Lyndhurst woman takes 11th-hour plea in $30M mortgage scheme
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jury selection in her trial was beginning when a Lyndhurst woman pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark today to a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused...
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New charges confirmed, more announced in brawl outside South Hackensack strip...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Some of the damage that a South Hackensack bar fight wrought was revealed tonight by Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli in confirming an exclusive CLIFFVIEW PILOT report on...
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No objection: Mahwah High School students are Bergen mock trial champs again
SHOUT OUT: A distraught friend testifies that her mission is to “bring justice” to the death of a victim of a vehicular homicide, while a police sergeant who discovered the ghastly crash involving two...
View ArticleBergen grand jury: North Arlington man molested girls, 12, 13, showed them porn
EXCLUSIVE: A grand jury in Hackensack has brought an 11-count indictment against a married recycling company worker from North Arlington accused of molesting two girls – one 12 and the other 13 — and...
View ArticleFriends, loved ones stunned by Turnpike death of limo company owner from...
UPDATE: Tributes have poured in today for a Secaucus limousine company owner from Englewood Cliffs who was killed last night in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. Mohammed Aboushaca, 52, owner of...
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Odd twists in Charles Leaf child sex assault trial happen outside court
EXCLUSIVE: With the final witnesses set to testify, the child sex assault trial of former FOX 5 investigative reporter Charles Leaf has been marked nearly as much by what’s gone out outside the trial...
View ArticlePolice: Englewood school bus rear-ended, more than 40 children check out fine
UPDATE: There were no serious injuries, but more than 40 children were taken to the hospital as a precaution following a school bus accident this morning in Englewood. The crash occurred around 8:15...
View ArticleHarrington Park woman arrested in Philip Seymour Hoffman death probe
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old woman involved in a drug investigation following the heroin overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is a Harrington Park native whose father is an expert...
View ArticleNJ Police say tainted heroin led to 9 overdoses, deaths
(via NJ.com) At least nine people have died or been hospitalized in New Jersey in recent months after overdosing on fentanyl-laced heroin, and law enforcement officials say they fear the potent...
View ArticleNJ: Free training in identifying, preventing child sex abuse announced
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Free online sexual abuse identification and prevention training is being offered to all state residents as part of a “proactive approach to eradicating this abominable crime in...
View ArticleBergen indictment charges 3 with raping Waldwick woman met at Teaneck bar
EXCLUSIVE: Three Morristown men were indicted by a Bergen County grand jury on charges of twice raping an intoxicated Waldwick woman they met in a bar in Teaneck. The 24-year-old woman was treated at...
View ArticleRiver Vale hockey teen who once met Gretzky charged in three ‘knockout’...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former hockey player at St. Joseph’s Regional High School in Montvale is the Massachusetts college sophomore arrested and charged with attacking three fellow students at...
View ArticleRoute 17 pedestrian struck by several vehicles, killed, in Upper Saddle River
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man was struck and killed on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River just before 9:30 tonight, authorities confirmed. Ramsey and Bergen County police confirmed for CLIFFVIEW PILOT that...
View ArticleThree indicted in Englewood holdup
EXCLUSIVE: A grand jury in Hackensack has returned first-degree robbery charges against three Englewood men in connection with a holdup and carjacking of two Brooklyn residents last summer. All three...
View ArticleWest New York mayor’s son gets probation for hacking opponents’ website
A federal judge in Newark today sentenced Joseph Roque, the son of West New York Mayor Felix Roque, to probation and 100 hours of community service for hacking a website belonging to his father’s...
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Instant karma: What goes around, comes down
A TRAVELER WRITES: I was standing on the freezing train platform at Metropark in Iselin this morning, waiting for the Acela to take me to D.C., when a well-dressed lawyer type next to me began shouting...
View ArticleFeds: Mastermind caught in bank ATM skimming scheme in Englewood, elsewhere
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A native of Romania who was arrested in Sweden was due in federal court in Newark this afternoon to face charges that he orchestrated an ATM skimming scheme that cost banks $5...
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Marine vet from Lodi gets 7 years for Saddle Brook DWI crash that killed two
EXCLUSIVE: A Marine veteran was sentenced today to a plea-bargained seven years in state prison for a drunk driving crash that killed two men who were changing a tire off Route 80 in Saddle Brook....
View ArticleGarfield police: Four grabbed after Passaic holdup, two swallow heroin bags
EXCLUSIVE: Two of four men arrested by Garfield police in connection with a robbery in Passaic last night were taken to the hospital after they deliberately swallowed bags of heroin, authorities said...
View ArticlePort Authority police nab Bronx man in JFK trailer theft
BEYOND BERGEN: A former employee of a cargo company that operates out of JFK Airport was arrested by Port Authority police on charges of swiping a $25,000 trailer by attaching it to his own rig. DHL...
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