Not guilty verdicts on more serious counts in broken beer bottle incident at...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors in Hackensack today acquitted Cristian Murillo-Munoz of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in an attack with a broken beer bottle at a Fort Lee nightclub that left...
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‘She was 12′ when four years of sex with Mahwah minister began, prosecutor...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: A defense attorney for Mahwah youth pastor Curtis Franklin today called his trial on charges of having sex with an underage congregant “a garden-variety ‘he-said / she-said’ case.”...
View ArticleRoute 17 rollover in Upper Saddle River seriously injures driver
ONLY ON CVP: Upper Saddle River police were trying to determine the cause of a rollover that seriously injured a 57-year-old driver on Route 17 earlier today. Traffic was backed up to Mahwah after the...
View ArticleShoplifting becomes robbery when thief head-butts Paramus mall officer
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A shoplifting from a Paramus mall Apple store turned into a robbery when the alleged thief head-butted a security officer as he was being taken into custody by borough police. The...
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Ex-con stole 2 bottles of cognac worth $2,200 each, Tenafly police say
HAVE YOU SEE HIM? Authorities are looking for this 52-year-old ex-con in connection with a host of crimes in Bergen and Morris counties, including the theft of two bottles of cognac worth $2,200 each...
View ArticleUnderage sex with Mahwah minister was ‘something special,’ woman testifies
ONLY ON CVP: A woman who said she had sex with a former Mahwah minister for four years beginning when she was 12 told jurors she “thought was it was love, something special between us,” then later...
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Eight Bergen teams set for tomorrow’s NJ High School Consumer Bowl event
SHOUT OUT: Ridgefield Park High School returns tomorrow to defend its Bergen County High School Consumer Bowl title, taking on seven other teams from throughout the county in the competition organized...
View ArticleRutherford lawyer, 69, gets 3 years for $1.2 million tax dodge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 69-year-old disbarred lawyer from Rutherford was sentenced today to three years for stiffing the IRS out of nearly $1.2 million on $3.36 million in unreported income....
View ArticleWoodcliff Lake con man sentenced in $1 million investment scams
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The male half of a duo from Woodcliff Lake who admitted conning friends and others out of nearly $1 million in bogus investments was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison...
View ArticleBomb threat clears New Milford school
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Milford police evacuated the Berkley Street School and called in the county K9 unit after some students heard another talking about a bomb threat. “They immediately told a...
View ArticleFair Lawn convict, 81, gets at least 5 years for child porn
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An 81-year-old convict from Fawn Lawn will spend at least five years — and possibly many more — in federal prison after admitting today that he downloaded what he knew were...
View ArticleDefense attorney in Mahwah minister underage sex trial mulling risky move
UPDATE (CVP EXCLUSIVE): The defense attorney in a former Mahwah minister’s underage sex trial said today he intends to call witnesses to discredit the alleged victim, who testified for several hours...
View ArticleHackensack man brought to Bergen to face charges of kidnapping ex-girlfriend...
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Hackensack man who was tracked down in Harlem through a cellphone trace after his ex-girlfriend was kidnapped from her mother’s Bergenfield home is in the Bergen County Jail,...
View ArticlePort Authority: GWB guard caught smoking pot worked for same firm as sleepers
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A George Washington Bridge security guard arrested by Port Authority police for smoking pot on the job worked for the same firm that fired two guards who CLIFFVIEW PILOT found...
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Bergen County Police officer chases down state escapee
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bergen County Police officer this morning chased down a 26-year-old escapee from a state halfway house after a chase involving a car stolen out of New Milford moments earlier....
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NJ correction officer got off without paying prostitutes by posing as cop,...
BEYOND BERGEN: A New Jersey State correction officer was arrested today on charges of identifying himself as a police officer in order to coerce prostitutes into having free sex with him. Using the...
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Applications being accepted for Bergen Sheriff’s Citizens Police Academy
SHOUT OUT: Enrollment for the 12th class of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Citizens Police Academy is open, Sheriff Michael Saudino announced this afternoon. The sheriff’s academy graduated its...
View ArticleNJ ‘Facebook law’ approved, headed to Gov. Christie’s desk
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey’s new “Facebook law” is headed to Gov. Christie’s desk. If he signs it, the measure would prevent employers and colleges from requiring current or prospective...
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NJ lawmakers approve sweeping human trafficking bill
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey’s state Assembly today unanimously granted final legislative approval to a measure that would crack down on human trafficking, better support its victims and educate...
View ArticleFairview police arrest 2 in theft of Gap clothing deliveries
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fairview police arrested two men for skimming clothing from shiptments being delivered to Gap stores in the area. Borough police were alerted after their boss and the Gap’s loss...
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