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DWI driver had son, 9, in car, threatened to kill officers, Elmwood Park...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A drunken Clifton driver who had his 9-year-old son in the back seat of his car when he was stopped threatened to kill all of the department’s officers, Elmwood Park Police...
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No injuries as fast-moving fire consumes Teaneck house
UPDATE: What began as a kitchen fire quickly spread, destroying a Teaneck home this morning. Part of the roof of the 2½-story Crestview Place house collapsed just before 10 a.m., after intense flames...
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Six hospitalized after impaired driver in Carlstadt crashes, flees, crashes...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An impaired Lodi driver crashed his pickup truck twice in a distance of six blocks in Carlstadt last night, sending six people to the hospital, police said. Julio Delacruz, a...
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Hackensack crossing guard, 68, hospitalized after being hit
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 68-year-old Hackensack school crossing guard was hospitalized with leg and lower body pain after she was bumped by a car this morning. The 24-year-old female Maywood driver...
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FBI arrests 2 in Paramus store safe-crackings that netted $90G
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: FBI agents this morning arrested two Pennsylvania brothers who they said stole $90,000 in cash in a pair of safe-cracking operations at Paramus stores last year that took up to...
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Tenafly police bust brothers with pot, pills, cocaine, with help from other...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police from four Bergen County towns teamed up to arrest two Tenafly brothers last night and seize 3½ pounds of marijuana, four ounces of cocaine, 40 prescription pills and...
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Fumes in Moonachie printing plant send 10 to hospital
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fumes at a Moonachie printing company sent 10 people to the hospital and sickened dozens of others this afternoon. Moonachie police, firefighters and the First Aid & Rescue...
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Saddle Brook mayor battling police chief to bitter end
A PUBLISHER WRITES: Although many hoped the final weeks of Saddle Brook Mayor Karen Chamberlain’s term would be without the contentiousness that came before, a new tempest has been stirred with her...
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Paramus police seek public’s help finding driver who hit pedestrian outside BCC
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities were hoping a student or other passerby helps them track down a hit-and-run driver who struck and critically injured a 37-year-old woman outside Bergen Community...
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Runaway tire on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge causes crash, damages cars
ONLY ON CVP: Wood-Ridge police were trying to determine where a tire came from that bounded onto Route 17 at the start of the evening rush, hitting three different cars and causing a crash. The first...
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Bergen sheriff’s Community Outreach Unit seeks 300 Thanksgiving turkeys for...
SHOUT OUT: Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Community Outreach Unit is participating in this year’s annual Thanksgiving Turkey Drive sponsored by the Center for Food Action. The unit hopes to...
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JC man indicted in 6-pound heroin bust at GWB
ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Bergen County this week indicted a Jersey City man on charges of having more than six pounds of pure heroin when police stopped him at the George Washington Bridge. The...
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Prison sentence, deportation for Guatemalan who molested Fairview girl, 8, in...
ONLY ON CVP: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant will be deported after serving three years in state prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year old girl in front of her younger sister in Fairview. Abraham A....
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Lyndhurst man held in cocaine, Oxycodone bust
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives seized $2,000 worth of cocaine and Oxycodone and nearly $6,000 in cash while arresting an unemployed Lyndhurst man at his home, authorities said today. Investigators...
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Three held on $350,000 bail each in shooting at Cliffside Park high rise
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three people were being held in the Bergen County Jail on $350,000 bail each — one of them an ex-convict charged with attempted murder — in connection with a shooting during a...
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Driver escapes with cuts and bruises in Kinderkamack Road rollover in Emerson
ONLY ON CVP: An elderly driver was partially ejected but conscious and alert when emergency responders removed him from overturned car following a chain-reaction crash on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson...
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Playing the percentages, police conduct Thanksgiving buckle up campaign
PUBLIC SAFETY: Local police and other law enforcement agencies have joined a national effort to deliver a message to all Thanksgiving drivers: buckle up. Thanksgiving traditionally puts more people on...
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Two struck utility poles, two DWI arrests, three days apart in Wyckoff
ONLY ON CVP: At the same time of morning three days apart — 12:09 a.m. — Wyckoff police received calls of light poles struck in town and arrested the drivers for DWI, among other offenses. Sgt. Brian...
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County jails shouldn’t cave to ACLU demands that they release ICE detainees
WHAT WE THINK: You think of wardens who run New Jersey’s jails as no-nonsense types who aren’t easily intimidated, but at least two have already caved to threats from the ACLU and released illegal...
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DEA agents check out Niners’ medical staff at MetLife Stadium
DEA agents paid an unannounced visit to today’s Giants-49ers game at MetLife Stadium, spot-checking the San Francisco team, as part of an investigation into prescription drug practices throughout the...
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