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40 years in prison for police dispatcher who strangled wife in front of child

Updated 2:32 PM; Posted 1:38 PM

By Michaelangelo Conte The Jersey Journal

JERSEY CITY -- A former Jersey City police dispatcher maintained his innocence when he was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for strangling his wife in the presence of their 2-year-old son in their Country Village home in 2014.

"There isn't a more intimate, violent and cruel death than strangulation," Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Linda Claude-Oben said of the death of Monica Montone, 34, who died at the hands of her husband, Kevin Montone, 37, on Aug. 18, 2014.

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A Jersey City man awaiting trial on charges he strangled his wife was arrested Tuesday after police say he tried to steal a woman's purse.

Police say Kevin Montone, 34, who is accused of strangling Monica Montone on Aug. 18, 2014, was being detained by four men at Sullivan Drive and Bartholdi Avenue at 2:08 p.m. when police responded to a report of a robbery.

The 41-year-old victim was also at the scene, and she told police Montone grabbed her purse. When she struggled with him for the purse, people can to her aid and restrained Montone, police said.

Police placed Montone in a patrol car, and when they returned to the car, they found the victim's American Express credit card on the floor. Montone went on to tell police a number of different stories about how he came into possession of the purse and credit card, police said.

First Montone told police he had the card, but did not steal the purse. He said he found it, then added that he didn't have a chance to rifle through it before a woman confronted him and started screaming.

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Jersey City man makes first court appearance on charges he murdered his wife

By Michaelangelo Conte | The Jersey Journal
on December 15, 2014 at 6:00 PM

The son of a former Jersey City police sergeant pleaded not guilty to charges that he strangled his wife to death four months ago when he made his first court appearance this afternoon.

At today?s hearing, Kevin Montone, 34, was represented by defense attorney Joseph Russo, who asked that his client's bail be reduced from $250,000 cash or bond to $50,000 cash or bond. However, Hudson County Superior Court Judge John declined to reduce the bail.

Montone was arrested Friday and charged with murdering Monica Montone, 34, in their Sycamore Road home on Aug. 18. The arrest came following Thursday?s conclusion of the medical examiner's investigation, which determined his wife's ?cause of death was asphyxia due to neck compressions,? and the manner of her death was homicide, Rubino said.

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The son of a former Jersey City police sergeant was arrested this afternoon and charged with strangling his wife nearly four months ago in their home in Country Village, authorities said this evening.

Kevin Montone, 34, a former civilian Jersey City police dispatcher, was arrested without incident at his home at 4:30 p.m. and he was charged with murdering Monica Montone, 34, on Aug. 18, Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino said.

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Did I miss something? What's the connection with this article and the posting?

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"but the one bad thing is that residents keep changing and younger people keep moving in."

Nice

If young people didn't move in eventually there wouldn't be any residents at all.

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This could be something VERY serious and more then what meets the eye!

Because there are not enough things to be sad about today:

Woman found dead in Jersey City home - husband detained

A woman was found dead inside a home in the quiet Country Village section of Jersey City this afternoon, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office confirmed.

Homicide detectives are at 124 Sycamore Rd., where a small child was removed and taken away in an ambulance. Neighbors said a man they identified as the woman's husband was taken away by police after exhibiting odd behavior.

Authorities have not confirmed the identity of the man detained.

The man was put in a police car, but was not handcuffed, said Bob Donnelly, who has lived in the neighborhood -- in the southwest corner of the city -- for 50 years. The man had trouble walking, Donnelly added.

The man was laughing uncontrollably when police put him in the car, another neighbor said.

The Jersey City police Emergency Services Unit is also at the scene and officials are waiting on the state regional Medical Examiner's Office to arrive to remove the body from the home.

"I've never seen anything like this," said a neighbor who has lived in there for 30 years. "This is the best neighborhood in Jersey City, but the one bad thing is that residents keep changing and younger people keep moving in."

"I can't believe it. This is a shock to me. It's a quiet neighborhood," another neighbor said.

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