Ridgefield police grab 3 in overnight car burglaries
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ridgefield police nabbed a trio of accused car burglars from Jersey City as they tossed several assorted power tools into a creek following a series of break-ins, authorities...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Veterans Day 2014 in River Edge by Brett M. Dzadik
CLICK HERE FOR MORE: Photos by Brett M. Dzadik SHOUT OUTS: Photographer Brett Dzadik produced a gallery of photos from today’s Veterans Day celebration in River Edge. CLICK ABOVE OR BELOW for the...
View ArticleGarfield car burglar complains to judge, then takes plea deal
REVOLVING DOOR: “I got to wait another month and a half?” a Passaic man asked a judge in Hackensack after pleading guilty to a Garfield car burglary in exchange for three years in prison — and a...
View ArticleFort Lee police dogs get free bulletproof vests thanks to national campaign
SHOUT OUT: Two Fort Lee police dogs are getting ballistic vests thanks to a nationwide fundraising campaign. The “Occasions” campaign for Groupon Grassroots produced $335,000 in conjunction with the...
View ArticleRoutine drug sweep at Ridgewood High School
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: An unannounced routine drug sweep was conducted at Ridgewood High School this morning. Uniformed and plain-clothed village police officers were joined by the Bergen County...
View ArticleMahwah, Ramsey police team up to nab accused counterfeiters from Route 17...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Union County ex-cons thought that using a special marking pen would convince employees at the Mahwah Home Depot on Route 17 that counterfeit bills they passed weren’t fake,...
View ArticleFair Lawn police say suicidal former Marine threatened to kill self, not cops
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities confirmed tonight that initial reports were unfounded that a former Marine bent on killing police with an AR-15 was on the loose in Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park. “He...
View ArticleParamus man charged with putting gun to Elmwood Park woman’s head in drug...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An 18-year-old Paramus man who police said grabbed the wheel of a moving car, crashing it into a trio of parked vehicles while trying to rob a drug buyer at gunpoint, turned...
View ArticleRamsey police nab 2 from Mahwah in Route 17 motel room robbery
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ramsey police arrested an 18-year-old Mahwah man and 17-year-old accomplice who they said held down and robbed a visitor to a Route 17 motel room, sending him to the hospital...
View ArticleOwners of Ridgefield furniture business pay NJ to resolve consumer fraud charges
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The owners of a Ridgefield furniture business have agreed to pay the state $300,000 to resolved consumer fraud charges. Lev Stanik of Rahway and Roman Tyger of Brooklyn failed...
View ArticleRidgewood crash sends car onto retaining wall
ONLY ON CVP: A motorist sustained a minor injury after her vehicle collided with a Ford pickup truck in Ridgewood this morning. The crash at the intersection of Godwin and South Murray Avenues sent the...
View Articlelllegal immigrant couple brought to court in fight that killed Waldwick mother
Two illegal Salvadoran immigrants from Waldwick charged in the heart attack death of the man’s 45-year-old mother during a violent fight the two were having were brought to court in Hackensack today....
View ArticleHow you can help Fair Lawn family of 5 burned out of home
SHOUT OUT: A Fair Lawn community has rallied to the aid of a family of five whose home was destroyed by fire last week. Neighbor Laura Sabatello began by collecting clothing, toiletries, cash and gift...
View ArticleRunner for fraud ring had 47 bogus credit cards in her name, Wyckoff police...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Harlem woman working as a runner for a fraud ring was carrying 47 bogus credit cards with her name on them when she was arrested outside a local pharmacy, Wyckoff police said....
View ArticleTruck clips Route 4 overpass in Paramus
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The top of a waste hauling truck struck the Forest Avenue overpass on eastbound Route 4 in Paramus just after 4:30 today, spilling debris onto the highway and clogging already...
View ArticleRidgefield Park police sergeant catches Bronx man dumping 500 tires
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgefield Park police sergeant caught a suspect dumping more than 500 used tires before dawn near Overpeck Creek, producing a case that the state Attorney General’s Division...
View ArticleFort Lee police bust Pennsylvania couple in roadside pot haul
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Pennsylvania couple had a pound and a half of pot in their car when they were stopped on southbound Route 1 this past weekend, Fort Lee police said tonight. Officers Zachary...
View ArticleDWI driver had son, 9, in car, threatened to kill officers, Elmwood Park...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A drunken Clifton driver who had his 9-year-old son in the back seat of his car when he was stopped threatened to kill all of the department’s officers, Elmwood Park Police...
View ArticleNo injuries as fast-moving fire consumes Teaneck house
UPDATE: What began as a kitchen fire quickly spread, destroying a Teaneck home this morning. Part of the roof of the 2½-story Crestview Place house collapsed just before 10 a.m., after intense flames...
View ArticleSix hospitalized after impaired driver in Carlstadt crashes, flees, crashes...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An impaired Lodi driver crashed his pickup truck twice in a distance of six blocks in Carlstadt last night, sending six people to the hospital, police said. Julio Delacruz, a...
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