Park Ridge man takes 20-foot mall leap — and gets arrested, hospitalized
BEYOND BERGEN: A 21-year-old Park Ridge man leaped 20 feet from the second level of the Palisades Center Mall in Nyack this afternoon on a what sources said was a $50 bet from a friend — and ended up...
View ArticleWaldwick police grab Brooklyn trio with 125 phony credit cards
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Waldwick police arrested a Brooklyn trio over the weekend who they said were carrying more than 125 bogus credit cards. A suspicious-persons report on Saturday brought Sgt....
View Article$300G bail for Saddle Brook man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 9
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 38-year-old man who briefly lived in Saddle Brook was arrested over the weekend and charged with sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl. Daniel Sean O’Brien was being held on...
View ArticleSUV rolls on PIP in Alpine
CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos PHOTOS: A driver escaped without injury after an SUV rolled onto its side on the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway near the Alpine Lookout this morning. An initial basic...
View ArticleFeds seeking death penalty against leader of Newark’s ‘most violent street gang’
BEYOND BERGEN: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has given federal prosecutors in New Jersey the authority to seek the death penalty against the leader of what’s been dubbed “the most violent street...
View ArticleFair Lawn girl, 5, nearly crushed by mother’s runaway SUV
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A 5-year-old Fair Lawn girl came within inches of having her mother’s SUV crush her head after it rolled down their driveway, dragging the mother, before hitting a snowbank across...
View ArticleFort Lee man charged with felony murder in robbery killing of high-rise resident
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County authorities have charged a Fort Lee man with murder in the killing of another borough resident and were searching for at least one other suspect, CLIFFVIEW PILOT...
View ArticleNJSP trooper OK after cruiser spins out on Route 80
PHOTOS: A New Jersey State Police trooper escaped serious injury when his cruiser spun out on Route 80 in Elmwood Park near the Garfield border this afternoon. PHOTOS: Matt Ciccone
View ArticleEnglewood police seek public’s help identifying thugs in separate clerk beatings
HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? Englewood police today released surveillance images in the hopes of catching members of two groups involved in apparently unrelated crimes that began as shopliftings. The first...
View ArticleWallington detectives nab 2 women in burglary thanks to alert neighbor
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Thanks to an alert upstairs neighbor, Wallington detectives today charged down two women with burglarizing a local residence looking for drug money late last month. “Christine,...
View ArticleElmwood Park police grab suicidal man who intended to step in front of train
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: NJ Transit trains through Bergen County were temporarily halted while authorities searched for a suicidal man whom they believed intended to step in front of a train last night....
View ArticleBronx man accused of impersonating police officer in chase of Cliffside Park...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police yesterday interrupted a chase involving a Bronx man who they said impersonated a police officer while pursing a pickup truck driver from Cliffside Park who...
View ArticleLawyer calls assault weapon report against Saddle Brook gun enthusiast...
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: The attorney for a Saddle Brook gun collector found with a stockpile of firearms, gunpowder and ammunition after police said his wife stabbed him said yesterday that his client was...
View ArticleFBI posts $20,000 reward on 9th anniversary of Brazilian exchange student’s...
BEYOND BERGEN: On the 9th anniversary of her disappearance, the FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whomever kidnapped a Brazilian exchange...
View ArticleWorker knocked out out in fall outside Closter temple
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A worker was hospitalized after falling seven feet from scaffolding outside a Closter temple this morning, authorities said. The 52-year-old Greenlawn, NY man was moved by a...
View ArticlePort Authority police help revive heart attack victim at GWB
SHOUT OUT: The George Washington Bridge’s upper level was briefly shut down last night as Port Authority police helped save a 54-year-old Jersey City Heights man who coded while suffering a heart...
View ArticleRoute 17 reopened after utility wire clotheslines SUV in Mahwah
UPDATE: Route 17 in Mahwah was reopened in both directions at 2:10 p.m. after a utility cable fell across the highway, clotheslining an SUV near the West Ramapo Avenue overpass. No injuries were...
View ArticleLittle Ferry man charged with fighting with police
ONLY ON CVP: A Little Ferry man who’s has previous run-ins with police tumbled down several stairs with officers after taking a swing at one of them, authorities said. Rocky Minotti, 28, was being held...
View ArticleSaddle River doctor admits diverting millions in cash to avoid taxes
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Saddle River doctor who owned three immediate care facilities in Hudson County admitted in federal court today that he diverted more than $5.8 million in insurance payments to...
View ArticleJurors in Hackensack find Bergenfield man not guilty in Englewood home...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors in Hackensack this afternoon found a Bergenfield man not guilty on all counts in a New Year’s Eve 2012 armed robbery at an alleged drug den in Englewood after they...
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