Joseph Rossi of Verona was killed year ago Sunday at Floyd Avenue business.
Jose Luis Rivera, the Plainfield man accused in the February 2012 murder of Verona resident Joseph Rossi at his Bloomfield arcade business one year ago, had a court conference postponed Monday, Feb. 25, according to a NorthJersey.com report Tuesday. Essex County Prosecutor’s Office spokeswoman Kathy Carter said Rivera, who is not expected to be in attendance at the rescheduled March 25 hearing, has already been indicted by an Essex County grand jury. Rossi, 58, was found shot to death on Feb. 24, 2012 at his Floyd Avenue business, an arcade company called Phoenix Amusements. Agents from the FBI and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Task Force jointly conducted the homicide investigation. At the time of his arrest, several …
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Jose Luis Rivera was charged in the murder of Bloomfield business owner Joseph Rossi Sr. on February 24
Jose Luis Rivera pleaded not guilty at Newark’s Superior Court on Wednesday, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. His bail remains at $1 million. Rivera, 48, was arrested on murder, conspiracy and weapons charges March 9, two weeks after 58-year-old Bloomfield business owner Joseph Rossi Sr. was found shot to death in his Floyd Avenue arcade shop, Phoenix Amusements. Following the shooting, various newspapers linked Rossi’s death to the death of alleged mafia informant, “Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli, 69, of Belleville. According to reports published in the New York Daily News and the New York Post, Stefanelli was suspected of shooting Rossi as an act of retaliation after Rossi allegedly “snitched on him" to authorities. Two …
