YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man accused of making unwanted sexual advances to a Rockland County woman while he worked for a cable company was charged with committing the same crimes against two Bergen County women in their homes — one a 71-year-old from Fairview and the other a 60-year-old from Ridgefield Park.

Jonathan Malave, 31, was being held on $250,000 bail, charged with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact after being arrested at his Towaco home yesterday.

Malave, who is unemployed, was working as a service technician when he “engaged in inappropriate sexual activity” with the Ridgefield Park woman in her home in July 2014 and with the Fairview woman in her home a month later, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.

Jonathan Malave (STONY POINT PD booking photo)

“The second victim recently contacted the Fairview Police Department and reported to them what had occurred,” Molinelli said.

They, in turn, contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit, and an investigator from that unit, along with a Fairview detective, interviewed her, he said.

She “described to them in greater detail what had occurred,” the prosecutor said.

Malave was arraigned earlier today in Hackensack.

Two years ago he was living in Belleville and working as a cable repair subcontractor when a 32-year-old Stony Point woman told police he sexually assaulted her on a call — first kissing and then reaching down and touching her.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Edgewater police seized three bundles of heroin, medical marijuana and prescription pills, as well as nearly two dozen hypodermic needles, following a River Road traffic stop last night.

Officers James Dalton and Joseph Criscuolo stopped a Chevy Camaro for making an improper left onto Hudson Avenue around 8 p.m., Sgt. Steven Titus told CLIFFVIEW PILOT just after midnight.

They spotted the marijuana on the passenger seat, got consent to search the car from the driver — identified as 32-year-old New Milford native Justin Pearly — and found the other drugs, Titus said.

Pearly, of Nutley, was being taken to the Bergen County Jail, where a judge ordered him held on $25,000 bail.

Charges include drug distribution, possession of drugs with the intent to distribute them, possession within 500 feet of a public park and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police also issued him traffic summonses.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury in Hackensack yesterday indicted a Megan’s Law offender originally from Lodi on charges of violating his parole by visiting social media sites.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT last year found profiles for 47-year-old Thaddeus Gil on a few social sites, including deviantART.com and YouTube. He was also listed as “available” on more than 50 others.

He primarily has used the screen name “Tgil3036,” but Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said he also used “TGil” and “Thad Gi’l.”

Gil, who moved to Newark, remained free on $25,000, posted four days after his Oct. 21, 2013 arrest on initial charges stemming from his alleged online activity.

Records show that he was sentenced in Passaic County in January 2002 for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. As part of his release, Gil, who found work as a driver for a Secaucus company, was to remain under community supervision for life and not use the Internet to access social media sites.

Gil was arrested following a joint investigation by members of the squad and the New Jersey State Parole Board Sex Offender Management Unit. The prosecutor also thanked Hillsdale police for providing personnel to the task force.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield Park police grabbed three Florida men and a 17-year-old boy after a routine traffic stop turned up credit cards, driver’s licenses and checkbooks belonging to more than a dozen other people.

The driver was talking on his cellphone when officers pulled over his Dodge Caravan on Route 46 yesterday afternoon, Capt. Daniel Hippe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.

They detected the odor of burnt marijuana, spoke with the occupants and took all of them into custody, he said.

Being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail were Adonis Shinholster, 21, of Fort Lauderdale; Jerrard Green, 24, of Hollywood; and Jermaine Armstrong, 19, of Coconut Creek.

The boy was sent to the Bergen County Juvenile Detention Center on a juvenile complaint.

All are charged with wrongful impersonation and credit card theft.

Shinholster also was charged with carrying a small amount of marijuana.

Village police contacted law enforcement authorities in Florida to help them determine the source and scope of the thefts.

ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A woman who reported being held at gunpoint by her husband while driving through New Jersey texted their locations before State Police executed a high-risk stop at the Vince Lombardi Service Area on the Turnpike, taking him into custody and seizing a pellet gun from the car.

Jonathan Hinote, 23, remained held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail this morning, charged with illegal handgun possession, following yesterday’s incident.

Hinote and his wife, Christina, formerly of New England and most recently of Robertsville, Alabama, are known to police for a series of credit card scams up and down the East Coast.

According to reports, the Hinotes — who have a 6-month-old daughter — used gift cards bought with bogus plastic to purchase a used car in New Hampshire, stay at hotels in Maine and Florida and con several convenience stores. Christina also was arrested in Massachusetts in May for driving without a license, registration or insurance, records show.

State Police began looking for a red Ford pickup with Alabama registration driven by Jonathan Hinote yesterday morning.

“His wife was giving updates of their locations via text,” NJSP Sgt. First Class Gregory Williams told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The pickup passed through Woodbridge as troopers began narrowing their search, and arrived at “The Vince” around 8:45 a.m.

Troopers swiftly moved in and took the 6-foot-3-inch, 340-pound Hinote into custody without incident after spotting a black handgun in plain view, Williams said.

Hinote was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with illegal handgun possession.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Closter police this morning freed a 20-year-old West New York man who got his hand caught in a noodle press — crushing three fingers to the knuckle — at a local restaurant this morning.

Officers quickly disconnected the machine at the Ewha Won Noodle House on Piermont Road, disassembled it and used a pry bar to dislodge the victim’s fingers after responding just before 11 a.m., Detective VIncent Aiello told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

They then wrapped his hand and kept him calm until EMS workers arrived and took him to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley in Westwood, where he was in stable condition.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An undercover operation led to the arrests of four women — including one from River Edge — who Rochelle Park police said were turning tricks, as well as a Queens man identified as their pimp.

Detectives last night used undercover vehicles and electronic devices surveillance devices at area hotels after responding to online advertisements, Police Chief Robert Flannelly said this afternoon.

A series of safe “transactions and exchanges” witnessed by all of the officers were made, Flanelly said.

Police seized $1,000 in alleged proceeds and several small bags of marijuana, the chief said.

Arrested were:

Jian Wang MUGSHOTS: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD

Jian Wang, 50, of Flushing, who police said drove the dates, collected the money and was charged with promoting prostitution;

Deyanira Hiraldo, 36 (top, right), of River Edge; Huang Ying, 37 (bottom, left), also of Flushing; and Morgan Busumtwi, 33 (bottom, right), of Paterson, all charged with engaging in prostitution;

Patricia Cerullo, 50 (top, left), of Rego Park, NY, charged with promoting prostitution, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

All were released on summonses with a November court date.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD

ONLY ON CVP: Firefighters quickly snuffed a Maywood second-floor bedroom fire this afternoon.

No injuries were reported.

Reinforcements from Rochelle Park and the Hackensack FAST unit responded to the Passaic Street home just after noon.

Paramus, Lodi and Saddle Brook provided mutual aid.

“The fire is being investigated by does not appear suspicious,” Police Chief David Pegg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Manhattan man is charged with scamming four Bergen County residents out of more than $100,000 in a bogus oversees investment scheme, authorities said today.

Michael Dantoni, 56, of East 60th Street was arrested by the District Attorney’s Office when he showed up for a court hearing in Manhattan yesterday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

He’s charged here with theft by deception.

Dantoni “convinced four individuals four individuals to give him funds in excess of $100,000 for the purchase of goods to be exported out of the country with a guaranteed large return on the investment,” Molinelli said. “The goods were never acquired by Dantoni and the overseas buyers were non-existent.”

He was being held without bail pending extradition. A Dec. 2 arraignment date was set.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 21-year-old Garfield delivery man accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following is arrest earlier today.

Starlin Villalona-Perdoma of Van Winkle Avenue is charged with sexual assault and child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

Detectives from Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit and Garfield police arrested Villalona-Perdoma.

The girl “initially reported the incident to the Paterson Police Department, who then contacted the Garfield Police Department,” he said. “They contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and a detective from that Unit along with a detective from the Garfield Police Department subsequently interviewed the victim.

“She described to them in greater detail what had occurred.”

An arraignment was set for this coming Tuesday.

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A PUBLISHER WRITES: Nothing in the law can be more definitive than what constitutes statutory rape: It is a crime that occurs in New Jersey when one of the partners is between 13 and 16 and the other is at least four years older. And it can put a convicted offender in prison for a long time, among other serious consequences. READ MORE ….

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

ONLY ON CVP: A New Milford resident returned home this afternoon to a basement fire believed sparked by a faulty alarm system.

Borough firefighters quickly snuffed the Graphic Boulevard blaze, limiting the exterior damage.

They were joined by their colleagues from Oradell, while an engine each from Bergenfield (FAST), Dumont and River Edge provided mutual aid.

The scene was cleared in a little over an hour.

ONLY ON CVP: Flames blew through the roof of a 2½-story wood frame house in Tenafly tonight.

Firefighters had the blaze under within a half-hour of it sparking in the attic around 5 p.m.

Frozen runoff made for some treacherous footing and brought the local DPW.

PHOTO: Stacey Kufel

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UPDATE: A faulty rooftop heating and ventilation unit sent smoke through the Rochelle Park municipal building after business hours last night.

Problems with the HVAC unit atop the West Passaic Street building sent the moderate to heavy smoke into the clerk’s office and parts of the first and second floor.

PSE&G was summoned to cut all power.

Saddle Brook firefighters provided a ladder to the roof. Maywood also responded.

Borough officials were notified, and the Building Department was on scene to inspect.

PHOTO: Charlie Greco

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Responding to a call from a terrified Teaneck woman, police last night arrested an ex-con who they said was carrying a loaded gun when he tried breaking into her home.

Kevin P. Hotchkiss, 47, was being held on $5,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail this morning, charged with three illegal weapons possession counts, including being a felon in possession of a handgun.

The Hamilton Road woman — described only as a relative of his — got her children out of the house and dialed 911 around 7 p.m., emergency responders with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Although a request was made for a Bergen County Police SWAT team, Teaneck officers who responded immediately to the scene cancelled the call after finding the 5-foot-9-inch, 198-pound Hotchkiss hiding in some bushes, they said.

He was drunk and had cuts on his hand and forearm — apparently from breaking a door pane.

ONLY ON CVP: A 24-year-old Demarest man was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday on charges of breaking into his family’s former home in Woodcliff Lake — his second indictment in three months — in order to use heroin.

Keith J. Dooly was on probation when he was charged with breaking and entering in connection with the Sept. 4 incident, records show.

A month before, a grand jury indicted him on charges of pretending to be his brother while driving on the suspended list, as well as for possession of Alprazolam and buphrenorphine.

Authorities said Dooly gave his brother’s identification to both Haworth and Palisades Interstate Parkway police on Nov. 11, 2013 while pretending to be him.

He remained held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail this morning after being arrested in October on the probation violation.

Keith J. Dooly (MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF)

UPDATE: Police issued an alert for two men following a shoplifting at a Fair Lawn CVS this morning.

One of them walked out of the Broadway pharmacy with $112 worth of electric razors just after 11 a.m.

He wearing a black jacket and cap, Fair Lawn police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT, adding that an initial report of a robbery was wrong.

The other, a white man, drove the getaway car, a silver Honda Accord with the New Jersey license plate F35-BTZ.

Fair Lawn police asked that anyone who sees the car or has information that could help the investigation call them: (201) 796-1400

EXCLUSIVE: A former major independent film producer was among 14 victims whose credit card numbers were stolen by a crew of thieves — three of whom Fort Lee police said they arrested during a traffic stop near the George Washington Bridge — an indictment returned in Hackensack says.

The ring used the stolen credit card numbers to buy gift cards and iPhones, 43 of which were found after a Fort Lee detective stopped a rented 2014 Chrysler 300 this past March for speeding past him near the GWB lower-level tolls.

The iPhones alone were worth more than $27,000, police said at the time.

Fort Lee Detective Timothy Cullen also found 60 gift cards – all bearing the stolen numbers on their magnetic strips – that Police Chief Keith Bendul said were used to buy the iPhones at various malls in Pennsylvania.

The victims included the manager of a transportation firm, a medical device sales representative and the producer, who now does nonprofit fundraising, according to the indictment (NOTE: Because they are victims, CLIFFVIEW PILOT is withholding their names).

The cards were issued by, among others, Barclays Bank, Citibank, HSBC Capitol One and RBC Royal Bank, it says.

Charged in the indictment are Queens residents Joley Aristhee, 21, who remained free on $15,000 bail, Kianne Clarke, 24 (free on $10,000 bail) and 23-year-old Kristine Lewis (free on $5,000).

All three are charged with identity theft, credit card theft, forgery and receiving stolen property (the iPhones).

Aristhee is additionally charged with hindering apprehension.

A Fairview man who admitted targeting his 88-year-old grandfather for a burglary that led to the World War II veteran’s death at the hands of his accomplice won’t be going to prison — and can have his record cleared in three years.

Andrew Abella, 22, simply must remain out of trouble while meeting all the conditions of the Pre-trial Intervention Program and the entire matter “will go away,” Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian told him yesterday.

For Abella to qualify, authorities first had to revoke a plea deal that he agreed to in December 2012 that could have sent him to jail for less than a year or brought him probation.

Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Deepa Jacobs cited Abella’s assistance in obtaining a guilty verdict in the trial of co-defendant Edwin Estrada, 23, of Cliffside Park, who was sentenced last month to 60 years in state prison for beating Vincent Leuzzi with a cooking pot while looking for drug money for both of them during the bungled July 2010 burglary.

Leuzzi died of his injuries nine days after receiving what authorities said were eight to 12 blows to the head.

Estrada was arrested in New York City and originally charged in Hackensack with attempted murder and armed robbery. He made things easy for investigators by using Leuzzi’s credit card to buy clothing in Washington Heights, in a transaction captured on surveillance video.

The charges were upgraded to murder after Leuzzi’s death.

Estrada contended that he’d smoked PCP in Leuzzi’s bathroom, got paranoid and began hitting him with the pot while hearing “the devil” say “do it, do it” in his head.

A state psychiatric expert rejected that account.

Estrada originally pleaded guilty in March 2013 to aggravated manslaughter in exchange for a 27-year prison term. But Presiding Superior Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi nixed the deal and scheduled a trial after family members called for the death penalty.

Those same family members — who are also Abella’s — agreed to pre-trial intervention for him, said Jacobs, the assistant prosecutor.

Under PTI, Abella must submit to random drug and alcohol tests.

Jacobs warned him to “be aware” that his testimony in Estrada’s trial could be used against him if he gets in trouble again in the next 36 months.

STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia

ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack has added a pair of marijuana distribution charges against a Garfield man already accused with his mother of first-degree manufacturing and possession.

Prosecutors offered Sandra and Mark Pelicot, both of Main Street, deals of six to 12 years following an earlier indictment on charges of operating a marijuana production facility, having more than five pounds of pot with the intent to distribute it; having more than an ounce with the same intent on the property of Three Saints Preschool and possession of $161,435 in cash that authorities want forfeited.

A new indictment returned Friday adds charges Mark Pelicot, 31, with distributing marijuana to a 30-year-old New Jersey University student twice on Three Saints property on May 29, 2013.

That man was ought on bail after Hudson County sheriff’s officer busted him for having two pounds of marijuana and $12,000 in alleged drug proceeds in his Jersey City apartment a year earlier.

Pelicot’s arrest violated probation for a 2011 burglary conviction. He was offered a 12-year sentence this time, with parole eligibility after six.

Prosecutors offered 49-year-old Sandra Pelicot a plea deal that would send her to state prison for six years, with parole eligibility after three.

Mark Pelicot remained free on $150,000 bail, posted two weeks after the arrests.

Sandra Pelicot posted $100,000 and was released a week earlier.

FILE PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia

CVP EXCLUSIVE: A New Milford man whose attorney said had “too much time on his hands” was sentenced to five years in state prison after admitting he had hundreds of images of child pornography on his computer, dozens of which he shared.

Jackson Dietrich, 31, should be out in less than four years, having spent 362 days in the Bergen County Jail since his Nov. 26, 2013 arrest by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Computer Crimes Task Force and New Milford police.

“I apologize for what I did,” he told Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian on Friday. “Not a day goes by that I don’t regret it.

“I am ashamed for my family, and I ask for mercy,” said Dietrich, who lives with his parents and whose last job was as a busboy three years ago, according to defense attorney Joseph Rem.

Rem asked Jerejian to suspend parole supervision for life, a standard requirement for sex offenders.

Not to downplay the seriousness of child pornography and its distribution, Rem said, “but parole supervision for life is intended for offenders who commit crimes against actual victims.

“I understand that if fewer people looked at child pornography, maybe people would take fewer photos,” he told the judge. “He didn’t touch a child, he didn’t assault anyone.

“After his prison term he will be sitting at home. The authorities will be monitoring his computer.”

The judge, in turn, asked Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Brian Sinclair about the type of images.

“They included acts of sexual penetration — vaginal penetration, anal penetration,” Sinclair responded.

The age range of the victims was broad, with the oldest victim about 16 years old, he told Jerejian.

The images numbered in the hundreds, at least 25 of which Dietrich shared, Sinclair said.

“[B]ecause of the quantity, we literally stopped counting,” he said.

Although parole supervision for life is at a judge’s discretion, “it is the best tool we have for monitoring ongoing illegal activity,” the assistant prosecutor said.

“While Megan’s law is a very valuable weapon in the arsenal, there are many people in Bergen County living near Megan’s Law offenders, and they have no idea because only the police have to be notified,” he said.

“The real way to monitor him is parole supervision for life,” Sinclair said. “That will limit his ability to ever harm a child. It will prevent him using the Internet without prior written approval.”

Jerejian rejected Rem’s request.

“There is no greater concern that could be expressed by this court than to prevent the sexual exploitation of children depicted in these photos,” he said. “Although I understand there was not a victim he had direct contact with, nevertheless, the children in those hundreds of photos are real victims.”

STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia