A Kearny woman who allegedly advertised herself as having “unforgettable skills” had an unforgettable encounter with Vice detectives June 24 when she was arrested for prostitution, the KPD reported.
Police said Jacqueline Cilente, 34, was taken into custody shortly before 2 p.m. in the area of Davis and Garfield Aves. after she negotiated a $210 sexual-favors price with a detective posing as a potential customer. In a search incident to arrest, she was reportedly found to be in possession of eight capsules containing suspected heroin. Police said she was also found to be wanted on a no-bail burglary warrant from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and a $2,000 Perth Amboy traffic warrant.
In addition to hooking, Cilente was charged with possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia and on the warrants, and Kearny Municipal Court Judge Thomas D. McKeon added $1,000 to her bail.
Editor’s note: Since Davis and Garfield Aves. border Kearny High, we wonder if she could also have been charged with harlotry in a school zone.
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Other recent reports from the Kearny police blotter included the following:
June 25
At 12:45 p.m., Officer Jordenson Jean observed Brandon Lyan, 21, of Kearny, walking at Schuyler Ave. and the Belleville Pike and arrested him after confirming he was wanted on a $1,000 Kearny contempt-of court warrant.
June 26 (Graduation weekend)
At 1 a.m., after cops broke up a raucous party on Chestnut St., Officer Jon Dowie found a group of youths in the QuickChek lot, one of whom, Brian Carrasquilla-Hoyos, 18, of Kearny, was reportedly shouting obscenities. Police said he ignored repeated suggestions to cease and desist and when other units — who had been “riding herd” on the dispersed partygoers — arrived, he spit on the ground and pushed Officer Derek Hemphill in the chest. Enough was enough, and the teen was arrested for disorderly conduct — and on a Union County failure-to-appear warrant. He also got a summons for spitting.
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An hour later, Hemphill, Dowie, Capt. David Feldhan and Officers Jason Rodrigues and David Bush responded to the report of a large fight in the intersection of Hickory St. and Oakwood Ave. One of the participants fled on foot, with Dowie — and then other officers — in pursuit, west on Oakwood, across Davis Ave., up to Forest St., south on Forest and into an alley at the southeast corner of Forest and Oakwood. There, the 17-year-old male from the Bronx was arrested for obstructing the administration of law.
June 27
Officer Malinda Esposito responded to a two-vehicle accident on Hackensack Ave. in South Kearny at 11:30 a.m. and arrested one of the drivers, Joe Levine, 60, of Jersey City, for driving while suspended and careless driving and on two warrants: a $250 drug-related one out of Jersey City and a Ridgefield Borough traffic warrant. Levine was processed at headquarters and turned over to the Jersey City PD.
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Shortly after 6 p.m., Vice officers stopped a 1994 Mercury on the Belleville Pike near the Passaic River bridge on information that the driver and/or his passenger were/was in possession of heroin. Approaching the car, they reportedly saw that passenger, Gary Melnick, 24, of Lyndhurst discard wax folds and glass vials into the back-seat area. Police said they recovered 14 folds of heroin — stamped “Ferrari” — and six vials of cocaine.
Melnick was charged with possession of the drugs and drug paraphernalia. The driver, Gregory Latino, 29, of Lyndhurst, was charged with possession of a hypodermic needle.
June 29
Officer Michael Alvarez stopped a 2007 Volkswagen at Oakwood Ave. and Beech St. at about 1 a.m. for having “multiple objects” obstructing the driver’s view. That driver, Luis Rojas, 32, of Jersey City, was then taken into custody on a $150 North Bergen traffic warrant for “failure to yield the right of way to a blind person.” (Maybe because his own vision was obstructed?) After two plastic bags of marijuana and a hand-rolled pot cigar were reportedly found on the driver’s-side floor, Rojas was also charged with possession of the drug and drug paraphernalia and operating an MV while in possession of a CDS.
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Vice officers confronted Marc Zarnowski, 25, of Kearny, shortly before 9 p.m. in the area of Highland Ave. and Rose St. and reportedly confiscated seven wax folds of heroin, stamped “Ferrari.” He was charged with possession of the drug and paraphernalia.
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On June 14, the KPD received reports of a half-dozen overnight tire slashings on cars parked along streets adjacent to the eastern end of Laurel Ave. They developed a suspect, obtained arrest warrants, and shortly before 7 p.m. on the 29th, Capt. Tim Wagner and Sgt. Michael Gonzalez arrested Nicholas Dow, 27, of Kearny, on the 600 block of Schuyler Ave. He was charged with six counts of criminal mischief and remanded to the Hudson County Jail on $5,000 bail.
— Karen Zautyk
