Storm downs trees, lines, knocks out power in Ridgewood, Midland Park, elsewhere
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Dozens of trees, limbs and branches were knocked free by the sudden and violent thunderstorm that swept through northwest Bergen and the surrounding area this afternoon. Power...
View ArticleBar complaints lead to Wallington cocaine bust
ONLY ON CVP: Wallington police, responding to complaints of drug dealing in local bars, said they arrested a cocaine dealer parked outside a borough tavern with several small bags of cocaine in his...
View ArticleConcerned citizens help Garfield police in separate burglary arrests
SHOUT OUT: Two good Samaritans helped Garfield police make a pair of burglary arrests. Officers tipped off by a caller were waiting Thursday afternoon as 31-year-old city resident Dione L. Briones...
View ArticleBergen man pulls back would-be GWB jumper
SHOUT OUT: Riding his bicycle home from work in Manhattan as he always does, Benjamin Storch of Haworth spotted a troubled man at the railing on the George Washington Bridge’s south walkway Tuesday...
View ArticleIndictment charges Rutherford man, 19, with public masturbation, assaulting...
ONLY ON CVP: A 19-year-old Rutherford man already facing lewdness charges was indicted by a grand jury in Hackensack this week in another sex crime that authorities said ended in a scuffle with police...
View ArticleElmwood Park man who stalked, head-butted, recorded wife having sex sent to...
ONLY ON CVP: An Elmwood Park man who came to court expecting probation for repeatedly stalking his ex-wife, breaking into her house and secretly videotaping her having sex with another man was instead...
View ArticleCliffside Park pedestrian hit by car on Palisade Avenue
ONLY ON CVP: A Cliffside Park pedestrian was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after he was struck by a sedan at the north end of the Anderson Avenue shopping...
View ArticleIndictment boosts charges against worker accused of sexually assaulting teen...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former employee at a Hackensack group home for at-risk and special needs children was indicted today on charges of putting his finger in the vagina of a teenage patient. The...
View ArticleMan accused of selling gun in New Milford shooting death brought to court
ONLY ON CVP: An Essex County ex-con charged with selling a .9mm handgun used in the shooting death of a New Milford man was brought to court today. Nicholas Questal, 23, is charged with a pair of...
View ArticleFreedom for man caught in Edgewater 2-kilo heroin bust
ONLY ON CVP: A Colombian native tied to a father and son busted with two kilos of heroin at the younger man’s Edgewater home will soon walk out of jail a free man after cutting a deal with state...
View ArticleRutherford High School student charged with having sex with middle school...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An 18-year-old Rutherford High School student is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old middle school girl. Everton A. Johnson remained held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen...
View ArticleAccused ringleader in Fairview poker game murder has bail reduced
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: The accused ringleader in the murder of a Fairview card game operator had his $2 million bail reduced today — to $1 million cash. Keyshawn Malone, whom authorities described as...
View ArticleRochelle Park bank robbed
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Bank of Rochelle Park was robbed this afternon by a man who authorities said didn’t show a note or weapon. Investigators were at the bank, at the corner of Rochelle Avenue...
View ArticleRochelle Park bank robber may have had an accomplice, police say
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: “Fill it up,” a robber told a teller at the Bank of Rochelle Park this afternoon before making off with less than $5,000 — and possibly getting into a getaway car. Authorities...
View ArticleEnglewood police make arrest in car burglaries, still seek culprit in rash of...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police said they don’t believe that an ex-con arrested for a pair of pre-dawn car burglaries today is tied to a string of car break-ins in the city’s Second Ward....
View ArticleWashington Township father, mother, son busted on pot selling charges
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three members of a Washington Township family were busted on pot-selling charges yesterday as investigators searched their home, a quarter-mile from the Bergen County YJCC and...
View ArticleEdgewater restaurant rape, beating trial begins
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A West New York man celebrated his birthday by brutally beating and raping his former girlfriend, a prosecutor told jurors in Hackensack this morning. A defense attorney...
View ArticleEmerson police bust pot packaging operation, seize 2.2 pounds, $14,000 cash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Emerson police investigating a complaint about suspicious cars on a residential street interrupted a pot packaging operation, seizing 2.2 pounds of marijuana, $13,900 in cash...
View ArticleEx-con charged with threatening Little Ferry police after stealing fashion...
ONLY ON CVP: The husband of a woman’s clothing designer was indicted this week on charges of running from Little Ferry police and then threatening to kill them after stealing her wallet. Tammy...
View ArticleTrial set for ‘Bloody Sincere’ in Fairview bus stop beating of Port Authority...
ONLY ON CVP: An ex-con goes on trial early next month on charges of beating and robbing an 80-year-old Port Authority worker, breaking his jaw in two places, at a Fairview bus stop. Rashon Drone —...
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