Closter police: Demarest heroin user asleep behind the wheel attacked officers
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Closter police said a Demarest man found slumped behind the wheel of his car, with several small bags of heroin on his lap and passenger seat, became combative at headquarters...
View ArticleStolen car police chase begins in Bergen, ends in Rockland crash on PIP
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A police chase that began in Elmwood Park and eventually continued up the Palisade Interstate Parkway ended on the New York State side after the stolen car being pursued rammed...
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Hawthorne spill messes up traffic in Fair Lawn, Glen Rock
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A large, lenghty spill of what authorities suspect was hydraulic fluid caused massive traffic tie ups in Hawthorne, Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, and Paterson this afternoon. The spill,...
View ArticleMotorist fined, has to retake driver’s test, for Westwood Trader Joe’s crash...
ONLY ON CVP: Her eyes downcast, a 75-year-old New Milford woman pleaded guilty in Municipal Court in Westwood this afternoon to operating a vehicle in an unsafe manner for a crash at the local Trader...
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Prosecutor describes chase in burglary trial of Hackensack, Englewood duo
EXCLUSIVE: When Hakeem Chance and Dammen McDuffie left Englewood for Essex County in July 2012, a Bergen County burglary task force tracked them on a secretly hidden GPS. As they pulled from a Nutley...
View ArticleFire destroys Midland Park home
A Midland Park resident injured sustained minor injuries in an overnight three-alarm fire that destroyed his two-story home. A firefighter also was treated before being released from the hospital. The...
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Tenafly police seek Norwood man who fled in high-speed morning motorcycle chase
EXCLUSIVE: Authorities were searching for a Norwood man cited by Tenafly police for 21 traffic summonses in connection with a perilous morning motorcycle chase. Officer Matthew Savitsky broke off the...
View ArticleMahwah police chase two, arrest four with heroin behind motel
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con and his brother took off on foot but were chased down by Mahwah police a short time later after being caught behind a Route 17 hotel with heroin around 2 o’clock this...
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Port Authority detective arrests man retrieving 250 packs of heroin left in...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bronx man sent to retrieve a bag filled with hundreds of heroin packs that was left in a rental car walked right into the waiting arms of Port Authority police detectives when...
View ArticlePolice investigating attempted abduction report outside Garfield school
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Garfield police were investigating a report of an attempted abduction outside the Christopher Columbus No. 8 school near the Lodi border this afternoon. A Bergen County Police...
View ArticleStudent, aide injured in Hackensack school bus crash
THE REAL STORY: A teenage student and an aide complained of back pain and were taken to the hospital after their school mini-bus was broad-sided in Hackensack this morning. The bus was headed east on...
View ArticleBody of GWB jumper recovered
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The NYPD Harbor Patrol recovered the body of a man who jumped from the George Washington Bridge last night. The body of the man, believed to be 55 to 60 years old, was recovered...
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Fourth defendant in drug trial says prosecutors can’t prove he knew Ecstasy...
EXCLUSIVE: Did a Jersey City man know that a bag in an SUV chased and stopped by Bergen County detectives contained nearly 1½ pound of powdered MDMA? That’s the central question in a drug trial that...
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Bergenfield day laborer sentenced to 18½ years for Dumont, Englewood sex...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack this morning sentenced a Bergenfield day laborer to 18½ years in prison for sexually assaulting three women in Dumont and one in Englewood in a series of...
View ArticleAdopt a kitten tomorrow — you can even give it back
SHOUT OUT: The Bergen County Animal Shelter & Adoption Center is offering a unique deal tomorrow afternoon: Shelter a newborn kitten and then return the cat once he or she is weaned. “After a few...
View ArticleBomb threat unfounded at Verizon building on Route 17 in Rutherford
UPDATE: The Bergen County Police Department’s Bomb Squad and K9 unit gave the all-clear after responding to a bomb threat at the Verizon building on Route 17 in Rutherford early this evening. Several...
View ArticleGirl lied about abduction attempt, Garfield police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A reported abduction attempt outside outside Garfield’s Christopher Columbus No. 8 school yesterday proved false, police announced this afternoon. “It didn’t happen,” Detective...
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Six charged with $560,000 Vietnam short-sell scam out of Palisades Park
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A crew of Korean natives ran a short-sale real estate scam out of Palisades Park that conned one victim out of $300,000 and another of $260,000, an indictment returned in...
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New Milford police: Drunken mom left son,1, outside restaurant
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A staggeringly drunken woman left her 1-year-old son unattended in a stroller with several bottles of alcohol while she got Chinese takeout Wednesday night, said New Milford...
View ArticleJudge in Hackensack upholds River Vale DWI conviction
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A man who was arrested by the River Vale police chief for drunk driving at three times the legal limit was sent directly to the Bergen County Jail this afternoon after his third DWI...
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