Truck driven by Fair Lawn boy, 17, kills motorcyclist
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 48-year-old Hawthorne motorcyclist was killed in Fair Lawn this afternoon when his bike was struck by a pickup truck driven by a 17-year-old local boy, police told CLIFFVIEW...
View ArticleMysterious helicopter over Waldwick ‘no cause for concern,’ police say
UPDATE: A black helicopter with a military-type medical insignia hovered briefly over Waldwick tonight and was “no cause for concern,” police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “We don’t who it belongs to, but it...
View ArticleThree sent to prison for trafficking gun used in Hackensack police shootout
CVP EXCLUSIVE: Three men got prison terms yesterday for their roles in trafficking a gun from Florida that a fleeing fugitive used to shoot at Hackensack police. And all could be free in months. New...
View ArticleFormer Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead
UPDATE: A suicidal Fair Lawn man shot himself dead with a police officer outside his door just after midnight this morning. The 33-year-old victim shot himself with a rifle around 12:30 a.m. after the...
View ArticlePalisades Interstate Parkway police seize 400 bags of heroin, arrest two from...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized nearly a third of a pound of heroin and arrested a pair of 22-year-old men from upstate New York men following a traffic stop...
View ArticleDowned Allendale tree knocks out power, closes road
PHOTO: A downed tree this morning yanked utility wires, cut power to some area customers and closed Forest Road in Allendale between Colonial and Donnybrook drives.
View ArticleDriver fleeing Franklin Lakes police officer crashes SUV into tree
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 23-year-old Wyckoff driver plowed his SUV into a tree while fleeing from Franklin Lakes police yesterday, authorities said. Officer Nicholas Klein was on a radar detail when...
View ArticleWoman cleared of stabbing friend charged with assaulting Little Ferry police
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Hackensack woman who was found to have acted in self defense when she stabbed a former friend was pepper-sprayed by Little Ferry police yesterday after authorities said...
View ArticleMan who Rochelle Park police said had loaded gun in car turns himself in
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man wanted for having a loaded 9mm handgun stashed under the driver’s side floormat of his car turned himself in to Rochelle Park police this afternoon, four days after his...
View ArticleFlorida man, 78, unfit to stand trial for sexual assault of River Vale girl,...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: A 78-year-old Florida man charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl while in town to visit a River Vale family is incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled today in...
View ArticleHackensack police officers carry disabled resident from apartment fire
UPDATE: Two Hackensack police officers who carried a disabled resident from a garden apartment fire were briefly hospitalized for smoke inhalation along with a trio of firefighters last night. The...
View ArticleNew Milford police charge Ridgefield High School special needs student with...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: It didn’t take New Milford police detectives long to track down and charge a 21-year-old Ridgefield High School special needs student who they said stolen several packs of...
View ArticleSwerving dump truck mounts Route 208 divider in Fair Lawn
PHOTOS: Courtesy Fair Lawn PD PHOTOS: A dump truck hauling stone to Englewood ended up on a divider on southbound Route 208 in Fair Lawn this morning after the driver swerved to avoid stopped traffic,...
View ArticleBond gang member spares girlfriend by taking drug plea
EXCLUSIVE: A Teaneck associate of the infamous James Bond burglary crew pleaded guilty to drug possession yesterday in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges against his girlfriend. Jamelle...
View ArticleMaywood officers use ‘great restraint’ when suspect reaches for waistband...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: For a split second, Maywood police didn’t know what a 19-year-old Hackensack man who had the butt of a gun sticking out of his waistband was doing last night when he tried to...
View ArticleGarfield fugitive in 10-year-old series of taxi cab robberies captured in...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Garfield man who avoided authorities for nearly a decade for his role in what they said were a half-dozen armed taxi cab robberies in Bergen County was behind bars after the...
View ArticleDriver hospitalized after truck hits pole, tips in Leonia
PHOTOS: Courtesy LEONIA PD UPDATE: A driver was hospitalized this morning with injuries that police said weren’t life-threatening after his truck struck a utility pole in Leonia and landed on its side....
View ArticleRidgefield man had heroin, crack, Oxy for sale, police charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Ridgefield police officers checking out a report of local drug dealing arrested a borough man who they said was carrying 40 decks of heroin, a small amount of crack and a...
View ArticleNew Milford police create ‘Safe Zone’ for residents to do business online
PUBLIC SAFETY: New Milford police have joined law enforcement agencies who are inviting residents who buy, sell or trade through Craigslist, eBay and other online sites to do so at headquaters to help...
View ArticleFort Lee police charge local man with renewed racist, pornographic harassment...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Maryland corrections officer from Englewood who was charged last year with sending pornographic, racist and threatening letters to no fewer than seven law enforcement...
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