A North Bergen man received a 35-year prison sentence for a 2021 fatal stabbing in Maywood that claimed the life of a 64-year-old man, authorities said.
On February 16th, 2021, Augusto Perez, 73, stabbed Omar Cruz, 64, to death behind the Ulta Beauty store in the Bergen Town Center mall in Maywood.
An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit, Maywood Police Department, and Paramus Police Department led to the arrest of Perez at his North Bergen home on February 17th, 2021.
On April 5th of this year, after a six-week trial before Bergen County Superior Court Judge Susan J. Steele, a jury convicted Perez of aggravated manslaughter and hindering his own apprehension by suppression of blood evidence connecting him to the crime…