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In case you missed it: Cliffview Pilot scoops
As the snow approached, and began falling, news began to mount. For those of you who might have missed yesterday’s action, here’s a handy recap: FBI arrests ex-Passaic cop turned mobster, 68, for...
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Bergen Catholic Jazz Ensemble goes clubbing
IN TUNE: You imagine auditoriums and school concerts when you think of the Bergen Catholic Jazz Ensemble, but blowing the roof off a nightclub? Nemo was bearing down on New Jersey, but you wouldn’t...
View ArticleInvestigators look at Paramus house fire
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification was called in today to collect evidence at the scene of a Paramus house fire. All of the occupants got out safely...
View ArticleFire destroys Gabriel’s Restaurant sign in Wayne
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A fire last night destroyed the landmark sign atop Gabriel’s restaurant in Wayne but was kept out of the interior of the building The owner, Wayne Co. 2 Fire Chief John Gabriel,...
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Allendale firefighters cut out pickup driver after tree crash
EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): Allendale firefighters used the “Jaws of Life” to free driver from his black pickup tonight after it struck a tree on Forest Road. The truck rammed the tree near Donny Brook...
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Give it up for the mack daddy of reality TV shows: ‘COPS’
WHAT WE THINK: As we slide deeper into the ring of hell known as reality TV, it may have skipped notice that we are exactly a month from the 25-year anniversary of the mack daddy of reality shows,...
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Palisades Interstate Parkway Police first to adopt high-tech state radio system
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Palisades Interstate Parkway Police have become the first law enforcers in New Jersey to move their radio communications system onto the state’s new Public Safety Interoperable...
View ArticleProposed bill would have NJ Attorney General handle local police internal...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A legislative panel in Trenton today gave its approval to a pilot program that would give the state Attorney General the power to take over a county or municipal law enforcement...
View ArticleBergen sheriff’s officers find pounds of pot in snow crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Bergen County Sheriff’s officers who stopped to help a motorist whose SUV rammed a pole in the snow got a surprise when more than three pounds of pot turned up inside the...
View ArticleSaddle Brook scrap thieves arrested — after returning metal
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook police grabbed a quartet of Bronx men who they said were stealing steel I-beams from the demolished site of the former Amloid Toy factory, which burned down last...
View ArticleEmerson mayor’s son to enter pre-trial intervention for Oxy charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Emerson Mayor Carlos Colina’s son, Sean, told a judge today that he intends to enter a special program that will clear his record of an arrest in connection with a black-market...
View ArticleFormer Ridgewood real estate scammer gets 4 years in federal prison
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Ridgewood masseuse-turned-real estate investor was sentenced today to 48 months in prison in federal prison for scamming friends out of millions of dollars through sham...
View ArticleTrial likely in North Arlington rough sex attempted murder case
EXCLUSIVE (ONLY ON CVP): A man who prosecutors said choked his North Arlington girlfriend with a cellphone charger cord after rough sex until she passed out appears headed to trial on attempted murder...
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High-tech ‘scrub’ of NJ driver’s licenses turns up felons, others
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A high-tech facial recognition program that “scrubbed” 19 million New Jersey driver’s licenses turned up 600 potential criminal cases, of which more than three dozen have...
View ArticleLodi man charged with stabbing neighbor in snow blowing fight
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A snow blowing argument between neighbors led to a stabbing — and attempted murder charges against a 56-year-old Lodi man now being held on $750,000 bail. Patrick Bradford got angry...
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Fireman photog follows American bald eagles’ return to Bergen
SHOUT OUT: After following a breeding pair of American bald eagles up and down the Hackensack River since last fall, Willy Thompson recently got a bit of a surprise — a pair of two offspring. He named...
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Help for animal rescue groups in need planned for Bergen
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Rescue groups help animals in need, and now a Fort Lee woman is trying to come to their aid. “It’s something I’m honored to do,” said Maggie Conway, who has organized a Feb. 21...
View ArticleBergen prosecutor says NY man wanted to have sex with girl, 6
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An upstate New York man sent pornographic videos and explicit instructions on what he wanted to do to a 6-year-old girl to a person he thought was the child’s mother — but was,...
View ArticleFairview police: More victims possible in ‘serial groper’ case
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The crimes of an accused “serial groper” from Fairview were escalating when an alert patrolman helped end the spree, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. “We think we got him just in time,”...
View ArticleFranklin Lakes doctor gets mixed sentence in kickback scheme
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Franklin Lakes doctor who was featured on “Real Housewives of New Jersey” was sentenced today to five months in prison and five months of home confinement for taking kickbacks...
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