YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Glen Rock consultant busted in a raid after neighbors said her home became a hangout for various area high-schoolers was indicted yesterday on child abuse charges.

Irina Lapin, 59, who police said received drugs from one of the juveniles, is charged by a grand jury in Hackensack with making a 17-year-old under her care “an abused or neglected child.”

Lapin’s detached Ackerman Avenue garage had become a popular but nuisance-prone hang out for dozens of youngsters, one neighbor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time.

“They were all your run-of-the-mill high-schoolers — jocks and scholars included,” one of the teenage attendees told the PILOT.

Residents notified police, who raided the home on July 29, carting out a few boxes of belongings and a picnic cooler, following a weeks-long investigation.

Workers from the Bergen County office of the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency were at the raid, which involved several Glen Rock officers and a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit.

Some of the youngsters removed amplifiers and other musical equipment from a detached garage during the raid following a concert there that day.

A few also indicated their displeasure with having their photos taken by CLIFFVIEW PILOT by raising their middle fingers.

Lapin was taken into custody (photo below) along with three juveniles who had complaints signed against them.

Lapin, who describes herself on social networks as a single mother and creative strategist, planner and market researcher, also was summonsed for possessing less than 50 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, Glen Rock Police Chief Frederick P. Stahman said at the time.

She has since remained free on $25,000 bail.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

Irina Lapin is taken into custody outside her home, July 29, 2014 (PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving)

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack ordered a U.S. Marine corporal charged with shooting up a Ridgewood church held on $100,000 bail on weapons and criminal mischief charges.

Joseph M. Galli, 21, was brought before the judge in a courtroom at the Bergen County Jail yesterday after being transferred Wednesday from Onslow County, North Carolina, where he’d been held after military police at Camp LeJune took him into custody earlier this month.

“New Jersey drive,” Galli (right, with Norrell, left) posted on his Facebook page on Dec. 8

Galli is charged with participating with his cousin, 22-year-old Alexander Norrell — a former Marine from Ridgewood — in firing several high-caliber bullets from an assault rifle at the unoccupied Old Paramus Reformed Church, sending several rounds through a stained-glass window, on Nov. 16 and Dec. 26.

An estimated 30 or more shots apparently were fired overnight Christmas evening into the morning of Dec. 26 into the more than 200-year-old building. A church worker discovered the damage the next morning. This came after nearly a dozen shots were fired at the building on Nov. 16.

Alex Norrell
(MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF)

An investigation determined that no individual or group was targeted in the shootings. It was more a matter of the building being isolated and convenient, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said at the time.

The 5-foot-5-inch, 165-pound Galli, a lance corporal rifleman with the 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, was seized after police here arrested Norrell in connection with the estimated $50,000 worth of damage (SEE: U.S. Marine, cousin charged in shooting at Ridgewood church).

Authorities at the time seized at least two assault rifles and .223-caliber ammunition matching the kind used at the church.

Galli is charged by Ridgewood police with possessing and disposing of a sawed-off shotgun, possessing an assault firearm, illegal weapons possession and criminal mischief.

Joseph Galli

Norrell remains held in the county jail, as well, on charges of conspiracy, criminal mischief, illegal weapons possession and possession of a large-capacity ammunition magazine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia. His bail is $105,000.

Several agencies joined village police in the investigation — among them, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification and the Bergen County Regional SWAT Team.

The Marines also played an active role and were conducting an investigation of their own.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old Secaucus woman stole a pickup truck that Elmwood Park police recovered in a Bloomfield parking lot, authorities said.

Pooja Kumra was arrested on burglary and theft charges last night, a day after the owner reported the 2012 GMC Sienna pickup stolen from in front of a Martha Avenue home, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.

Officer Randy Gawrylo contacted Onstar, which pinpointed the car’s location, then called Bloomfield police, who found the vehicle and arrested Kumra,the chief said.

She was being held on $15,000 in the Bergen County Jail.

Bloomfield police also charged her with receiving stolen property.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Hackensack mechanic was charged with hitting a 6-year-old boy, leaving him with back and forehead bruises, authorities said this afternoon.

Jose Camacho, 40, was being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with child endangerment, Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Molinelli said.

“The Hackensack Police Department learned of the incident and notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit,” Molinelli said. “Arrangements were then made for the victim to be interviewed.”

During the interview at Molinelli’s Paramus office, “the victim provided specific details regarding what had occurred,” the prosecutor said.

Camacho, who Molinelli said is single, is to be arraigned this coming Wednesday.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An illegal Mexican immigrant convicted in the brutal rape of his former girlfriend at an Edgewater construction site in July 2013 was sentenced to 34 years in prison this afternoon — 28 years and nine months of which he must serve before he can be eligible for parole.

Arsenio Amelco (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia)

“I hope the sentence I have imposed will prevent you from ever committing a crime against anyone in this country again,” Superior Court Judge James J. Guida told Arsenio Amelco, 24, of West New York.

Amelco terrorized the victim, who was “unable to help herself,” breaking her nose while assaulting her “physically as well as in spirit” in “an unlit enclosed area” beneath a box truck near a River Road restaurant the night of his 23th birthday, Guida said.

“She believed she was going to die and prayed for help,” the judge said. “She had serious physical and emotional injuries.”

This came after the victim asked the judge for “justice to help me to have a better life.”

Following the assault, she said, her mother had to put her own life aside to care for her.

She said she still has trouble sleeping at night, even with the lights on.

She cannot look at her own body, the woman said, or do ordinary things such as going to the movies “because it is dark.”

“I get irritated easily,” she said. “I am not the same as I was before. I have difficulty in family and friend relationships. I carry pepper spray for protection.”

Although Amelco apologized without elaborating, his lawyer claimed that his client had been railroaded and deserves a new trial.

There was a “plethora of evidence that wasn’t considered,” defense attorney Alan Peyrouton told the judge.

The judge told him to take it up with the state Appellate Division, the proper venue for such claims. Meantime, he gave Amelco credit for the 18 months he’s spent at the Bergen County Jail since his arrest — shaving the time he still must serve to a little over 27 years before he can apply for parole. By then he’ll be 50.

Jurors in July convicted Amelco of raping, beating and choking the woman.

Following his conviction, Amelco threatened her in the Hackensack courtroom in Spanish, making her cry, as he was being led out by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers.

Superior Court Judge James J. Guida (STORY / PHOTOS: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter)

Peyrouton admitted that his client struck the woman after an argument but insisted that she willingly participated in the sex.

Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristin DeMarco, meanwhile, highlighted contradictions in Amelco’s trial testimony against a 105-page statement he gave to police after he was chased and arrested three days after the incident.

Reading sections where Amelco said his date told him “not to put it inside, not to put it inside,” he ultimately told detectives: “Yes, she told me no and I told her yes. Obviously I wanted those things to happen.”

He also told detectives that the woman slapped him first and he struck her back during an argument following a phone call to her mother. The blow broke her nose.

Testifying in his own defense, Amelco — who has been in the U.S. illegally since 2009 — told DeMarco that the statement he gave was inaccurate because “the detective spoke Spanish pretty poorly.”

DeMarco, in turn, reminded jurors during closing arguments that Spanish is the detective’s native language.

She also described the arrest of Amelco, who was packed with his passport and other documents in a travel bag, “a big bag of clothes, his permanent resident card, and a social security card” when detectives grabbed him last July.

Amelco had moved out of his apartment earlier in the day, and police found his belongings in the home of a cousin on Hudson Avenue in West New York.

A female detective climbed out a window and onto a rooftop of the Hudson County apartment as Amelco fled, then spied him hanging from a window ledge on an adjacent apartment building trying to punch in a window pane.

“It was a very narrow alley,” DeMarco told jurors. “She had her service weapon ready and shouted, “Stop! Hands up! Come back!”

Instead of surrendering, however, Amelco began to advance on the officer — and only stopped when a backup detective approached from another direction.

“He was trying to get the heck out of there,” the prosecutor said.

The victim testified that until that night she was a virgin.

Peyrouton contended that she filed charges because of an unhealthy relationship with her mother.

The trial began with DeMarco telling jurors that Amelco approached the woman at a bus stop in West New York, where she was waiting to go to work. He asked her to dinner that evening to celebrate his birthday and she accepted, the prosecutor said.

The evening didn’t go well, however. READ MORE….

TOP: Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Kristin DeMarco
BELOW: Defense attorney Alan Peyrouton, Arsenio Amelco
(STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia)

ONLY ON CVP: Firefighters battled a trio of structure fires in Bergen County last night, overnight and into the morning.

No injuries were reported in a pre-dawn fire this morning that destroyed the rear porch and damaged the back of a house on Heights Avenue in Fair Lawn (photo).

In Montvale, a single-family rental house on North Kinderkamack Road sustained substantial damage late last night, Police Chief Jeremy Abrams said.

“The origin of the fire is still under investigation, but it does not appear to be suspicious,” the chief said.

The largest fire was on Bergen Boulevard in Palisades Park and required mutual aid from Leonia and Ridgefield.

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PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis

(NOTE: If you have details or photos on any of the fires, please contact us at 201 943 2794. Or; GerardJDeMarco@gmail.com)

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police yesterday continued to pluck off heroin buyers on their way through town from Paterson.

A traffic stop on Locust Street around 1:40 p.m. led to the arrest of 22-year-old Christopher Hauser of Nyack, who Police Chief Michael Foligno said was charged with carrying 10 bags of heroin, packaging materials and several hypodermic syringes.

He was released on a Municipal Court summons.

UPDATE: An overnight fire damaged a Palisades Park building that once housed various restaurants — directly aross the street from a commercial building destroyed by fire a little over six months ago.

The Bergen Boulevard blaze broke out around 2 a.m. and brought firefighters from Ridgefield and Leonia to assist their Palisades Park colleagues.

Scene of fire last July (CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo)

No immediate injuries were reported.

Directly across Bergen Boulevard, an electrical fire destroyed a commercial building last July 23.

PHOTOS: Maria De Los Angeles

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police seized 13 pounds of marijuana and $22,000 in cash while arresting four men — two of them from Nyack — on drug distribution charges after stopping one of them for veering into oncoming traffic yesterday.

Detectives Michael Grassi and Eric Larsen were on a special detail when they saw the black Chevy Tahoe with New York license plates swerve into westbound traffic on eastbound Lydia Lane, “nearly causing a collision with another vehicle,” Police Chief James N. Batelli said this morning.

After stopping him, the detectives said the driver — identified as 26-year-old Dominic Berlingeri — told them he’d just moved to Mahwah from California and lived nearby with his brother and others.

Larsen searched the vehicle, with Berlingeri’s consent, while Grassi and Detective Lt. Guido Bussinelli and Detective Kevin Hebert other officers went to his home, where “individuals spoke to them through a glass window,” Batelli said.

Detecting “an extremely strong odor of marijuana,” the detectives requested entry and were denied, so they forced their way in through the front door, the chief said.

They found the pot, cash, paraphernalia and “other items consistent with the distribution of marijuana” and took three men inside into custody, Batelli said.

Charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute the drug within 1,000 feet of a school, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia and a hypodermic needle were Vincent Berlingeri, 28 (photo above, top left), and Dominic Berlingeri, 26 (top, right), both of Nyack; Luis Vilela, 26 (photo above, bottom left) of Richmond, CA; and Robert Southard, 29 (bottom, right), of Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Vincent Berlingeri also was charged with destruction of evidence.

All four were being held on $100,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail, with initial court appearances set for this Tuesday.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy MAHWAH PD

CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTOS: Chris “Doc” Denton

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Firefighters this afternoon put down a rectory fire at a Bergenfield church.

The fire in the rectory adjacent to St. John’s RC Church was contained to a single second-floor room.

The cause was under investigation, Police Chief Michael Carr said.

Assisting Bergenfield firefighters were their colleagues from Dumont, Englewood, New Milford and Teaneck, as well as Tenafly FAST and Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

North Washington Avenue was immediately closed between Church and Main streets.

PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park firefighters got help from their colleagues from Fair Lawn, Garfield, Rochelle Park and Saddle Brook in battling a blaze at the end of a dead end street this afternoon.

The two-alarm fire in the two-story Henry Street apartment building broke out around 1:40 p.m.

No immediate injuries were reported.

PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis

UPDATE: What authorities at first hoped could be a rescue mission turned to a recovery after a 57-year-old suicidal Demarest man plunged to his death from the Palisades in Alpine earlier today.

Palisades Interstate Parkway Officers Joseph Villone and Michael Griffin discovered the man’s white Lexus, which he’d left running, on an access road to the State Line Lookout after they were alerted by their Demarest colleagues around 11 a.m., PIP Police Chief Michael Coppola said.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTO: Rafael Lozano

Footprints led directly to the edge of a cliff, he said.

After several hours in frigid temperatures, the body was recovered, the chief said.

Responders included the East Bergen Rappel Team, Closter Rescue and a boat from the Piermont Fire Department.

“[T]here is no reason to believe that anyone other than the victim was involved,” Coppola said.

PHOTOS (TOP, ABOVE): Courtesy PIP PD

EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A state appeals court refused to suspend a restraining order against a Bergen County firefighter and military reservist who sent a “barrage” of harassing texts and emails to his ex-girlfriend after she began dating his boss.

The woman testified that she and her former boyfriend had an “on again, off again” relationship for three years while he was married to someone else.

She ended things in August 2012, she said, telling him she “was not willing to wait any longer.”

The woman also described him as on a “downward spiral” while being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression and alcoholism following tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Because they’d been very close, she said, she told him that she was willing to remain friends, and that he told her he understood. She refused his requests to meet but kept in touch through texts and email.

Things changed when she began dating a superior officer in his department.

Over the course of the next several months, the Appellate Division ruling says, his “escalating anger and recriminations had made her afraid of him.”

She sought the restraining order “after a particularly vulgar and offensive barrage of text and voice mail messages over the course of a day in March 2013,” it says.

“[W]hatever treatment it is that he says he’s been receiving, he’s either not following it or it’s not working because it’s done nothing but escalate, and now I’m concerned to be at my house,” the woman told a judge in Hackensack.

He, in turn, testified that he’d apologized the day before she sought the restraining order, “saying he was ashamed of what he had said and that he did not mean any of it,” the appeals court decision says.

It continues:

“He explained he had just days before learned plaintiff was ending their relationship and seeing his lieutenant, and that he was still in love with her and very hurt.

“After seeing [the woman’s] new boyfriend at work, he had gone to a bar, gotten drunk and angry and telephoned plaintiff and said a lot of things he regretted. He told the judge he had no intention of ever contacting [her] again.”

Cross-examined by her attorney, the firefighter admitted sending texts four months earlier “acknowledging his awareness” of her new relationship.

After listening to the voice mail messages and reviewing the texts, the local judge ruled that the firefighter’s behavior “constituted harassment.”

It wasn’t an “alcohol-fueled emotional outburst,” the judge said, but, rather, “uncontrollable rage about the [woman] moving on and being in a different relationship,” which he “could not stop or get under control until a restraining order was entered.”

“This is not a narrow window of time,” the judge ruled. “This is bad behavior, harassing communications, vulgar communications, angry communications, jealous communications that go over a period of months.

“I know that the defendant has every intention of not contacting her, but I also think that it’s quite possible that the defendant will find himself under the influence of alcohol again, and I think he’ll need the deterrent of the restraining order.”

The appeals court, in a decision released on Friday, found that the order was necessary “to protect the victim from an immedate danger or to prevent further abuse.”

The judge “obviously found” the firefighter’s credibility “wanting,” the higher court said.

“He claimed that he had a regrettable but understandable reaction to news that the woman he had been seeing for three years had broken off their relationship to take up with his boss,” the appeals judges wrote.

The woman, they said, “painted a different picture of a former boyfriend who refused to let go, whose hurt and anger continued to escalate to alarming heights months after learning [she] had moved on.”

His arguments against the order “are without sufficient merit to warrant discussion in a written opinion,” the appeals judges concluded.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A dog was rescued but two cats died as firefighters battled to keep a two-alarm attached Glen Rock garage blaze from seriously damaging a borough house late this morning.

Fair Lawn, Midland Park, Ridgewood and Hawthorne firefighters and a Fair Lawn FAST unit backed up their Glen Rock colleagues at South Maple Avenue near the corner of Rodney Street.

After ravaging the garage, the flames spread to the home’s eaves, sending smoke through the house that killed the two pets.

Firefighters got the blaze under control, limiting further fire damage.

PHOTOS: Denise R.C. Kimball

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five rifles and two handguns were stolen during a Washington Township burglary, police said.

The Ridgewood Road homeowner “returned to his residence to find the front door of the residence ajar,” township Police Chief Glenn Hooper said tonight. “Officers cleared the residence and located a rear slider had been dismounted from its tracks.

“The master bedroom had been ransacked and an undetermined amount of jewelry had been taken along with five rifles and two handguns,” the chief said.

This comes after a daytime break-in Thursday on Chestnut Street in which a master bedroom was ransacked and jewelry taken after the burglar or burglars entered through an unlocked window, Hooper said.

The Bergen County Sherriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation processed evidence at both homes, he said.

Hooper asked that anyone with information that could help the investigation call township police: (201) 664-1140.

ONLY ON CVP: A married Bogota man who installed security programs on computers was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday for trafficking pornographic images of children.

Superior Court Judge Edward Jerejian cited the need to protect children, as well the frequency of the illegal behavior by Jorge McCausland, 55, in handing down the prison sentence.

McCausland also must remain on Megan’s Law parole supervision for life.

Members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit and Bogota police arrested McCausland in January 2014 after they said they found several instances of him sharing more than 100 explicit files.

He posted $75,000 bail three days later and eventually pleaded guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of a child for sharing fewer than 25 files.

STORY: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia / MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Several Lyndhurst residents remained without power this afternoon after a delivery truck yanked down utility poles and wires, damaging their homes.

Four utility poles came down after the Shop Rite truck headed to the nearby supermarket snagged a wire, ripping lines from homes and damaging weather heads and connectors on New York Avenue around noon.

The road remained closed and PSE&G crews hadn’t yet arrived by 3:30 p.m.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos

PUBLIC SAFETY: Bergen County Executive Jim Tedesco and Bergen County Freeholder Vice Chairman Steve Tanelli have scheduled two open houses next week to inform residents and business owners of FEMA updates to county flood hazard maps.

“Far too many Bergen County families have experienced firsthand the devastating effects of flooding and have had to struggle with getting their lives back in order,” both said in a joint statement. “These two open houses will go a long way toward helping families navigate the process of getting the appropriate information and coverage for their homes and possessions.”

The first open house is next Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the first-floor Multi-Purpose Room at One Bergen Plaza in Hackensack.

The second is the next day, Feb. 11, at the Bergen County Law and Public Safety Institute in Mahwah.

Appointments aren’t necessary to attend the sessions, both of which will run from 4-8 p.m.

“Using interactive flood hazard maps at this Open House, representatives from the State, Bergen County, and FEMA and their mapping partners, will be available to answer flood risk and insurance questions, and explain the preliminary flood hazard maps,” the joint statement says.

“Residents are encouraged to bring their elevation certificates and/or flood insurance policies to the Open House in order to get the best information about how their flood insurance may change as a result of the new preliminary flood maps.”

“The following information will not be available at this event: Disaster-related recovery efforts and outstanding insurance claims,” Tedesco and Tanelli said.

The Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) updates were preliminarily issued to Bergen County and incorporated areas in late August.

Insurance companies use FIRMs to determine flood insurance rates for buildings and their contents, and lenders utilize this information to determine flood insurance requirements.

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You can look up your property’s flood risk with the “What’s my BFE” tool.

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“Flooding is the number one natural disaster in the United States,” the joint statement says. “It is vital for property owners to understand their risk and should take advantage of tools and programs available to them for help.

“Property owners can take action by purchasing flood insurance and implementing mitigation actions to help reduce future flooding impacts.”

The preliminary FIRMs and associated Flood Insurance Study (FIS) provide the basis for flood risk education and floodplain management measures.

Bergen County is required to adopt updated maps to continue participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which makes flood insurance available to the community.

MORE INFO: www.region2coastal.com 

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An off-duty Carlstadt police officer who smelled something fishy led to a foot chase and the arrests of two men from Maine who authorities said were cooking meth in an SUV outside an abandoned factory.

Capt. Thomas Berta approached a red-colored 2010 Ford Edge with Maine license plates after finding it parked in the driveway of a vacant building that once housed the Cosan Chemical Company in the 400 block of 13th Street just after 11 a.m. yesterday.

He identified himself as a police officer and the driver hit the gas and sped off, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said this afternoon.

Berta followed and radioed headquarters. Officers John Sanzari and Jonathan Rood found the car behind Burger Maker on 16 Street moments later, Nielsen said.

A passenger, later identified as Brady Bridges, Douglas Morin, took off on foot into a nearby creek, but Rood chased him down about 200 yards away, the chief said.

Sanzari, meanwhile, arrested the driver, Brady Bridges.

After obtaining Bridges’s consent, officers searched the vehicle and found “multiple items used to manufacture methamphetamines, as well as methamphetamines that were already manufactured and packaged,” Nielsen said.

They discovered additional items back at the abandoned factory, he said.

Detectives notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, who sent an investigator, the chief said.

Bridges, 44, of Houlten, ME, was charged with operating a drug manufacturing facility, eluding and possession of drugs — with the intent to distribute them — and drug paraphernalia, among other offenses.

Morin, 30, of Oakfield, ME, was charged with the same possession counts, as well as with resisting, among other offenses.

Both were being held on $91,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail, with first court appearances set for March 5.

The Ford was impounded.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

ONLY ON CVP: A Lyndhurst garage slated for demolition collapsed beneath the weight of the overnight snow this morning.

Nothing was inside the 30-by-65-foot, 2½-vehicle brick and cinder block structure on Green Avenue when it collapsed just before 7 a.m., Lyndhurst Police Chief James O’Connor told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

A building next door was slightly damaged in the collapse, he said.

The borough building inspector responded and ordered the garage immediately demolished.

PHOTO: The garage before the collapse