Saddle Brook water contaminated with E. coli
PUBLIC SAFETY: Saddle Brook Water Department’s water is contaminated with E. coli and must be boiled before it’s used, the local Office of Emergency Management said tonight. E. coli (fecal coliform)...
View ArticleCraigslist scam alert warns buyers and sellers
PUBLIC SAFETY: Glen Rock police are warning citizens about an uptick in frauds and scams on Craigslist targeting buyers AND sellers. “One case involved a property rental scam where the victim paid a...
View Article4 family members, companion indicted in Englewood New Year’s Eve champagne...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury in Hackensack this week indicted four family members and a companion in the New Year’s Eve champagne-glass stabbing of a woman in Englewood. Englewood police were...
View ArticleRamsey Route 17 massage parlor owner, employee busted for prostitution
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: It took nearly a year, but Ramsey police busted a spa owner and employee who they said were involved in ongoing prostitution at the Route 17 business. “Over the past months,...
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Multi-car crash on Route 208 in Fair Lawn ties up traffic
ONLY ON CVP: A five-car crash on southbound Route 208 tied up morning rush traffic. One person reported minor head and hand injuries in the crash around 8:50 a.m. in the left lane between Harristown...
View ArticleMahwah police pinch eBay seller of radar detectors, GPS units from car...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police arrested a former online sales manager for an auto dealer after discovering that he sold radar detectors and GPS devices on eBay that were taken in a six-week rash...
View ArticleParamus resident interrupts burglars
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paramus resident interrupted a burglary earlier today, said police, who got descriptions from a neighbor. The intruders fled out the back door when the East Ridgewood Avenue...
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Wood-Ridge attic fire quickly extinguished
ONLY ON CVP: Wood-Ridge firefighters quickly snuffed an attic blaze this afternoon. Their colleagues from Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Moonachie and Wallington assisted...
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Klonopin-fueled Garfield vandal ordered to pay youth club $15,000 for damage
ONLY ON CVP: A judge in Hackensack today ordered a Garfield man who broke in and vandalized the local Boys and Girls Club last year to pay the club $15,000 as part of his probation. The defense lawyer...
View ArticleHackensack police officer files whistleblower suit claiming retaliation by...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack police officer claims his bosses retaliated against him for giving the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office incriminating information about a colleague. Moises...
View ArticleFuneral for former Bergen paramedic killed in crash set for Sunday in Fort Lee
TRIBUTE: A funeral Mass is scheduled Sunday morning for a popular flight paramedic from Leonia was killed last week in a medical helicopter crash in New Mexico. The service for 29-year-old Rebecca...
View ArticleTargeted victim stabs Bogota robber, three charged, police say
UPDATE: A 21-year-old man stabbed during a holdup in Bogota was actually one of the robbers, police revealed this week. Officers responding to a May 13 of a man shouting from an abandoned house on Elm...
View ArticleEx-con arrested after Washington Township resident interrupts burglary
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Washington Township police arrested an ex-con from Englewood last night after a resident interrupted a home burglary — one of several in the same neighborhood, CLIFFVIEW PILOT...
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Driver in botched Ridgefield Park heroin deal gets 12 years, could be out in 3½
ONLY ON CVP: The wheelman in a botched scheme to rob a heroin dealer of $50,000 was sentenced to 12 years in state prison but could be released in 3½. Jurors in March convicted 38-year-old Yohan...
View ArticleCar crashes into Mahwah fire truck
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No injuries were reported after a Mahwah fire truck collided with a sedan last night. The truck carrying five firefighters from Fire Company # 2 Hazmat was responding to a gas...
View ArticleMahwah baby formula bandits indicted for cold-cocking supermarket cart...
ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack indicted three Queens men in a Mahwah shoplifting that turned into a baby formula robbery when one of them cold-cocked a supermarket cart collector. Two of them...
View ArticlePedestrian killed in Carlstadt hit and run
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities were searching for a hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian overnight in Carlstadt. The crash occurred before 6 a.m. on Paterson Plank Road/Route 120. The Bergen...
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Bergenfield man avoids prison for sex with girl, 13
ONLY ON CVP: A Bergenfield man avoided prison for having sex with an extremely troubled 13-year-old girl by pleading guilty to child endangerment and agreeing to sex offender treatment and drug...
View ArticleTwo charged with repeated sex abuse of girl in Hackensack, Englewood
ONLY ON CVP: Two men repeatedly sexually abused a pre-teen girl in Hackensack and Englewood before authorities arreted them in February, a grand jury indictment alleges. Oscar Sanchez, 34, raped and...
View ArticleDWI driver subdued after leading Bergen sheriff’s officer on Hackensack chase
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A few tense moments ended a brief car chase through Hackensack as a drunk driver reached under his seat after being stopped by a Bergen County Sheriff’s officer, authorities...
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