Partner in Saddle Brook design company pocketed $400,000, authorities charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A partner in a Saddle Brook fashion design company who authorities said kept $400,000 in seed money without producing a single stitch is free on $75,000 bail after being...
View ArticlePIP officer struck by van, thrown over guardrail in Alpine
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Palisades Interstate Parkway police officer was hurled over a guardrail when a mini-van barreled into his patrol car while he was conducting a traffic stop near the State Line...
View ArticleMan survives Route 3 bridge jump into Hackensack River
UPDATE: A 62-year-old man who leaped into the Hackensack River from a bridge on Route 3 in Secaucus this morning was being treated at Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned....
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve warning: New Jersey DWI patrols out in force
Here’s your annual New Year’s Eve warning: Police will be out there not only on that night but on others, as well, over the next several days. “We want drivers, passengers, pedestrians and revelers...
View ArticleHome health aide sexually abused River Edge girl, 15, authorities charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A home health aide was arrested and charged with sexually touching a 15-year-old River Edge girl. Members of the River Edge Police Department and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s...
View ArticleChemicals bring Bergen Hazmat to New Milford DPW
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Chemicals left at the New Milford DPW building prompted a call this morning to the Bergen County Hazardous Materials Response Team. The team, which determined that no threat existed,...
View ArticleHeart attack victim saved by Westwood police, Iron Horse waitress
SHOUT OUT: A fast-moving waitress and quickly responding Westwood police saved a 65-year-old Hillsdale woman who suffered an apparent heart attack at the Iron Horse Restaurant in Westwood tonight....
View ArticleHouse blazes test firefighters in Mahwah, Bogota, Hasbrouck Heights
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A cluster of house blazes — in Mahwah, Bogota and Hasbrouck Heights — kept frigid firefighters busy into the overnight. BREAKING NEWS: Natural gas fed a fire that collapsed...
View ArticleYoung Bogota police officers rescue woman from burning home
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A rookie police officer one year out of the academy, along with one on the force only a year, helped rescue a Bogota woman from her burning house last night. The call from Elm...
View ArticleSerious charges could await gunman in Wyckoff holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police investigating a shot fired during an attempted holdup of a Wyckoff pizzeria owner could bring charges against the gunman as serious as attempted murder, CLIFFVIEW PILOT...
View ArticleHillsdale crash injures three, two critically
UPDATE: A 77-year-old driver’s car rear-ended one driven by a 17-year-old girl before swerving into oncoming traffic and slamming head-on into another vehicle in Hillsdale on New Years Eve....
View ArticleRetiring Tenafly police chief taking helm of food pantry
EXCLUSIVE: Retirement after 28 years will be special for Tenafly Police Chief Michael Bruno: He’ll soon become the new executive director of the Human Needs Food Pantry in Montclair. “I have done...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day in Englewood: shooting, stabbing, mugging
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The new year literally began with a bang in Englewood, where a volley of shots from a semi-automatic weapon ignited a series of events that included a mugging and an attempted murder...
View ArticleCar rams shed in Harrington Park
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: Advanced Life Support workers took a driver to the hospital after his car rammed into a shed in Harrington Park this afternoon. The incident happened around 4 p.m. on Blanche Avenue...
View ArticleRegional force could be part of Bergen police consolidation, Ganz says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Soon-to-be Freeholder Chairman David Ganz told CLIFFVIEW PILOT he’s asked Bergen County Police Chief Brian Higgins for a blueprint showing how his department “could cover all...
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Fairview man hit by own car in chain of Bergen Boulevard crashes
THE REAL STORY: A chain reaction of separate but related crashes as bizarre as they were unlikely left a Wayne man struck by his own car, a Fairview police vehicle smashed, a tractor-trailer blocking a...
View ArticleState sues Bergen contractors for shoddy chimney, roof, gutter work
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State authorities have expanded their lawsuits against a group of home improvement companies to include Bergen County contractors A Safeway Construction for shoddy or undone...
View ArticleDriver in Dumont rollover taken into custody
ANOTHER CLIFFVIEW PILOT SCOOP: Dumont police took the driver of a car that landed on its roof in a one-vehicle accident to headquarters early this morning. The driver of the compact red vehicle climbed...
View ArticleMan who yelled at cop in mall lot busted for pot, Paramus PD says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Paramus police said they arrested a man on pot possession charges after he “became belligerant” with a borough officer in the parking lot of the Garden State Plaza. Joel...
View ArticleStrong-armed robbery charge in Fort Lee liquor store theft
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man who stuffed several bottles of liquor into his bag tried to fight off store employees at Linwood Wine and Liquor before officers arrived and arrested him, Fort Lee police...
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