Guttenberg Police apprehended 23 individuals last weekend on drugs, domestic violence, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and weapons charges. According to Capt. Joel Magenheimer, the most serious incident involved an alleged MS-13 gang member, whose arrest quickly escalated to a standoff at police headquarters.
On Saturday, April 25 at 1:50 a.m., police arrested Dennis “D-Money” Oyola, 28, of Union City, after they witnessed him allegedly screaming in the street near 68th Street and Bergenline Avenue. Police believed Oyola to be allegedly under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance. They said he was arrested for possession of a CDS after they found PCP allegedly on his person.
Magenheimer said police had reason to believe Oyola was a member of a gang called MS-13. When police were arresting Oyola, other alleged gang members surrounded them as they were putting him into the police car, Magenheimer said.
Another alleged gang member went to police headquarters and demanded that they release Oyola, Magenheimer said. Magenheimer said that police were finally able to get the individuals out of the building, but a crowd outside became rowdy.
“The next thing you know, there were two outside, three outside, four outside, up to about 12 [alleged] gang members making phone calls,” said Magenheimer.
Magenheimer said despite being told numerous times to “disperse,” people in the crowd told cops to release Oyola first.
“That was ready to turn into a bath out there.” – Police Capt. Joel Magenheimer
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Another gang passes by
Magenheimer said that police from surrounding municipalities arrived in the nick of time, because three members allegedly from another gang, the Bloods, happened to pass by.
“[Both gangs] got into a [verbal] battle with them just as the cars pulled up,” said Magenheimer. “That was ready to turn into a bath out there.”
From the dozen people outside of headquarters, six individuals were arrested on charges of allegedly failing to disperse and promoting organized street crime.
Arrested were: Jorge “Papo” Villa, 32, of Union City; Edwin “Animal” Ramos, 23, of Guttenberg; Angelo Santiago, 25, of Hoboken; Miguel “King Manifest” Ortiz, 25, of Roselle; Maximo “King Murda” Morillo, 26, of Union City; and Jeremy Perez, 30, of Hoboken.
Magenheimer said that they all had criminal histories, and that Oyola and Villa had recently been released from prison after serving about six years and had only been on probation for a couple of weeks.
Magenheimer said that individuals came to headquarters to post $5,000 bail for each of the seven arrestees, but claimed that they did not know any of them personally.
Even more surprisingly, when an individual came to the precinct to pick up a car that was driven by the group, he told police that he did not know who had driven it. The individual said that it was his girlfriend’s car, and that another alleged gang member, after hearing that Oyola was arrested, took the car keys and left, Magenheimer said.
Magenheimer said that gangs rely on nicknames so that no member can ever truly “rat” on another.
Unrelated arrests
The other individuals arrested over the weekend included juveniles, domestic violence incidents, routine motor vehicle stops that found suspects with active warrants, and criminal mischief.
In one case, on Sunday morning, police received a phone call from a resident who said someone was shooting a gun in the Anna L. Klein school yard.
When police arrived at 7:05 a.m. they witnessed Tiron Singleton, 21, of Guttenberg, leaving the school yard.
When they stopped and searched Singleton, he allegedly had a black C/O 2 powered pellet gun in his pocket, which they confiscated.
Singleton claimed he was shooting at cans, but police did not find any cans in the schoolyard, according to Magenheimer.
Magenheimer said that the “BB gun” could have easily passed for a 9 millimeter handgun.
Singelton, originally from Brooklyn, allegedly had a history of weapons charges, said Magenheimer.
Magenheimer praised the Police Department for their work this past weekend, saying this volume of arrests, with only four police officers on duty, indicated valiant police work.
Tricia Tirella may be reached at TriciaT@hudsonreporter.com.
As far as the height requirements, in the 1960's that was the case and those standards were overturned by the courts. It was determined those height standards were not only discriminatory to women (obviously) but also to certain applicants of certain ethnic backgrounds (i.e. asian and latin)...under civil service law, you start at the top of the lsit and work your way down. If they pass the medical, physical agility (if they even have that anymore, know NJSP does as part of the test score) and background check, they are in the academy.
4 cops on duty does not sound safe for anyone.
In order for all this violence and gang crap to stop in Hudson County we all as residence need to get together and arrive at any brawl and just show them who owns Hudson…NOT THEM... I thank God I’m not a cop b/c each and every one of them would be in for the most petty stuff and I wouldn’t have them see the light of day.
Haven't you notices that D-Money looks a lot older then 28? he looks like my grandfather.. lol
these kids need to get a life and get a spanking so things can change.
guttenberg currently has about 40 active duty police officers but they all live in other towns, nicer areas than the hell hole that guttenberg is rapidly becoming.
if all cops that want to wear a "guttenberg pd" badge were required to live in this town, then we would always have 40 cops present even when they were not on duty; they would be in our bars, walking the street, eating at a local restaurant, driving down the street, shopping in the local stores. furthermore there needs to be some standard set as to the physical appearance of our police officers, as it stands now we have one small skinny girl (the one with the long hair) that would have trouble arresting a drunk midget if he decided to resist, one really fat assed pile of monkey spunk who causes spikes on the richter scale when he walks, hell a 10 year old could out run him and then we have more than a few cops that just have a lousy "i only care about myself" attitude.
what we need is a serious police presence: all cops living in town, all cops physically large (6ft and over and in shape) and a more compelling duty roster than 4 cops on duty on a saturday night.
come on guttenberg council, how about you squeeze your heads out of your collective cans and impliment some policies that gives guttenberg taxpayers their money's worth?