ONLY ON CVP: What began as an investigation by Passaic County authorities into underage girls being forced into prostitution led to charges against a Rochelle Park man who authorities said sexually assaulted two young teens.

A girl being questioned by detectives in the prostitution probe said she’d witnessed Felix Torres, 37, having sex with one of two girls cited in an indictment returned Thursday by a grand jury in Hackensack, law enforcement sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The indictment accuses Torres of sexually assaulting the girls in Rochelle Park, Paramus and Paterson through intercourse, fellatio and forcing them to touch his penis.

One was between 12-13 years old when the assaults on her first occurred between October 2009 and October 2010, the indictment alleges.

The same girl was victimized again beginning in October last year, when she was 16, it says.

The other girl was between 14 and 16 when Torres assaulted her between December 2009 and December 2011, the indictment charges.

The indictment also charges him with impairing or debauching the morals of both girls.

Torres, who has a drug conviction on his record, has remained held on $100,000 bail in the Passaic County Jail since authorities there took him into custody on the sex assault charges in January.

He will be prosecuted by Bergen County authorities in Hackensack.

BREAKING NEWS: A man was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center after being struck by a train near the Emerson station just after 5 o’clock tonight.

“He was still breathing” when EMS workers got to him, an emergency responder told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

He got to the hospital about 40 minutes later.

NJTransit police were on scene.

Service on the Pascack Valley line was temporarily suspended.

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ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A 60-year-old Mahwah native released from federal prison two months ago after serving more than five years for bank fraud and possession of child pornography was arrested on stalking charges in Fort Lee on Saturday.

Salvatore Stabile was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, records show.

Stabile was arrested by federal agents in 2007 after a woman who believed that she was his wife — not knowing that he was still married to another woman — gave them consent to search their Mahwah home.

The Secret Service agents were investigating counterfeit checks that Stabile later admitted passing after defaulting on the house’s mortgage, records show.

The agents then obtained a warrant and reported finding images of child pornography on computers that they seized from the home that day.

Stabile unsuccessfully fought the search and seizure, pleaded guilty to the bank fraud charge and was convicted in U.S. District Court of child pornography possession, records show.

He was sentenced in August 2009 to 78-month concurrent sentences for both.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons said Stabile was released this past Sept. 17.

ONLY ON CVP: Three people were hospitalized following a collision involving a bus, an SUV and a Ford Mustang on westbound Route 3 outside MetLife Stadium after last night’s game.

A total of 28 people on the bus denied treatment after the 11:50 p.m. crash.

East Rutherford EMS and Moonachie First Aid & Rescue responded along with East Rutherford police and New Jersey State Police.

UPDATE: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli this afternoon confirmed the identities of an engaged couple found dead in a murder-suicide at a Moonachie trailer home overnight.

The mobile home was decorated for Christmas over the weekend

Authorities were called at 3:07 a.m. by another man who lived at 3 West 1st Street in the Vanguard Trailer Park off Moonachie Avenue who friends identified as Chris Jaconski.

There they found the bodies of April Marie Wallace Ellialtioglu and Jeffrey Scarpanito Jr. on the living room floor, both with gunshot wounds in the head, Molinelli said.

Scarpanito, 34, killed Wallace Ellialtioglu before turning the gun on himself, he said.

April Marie Wallace Ellialtioglu, Jeffrey Scarpanito Jr.

The 33-year-old Ellialtioglu, who worked at Wal-Mart, cheated death several years ago after falling off an ex-boyfriend’s car at a Lodi Dunkin Donuts and sustaining severe head trauma, family sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Scarpanito was a Nevada native whose mother is a schoolteacher in Paterson.

Autopsies were being conducted today by the Bergen County Medical Examiner.

Molinelli’s Major Crimes Unit was investigating. The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two young children were in the car when a routine traffic stop on Route 208 yesterday yielded Wyckoff police three loaded handguns, a stun gun, hollow-point bullets and three arrests, authorities said this morning.

Officer Mark Tagliareni stopped the car just before 3:30 p.m. Inside were three adults and two children, ages 4 and 2.

Approaching the car, Tagliareni spotted a handgun partially covered by a jacket in the lap of the front-seat passenger, 50-year-old Walbertt Santiago of Paterson (above, left), Police Chief Benjamin Fox said.

Sgt. Joseph Soto and Officer Kyle Ferreira arrived and helped take all three occupants into custody, Fox said.

A search then turned up two additional guns in a backpack, he said.

Santiago and the driver, Jeffrey Caez, 28, of Roseto, PA (above, right), were each charged with three weapons possession counts for two 9mm and one .40-caliber guns, the chief said.

They also were charged wth possession of hollow-point bullets and marijuana.

Santiago also was additionally charged with possession of a dagger push knife, Fox sad.

Seated in the rear set was Caez’s wife, 27-year-old Jennifer Cruz (above, middle). She was charged with possession of a stun gun and marijuana.

She and Caez were also charged with child endangerment.

Franklin Lakes and Bergen County Police assisted, Fox said.

Santiago and Caez were being held on $100,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail.

Cruz was released without bail to care for her children.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesty WYCKOFF PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Franklin Lakes police officer was accidentally stuck with a hypodermic needle last night while administering Narcan to two addicts who’d overdosed on heroin.

Officers responding to a 911 call on Van Dine Avenue found a 21-year-old Riverdale man and a 19-year-old Haskell man.

They were taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after officers revived them, Lt. John Bakelaar said this morning.

The officer was treated at Valley, as well, he said.

Authorities seized cocaine, crack, a handgun and $2,400 in alleged drug proceeds in arresting a Bergenfield man on drug dealing charges, authorities said.

Rayshon G. Hoyle, 30, was being held on $150,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on charge of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute the drug and possession of a weapon in the commission of a drug crime.

Detectives began investigating Hoyle a month ago after a tipster told them that he was dealing cocaine in the northeast section of the county, Bergen CountyBergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning.

They executed a search warrant on Thursday and seized 30 or so grams of powder cocaine, 117 zip-locking bags of crack, a .357 Ruger handgun, drug paraphernalia and the cash he said.

Hoyle, who is single and unemployed, was to be arraigned today.

More charges are expected, said the prosecutor, who thanked Bergenfield and Dumont police for their participation.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

UPDATE: A downed tree in the Fardale section of Mahwah overnight knocked out power to several homes, a firehouse and ambulance building and forced the closing of the Geroge Washington School today.

Phone service was also disrupted for some after the tree around 4:45 a.m. on Fardale Avenue near Wyckoff Avenue.

Orange & Rockland Electric utility crews responded.

STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Boyd A. Loving

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 37-year-old Ramsey woman struck by a hit-and-run driver outside Bergen Community College 10 days ago died of her injuries on Saturday, authorities said today, while asking the public for help finding the motorist responsible.

Anila Lluka was found in the northbound lane just north of the BCC entrance just before 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.

Lluka was transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she was initially listed in critical condition, after a northbound vehicle hit her as she crossed Paramus Road toward a bus stop outside the college, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.

“This collision occurred during the late afternoon traffic rush hour and the investigating officers are requesting that any travelers who were on the road at that time consider the facts of the collision and report any pertinent information” Molinelli said.

Anyone with information that could help the investigation is asked to contact the prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit at (201) 226-5500 (BCPO Tips Line: (201) 226-5532) or Paramus police: (201) 262-3400.

All calls will be kept confidential.

“Someone saw something,” one police official told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It might not be much, but it could still be of help.”

PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Senior Correspondent Boyd A. Loving

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three more Ramapo College students were arrested on the Mahwah campus and charged today in connection with the videotaped rape of another student, authorities confirmed this afternoon.

Additional charges also were brought against the primary defendants.

Justin Somers and Christopher Rainone, both of Staten Island, and Jordan Massood of Wayne, all 18, are each charged with endangering an injured victim because they “aided or encouraged” the assault by Christian A. Lopez, 24, of Secaucus, and 18-year-old Nakeem D. Gardner of Paterson, Molinelli said.

Christian A. Lopez, Nakeem D. Gardner (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

Somers and Rainone are charged with invasion of privacy because they “took pictures of the victim without her consent,” the prosecutor said.

All three were arrested without incident on the Ramapo College campus earlier today, Molinelli said. They were charged on complaint summonses and released pending Municipal Court appearances.

Molinelli’s detectives also charged Lopez, who remains held on $300,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, with inappropriately touching another female student.

They also added charges charges of criminal restraint, endangering an injured victim and invasion of privacy in connection with the original incident.

Gardner, who also remains held on $300,000 bail, received an additional charge of endangering an injured victim, the prosecutor said.

Additional bail hadn’t yet been set on the new charges for either man, he said.

Authorities arrested Lopez and Gardner last Monday and charged them with aggravated sexual assault in connection with the rape of a female student — part of which Molinelli said was recorded — during the early morning hours that previous Saturday.

The woman told investigators she’d attended an overnight fraternity party, went to lie down after not feeling well and woke up the next day partially clothed in an on-campus dormitory room, sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

She then went to Hackensack University Medical Center, whose personnel notified authorities, Molinelli said last week.

Investigators from the prosecutor’s office and Mahwah police interviewed the girl, as well as several students, before bringing both men in for questioning, he said.

“A review of video surveillance on campus as well as interviews of numerous students resulted in detectives identifying two suspects and confirming that the victim was highly intoxicated and unable to consent to sexual activity,” the prosecutor said.

Detectives arrested Gonzalez on campus and Lopez at his home.

Ramapo President Peter P. Mercer addressed the situation last week on the college’s Facebook page: “The safety and well-being of our students remains our paramount concern. Therefore, while we believe our sexual assault prevention programming and procedures are strong, the shocking nature of these allegations compels us to re-examine them.”

Mercer pledged to seek an expert’s assessement “to ensure Ramapo College is at the forefront of sexual assault prevention and alcohol awareness education.”

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

SHOUT OUT: Doing even better than they’d hoped, Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Community Outreach Unit brought 380 donated turkeys from this year’s annual Thanksgiving Turkey Drive to the Center for Food Action’s Saddle Brook location today.

The unit set a target of 300 turkeys to help the CFA meet this year’s goal of providing Thanksgiving meals to 11,200 neighbors in 90 communities throughout North Jersey.

Each meal will include a turkey, a roasting pan and fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as canned and boxed goods such as cranberry sauce, cornbread mix and stuffing, center officials said.

Sheriff’s officers collected turkeys from police, businesses, government employees and others, BCSO spokesman Joseph Hornyak said.

Bergen County Sheriff’s Officer Aret Yesiltepe (photo, center) and Saudino (right) were joined in Saddle Brook this morning by Deputy Police Chief (and Mayor-elect) Robert White (left) and Freeholder (and Bergen County Executive-elect) Jim Tedesco (second from left), among others.

Just in time for Christmas, Carlstadt police charged a local trucking company owner and three alleged accomplices with stealing 360 Hess toy trucks that make up a 50th anniversary display touring the East Coast.

The trucks were in a Hess Toy Truck Mobile Museum trailer that visited MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Nov. 9 and 16.

Police said the trucks were off-loaded on Nov. 17 into two vehicles at a Moonachie Avenue lot by the owner of National Truck Service, Rodolfo Chavarria, 38, of Jersey City, and 47-year-old Bronx resident Miguel Centino, who they said stole the 20 cases of toys worth $10,782.

Police arrested two other Hudson County men, as well — Roberto Arias, 28, of Union City, and 20-year-old Luis Rocha of Jersey City.

They charged Centino with theft and the others with receiving stolen property. All were released on summonses to appear in Municipal Court.

NOTE: This is the last Christmas for Hess toy truck sales at its service stations. The company’s retail operations were acquired two months ago, and over the next three years, the stations will become Speedway franchises.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: FBI agents this morning arrested the former chief financial officer of an Englewood electronics and household goods wholesaler at his Franklin Lakes home on charges of embezzling $6.3 million from the company, authorities said.

A federal court appearance was scheduled in Newark this afternoon for Gomidas Garabed Hartounian, 50, the CFO of Harco Industries on Van Brunt Street.

Federal authorities charged Hartounian with a signal count of wire fraud.

Hartounian created his own company, MGB LLC, registered to his home, then steered contracts to it without disclosing the connection, a complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges.

Hartounian directed employees at Harco — identified in court papers as “Company A” — to issue checks to MGB for freight services that were never provided, the complaint says.

When asked for the MGB invoices, “he claimed that he was maintaining them in his office,” it says.

“Because Hartounian didn’t have sole signatory power, he forged the signatures of the chief executive officer or the chief operating officer before depositing the checks into bank accounts that he controlled,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said this morning.

“Hartounian also had checks issued directly from [Harco] bank accounts to pay for his personal expenses, including real estate taxes, motor vehicle expenses and credit card payments,” he said.

Fishman credited the FBI with making the case, presented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shana W. Chen of his Economic Crimes Unit in Newark.

ONLY ON CVP: A van driver was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center this morning with what were considered minor injuries after a collision with an SUV in Moonachie.

Airbags deployed in both vehicles in the 9:05 a.m. crash on Moonachie Avenue at Oak Street.

Borough police and Moonachie First Aid & Rescue responded.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: What began as a shoplifting arrest turned into aggravated assault and robbery charges, with $50,000 bail, when the suspect head-butted an Elmwood Park police officer, authorities said this morning.

Security at the Kmart on Broadway brought 19-year-old Gabriel Santana to their office and called police yesterday afternoon after seeing him shove merchandise into his waistband, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.

As officers began searching him, the 5-foot-7-inch, 140-pound Santana head-butted one of them, then tried fighting them off, the chief said.

They quickly got him into custody, with him and them sustaining minor injuries, Foligno said.

Santana was being held at Bergen Regional Medical Center this morning, under the guard of Bergen County sheriff’s officers. He’s charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one each of robbery and resisting arrest.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 46-year-old marketing consultant from Wyckoff was charged with DWI and leaving the scene of a crash, among other offenses, after toping a utility pole and trying to drive home with extensive front-end damage and a deployed air bag.

William S. Collins drove off Wyckoff Avenue near Monroe Avenue, snapping the pole and knocking it into the road with his vehicle, at 10:49 a.m. last Friday, Police Chief Benjamin C. Fox said this afternoon.

Officer Ryan Noon spotted the car five blocks away at the intersection of Wyckoff Avenue and Martom Road, Fox said.

Collins, who had made a left, a right and a left, was still 2½-miles from home.

Noon arrested Collins and charged him with DWI, leaving the scene, refusing to submit to a breath test and failing to provide proof of insurance.

He was released to his wife on a summons to appear in Municipal Court next Thursday.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Washington Township liquor store was working with police after officers busted them for selling alcohol to a 17-year-old boy without identification, authorities said.

Township Liquor turned over a half-dozen bogus Maryland driver’s licenses and “obtained a machine to verify the validity of any driver’s license used to provide proof of a person’s age when attempting to purchase an alcoholic beverage,” Police Chief Glenn Hooper said.

This came after a one-hour surveillance Saturday night led to a complaint against the youth buying the booze and the store.

CVP EXCLUSIVE: Two Ramapo College students took turns raping an unconscious fellow student in a dorm room while others watched and laughed after one of them carried her there on his back from a frat party, a prosecutor told a judge in Hackensack today.

Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi described the Nov. 15 assaults in graphic detail during a bail hearing for one of the two men, 18-year-old Nakeem Gardner of Paterson (photos above, below).

The 19-year-old victim went to a fraternity party on campus the night before, met co-defendant Christian Lopez, 24, of Secaucus there and became intoxicated, Fantuzzi said.

Lopez then locked her in a room at the fraternity house “and may have actually sexually assaulted her there,” the assistant prosecutor said.

Others at the party intervened and kicked out Lopez, who “took the victim with him on his back to a college dormitory,” she told the judge.

Using a room key someone had given him, Lopez sexually assaulted the woman, Fantuzzi said.

Christian A. Lopez, Nakeem D. Gardner (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

“When he came out of the room, he bragged to his friends that he had just had sex with her, and she was passed out on the bed,” she said. “He then asked two friends did they want ‘a piece of it?’

“One of them declined, but Gardner went into the room where the woman was naked and unconscious and proceeded to have sex with her,” Fantuzzi said.

He also admitted videotaping a portion of the assaults, she said.

Family members and several friends of the victim attended the morning hearing. At one point two of them, visibly upset by the descriptions, hurried from the courtroom while another in the second row covered her mouth and sobbed quietly.

Gardner, meanwhile, said nothing.

The woman told investigators she woke up that Saturday morning partially clothed in an on-campus dorm room, sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last week. She then went to Hackensack University Medical Center, whose personnel notified authorities.

Investigators from the prosecutor’s office and Mahwah police interviewed the girl, as well as several students, before arresting Gonzalez on campus and Lopez at his home last Monday.

The victim had “vaginal lacerations and bruises to her legs, both of which are consistent with forced intercourse,” Fantuzzi told the judge today.

Video also shows Lopez going into the room with the woman, leaving, and Gardner then going into the room, while other students “were looking in and laughing,” the assistant prosecutor said.

Several witnesses confirmed that the woman was unconscious, she added.

Fantuzzi insisted that bail for Gardner remain at $350,000 — the same as it is for Lopez — given that he would face more than 20 years in prison if convicted of the charges against him.

Gardner has been suspended from college and barred from the campus, she added. He “hasn’t worked since September, and told investigators he has no income.”

Defense attorney Walter Neely argued for a reduction.

“Your honor, his parents are hard-working people. They do not have the means to post $350,000 bail,” he told Superior Court Judge James J. Guida, who conducted the teleconference from Judicial College.

“I think $100,000 to $150,000 so he can get out and defend himself would be reasonable,” Neely said.

Guida, in turn, said Gardner is “a young man, with no prior record or juvenile record, but a strong likelihood of conviction given there are videos.”

“I find bail should be significantly high,” he said.

He then cut Gardner’s bail to $275,000.

Lopez is due for a similar hearing next week.

Justin Somers, Christopher Rainone, Jordan Massood (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

Gardner intially was charged with aggravated sexual assault and invasion of privacy. Detectives yesterday added a charge of endangering an injured victim.

Detectives also charged Lopez yesterday in connection with a second alleged student victim — for inappropriate sexual contact — while adding counts to the first offense: criminal restraint, endangering an injured victim and invasion of privacy.

They also arrested three more Ramapo College students who they said “aided or encouraged” the alleged assault, two of whom they sad also “took pictures of the victim without her consent.”

Justin Somers and Christopher Rainone, both of Staten Island, and Jordan Massood of Wayne, all 18, are each charged with endangering an injured victim. Somers and Rainone are charged with invasion of privacy.

All three were released pending Municipal Court appearances. READ MORE….

Nakeem Gardner, defense attorney Walter Neely, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Catherine Fantuzzi (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Correspondent Mary K. Miraglia)

ONLY ON CVP: A 62-year-old window washer from Dumont died after falling from a ladder outside a Norwood home today.

The Dyer Court homeowner told police she came home the middle of this afternoon and found the self-employed contractor dead on her rear deck.

He’d apparently landed on his head hours earlier, emergency responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The Bergen County Medical Examiner pronounced him dead at the scene through Hackensack University Medical Center paramedics.

“He must have gotten there around 8 a.m. and was cleaning gutters and washing windows when the homeowner left,” Police Chief Jeffrey Krapels told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.