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The boyfriend of Francisco R. Gonzalez Fuentes, whose butchered body parts were found stuffed in garbage bags in two locations in Cliffside Park, and another man were charged with his murder late Tuesday, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Gonzalez’s live-in boyfriend, Pedro Garcia, 33, stabbed and then dismembered him with a “household knife” after a party at their apartment on Saturday night. “It was a domestic argument that took place between Pedro and Francisco,” Molinelli said. He declined to detail the nature of the dispute. The third man, Wilfredo Sanchez, 34, also of Cliffside Park, witnessed...

A federal prosecutor blasted Fairview’s police chief for going to bat for a Cliffside Park man who was sentenced Monday to 51 months in prison for keeping a small arsenal of illegal firearms, including a silencer-equipped 22-caliber pistol, in his home.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa M. Colone told U.S. District Judge Joseph A. Greenaway that he should not consider Chief John Pinzone’s letter in support of leniency for Giovanni DeMaio, because the chief neglected to mention he is dating the defendant’s daughter.While the judge received more than 90 letters similar to Pinzone’s, attesting to DeMaio’s kindness and charitable endeavors in...

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) The calls and emails started coming into the 1010 WINS newsroom late last night and they all wanted to know the same thing - what is that odor hanging over the city? Most described it as smelling like maple syrup, although at least one person thought it was more like peanuts. So, what is it? The official answer at this hour is we don't know and neither apparently does anyone else. There's speculation that whatever it is drifted over from New Jersey. The NYPD, the City Office of Emergency Management, the City Department of Environmental Protection,...