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Guatemalan national molested Palisades Park girl 8 years ago, authorities charge
A Guatemalan national living in Palisades Park was charged with molesting a borough girl nearly eight years ago. Detectives from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit took...
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Fair Lawn, others gearing up for massive Bergen County PBA Toy Drive
Members of Fair Lawn PBA Local 67 are once again gearing up for one of the Northeast’s largest and most fulfilling missions of mercy — the Bergen County PBA Toy Drive. “Last year, we partnered with Dan...
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Plea deal in works for Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with flinging feces at neighbor
Attorneys for both sides said they’re trying to negotiate a plea deal for a Ho-Ho-Kus man accused of stockpiling his own feces and flinging it at his neighbor’s house and child’s play set. William...
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Hackensack teacher’s aide hit student, authorities charge
A teacher’s aide in a Hackensack school was arrested Thursday after authorities said he hit a student. Jose D. Garrido, 60, of North Bergen was ordered held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail,...
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Teaneck police say accused counterfeiter, 21, caught on camera
A 21-year-old community college student from Teaneck turned himself in after learning that police wanted him on charges of passing counterfeit money at local businesses. Zavian Stephon Strader was...
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Paramus PD: Taser takes down disturbed man with box cutter
A tense standoff with a suicidal psychiatric patient who sliced his arms with a box cutter and then threatened to use it on Paramus police ended when one of the officers incapacitated him with a Taser,...
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Bergen sheriff’s campaign brings 600 turkeys for needy families to Center for...
They expected to top last year’s donation of 380 Thanksgiving turkeys for the needy, but by the time members of Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino’s Community Outreach Unit were done on Friday, a...
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Fire kills 2 in Fair Lawn group home
Two people died and three were hospitalized, including a police officer who sustained a knee injury when he fell from a roof while rescuing a resident at a Fair Lawn group home for disabled adults late...
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Leonia hiring school crossing guards, with benefits
The Leonia Police Department seeks school crossing guards. Guards escort the street in designated school crossing zones Monday through Friday from: Starting salary is $15 an hour. Top pay: $21.42 per...
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Alert neighbor leads Hasbrouck Heights police to burglar in home
Hasbrouck Heights police said they caught a Clifton man inside a burglarized home thanks to an alert neighbor. Police who responded to a call of a man climbing into a Kipp Avenue basement window...
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Harrington Park boy surprises himself in race
SHOUT OUT: Third-grader Jonathan O’Reilly thought it would be a kick to join his friends in his first-ever race, the Harrington Park Mile Fun Run. Then he won. “I thought maybe 5th or 6th [place],” the...
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Bogota police bring Thanksgiving meals to needy families
SHOUT OUT — Bogota police brought Thanksgiving to two needy families. Police Chief Daniel Maye said he welcomed the opportunity to “give back to the community” and thanked those who helped collect the...
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Lyndhurst police No-Shave November raises $2,200
A Lyndhurst Police No-Shave November campaign brought in more than $2,200. Participants included Detectives Ron Guirland, Mike Lemanowicz and Vin Auteri, Lt. John Kerner, Sgts. Rich Jarvis and John...
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Thanksgiving Lyndhurst recycling plant fire began in ‘burn barrel’
Smoke could be seen for miles as a fast-moving Thanksgiving fire consumed a Lyndhurst recycling center. A firefighter sustained an injury in the three-alarm blaze, which broke out just before noon at...
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Sprinklers not working in Lyndhurst recycling plant fire, chief says
Investigators were trying to determine why sprinklers were turned off in a paper recycling plant destroyed by a Thanksgiving Day fire. What’s more, “the fire department connection to supply the...
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Fairview man charged with beating boy, 8
A Fairview man beat an 8-year-old boy several times with a belt and punched him in the chest, said authorities who arrested him on endangerment charges. Kenneth Carr, described as an acquaintance of...
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New Milford man charged with sexually assaulting teen over three years
A New Milford man was being held on $200,000 bail on charges that he sexually assaulted a teenager over the course of three years in New Milford and River Edge. Peter Mitchell, 43, was arrested...
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Elmwood Park police make 4 weekend drug busts
Elmwood Park police logged three pot arrests and one cocaine bust over the weekend. Adrian Pineyro, 19, of New Milford was released on a summons to answer cocaine and drug paraphernalia possession...
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Missing Englewood Cliffs man with autism, 24, found in Ridgewood
FOUND! A 24-year-old Englewood Cliffs man with autism who wandered from home Monday afternoon walked more than 13 miles to Ridgewood, authorities said. A motorist saw Ian Grinsberg sitting by himself,...
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Bomb note in boys bathroom clears Tenafly school
A note found in a second-floor boy’s bathdroom about a bomb scheduled to explode on Dec. 1, 2018 forced the evacuation and search of Tenafly Middle School on Tuesday afternoon. All students and staff...
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