The real faces of NJ drug addiction: Brendon Project remembers
A TRIBUTE: They’re called low-lifes, criminals – even “douchebags” — but those addicted to heroin and other drugs could end up being viewed with more compassion thanks to the work of The Brendon...
View ArticlePIP officer writing parking ticket finds cocaine, ‘Molly,’ pot bound for...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Palisades Parkway Police officer writing a traffic ticket for an improperly parked car at a PIP service station in Englewood Cliffs turned up more than three oiunces of...
View ArticleFairview baby killer trial set to begin
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: The trial of a Fairview man charged with killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter is set to begin in late June. Medical experts for both sides will be conferring and...
View ArticleFair Lawn police stop leads to arrests for using juvenile to sell heroin
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A routine Fair Lawn police traffic stop on Route 208 led to the discovery of more than three dozen bags of heroin and the arrest of two men on charges that include employing a...
View ArticlePassaic County gun buyback pushes NJ total past 10,000 firearms
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: More than 10,000 firearms have been taken out of circulation throughout New Jersey following 853 no-questions-asked gun buybacks out of Passaic County this past weekend,...
View Article‘Don’t Stand By for Bullying’ contest winners include CC Sabathia’s daughter
SHOUT OUTS: Perhaps the most hotly challenged “Don’t Stand By for Bullying” contest in Bergen County produced posters, power point presentations and videoes from elementary, middle and high school...
View ArticleEast Rutherford teen missing since last week, police say
(via NJ.com) HAVE YOU SEEN HER? Police are turning to the public one week after a borough teen went missing. Paola Terrazas, 17, was last seen in the area of Hackensack Street on May 1, police said....
View ArticleDo you know these Ridgewood liquor bandits?
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Ridgewood police this afternoon issued surveillance photos of a trio of brazen bandits who swiped nearly $1,500 of booze from Stop & Shop in separate incidents over the past...
View ArticleArrrest in Englewood 7-Eleven knife menacing
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A store surveillance camera and a keen-eyed 7-Eleven clerk who took down a partial license plate number led Englewood police to a Teaneck man they charged with trying to attack the...
View ArticleMarine on trial for having gun outside Fort Lee club testifies in own defense
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: “If there are 11 Marines in jeopardy and one of them can sacrifice himself to save them, that’s what he will do,” Marine MP Hisashi Pompey told jurors today, testifying in his...
View ArticleRespected Lodi veteran among Bergen, Rockland firefighters being honored
A TRIBUTE: The late Nicholas Ciarocco took firefighting so seriously that he sometimes woke his kids in the middle of the night for surprise drills. On May 19, he and two other former Lodi firefighters...
View ArticleWyckoff police nab motorcyclist doing 122 miles an hour
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wyckoff police officer clocked a motorcyclist at 122 miles per hour on Route 208 last night — more than 15 mph BELOW the fastest speed in recent memory. Szymon Tereszko, 26,...
View ArticleFeds find child porn, arrest Megan’s Law offender
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents arrested a Megan’s Law offender from Totowa early this morning on charges of possessing child pornography that could send him to prison for at least 10 years....
View ArticleSedan flips in Route 17 downpour in Saddle River
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: It’s unclear how many, if any injuries, were sustained when a car flipped on rainy Route 17 in Saddle River this morning. Two lanes of Route 17 north were closed while the...
View ArticleFive adults, juvenile charged with kidnapping, robbing Teaneck teen who stole...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A teen was pulled into a car outside a Teaneck hotel and robbed by a group of men he’d stolen cellphones from, before an alert security guard saw what was happening, followed...
View ArticleMarine MP convicted of illegally carrying handgun behind Port Authority...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors today convicted a Marine MP of illegal possession of a weapon without a permit following a Christmastime melee outside a Fort Lee nightclub. Hisashi Pompey sat stoically...
View ArticleStudents in special Bergen County re-employment program graduating
SHOUT OUT: Six “work-ready” adults from Bergen County could have jobs in the coming weeks after completing a re-employment course conducted by West Orange-based Teach4Life. The qualified applicants...
View ArticleStudent: Delays evacuating Bergen EMS Training Center after 4 overcome by fumes
EXCLUSIVE: An adult student at the Bergen County EMS Training Center in Paramus told CLIFFVIEW PILOT early this morning that officials there didn’t evacuate the building last night until nearly a...
View ArticleNJ court overrules Bergen judge, denies PTI to HUMC sleep expert
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: An appeals court has reversed a local judge’s decision — and supported Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli — by rejecting pre-trial intervention for a Hackensack...
View ArticleBodybuilder gets suspended probation in podiatrist Oxycontin ring case
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A professional bodybuilder who competes in national events left court in Hackensack with a clean record today after a judge sentenced him to probation — and then suspended it —...
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