A Jersey City man, 59, on Saturday night drowned in the Hudson River after a good Samaritan tried to rescue him but could not get to his body, Hoboken police said.
Gabriel Ruiz, 34, of Union City, NJ, is accused of trying to smuggle 30 pounds of cocaine worth $1 million in his electric wheelchair from overseas on June 20.
A driver who fatally struck a 12-year-old boy and fled the scene in Union nearly three years ago has been sentenced to less than eight years in prison.
The brothers were swimming in a smaller but deeper diving pool that was not guarded because it was closed, the Bayonne school board president told NBC 4 New York.