Allendale landlord gets 5 years for threatening tenant with gun
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Allendale landlord who decided to settle a dispute over parking on his lawn with a handgun was sentenced today to five years in prison, three of which he must serve before...
View ArticleBoy on bicycle hit by car in Park Ridge
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A boy on a bicycle was taken to Hackensack Unversity Medical Center with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after he was struck by a car in a Park Ridge parking...
View ArticleArrest in Fair Lawn arson fire
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn woman was taken into custody by police this afternoon after she allegedly set fire to a stack of papers in her bedroom, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Firefighters...
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Judge jails Rutherford man 364 days for corporal punishment of daughter, 13
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A judge in Hackensack yesterday sentenced a Rutherford man who beat his 13-year old daughter with a karate stick, broomstick and belt to 264 days in the Bergen County Jail, despite...
View ArticleIndictment in case of robber who tipped Lyndhurst barmaid $20 after holdup
EXCLUSIVE: A man who Lyndhurst police said tipped a bartender $20 from $138 he’d just robbed used an illegal .25-caliber handgun, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack says. It was a...
View ArticlePort Authority police crackdown on Journal Square bicycle thieves continues...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police on the lookout for bicycle thieves said they chased and caught two men they found using bolt cutters in an attempted theft at Journal Square. They quickly...
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Racial profiling? Let me tell you something
A POLICE VETERAN WRITES: I had long hair when I was a teenager. I thought I was cool — all that stuff that comes with being young. I also remember walking with my friends and having people on the other...
View ArticleRiver Vale man, 56, airlifted after fall
EXCLUSIVE: A 56-year-old River Vale man who fell down a flight of stairs was air-lifted to Hackensack University Medical Center. The man sustained a head injury and needed to be sedated after becoming...
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Mahwah PBA seeks golfers, donations for outing
SHOUT OUT: The Mahwah Policeman’s Benevolent Association Local 143 is seeking golfers and donations of goods or services that can be used as raffle prizes and/or giveaways for a golf outing at Apple...
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Woodcliff Lake crash victim airlifted from Garden State Parkway
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: For the second time in eight days, a medical helicopter landed on the Garden State Parkway in northern Bergen County to airlift a victim injured in a crash to Hackensack...
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Rescuers in GSP crash save man who hid NBA star’s bloody clothes
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: They couldn’t have known it then, but a group of heroes who pulled a driver from a burning SUV seconds before it exploded on the Garden State Parkway in Washington Township a little...
View ArticlePort Authority police continue crackdown on bicycle thieves
QUALITY OF LIFE: Port Authority police continued their crackdown on bicycle thefts at Journal Square with the arrest of an ex-con with no fewer than 20 arrests on his record — including one for weapons...
View ArticlePolice: Bergenfield man, 77, exposed himself to four kids, one adult
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 77-year-old Bergenfield man who police said exposed himself to several youngsters was being held on $103,500 in the Bergen County Jail, charged with lewdness and child...
View ArticleElectrical company van slams Route 4 utility pole
ONLY ON CVP: An electrical company van slammed into a utility pole on Route 4 east in Englewood this morning, tying up traffic and causing rubbernecking on the other side. The crash occurred in front...
View ArticleFeds charge ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ couple with mortgage fraud, other...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Teresa and Joe Giudice of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” lied on applications for mortgages and other loans when they didn’t have much money, then tried to hide assets —...
View Article3 attempted murder charges against man in Hackensack shootout
UPDATE: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced today that the man who he said fired point-blank at police and was then shot himself has been charged with three counts of attempted murder...
View ArticleWyckoff boy, 16, busted with $10,000 worth of Oxy
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wyckoff police officer interrupted a drug deal on the ballfield of a local school caught a 16-year-old boy with $10,000 worth of Oxycodone, Chief Benjamin Fox said today....
View ArticleTrayvon Martin protest set for Hackensack
A protest over the acquittal of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin will provide the forum for the Bergen County chapter of the NAACP to address several issues, including the verdict, at a...
View ArticleTenafly police bust former ‘Bad Girls Club’ reality TV star for prescription...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A day before two other reality-show celebrities were indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark, a former star of the Oxygen show “Bad Girls Club” was busted by Tenafly police...
View ArticleBergen County Police get 20 stun guns: Good move?
SPECIAL REPORT: Two dozen Bergen County Police officers have been trained to use 20 Tasers that the agency bought as alternatives to deadly force, a spokesman for County Executive Kathleen Donovan...
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