NJ FBI foils $1 million mob cigarette heist
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A pair of stings by New Jersey federal agents led to charges against eight reputed mobsters today in connection with a conspiracy to steal $1 million worth of cigarettes. Those...
View ArticleCar clears Midland Park retaining wall, lands several feet below
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An elderly driver escaped serious injury this afternoon after accidentally driving her car over a parking lot retaining wall in the rear of a Midland Park medical office...
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Amid PBA toys, joy, we hold tight to those we love
A FATHER WRITES: “Tomorrow’s Children” held a different meaning for the grieving father who sobbed this afternoon as he told the veteran police officer at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital that...
View ArticleAuthorities respond to remark of ‘potential shooting’ at Westwood school
NEWSBREAK: Several students “who needed to be questioned” were spoken to and police arranged to have additional uniformed patrols at Westwood Regional Junior-Senior High School tomorrow and Friday...
View ArticlePassaic sheriff announces arrests in Paterson laptop thefts
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A teacher and a maintenance worker are among 10 people charged in connection with the thefts of 28 laptops from Paterson schools — 20 of which have been recovered. And there may...
View ArticleStudent arrested after threat at Westwood Regional Junior-Senior High School
NEW DETAILS: An 18-year-old senior at Westwood Junior-Senior High School is hospitalized under police custody, and four weapons were seized from his home, in connection with threats he made about what...
View ArticleFeds say Hawthorne man threatened Bachmann, Gov. Jindal, others
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 28-year-old Hawthorne man is in federal custody, accused of making several threatening telephone calls to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the office of U.S. Rep. Michele...
View ArticleRapper Fat Joe admits evading taxes on $3.7 million
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Rapper Fat Joe pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark today to two counts of failing to pay taxes on $3.7 million of income. Joseph Cartagena, 42, of Miami Beach, was freed...
View ArticleFour weapons seized from Westwood student in Skype threats
NEW DETAILS: An 18-year-old senior at Westwood Junior-Senior High School is hospitalized under police custody, and four weapons were seized from his home, in connection with threats he made about what...
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Three charged in arson at vacant Bergenfield hangout
ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: Three men charged in a Dec. 10 arson fire that gutted a vacant Bergenfield house that police said had been used as a hangout had court appearances at the Bergen County Jail...
View ArticleBudd Lake man admits secretly taping girls
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Morris County man today admitted in federal court that he used hidden cameras to record young girls in his home. Ronald Oshrin, a married insurance company project manager...
View ArticleNorth Bergen housing official pleads guilty to extortion
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: North Bergen Housing Authority Operations Director John T. “Jack” Kennell today admitted in federal court in Newark that he extorted employees of a Rutherford maintenance...
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NJ Senate approves Dusty’s Law protecting service animals
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey’s state Senate today unanimously approved Dusty’s Law, which establishes new crimes for dogs who attack or harm service animals — including seeing-eye or...
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Moonachie, Little Ferry families get special Christmas from Bergen sheriff,...
SPECIAL REPORT: Twenty Moonachie and Little Ferry families battered by Hurricane Sandy floodwaters had a joyous Christmas party tonight — with toys (lots of ‘em), food and other goodies — organized and...
View ArticleDoomsday in Bergen: New single from up-and-coming locals
IN TUNE: We got Doomsday today — as in: “Seaside Lights,” a new CD single by Bergen County’s Doomsday Diaries to benefit Seaside Heights victims of Hurricane Sandy. Paired with the song “Summer of...
View ArticleHaworth officer picks fugitive off quiet side street
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A fugitive who got lost in Haworth while heading into New York City to visit his son is about to be sent back to Missouri after a borough officer patrolling side streets pulled him...
View ArticleHeroin mill found on quiet Cliffside Park street, $6 million worth seized
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: NJ State Police said their detectives were waiting when a New York City man walked out of a Cliffside park house with two kilos of heroin strapped around his waist, packaged...
View ArticleHigh-end tire thief nailed by Bergen County, Saddle Brook police
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: An ex-con from Lodi known for specializing in high-end tire and rim thefts is back behind bars after Bergen County and Saddle Brook police detectives caught him unloading a set at a...
View ArticleState Assemblyman Bob Schroeder indicted
A grand jury indictment was handed up today charging state Assemblyman Bob Schroeder of Washington Township with pocketing more than $1.8 million from investors in a North Dakota business venture while...
View ArticleDriver gets six years behind bars in Fort Lee heroin bust
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Alexis Cartagena’s friend offered him some money to help him transport a package from New York City to New Jersey, but then the Fort Lee police came along. Cartagena, who had...
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