Closter police free worker after noodle press crushes fingers
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Closter police this morning freed a 20-year-old West New York man who got his hand caught in a noodle press — crushing three fingers to the knuckle — at a local restaurant this...
View ArticleRochelle Park police bust women, alleged pimp, in prostitution sting
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An undercover operation led to the arrests of four women — including one from River Edge — who Rochelle Park police said were turning tricks, as well as a Queens man identified...
View ArticleMaywood house fire quickly put down
ONLY ON CVP: Firefighters quickly snuffed a Maywood second-floor bedroom fire this afternoon. No injuries were reported. Reinforcements from Rochelle Park and the Hackensack FAST unit responded to the...
View ArticleCloster man charged with scamming Bergen investors out of $100,000+
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Demarest native from Closter scammed four Bergen County residents out of more than $100,000 in a bogus overseas investment scheme, authorities said today. Michael D’Antoni, a...
View ArticleGarfield delivery man had sex with girl, 14, prosecutor says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 21-year-old Garfield delivery man accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following is arrest earlier today....
View ArticleNew Milford basement fire quickly snuffed
ONLY ON CVP: A New Milford resident returned home this afternoon to a basement fire believed sparked by a faulty alarm system. Borough firefighters quickly snuffed the Graphic Boulevard blaze, limiting...
View ArticleTenafly house fire blows through rear roof
ONLY ON CVP: Flames blew through the roof of a 2½-story wood frame house in Tenafly tonight. Firefighters had the blaze under within a half-hour of it sparking in the attic around 5 p.m. Frozen runoff...
View ArticlePolice nab Brooklyn man in Englewood ‘gasoline alley’ station beating
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A strike force of Englewood and New York City police, Bergen County sheriff’s officers and U.S. marshals took a Brooklyn man into custody in connection with the baseball-bat...
View ArticleBill Cosby shows in Tarrytown won’t be cancelled, Music Hall says it has no...
BEYOND BERGEN: Although venues nationwide are cancelling performances by Bill Cosby on his current tour, the executive director of The Music Hall in Tarrytown said he has no choice but let scheduled...
View ArticleFaulty HVAC unit sends smoke through Rochelle Park municipal building
UPDATE: A faulty rooftop heating and ventilation unit sent smoke through the Rochelle Park municipal building after business hours last night. Problems with the HVAC unit atop the West Passaic Street...
View ArticleEx-con caught with loaded gun outside Teaneck home
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Responding to a call from a terrified Teaneck woman, police last night arrested an ex-con who they said was carrying a loaded gun when he tried breaking into her home. Kevin P....
View ArticleDemarest man broke into family’s former home in Woodcliff Lake, used...
ONLY ON CVP: A 24-year-old Demarest man was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday on charges of breaking into his family’s former home in Woodcliff Lake — his second indictment in three...
View ArticleFair Lawn police seek 2 in CVS shoplifting
UPDATE: Police issued an alert for two men following a shoplifting at a Fair Lawn CVS this morning. One of them walked out of the Broadway pharmacy with $112 worth of electric razors just after 11 a.m....
View ArticleIndie film producer among victims of ID thieves caught by Fort Lee police
EXCLUSIVE: A former major independent film producer was among 14 victims whose credit card numbers were stolen by a crew of thieves — three of whom Fort Lee police said they arrested during a traffic...
View ArticleWhy the $100 bill windshield scam alert is BS
A PUBLISHER WRITES: Before you start sharing links with your friends about car thieves putting phony $100 bills under windshield wipers in an attempt to lure drivers out of their running vehicles,...
View ArticleWood-Ridge, Carlstadt police rescue epileptic driver after Route 17 van crash
CVP EXCLUSIVE: An epileptic Rutherford man who suffered a seizure behind the wheel was freed by after he crashed his van into the divider on Route 17 in Wood-Ridge just after noon today. Wood-Ridge and...
View ArticleFairview grandson could have record cleared in burglary assault that killed...
A Fairview man who admitted targeting his 88-year-old grandfather for a burglary that led to the World War II veteran’s death at the hands of his accomplice won’t be going to prison — and can have his...
View ArticleCharges boosted in Garfield mother-son pot factory case
ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack has added a pair of marijuana distribution charges against a Garfield man already accused with his mother of first-degree manufacturing and possession....
View ArticleNew Milford man who had ‘too much time on his hands’ gets 5 years for...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: A New Milford man whose attorney said had “too much time on his hands” was sentenced to five years in state prison after admitting he had hundreds of images of child pornography on his...
View ArticleNY man, 54, jumps to death from GWB
UPDATE: A 54-year-old New York man stopped his car in the middle of the GWB’s upper level, got out and jumped to his death this morning, Port Authority police said. His body was recovered from the...
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