting Caleb McGillvary fatally beat the older man to death. Now Caleb McGillvary attempted to tell the court that he acted in self defence after Joseph Galfy Jr drugged and sexually assaulted him, this accusation was never proven. Caleb McGillvary would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to 57 years in prison.
A Union County jury has found a minor Internet celebrity guilty of murdering a prominent attorney in his Clark home in 2013.
Caleb “Kai the Hitchhiker” McGillvary, 30, was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder. He now faces up to life in prison.
Prosecutors say McGillvary brutally beat 73-year-old Joseph Galfy Jr. about two days after the two met by chance in Times Square. Galfy, a retired Army major and partner in a Rahway law firm, allowed McGillvary, a drifter and self-declared “indigent illegal immigrant from Canada,” to stay at his home.
McGillvary claimed that he hit Galfy in self-defense, suggesting that Galfy may have drugged and raped him. McGillvary said investigators ignored evidence of Galfy’s semen.
But prosecutors say Galfy’s injuries contradicted McGillvary’s claims of self-defense and that the professional hitchhiker made inconsistent statements to investigators and cut his long hair to avoid being recognized after the slaying. Despite the freshly shorn appearance, a barista in Philadelphia recognized the neck-tattooed McGillvary three days later and called police.
Prosecutors said Galfy’s 5-foot-5 and 230-pound frame suffered numerous blows to the face, neck, chest and arms. His skull was cracked in three locations, he had four broken ribs and serious bruisings, scrapes and bleeding. His partially clothed body was found by police on May 13, 2013.
“This was a brutal, vicious, senseless crime, and we are pleased that the interests of justice have been served,” Acting Union County Prosecutor Michael A. Monahan said Wednesday after the verdict. “We sincerely thank the jury for their service and hope that today’s verdict brings some measure of solace to Mr. Galfy’s family, friends, and loved ones.”
McGillvary achieved some internet notoriety early in 2013 after a bonkers interview with a Fresno, California TV station in which he described how he saved a woman from an attacker who claimed to be Jesus. McGillvary said he beat back the attacker using a hatchet.
McGillvary’s trial also was marked by outbursts, NJ.com reported.
His Facebook fan page on Wednesday posted a “message from Kai” that said that “this false conviction WILL be overturned” and that he is “looking for a REAL lawyer who can ACTUALLY, EFFECTIVELY argue my case for appeal.”
“I just watched four weeks of railroading and with the most pathetic closing argument I have ever heard: a closing argument that flew in the face of facts and was designed only to harm my case,” the statement says. “Don’t worry though, we have been documenting everything and already have more than enough instances of misconduct, abuse of discretion, and ineffectiveness of defense counsel to overturn this false conviction and get a new trial.”
McGillvary faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced June 13 in Elizabeth. A spokesman for the prosecutor declined to comment on McGillvary’s immigration status.
McGillvary gained internet fame in February 2013 after intervening in an attack on a California utility worker in which he described using a hatchet to fend off the attacker, who weighed 300 pounds and claimed to be Jesus Christ.
The YouTube video of the interview garnered more than 1 million views. McGillvary also appeared a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
McGillvary, 32, was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2019 and sentenced to 57 years in prison. He will not be eligible for parole until Oct. 27, 1961 when he will be 73 years old.
In a July 3 blog posted on Facebook, McGillvary wrote that he hoped the appellate judges would be “heroes” and overturn the conviction.
But he also vowed that if the judges “rubber stamp the false conviction,” he would take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A denial of his appeal, McGillvary wrote, “would be an open (and VERY public) admission that the corruption in the Union County judiciary extends to the entire state.”
The appellate court rejected McGillvary’s claims the evidence did not support the murder conviction, his counsel was ineffective and Union County Superior Court Judge Robert Kirsch made errors during the four-week trial.
McGillvary also drafted his own legal brief in the appeal, raising several points, including that he was denied the right to represent himself during the trial
ut the appellate court, in its 36-page decision, found no merits in all the arguments.
The appellate judges noted that Kirsch had “noted the overwhelming proofs that (McGillvary) caused the victim’s death” including evidence that Galfy had suffered a broken neck, broken ribs and “the mauling of his head” to the point where his ear was torn with the cartilage visible.
In his defense, McGillvary claimed he acted in self-defense to ward off Galfy’s sexual advances, but the appellate judges wrote that “Galfy was a seventy-four-year-old man, smaller in stature than (McGillvary), and the severity and number of his injuries supported the jury’s conclusions that (McGillvary) knew his actions created substantial risk of death, or that he was aware that death was practically certain to result.”
“The record does not suggest a miscarriage of justice occurred,” the judges wrote.
The judges also wrote there is “little support” for the points that McGillvary raised in his own legal brief.
McGillvary argued the trial should have been moved out of Union County because Galfy was a former law partner of the presiding criminal judge in the county.
McGillvary also contended that Kirsch treated him “disrespectfully” during the trial and that he should have been permitted to call the prosecutor and the judge as witnesses.
The court found no evidence to support those claims, adding that even as Kirsch was denying McGillvary’s motion to represent himself, he “continuously interrupted” him and previously had “outright disregarded” the judge and had delivered an “unrestrained outburst” describing the trial as a “kangaroo court.”
McGillvary, a native of Canada, testified he led a “home-free” lifestyle in which he played music and worked construction jobs when he needed money, but otherwise spent his time surfing.
After the California incident, he made his way across the United States, being offered food and places to stay by people who knew him from the internet, eventually ending up in New York City when he met Galfy in Times Square about a day and a half before the killing.
Galfy invited McGillvary to his home where he stayed the night then left after breakfast, McGillvary testified at the trial. After plans to meet an internet friend in Asbury Park fell through, McGillvary decided to spend a second night at Galfy’s house.
After a dinner and a few beers, McGillvary testified he “was feeling like really warm and fuzzy” and the last thing he remembered before falling asleep was hearing the theme song to “Jeopardy.”
When he awoke, McGillvary testified, he was in Galfy’s bedroom and the man was trying to sexually assault him.
“I was trying to get him away from me,” McGillvary testified. “That’s all I can remember.”
He was arrested days later in the Greyhound Bus terminal in Philadelphia.
“You are crafty, you are cunning, you are disingenuous, and you are manipulative,” Kirsch told McGillvary at the sentencing, describing numerous ways in which the he attempted to cover his tracks in the period following the killing, including cutting off his distinctive long hair. “And when you become eligible for parole, you will still be younger than Mr. Galfy was when you murdered him.”
Frank Thompson is an art teacher from New Jersey who just made National headlines by overdosing on Fentanyl in front of his students. According to police reports Frank Thompson would suddenly collapse in front of students at Roosevelt Intermediate School, which is a middle school. The students thankfully acted quickly and the school nurse would be able to start life saving procedures. Now that Frank Thompson is recovering he is also now facing criminal charges which include possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children. I would imagine his teaching career has come to an end.
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A teacher in New Jersey has been arrested after he allegedly overdosed on fentanyl in front of his middle school class, according to police.
Frank Thompson, 57, is being charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children.
On Nov. 29, 2022, the Westfield, N.J., police department received a report from the resource officer at Roosevelt Intermediate School that Thompson, an art teacher, was unconscious in a second floor classroom.
“Thompson was discovered and observed in distress by students and was actively being treated by a school nurse,” the police said in a statement Friday.
The responding officer administered naloxone, a medication used to reverse the effects of an overdose, for Thompson.
“The Westfield Police Department continues to prioritize its ongoing partnership with the Westfield Public School System to ensure it has the safety and security resources it needs on a daily basis,” said Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro.
New Jersey middle school teacher has been arrested after police say he overdosed on fentanyl in front of his students last November. The incident happened just after 9 a.m. EST on Nov. 29, when another staff member at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield reported an unconscious teacher found inside a classroom on the second floor of the building, according to the Westfield Police Department.
In an announcement released on Friday, Westfield Police Chief Christopher Battiloro said the teacher, Frank Thompson, was initially “observed in distress” by students before an administrator called the school resource officer, Fortunato Riga, to the classroom. Riga, who later reported the situation to police, recalled finding Thompson “unconscious and unresponsive” on the floor, with the school nurse actively treating him.
Riga told police that he noticed Thompson exhibiting signs of an opioid overdose and administered the medication naxolone hydrochloride, sold under the brand name Narcan, which is used to reverse symptoms. After he was given the medication, Thompson began “showing marked signs of improvement,” police said.
Frank Thompson, 57, teaches 6th and 7th grade visual art and 8th grade arts and crafts, according to his teaching page on the Roosevelt Intermediate School website.
During a police investigation that followed the overdose in the fall, authorities say they discovered “a quantity of a suspected controlled substance” as well as drug paraphernalia in the closet of Thompson’s classroom, Battiloro said in Friday’s announcement.
Frank Thompson was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, allegedly for fentanyl, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children. The first and last charges listed are considered third-degree crimes while the second is considered a disorderly person offense, the police chief said. Thompson was served a complaint summons and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 1.
The Westfield school district said it could not comment directly on the classroom incident.
“While the Westfield Public School District cannot comment on personnel matters which are confidential, we will maintain a continued focus on student and staff safety and on preserving the integrity of the classroom learning environment,” said Superintendent Dr. Raymond González in a statement. “We are grateful for our strong partnership with the Westfield Police Department.”
In a separate statement included with the Westfield Police Department’s Friday announcement, Battiloro said the department “continues to prioritize its ongoing partnership with the Westfield Public School System to ensure it has the safety and security resources it needs on a daily basis.”
“In this case, the swift actions of Officer Riga, who is on-site at Roosevelt Intermediate each school day, proved instrumental in maintaining the safety of the students and administering potentially life-saving measures to Mr. Thompson,” the statement continued.
According to Westfield Police, all officers employed by the department, including school resource officers like Riga, are issued Narcan and trained to use it for instances were someone appears to be suffering a drug overdose. The department said officers needed to administer the medication 13 times in 2022.
The Drug Enforcement Administration said it seized in 2022 more than 379 million doses of fentanyl, which officials said is enough to kill every American. The agency reported this week that it confiscated over 50 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder last year.
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