New Milford police display confessed Hackensack hot prowl burglar’s haul
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Milford police tonight released photos of recovered belongings along with weapons found at the home of a Hackensack man charged with burglarizing a local home while the...
View ArticleNew Jersey drone law approved, goes to Christie
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With a 34-2 vote, New Jersey’s State Senate today approved a bill that provides some of the nation’s strongest protections against drone surveillance. The bill, which went...
View ArticleThree who dragged Hasbrouck Heights woman in purse snatching bargain lesser...
EXCLUSIVE: A trio from Brooklyn who dragged a woman with their car after stealing her pocketbook in Hasbrouck Heights cut their potential prison time from as much as 20 years to four in a last-minute...
View ArticleNJ officials to Target customers: Use company’s free credit monitoring
PUBLIC SAFETY: State officials this morning urged people who shop at Target to take advantage of one year of free credit monitoring being offered by the company in the wake of the massive data breach —...
View ArticleSolar panel protections closer for NJ smoke eaters when the roof is on fire
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A long-awaited bill that establishes new protections for firefighters when they are working around roof-mounted solar panels is nearly law. The amended measure, which only needs...
View ArticleCon artists who targeted Leonia woman, 77, avoid prison
EXCLUSIVE: A pair of middle-aged con artists who admitted trying to con a 77-year-old Leonia woman out of her savings could get off with probation after taking guilty pleas. Norman Gladney, 59, and...
View Article‘Dusty’s Law’ protecting service animals a step from reality in NJ
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A long-awaited bill that would establish criminal penalties for killing, maiming or interfering with a service dog came closer to becoming “Dusty’s Law” following final approval...
View ArticleEdgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez?
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A picture has finally begun emerging of a 20-year-old Edgewater man quietly arrested and charged in the luxury high-rise home invasion robbery of developer Fred Dabies....
View ArticleNJ federal prosecutor’s office produced $120.2M for U.S. in fiscal 2013
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today that the District of New Jersey collected $120.2 million in Fiscal 2013, which includes $57.8 million in criminal and civil actions...
View ArticleTrain hits car in Elmwood Park
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No one was injured when an NJ Transit train struck a vehicle at an Elmwood Park grade crossing tonight, a spokesman said. Investigators have yet to determine why the 54-year-old...
View ArticleGun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm
EXCLUSIVE: A Lyndhurst man was cleaning his legally registered handgun last night when it went off, sending a bullet through both his arm and the couch he was sitting on before smashing a glass display...
View ArticleNorwood police: Cliffside Park man who punched woman at church tried to run...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man tried to run over two people who chased him into a Norwood church parking lot after he punched a woman, police said. Behrang Darian, 29, attacked the woman...
View ArticleFBI arrests Hudson County jail deputy director in illegal wiretapping case
BEYOND BERGEN: The deputy director of the Hudson County Correctional Center surrendered today to federal authorities today on charges of illegally wiretapping jail employees. Kirk Eady, 45, used a...
View ArticleParamus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lodi man is charged with molesting a 19-year-old woman in her car in a lot near the Paramus restaurant where he works. Akram G. Tadros, 39, was arrested yesterday by members...
View ArticlePassaic County trio charged with rigging inspection emissions tests
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men who operate an automobile inspection business in Paterson were charged today with rigging machines to pass vehicles that had failed emissions inspections, at up to...
View ArticleGirl, 10, man struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 10-year-old girl and a man who were struck by a mini-van at a Fair Lawn intersection tonight sustained injuries that police said weren’t considered life-threatening. Although...
View ArticleNJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo...
TRIBUTE: Flags at the New Jersey Statehouse building in Trenton will be flown at half-staff for a week, beginning tomorrow, in honor of Cosmo Paris, a popular Cliffside Park firefighter who died from a...
View ArticleLeonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia police officer this morning grabbed a Staten Island man running from an Englewood 7Eleven holdup “with two fists full of cash,” authorities said tonight. A frightened...
View ArticleMahwah baby formula robbers cold-cock cart collector, lead police on chase
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A shoplifting that turned into a baby formula robbery ended with a supermarket cart collector hospitalized and three Queens men in custody following a chase that ended off...
View ArticleViolent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bronx ex-con with a 20-year violent rap sheet pushed his way in and terrorized an Englewood home female homeowner this afternoon, then fled with cash, jewelry and other...
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