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Jimenez can use insanity defense
Porfirio Jimenez
can pursue
defenses of
insanity or
diminished
capacity at his
murder trial for
the slaying of
10-year-old of
Walter
Valenzuela in
Morristown.
Trial for boy’s murder in Morristown set to begin
BY PEGGY WRIGHT
signed an order that permits
Morris County deputy Public
Defender Dolores Mann to
use either defense in representing Porfirio Saravia
Jimenez. The 43-year-old is
charged with trying to sexually assault and then beating
and
stabbing
Walter
Contreras Valenzuela, 10, to
death on May 20, 2001, in a
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A former day laborer
accused of murdering and
trying to rape a boy in
Morristown can pursue
defenses of insanity or
diminished capacity at his
trial that is set to start
Monday with jury selection,
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a Superior Court judge ruled
Thursday.
Judge Salem Vincent Ahto
secluded area off Cory Road
in Morristown.
County
Assistant
Prosecutor John McNamara
Jr. opposed the late notices of
defense, saying that court
rules call for the state to be
alerted about such defenses
within seven days of a defendant’s arraignment. Jimenez
was arraigned in 2004 on the
indictment returned against
him for the child’s alleged
kidnapping, sexual assault,
and murder.
The defense focused for
several years on trying to
stop a death penalty prosecution for Jimenez but that
issue now is out of the case
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Roxbury
has
Pets victims of economic downturn
a new road
hazard that’s
a real turkey
Three-foot-tall bird
runs into traffic, not
afraid to peck at cars
BY MATT MANOCHIO
DAILY RECORD
Mark Caputo of Mountain Lakes, his son, Max, 5, daughter,
Jaclyn, 8, and wife Kim have given a new home to Buster, a dog
left behind by its former owners when they lost their home.
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Animals left behind as families lose their homes
BY MATT MANOCHIO
place pets left behind
because of home foreclosures.
“The money went —
it’s spent already,” said
Claudine Cheung, president of the local rescue
group.
The money is being
used to spay and neuter
17 animals either left or
removed from homes by
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RANDOLPH
he Humane Society
of the United States
recently awarded
representatives from the
Friends of Randolph
Animal Pound a $2,000
check to help the rescue
organization care for and
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owners who could no
longer care for them.
Among the animals
recently adopted out was
a pug-beagle mix, a
Puggle, that went to the
township’s health officer
Mark Caputo, according
to township Animal
Control Officer Norma
Jacobs.
“That was an evic-
tion,” Jacobs said of the
Puggle, Buster. “They
hadn’t paid their rent in
a long time,” Jacobs said
of the former Puggle
owners. “It took us several months to reach the
owners. They voluntarily
signed the dog over. They
“Please never,
ever, ever
abandon a pet.
It’s not likely
that they will be
found before
they suffer
incredible
organ damage
or die.”
— Deb Edwards,
Parsippany animal
control
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ROXBURY — There lives
a turkey on Righter Road
that is described as 3-feet
tall with a dangly snood
and likes to peck at cars.
Jack Deniz of Flanders
first spotted the turkey earlier this summer, typically
between 7:30 and 8 a.m. as
he heads toward Route 10
to commute to work.
At first, the wild bird
was merely a sight to see.
Recently, the turkey has
turned ornery.
“It really hasn’t been a
problem until lately,” he
said. “He’ll go in the middle of the road. I tried to
chase it away from the
road, all it does is go
around the car. It pecks at
the car. You have to gingerly go around that poor
turkey.”
Safety concern
Deniz, concerned that
someone might run over
and kill the turkey, contacted the township’s animal
control officer to see
whether it could be moved
to a safer location. He was
told that Roxbury was
aware of the problem but
that it had no means to capture and relocate the bird.
Attempts Thursday to
reach Susan Blanchard,
the animal control officer,
were unsuccessful.
“It’s a beautiful bird,”
Deniz said. “I don’t want to
see it hurt in any matter. I
just want it relocated.”
Township
manager
Chris Raths said he has not
heard of the Righter Road
turkey, but confirmed that
the township does not have
the ability to snare the bird
and move it to safety.
Deniz said the turkey
looks like one ordinarily
depicted in a traditional
Thanksgiving
picture.
Even though he said it’s
big, it’s not big enough to
clearly see when driving.
“As it’s maneuvering
around your car, you can’t
see it over your hood,” he
said. “You don’t know
whether it’s in front of or
behind. People have tried
to chase the bird away.”
Deniz said the turkey’s
response is to peck at the
passing vehicles.
SEE TURKEY / A7
Cops: Driver’s carelessness
at fault in school bus crash
Boonton woman to
be cited for driving
into Montville yard
home, will be charged with
careless driving.
Sherry L. Sullivan, 50, of
Boonton was returning to
the bus depot of A.R. Van
Riper Jr. Inc., in Pine
Brook, when she suddenly
veered off the road shortly
after 4:30 p.m.
The 2005 model year bus
sheared a telephone pole
and crashed into trees
before skidding to a stop in
a backyard on Arthur
BY TEHANI SCHNEIDER
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MONTVILLE — The
driver of an empty school
bus, who lost control on
Changebridge
Road
Wednesday and crashed
into the backyard of a
Weather
Place. Sullivan was uninjured, and was aware and
alert when officers arrived,
police said.
“She said she was uncertain how it happened,” said
Montville Police Lt. David
Peterson, the department’s
traffic officer. “The next
thing she knows she was in
the backyard.”
Montville
Patrolman
Dominic Danzi, who is
investigating the crash,
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Sherry L. Sullivan of Boonton told police she lost control of her school bus on Wednesday before it hit a pole,
crashed into trees and skidded in the backyard of 7 Arthur Place in Montville. There were no children on the bus.
said Sullivan told him she
used the brakes to stop
from the hitting the Arthur
Place home once she real-
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ized she was in the backyard.
“Luckily, there was no
one else outside in the
backyard,” Danzi said. “It
was kind of scary.”
The bus, which did not
damage the property, bare-
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