Emerson man thought in danger found safe in Ridgewood
ONLY ON CVP: Authorities tonight found an Emerson man in Ridgewood whose family feared he’d been kidnapped following a phone scam. The 28-year-old man apparently had gone out to secure money following...
View ArticleBogota teacher hit by car outside school
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bogota schoolteacher was listed in stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center after being hit by a car moments after another pedestrian was struck this morning...
View ArticleRidgewood police chief did nothing wrong in conditionally hiring new...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli found “no criminality” in connection with the hiring of two new Ridgewood patrol officers by Police Chief John Ward, authorities said...
View ArticleFumes from heating oil spill force Washington Township family from home
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fumes from a basement home heating oil spill forced five residents from a Washington Township home tonight after they were overcome by fumes. All were evaluated by EMS workers...
View ArticleNo serious injuries in 2-car crash outside Target in Hackensack
ONLY ON CVP: No serious injuries were reported in a two-car crash in Hackensack this morning. The BMW and Toyota involved in the collision on Temple Avenue and Hackesnack Avenue outside the Target just...
View ArticleEdgewater dentist in patient sex case pleads guilty to federal tax fraud
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A dentist from Edgewater charged with improperly touching a patient pleaded guilty yesterday to ducking $68,000 in federal income taxes. Bedros Yavru-Sakuk, 63, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleWashington Township police seek help finding stolen Mercedes with State...
SHOUT OUT: Police were looking for a Mercedes sedan stolen from the driveway of a Washington Township home bearing New Jersey State Police emblems on the windshield and rear window. A spare key had...
View ArticleStation wagon plows through Ridgewood cemetery
ONLY ON CVP: A motorist escaped serious injury when his SUV veered off the road and into a Ridgewood cemetery, damaging several headstones. A tow truck removed the Suburu Forester from Valleau Cemetery...
View ArticleBuilding ‘will blow up’ bathroom wall message clears Mahwah tech school
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The message “this building will blow up at noon” scrawled on a bathroom wall led to the evacuation and search — with negative results — of Lincoln Technical Institute in Mahwah...
View ArticleEmerson man loses more than $10G to IRS phone scammers before police can stop...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: An Emerson man conned into thinking he’d be arrested by the IRS sent more than $10,000 to phone scammers yesterday before police called by his worried family found him in Ridgewood....
View ArticleTeen molesting details outlined against Leonia construction worker
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia construction worker with a history of sex crimes stuck his fingers into a 16-year-old girl’s vagina and put her hand on his penis in his van after offering her a ride...
View ArticleUpper Saddle River police charge pair in traffic stop with having loaded gun,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A couple was picked up in Massachusetts after Upper Saddle River police obtained a search warrant and found a loaded gun, $4,500 worth of stolen clothes with attached security...
View ArticleVIDEO: Crawling man tries to remove Bergenfield campaign sign
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A pair of Democratic council candidates from Bergenfield claim that a surveillance video of a man crawling on all fours to remove a campaign sign from a resident’s lawn is the...
View ArticleSolemn Bergen County ceremony honors 241 killed in 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
SHOUT OUT: Under a pall of cold, sometimes heavy rain, veterans, family members and elected officials gathered at the Bergen County Veterans Memorial Monument in Hackensack this afternoon to...
View ArticleTRIBUTE: National firefighting legend Harvey Eisner of Tenafly
TRIBUTE: Firefighters near and far today are mourning the death of former Tenafly Fire Chief Harvey Eisner, a former crime-scene photographer in the Bronx and national fire service figure. Harvey Jay...
View ArticleBergen sheriff’s officer from Saddle Brook finds deer caught on fence
SHOUT OUT: Bergen County Sheriff’s Officer Todd Accomando of Saddle Brook awoke this morning to the sound of banging in his backyard and discovered a five-point buck stuck on a neighbor’s fence. The...
View ArticleUnoccupied garbage truck barrels backwards down Oakland hill
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: No one was injured when a runaway garbage truck barreled backwards down a hill in Oakland, hitting a utility pole and a pickup truck, before crossing Route 202 and slamming into...
View ArticleWyckoff police find luring report that prompted ‘stranger danger’ warnings...
UPDATE: A van driver who a Wyckoff teen thought was trying to lure her into a van three weeks ago knows the girl and had no harmful intent, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said today. Fox had warned at the...
View ArticleProsecutor says Palisades Park cook was collecting kiddie porn
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergen County computer crimes investigators arrested a Palisades Park cook on a tip from the FBI that he’d been collecting child pornography. Christoper Carvajal, 21, was...
View ArticleProsecutor’s detectives arrest convicted Elmwood Park drug dealer on crack...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives who pulled over a known Elmwood Park drug dealer in Lodi found him carrying $2,500 worth of crack and $1,800 in cash, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said...
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