Fire severely damages Rochelle Park strip mall
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A fire roared through a Rochelle Park strip mall overnight. The fire began in Maguro, a takeout sushi restaurant, before 12:30 and eventually blew through the roof of the...
View ArticleCareer criminal from Bogota gets sweet deal
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A pile of mounting charges led to what a Superior Court judge in Hackensack called “a very generous” one-year prison sentence for an ex-con headed back to prison for the third...
View ArticleDriver hospitalized after car slams into Ridgewood tree
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police believe a medical condition may have been responsible for a car careening off the road and slamming into a tree right outside a Ridgewood home earlier today. Members of...
View ArticlePolice say Hackensack girl, 12, shared sex images with South Jersey man, 19
ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE: A parent who caught a 12-year-old Bergen County girl exchanging graphic sexual images online called police, who arrested a 19-year-old South Jersey man she apparently was Skype-ing...
View ArticleRutherford police arrest ex-con in burglary video
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Goes to show the value of surveillance cameras: In no time, Rutherford police caught a man they said was in the middle of a burglary when he was interrupted by the homeowners. A...
View ArticleFeds arrest former Mariner’s Bank CEO in mortgage fraud
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A former mortgage broker from Englewood Cliffs who was once the CEO of Mariner’s Bank was arrested by federal agents this morning on charges of fraudulently securing a $1.5 million...
View ArticleAccuser in Mendeecees Harris teen sex trial: ‘I didn’t know he was on TV’
EXCLUSIVE: Meticulous and detailed questioning by defense attorney Brian Neary this morning didn’t shake a woman in the Mendeecees Harris sex trial from her steadfast insistence that the “Love &...
View ArticleElmwood Park arrest in Saddle Brook Wal-Mart theft
ONLY ON CVP: A quick call from a Wal-Mart security guard followed by an immediate alert from Saddle Brook police led to an arrest in Elmwood Park in the theft of a $200 cellphone. An Elmwood Park...
View ArticleWhat wasn’t reported about the death of Ashley Riggitano
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Reports of the suicide of a young jewelry designer from Paramus from the George Washington Bridge yesterday missed another sad fact: It was her birthday. Ashley Riggitano, who...
View ArticleDriver injured in head-on Washington Township crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The 30-year-old driver of a Chevrolet Tahoe sustained minor injuries in a head-on crash into a tree on Pascack Road in Washington Township before noon today. The township...
View Article‘No. No way. No, no,’ Mendeecees Harris testifies in teen sex trial
EXCLUSIVE: VH1 “Love & Hip Hop” star Mendeecees Harris testified today that he hardly knew the woman who said he coerced her into oral sex in his Lodi home when she was 15. “No. No way. No, no,”...
View ArticleVerdict in VH1 ‘Love & Hip Hop’ star Mendeecees Harris trial rests on key...
EXCLUSIVE: Closing arguments in the teen sex trial of VH1 “Love & Hip Hop” star Mendeecees Harris on Thursday centered on the credibility of the woman who said he coerced her into oral sex when she...
View ArticleEnglewood man held in sex assaults on two girls
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man is being held on $275,000 bail, charged with molesting an eight-year-old girl and having illegal sexual contact with a teenager. Englewood police and members of...
View ArticleSecretary admits stealing $53,000 from Hackensack law firm
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack law firm secretary pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $53,000 from her employer. Under the terms of a plea deal, 52-year-old Roxanne D. Elliott of...
View ArticleGarfield security guard illegally carried gun in charter school, police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A security guard at a Garfield charter school lied when he told authorities he was a retired police officer authorized to carry a gun while working, said police, who arrested...
View ArticleFBI arrests ex-Passaic cop turned mobster, 68, for threats
ANOTHER CLIFFVIEW PILOT SCOOP: A former Passaic cop turned mob enforcer — who once boasted of opening a victim’s head “like a cantaloupe” – threatened a man who owed another $30,000, saying he’ll “take...
View ArticleJurors find Mendeecees Harris not guilty in teen-sex trial
BREAKING NEWS: Jurors in Hackensack this afternoon acquitted VH1 “Love & Hip Hop” star Mendeecees Harris of sexually assaulting a teenager by coercing her with money and other manipulation in his...
View ArticleChristie urges people to ‘be smart and be careful’ with Nemo
VIDEO: “If you don’t have to drive, please remain home. Stay off the roads,” Gov. Christie said late this afternoon, in urging people to “be smart and be careful” in the middle of a storm called Nemo....
View ArticleHackensack bank robber shows gun, jumps into waiting car
A brazen bandit pulled a handgun on several tellers at a Route 17 bank in Hackensack this afternoon before jumping into a waiting car with a bag of cash. A holdup alarm came in to Hackensack police...
View ArticleMarried Dumont man, 30, charged with sexually abusing girl over three years
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A married Dumont man was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a girl over a three-year period more than a decade ago, beginning when he was 16 and she was 8. Jason Negron, 30,...
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