Fugitive in botched Ridgefield Park heroin robbery caught, awaiting...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities have captured a fugitive who’s been on the run for more than a year in connection with a botched attempt to rob an undercover detective posing as a heroin dealer in...
View ArticleAlpine police seek black sedan that put two 9W bicyclists in hospital
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Alpine police were looking for a hitl-and-run driver who sent two bicyclists to Englewood Hospital this afternoon with injuries that they said weren’t life-threatening. The...
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3 kids OK, nanny ticketed in Washington Township minivan crash
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Three Montclair children on their way to dance camp in Waldwick were OK after their nanny said she blacked out behind the wheel and their minivan crashed into a tree in...
View ArticleNo prison time for illegal Mexican church van driver in fatal Saddle Brook crash
UPDATE: An illegal Mexican immigrant from Rockland County will likely be deported after pleading guilty today in Hackensack to being unlicensed when he crashed a church van into an NJ Transit bus –...
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Another chain-reaction crash on troublesome Route 17 south sends one to hospital
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A chain-reaction crash on southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood tonight sent one driver to the hospital and damaged two vehicles so badly that they needed to be towed. Village police,...
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National Night Out in Maywood unites citizens, emergency responders
SHOUT OUT: It was a warm but comfortable evening for the 31st annual National Night Out Against Crime throughout Bergen County. In Maywood, Special Police Capt. K. Sinfield, Sgt. B. Lopez and Officer...
View ArticleBogota mayor says councilman whacked him during borough meeting
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Bogota Mayor Tito Jackson was nursing a welt above his left eye that he and witnesses said he got when Councilman Evaristo Burdiez Jr. took a swing at him during budget...
View ArticleWallington firefighter charged with insurance fraud in bogus hit and run
BREAKING NEWS: A Wallington firefighter and first aid squad member made up a story about being struck by a hit-and-run driver outside the borough firehouse last month, said detectives who charged him...
View ArticleWoman says bicyclist lifted her skirt in Fair Lawn section of county park
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police this morning were searching the area of the duck pond of Saddle River County Park after a woman said a man came up on a bicycle in the Fair Lawn section and lifted her...
View ArticleVisiting today for former Lincoln Center exec from Oradell who helped build...
TRIBUTE: Visiting hours are this afternoon and tonight for a former Lincoln Center administrator, MetLife Stadium construction executive and father of four who lived in Oradell. A Mass of Christian...
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NJ reimbursing local police departments for defective bulletproof vests
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State authorities said today that they’re about to begin distributing $173,780 to more than five dozen New Jersey police departments – 9 of them in Bergen County — that bought...
View ArticleVirginia man charged with threatening Bergen teen online with sexually...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Virginia man who befriended a 13-year-old Bergen County boy by pretending to be another teenager threatened to post sexually explicit photos of the youngster online unless he...
View ArticleAlleged ‘Bergen bandit’ accomplice in spring Lodi armed robbery arrested
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man charged with a string of armed robberies in four Bergen County towns had an accomplice in at least one of the holdups, Lodi police revealed today in announcing his arrest....
View ArticleLeonia police issue sketch of diversion burglar who stole thousands
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Leonia police today issued a sketch of a diversion burglary who, working with a partner, stole several thousands dollars from an unwitting homeowner. The victim told police a man...
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Previous case of Leonia man now charged in sex assault on girl, 16, prompted...
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A Leonia man accused last month of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl previously avoided prison time and Megan’s Law registration when New Jersey’s highest court overturned his...
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Porsche driver had open vodka bottle in GWB tractor-trailer crash, police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police this afternoon identified the DWI driver of a Porsche dragged several hundred yards overnight by a tractor-trailer on the George Washington Bridge as a...
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State doctor says Ridgewood physician fit to stand trial in weapons,...
ONLY ON CVP: A state expert has deemed a Ridgewood physician found with explosive chemicals and firearms in his basement apartment nearly two years ago mentally fit to stand trial. The prosecution of...
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Female pedestrian killed in Leonia identified as Palisades Park restaurant owner
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities this afternoon confirmed that a pedestrian who was killed this morning in Leonia when she was struck and dragged by a mini school bus taking a teenager to summer...
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Ridgefield Park police find 17 weapons stashed at warehouse, arrest ex-con...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield Park police arrested a purported Pagans gang member from Pennsylvania who they said they found with 17 guns and armor-piercing ammunition stashed at the borough...
View ArticleMan survives Goethals leap, breaks back
The first person to try to commit suicide off the Goethals Bridge broke his back but survived the 135-foot plunge, authorities said. The 30-something Bedminster man parked his silver Honda in the New...
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