Bergen prosecutor seeks public’s help in Maywood arsons
Authorities are seeking the public’s help in a pair of almost-simultaneous garage fires in Maywood that they said were deliberately set. One of the blazes was set in a garage below a Windsor Court...
View ArticleNew ‘Cyber Safe NJ’ site helps protect you against online threats
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The state Division of Consumer Affairs today kicked off National Consumer Protection Week by launching a “Cyber Safe NJ” website with important information that New Jerseyans...
View ArticleJ. Fletcher Creamer driver carjacked, assaulted at gunpoint
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two bandits took a J. Fletcher Creamer & Son truck at gunpoint while assaulting the driver in Union County before dawn this morning, police said. The driver told police he...
View ArticleUpper Saddle River man remains held on $750,000 bail in Ramsey ‘poly-drug’ death
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge today ordered that an Upper Saddle River man remain held on $750,000 bail in connection with the overdose death of a 19-year-old Ramsey man from a poly-drug mix that he...
View ArticleFeds release signed guilty pleas of ‘Real Housewives of NJ’ cast members...
UPDATE: Federal prosecutors this afternoon posted the signed plea agreements online of Teresa and Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice, the married stars of Bravo’s hit TV show “Real Housewives of New Jersey,” who...
View ArticleRamsey police chief: Searching for man, woman in jewelry store holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two more people were being sought in the robbery of a Ramsey jewelry store yesterday, Police Chief Bryan Gurney said this afternoon — although he couldn’t say whether they might...
View ArticleWater main replacement work to close stretch of Rivervale Road
TRAFFIC ALERT: Starting next month, a water main replacement project on Rivervale Road in River Vale is going to close the road for 10-12 weeks between Old Tappan Road and Poplar Road from 8:30 a.m. to...
View ArticleDumped ex held on $105,000 bail in torching of Palisades Park woman’s car
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A jilted lover was arrested by Palisades Park police yesterday and charged with setting fire to his ex-girlfriend’s car outside her house the day after she dumped him. After she...
View ArticleMordaga: All credit for new contract goes to men, women of Hackensack PD
PUBLIC SAFETY: An intense focus on street crime — particularly drug sales and quality-of-life offenses — has helped make Hackensack safer and brought Police Director Michael Mordaga a new three-year...
View ArticleRamsey police release images from jewelry store holdup
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Ramsey Police Chief Bryan Gurney this morning released surveillance images of the two men who posed as FBI agents investigating a meth lab before tying up three employees and...
View ArticleSouth Hackensack police chase across Route 46 nets drugs, box cutter
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: South Hackensack police chased a local man across Route 46 through traffic before arresting him on drug, weapons and resisting charges. Officers tried talking to a disorderly...
View ArticleSouth Hackensack police: Human trafficking charges, high bail for man who...
EXCLUSIVE: A 16-year-old Jersey City’s girl’s pimp brought her to a Route 46 motel for an online “date” — and was promptly arrested by undercover South Hackensack police officers, authorities said....
View ArticleFederal marshal chased fugitive through Route 3 traffic in East Rutherford,...
ONLY ON CVP: A fugitive ex-con who authorities said was carrying two handguns and more than a quarter-pound of cocaine when he was tracked down at an East Rutherford motel led a U.S. marshal on a chase...
View ArticleChristie orders flags flown at half-staff for Wallington Fire Capt. Greg Barnas
TRIBUTE: Gov. Christie this afternoon issued a proclamation directing that flags at the State House building be flown at half-staff tomorrow through next Wednesday in honor of fallen fire Capt. Gregory...
View ArticleBergen police warn: Sports club car burglaries are up again
PUBLIC SAFETY: People who leave purses, electronics and other valuables in the open in their cars while working out have increasingly become targets for smash-and-grab thieves, local police are...
View ArticleCyber-girl ‘Lexi,’ 6, used in investigations of others besides former deejay...
ONLY ON CVP: An imaginary 6-year-old girl named “Lexi” has been involved in more child sex cases than the one against former radio deejay Dave Herman: Another New York State man also thought he was...
View ArticleSouth Hackensack officer finds pot in iPhone box, crack in car after stop
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A South Hackensack patrol officer arrested three people and seized several bags of pot hidden in an iPhone box, along with more than a half-ounce of crack, following an...
View ArticleBrooklyn man admits scheme with Rockland rabbi to extort Jewish man into divorce
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A personal trainer from Brooklyn today became the first defendant to plead guilty in an FBI sting that charged eight men and two rabbis — one from Rockland County — in a scheme...
View ArticleIndictment: Cliffside Park man threatened to hurt girl if she told of seven...
ONLY ON CVP: Beginning when she was 4 years old and continuing until she was 11, a Cliffside Park girl told investigators, she was sexually assaulted by a man who threatened to “hurt her if she told...
View ArticleLyndhurst police arrest two in Super Bowl tickets robbery
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lyndhurst police have arrested a man who they said robbed a Super Bowl ticket buyer of $1,200 a day before the big game — as well as a woman who they said set the victim up....
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