Bogota police, firefighters bring Christmas surprise to girl with leukemia
ONLY ON CVP: Santa pulled up to 9-year-old Juliana Guerra’s house atop a Bogota fire truck, escorted by two borough police cruisers, and for a little while tonight, the wide-eyed, smiling innocent...
View ArticleStolen cars ram Fort Lee police cruisers in chase
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Two stolen cars were rammed into Fort Lee police cruisers last night during a wild chase that police finally aborted in Newark. Fort Lee Police Officer Timothy Cullen first spotted...
View ArticleAccused Mahwah burglar caught in underwear is son of Ramapough Indian shot by...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 23-year-old man arrested in his underwear after he threw a rock through the window of a home and tussled with an officer is the son of Emil Mann, a Ramapough Indian who was...
View ArticleMuchas razones para amar Los Lobos
IN TUNE: “Thank you for still liking us,” Los Lobos guitarist César Rojas told the sold-out crowd last night during the first of three Christmas weekend gigs at City Winery. The original Wolves not...
View ArticleWoman hit by SUV outside ‘Glee’ star’s Ridgewood childhood home
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A woman who was struck by an SUV while getting out of a car parked in the Ridgewood driveway of “Glee” star Ali Stroker’s mother’s house was hospitalized this afternoon with...
View ArticleStolen cars ram Fort Lee police cruisers in chase
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Two stolen cars were rammed into Fort Lee police cruisers last night during a wild chase that police finally aborted in Newark. Fort Lee Police Officer Timothy Cullen first spotted...
View Article‘Hidden’ car could keep Bogota man, 64, in jail for Christmas
ONLY ON CVP: A decision to hide his girlfriend’s car after an argument put a 64-year-old Bogota man behind bars, where he’ll remain on Christmas if someone doesn’t post his bail. Police said they...
View ArticleElderly customer, 72, beaten, robbed outside 7-Eleven
ONLY ON CVP: A 72-year-old man was punched in the face and thrown to the ground after a 26-year-old thug jumped on the hood of his car outside a Wood-Ridge 7-Eleven and rifled through the victim’s...
View ArticleRiver Vale checkpoint yields DWI arrests
River Vale’s DWI checkpoints continued this weekend, with a pair of drunk-driving arrests among other offenses found, after more than 170 vehicles were stopped on Rivervale Road. A 23-year-old Old...
View ArticleDonovan calls 2012 year of consolidation, cost-cutting in Bergen
LOOKING BACK: Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan issued her Year in Review this afternoon, calling 2012 a year of “continued innovation, consolidation and cost cutting.” “Overall, 2012...
View ArticleWould-be Wood-Ridge contractors rip off Hurricane Sandy victim
ONLY ON CVP: Two men claiming to be contractors took $1,580 of a Hurricane Sandy victim’s money and told her the entire job to remove a tree stump and branches from her property, while repairing some...
View ArticlePolice face hidden dangers — bracelet cords, handcuff keys
Following the cold-blooded killings of two upstate New York firefighters, a Bergen County police officer’s wife asked for a reminder here about two hidden-in-plain-sight dangers facing law enforcement:...
View ArticleNew Milford drunk driver rams pole, hits police car, tries to flee, chief says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former janitorial service president with a criminal record steered his SUV into a pole, side-swiped a police cruiser, then led officers on a chase before trying to fight them...
View ArticleChased by police, career shoplifter hit by car at Paramus mall
ONLY ON CVP: Among several people who spent Christmas in the Bergen County Jail on shoplifting charges was a 53-year-old career thief who Paramus police said slipped from his handcuffs and took off...
View ArticleNorth Bergen man, 73, charged with molesting Rutherford girl, 7
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 73-year-old North Bergen man was freed on $50,000 cash bail after being arrested on charges of molesting a 7-year-old Rutherford girl. Edward Narucki, of 72nd Street, is...
View ArticleTales of heroism at PIP police awards, swearing-in ceremony
SHOUT OUT: Two separate events connected to the same incident led to award for a car service driver and a police officer fresh out of the academy who combined to save a woman from a rapist were among...
View ArticlePot charges follow Paramus rear-end crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A rear-end collision brought charges against two men for having marijuana and drug paraphernalia in their car, Paramus police said today. Officers called around 6:50 last night...
View ArticleRabbi in Dwek money laundering gets 12 months, one day
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal judge today handed down a prison sentence of a year and a day to a Brooklyn rabbi who admitted his role in laundering money for Solomon Dwek, the...
View ArticleNJSP trooper injured in Turnpike crash in Secaucus
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A New Jersey State Police trooper’s car ended up on its side on the Turnpike this morning, sending the officer to the hospital with what were being characterized as...
View ArticleGloucester police HQ shooting: 2 officers grazed, one OK after surgery
UPDATE: A state Corrections Department employee overpowered a Gloucester Township police officer who was processing him at headquarters on a domestic violence complaint, grabbed her gun and was shot...
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