Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found
EXCLUSIVE: Ridgewood police have found the driver of a car that a motorist said she swerved to avoid, sending her vehicle into a utility pole and a pedestrian who was thrown nearly 20 feet. As of this...
View ArticleRoute 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An early-morning traffic incident on Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights spilled into a Carlstadt parking lot, where, police said, a driver wielding a baseball bat confronted two...
View ArticleArrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents this morning arrested two Brooklyn men and charged them in separate holdups of T-Mobile stores, including one this past January on Route 17 in Paramus. Unique...
View ArticleRidgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles
Ridgewood police, who took two juveniles into custody in connection with a pair of car burglaries on the same street last night, were still collecting reports today of break-ins to other vehicles, as...
View ArticleFemale Saddle Brook police officer appointed
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook has appointed a new female police officer who will begin training this Monday at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. An EMT who has...
View ArticleEnglewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three remaining members of the infamous Boone burglary gang were convicted by a jury in Hackensack today for their roles in the theft of a 600-pound safe from Connecticut that a...
View ArticleArrest in brutal Edgewater rape
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A multi-state manhunt ended on a West New York rooftop when detectives from Edgewater and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit chased down and arrested a Mexican...
View ArticleAlpine promotes new sergeant
SHOUT OUT: Alpine police officer Michael Lizzi offically was promoted to sergeant tonight at the mayor and council meeting. Lizzi began his career in 1994 with the New York State Police. Two years...
View ArticleIndictment: Some of Bergen’s elite scammed
EXCLUSIVE: Alpine philanthropist Lenora Klein, Englewood restaurant owner Carlo Bartolomeo and Bergenfield photographer/writer Elizabeth R. Burchard were among a group of Bergen County victims taken in...
View ArticleEarly-morning Hillsdale deck fire quickly put down
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hillsdale firefighters quickly extinguished an early-morning blaze on the rear deck and back of a two-family house after a citizen who saw smoke alerted a passing police...
View ArticleNJ federal agents smash ‘largest hacking and data-breach plot’ ever
NASDAQ, Visa, JetBlue and Dow Jones are among some of the world’s largest corporations targeted by a group of credit card thieves from Russia and the Ukraine, leading to the largest hacking and...
View ArticleRockleigh employee charged with stealing $50,000 from co-workers’ 401k accounts
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former employee at the Rockleigh plant of a company that distributed printed materials lifted documents and computer information for co-workers that allowed him to steal more...
View ArticleKiller who dismembered ex-girlfriend guilty of desecrating remains in Teaneck
VERDICT: In a decision that shocked no one, jurors in Hackensack today convicted a Bronx man serving time for killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend of desecrating her remains by trying to bury the...
View Article‘I’m Trayvon Martin!’ shouts Hackensack man sentenced to 54 years for raping...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: “I’m Trayvon Martin! I’m Trayvon Martin” a Hackensack ex-con shouted at a judge who sentenced him to 54 years in prison without parole today for raping a 13-year-old after...
View ArticleProfound shock, grief over watercraft death of Westwood ‘angel’
TRIBUTE: Friends and loved ones remained shocked and grieving today over the accidental death of a 52-year-old Westwood grandmother – and Glen Rock native — in a watercraft crash on Lake Tahoe...
View ArticleShoplifting suspect swims across Passaic River into waiting arms of Fair Lawn...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn shoplifting suspect who was chased into Paterson this morning jumped into the Passaic River, swam across — and found Fair Lawn police waiting on the other side. Lt....
View ArticleDPW workers, citizens help police nab ex-con, accomplice in Fairview bank...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With the help of two DPW workers and several good Samaritans, police tracked down two men — one a career criminal who once escaped from the Hudson County Jail — who they said...
View ArticleConvict in South Hackensack SWAT standoff goes free
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former South Hackensack man who held a SWAT team at bay for 5½-hours after beating his wife — saying he wanted to go out in a “blaze of glory” — walked out of court a free man...
View Article12 new Bergen County sheriff’s officers sworn in
SHOUT OUT: “This is a great day for our new officers, their families and Bergen County,” said Sheriff Michael Saudino, as a dozen new sheriff’s officers were sworn in yesterday. Chosen from 100...
View ArticlePedestrian couple hit by car get summonses from Ramsey police
A couple hit by a car while crossing the street after walking down the middle of the road last night were each given summonses by Ramsey police for not using a crosswalk. Neither the 23-year-old Upper...
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