Elmwood Park police seized a bag of cocaine and 16 bags of heroin in separate traffic stops within an hour of one another last night.

Kimberly Pezzolla, 35, of Cliffside Park was turned over to Clifton police on an outstanding $750 warrant after borough police charged her with cocaine possession and being under the influence following an 8:30 p.m. stop on Locust Street, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.

An hour later, officers charged Samantha Vitale, 26, of Norwood and 27-year-old Joel Hille of Hackensack with carrying the heroin and drug paraphernalia after a stop near the first, Foligno said.

Both were processed and release pending a court appearance.

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? A 46-year-old suicidal Bergenfield man wasn’t home and was being sought by borough police after members of the Bergen County SWAT Team and Bomb Squad joined them at his home today.

Samuel Klin Mensah is described as 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds, with short black hair and brown eyes.

He is “reported to be despondent with suicidal thoughts over very recent death of his spouse [Linda],” Police Chief Michael Carr said this afternoon. “He has no vehicle and may be on foot or have used local mass transportation.

Samuel Mensah (Courtesy BERGENFIELD PD) / CLIFFVIEW PILOT PHOTO: Izzy Infield

“If anyone knows his whereabouts or may have seen him, please contact the police department using 911,” the chief said.

Borough police arrested Mensah on resisting and improper behavior charges on March 5 (see mugshot, above). He was released from the Bergen County Jail on his own recognizance yesterday.

A call around 9:30 this morning brought law enforcement personnel to the 30 Frederick Place residence. where they attempted to contact Mensah.

They eventually entered and searched the home with negative results, said Carr, who said that “all precautions” were taken based on a recent arrest that involved resistance.

“There are no known weapons on the premises and no threats have been made regarding use of weapons,” the chief said earlier.

The area of New Bridge Road and Frederick Place was cleared for traffic after being barricaded during the search.

CVP PHOTO: Courtesy IZZY INFIELD 

TOP PHOTO: Michael LaFalce / ABOVE: Marc Davis

PHOTO: No serious injuries were immediately reported after a sedan slammed into a Chinese takeout restaurant during a two-vehicle crash in Hackensack this morning.

The blue Volkswagen Jetta struck the China House restaurant at 238 Hudson Street after being struck from behind by a silver BMW just before 10:30 a.m., witnesses told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Neither driver required medical treatment, they said.

There was no immediate word on summonses.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A known Wallington drug user with a burglary history created a snow trail of sorts as he tossed used heroin bags out the window of his car as a police detective followed him this morning.

Krzysztof Latocha, 23, was hunched over the console of his green Volkswagen parked on Hathaway Street when the officer rolled past him around 9:45 a.m., Lt. Shawn Kudlacik told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this afternoon.

“After making eye contact, he started the car and drove down the street,” the lieutenant said.

The officer turned his car around and began followng Latocha, who Kudlacik said rolled through a STOP sign while making a right.

Turning with him, the officer “followed a trail of packets strewn across the roadway — 16 of them,” he said.

After pulling Latocha over and summoning backups, the officer approached the driver’s side window and spotted a used heroin packet stamped “SUMMER JAM” on the console, Kudlacik said.

A sergeant retrieved the strewn packets, which bore the same stamp, he said.

Latoca was carrying two unused packets of heroin and four hypodermic needes, Kudlacik said.

He was being held on $2,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with possession of heroin and the needles. He also received summons for running the stop sign and tossing debris from a motor vehicle.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy WALLINGTON PD

UPDATE: “Everything worked the way it was supposed to,” Wood-Ridge Police Chief Joseph Rutigliano said after borough firefighters stopped flames from a cardboard trash bin from entering an apartment complex owned by the same company that operated one in Edgewater that was destroyed in a January blaze.

Police and firefighters evacuated all 200 units of Avalon at Westmont Station — people and pets — after smoke entered a hallway and alarms sounded around 9 p.m. They were back inside within two hours.

“The concern was that it’s another Avalon building,” Rutigliano told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “But in this case the worst fears never materialized.

“The alarms went off, officers evacuated everyone, the Fire Department responded immediately and the fire never entered the building,” he said.

Detective Joseph Rutigliano Jr. and Fire Marshal Joseph Castiglia determined that the blaze, which began in a corner of the bin, wasn’t suspicious.

They also found cigarette butts on two levels overlooking the bin, the chief said.

Flames leapt onto the building and climbed three stories before the first pumper to the scene knocked them down, Rutigliano said.

Among those responding to the complex off Passaic Street or for mutual aid coverage were a Wallington FAST and engines from Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Hasbrouck Heights, Lodi, Lyndhurst and Rutherford. Mayor Paul Sarlo was also there.

PHOTO: Courtesy NJ.COM

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee man who returned to the Starbucks parking lot after using the bathroom to find borough police saving his overdosing friend’s life with Narcan was arrested when officers said they found him carrying pot.

A concerned citizen dialed 911 and began CPR at the instructions of Dispatcher Donna Iafelice on Wednesday, Capt. Stephen Gallagher said.

Responding Officers Stephen Domenick and John C. Klein found the victim “barely breathing, with a very light pulse,” and continued first aid, Gallagher said.

Domenick then administered a dose of Narcan to the victim, who immediately responded. A second dose brought the victim around, the captain said.

The Fort Lee Volunteer Ambulance Corps and paramedics responded and took the victim to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck.

During the rescue, 20-year-old Jake A. Levy emerged from inside, Gallagher said.

He told officers that he and his friend had argued and that he’d gone to the bathroom.

“Levy was unaware that his friend was in medical distress until he exited the restroom and saw first responders treating [the victim],” the captain said.

He was later released on a summons charging him with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

“The swift actions of the two citizens who called 911 and performed CPR were of a great assistance to the victim, the Fort Lee Police Department and the Fort Lee Volunteer Ambulance Corps,” Gallagher said.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Amid what has been a stream of heroin arrests, Elmwood Park police made a pair of pot busts yesterday.

At 4:25 p.m. they arrested Stephen Gaspari, 50, of Hackensack, on River Drive near Locust Street and released him on a court summons after they found him carrying a half-ounce of marijuana, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.

At 8:30 p.m., they arrested and released Kyle Osbourne, 18, of Fair Lawn, for having a small amount of pot, along with drug paraphernalia, and with being under the influence of drugs after they found him in the Pathmark parking lot on Broadway.

Even in death, Bergen County Sheriff Lt. Brian Beutel is giving to others: His organs will be harvested.

Memorial services for the popular officer and father of five will be from 4-8 p.m. Monday at the Becker Funeral Home, 291 Kinderkamack Road in Westwood, after which he’ll be cremated.

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TRIBUTES to his character, integrity, love for his family, friends and colleagues and enthusiasm for life mounted for Bergen County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Beutel, who collapsed and died during a charity basketball tournament at FDU in Hackensack for the Tomorrows Children’s Fund — which called him “a true angel.” READ MORE….

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A BROTHER IN BLUE WRITES: Brother Brian Beutel was one of a kind. We started together in 2002. Many things I can say about him, but the thing I remember the most was the love he had for his job. READ MORE….

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A DAUGHTER WRITES: My father was the most hardworking man I have ever met. His work ethic and diligence inspired me to be the young woman that I am today. READ MORE….

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today ordered that a Massachusetts man charged with felony murder in the slaying of a 24-year-old Fort Lee high-rise tenant remain held on $2 million cash bail.

Andre Jamal “Boogie” Thompson (MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

Robert R. Martinez, 26, also was ordered not to have any contact with the girlfriend or relatives of Jordan Johnson, whose body was found in the trunk of his car on a Bronx street following an extensive search.

Martinez, of Broadchester, MA listened intently as Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer read charges that include felony murder, eluding police, robbery and burglary during today’s first court appearance.

The judge also granted a request by Grootenboer for a bail-source hearing if he is able to raise the cash. He’d also have to surrender his passport and any firearms he might own.

Authorities said Martinez and co-defendant Andre Jamal “Boogie” Thompson, 25, lured Johnson to an apartment that Thompson sometimes used in Fort Lee — where he was killed and his keys and cellphone taken on Jan. 14.

Jordan Johnson / Carriage House, Fort Lee

Johnson’s phone was used to send text messages to lure his girlfriend, Megan Faulkner, from the 12th-floor high-rise apartment at the Carriage House on 15th Street that she shared with him to a supposed meeting in Harlem, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli previously said.

Meanwhile, Martinez and Thompson fled the state, he said.

Faulkner called police after she returned to find the apartment ransacked and jewelry, cash and other valuables missing. Fort Lee police then issued an alert for Johnson and his car.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT was the first to report that Johnson’s black 2013 BMW 550 Gran Turismo was found at 1:35 p.m. the next day in the Bronx, with his body in the trunk, after a police license plate reader registered a hit on the missing vehicle.

NYPD VIDEO IMAGE

Johnson had been strangled, authorities said.

Law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that detectives were exploring an ID theft ring’s relationship to Johnson. They released a surveillance video of a person wanted in connection with Johnson’s killing.

Timestamped at 2:45 a.m. the day he was found, it shows the person in a blue, fur-lined hooded jacket, gray jeans and dark-colored sneakers holding something and looking back while walking away from Johnson’s car on East 211 Street and Tryon Avenue.

Authorities arrested Thompson on Feb. 4. He has remained in custody at Prince George’s County Correctional Center in Maryland pending extradition.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Robert R. Martinez, Dyrol Evelyn, Diana Escotto, Courtney Evelyn (MUGSHOTS: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR)

Martinez was located and interviewed by detectives in Worcester, MA the day Thompson was arrested. His investigators subsequently learned that he “was not truthful in his account” to them, the prosecutor said.

Others charged with peripheral roles — specifically: hindering the investigation — include Courtney Evelyn, 30, Dyrol Evelyn, 25 and 24-year-old Diana Escotto, all of New York City, Molinelli said. Courtney and Dyrol are brother and sister, he said.

STORY / PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A “severely challenged” 20-year-old Leonia man with special needs was sentenced today to an indefinite commitment in a secure treatment facility for molesting a 3-year-old boy whom he’d pinned in a locker at the borough firehouse.

Depending on how he does, Darius Levine could spend the rest of his life at Amwell House, a center for developmentally challenged offenders in Salem County.

All sides agreed that the decision was in the best interests of Levine, who admitted in September that he placed the child’s hand over his erect penis under his clothes in June 2013. That includes the boy’s parents, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice noted.

They know Levine’s family and thought from the beginning that prison wasn’t the right solution for the severely challenged Levine, Maurice said in court today. They wanted to be sure, however, that he was supervised so that he couldn’t victimize another child, she added.

Darius Levine (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia)

The deal was contingent on Levine being in the secure  facility, from which he can leave only with supervision during daytime hours. He also cannot have any contact with children under 18.

In addition:

• The court will review his status and privileges in the facility every six months;
• He will have sex offender therapy on a regular basis and 24-hour supervision;
• He will be evaluated at the state Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel, where a therapeutic program is being designed for him;
• He must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and remain under parole supervision for life.

Failing to comply with any of the provisions will send Levine to state prison a five-year term that the judge suspended today.

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NOTE: Due to a reporting error, a previous version of this story said that Levine would be committed for five years. The commitment is open-ended, depending on the results of evaluations.

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An evaluation determined that Levine qualified for treatment and incarceration at Avenel, but professionals there said he is better off at Amwell House, Maurice said, because the environment and program there are more suitable to his needs.

Levine was initially committed to the secure unit of Bergen Regional Medical Center following his June 14, 2013 arrest. He was later held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail before a bed became available at Amwell in September.

“It’s a very difficult case,” defense attorney Raymond Flood said today, “and I think the resolution is fair.”

As CLIFFVIEW PILOT reported exclusively, the boy was riding scooters with his brother when Levine pinned him behind a fire truck, according to a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. Screams brought volunteers running.

Levine was “touching the boy and touching himself,” the source said, adding that firefighters pulled him away, then called police, as the frightened youngster was comforted.

Investigators were at the firehouse for several hours before arresting Levine and charging him with second-degree sexual assault by contact following an intensive review of the circumstances.

Although firefighters said they believed ordinary activities would resume the next day, borough officials immediately suspended department operations and secured mutual aid agreements from Fort Lee and Teaneck to cover their respective sides of town for two full days.

The governing body reopened the house, but with restricted access to trucks and equipment, and for medical emergencies.

Flood, the defense attorney, told the judge today that his client is remorseful. But he also said he wanted her to understand hardships Levine endured growing up.

“Darius has faced challenges very few defendants have faced in their lives,” he told Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi. “He was born with cerebral palsy. He has had a speech impediment his whole life.

“He was developmentally disabled, he has been bullied and abused his whole life. I just mention this to the court not for sympathy, but so you understand just how difficult life has been for this young man.”

The youngest of three adopted special-needs children in his family, the 4-foot-11-inch Levine spent a lot of time around the firehouse. He was unable to become a full-fledged firefighter, however, because of his disabilities.

Levine was originally scheduled to graduate this year from the Community School of Teaneck, which serves children with learning disabilities and attention deficits.

He has also participated in the Puffin Cultural Forum, a project of the Teaneck-based Puffin Foundation Ltd., which reaches into the community for artwork and photography from all walks of life.

The victim’s father, a former Leonia firefighter, last year sued the borough, the fire department and others in connection with the incident (SEE: Father files lawsuit over alleged sexual assault of boy at Leonia firehouse).

Levine and his adoptive parents — David Levine and Christine Banas — are also named in the civil suit filed  in Superior Court in Hackensack on behalf of the Ridgefield Park boy’s family.

The boy, identified in the lawsuit as G.P., is “shy, withdrawn,” attorney Rosemarie Arnold said. “He’s speech-delayed.”

In addition, she said, the borough fired the boy’s father from the Fire Department after he retained her.

STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia

UPDATE: A youth pastor in a Wyckoff church engaged in inappropriate sexual activity with five underage members of his congregation — including exchanging sexually explicit videos with two of them, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.

David M. Hayman, 37, of Oradell was being held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged two counts of sexual assault and five of child endangerment — occurring between 2003-2013 following his arrest yesterday.

Two of the girls were 16 when the married Hayman began exchanging the videos, Molinelli said. Two others were also 16 and another 15 when he began exchanging sexually explicit chats with them, the prosecutor said.

All were members of a youth group at the Cornerstone Christian Church, where Hayman was pastor of youth and children’s ministries “until his employment was terminated [in May 2014] when the church learned of inappropriate text messages he sent,” Molinelli said.

A subsequent investigation by members of the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit and the Wyckoff Police Department led to “the discovery of additional victims,” he said.

“All of the alleged crimes occurred while Hayman was employed at the church,” Molinelli said. “Electronic equipment was seized from his former place of employment and his residence, with the assistance of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit.”

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

CVP EXCLUSIVE: A Maywood judge today sentenced a Hackensack man to 27 days in jail today for claiming that he was his legally blind, non-existent twin brother in an attempt to duck traffic tickets.

Municipal Court Judge George Savino asked 58-year-old Olawale Agoro if he was the man who lied to him earlier.

Agoro, in turn, denied ever lying. He was immediately taken to the Bergen County Jail after being sentenced.

Agoro was fist brought before Savino last year after Maywood Police Officer Matthew Parodi issued him five summonses — including for driving an uninsured vehicle while on the suspended list — in late July.

He claimed that he couldn’t have been driving because he’s legally blind and that his twin brother was using his name, after which Savino temporarily suspended the case.

Parodi said Agoro walked around the courtroom and read paperwork without any trouble, then approached several people in the parking lot outside the courthouse.

One of them drove Agoro’s car from the lot, after which Parodi “watched him get into the driver’s seat and drive away,” Police Chief David Pegg told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last month.

So Parodi followed and pulled Agoro over in Rochelle Park for equipment violations.

“At first he told the officer he couldn’t drive because he was blind,” Pegg said, “but he later recanted.”

Rochelle Park police impounded the vehicle and issued him two more summonses.

Agoro later went to Rochelle Park Municipal Court and got a postponement of his court date there, Police Chief Robert Flannelly told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last month.

After not showing up on the new date, Agoro returned twice, each time claiming to be his twin brother, Tony, Flannelly said.

“Agoro pleaded with court clerks in an attempt to acquire adjournments so that his twin brother could return from Nigeria, where he was mouring the death of their father,” the chief said.

After getting two more postponements, Agoro skipped court again on Feb. 11, authorities said. An arrest warrant was issued.

Agoro showed up at Municipal Court the next day, again claiming to be the non-existent brother, Flannelly said.

A court clerk — having been tipped off by Parodi — quickly summoned police.

Detective James DePreta and Patrol Officer Ken Stapleton questioned Agoro, who was unable to produce any form of identification, the chief said.

They then got a state Motor Vehicle Commision photo that showed an identical birthmark near his lip to one Agoro has, he said.

After initially resisting arrest, Agoro was taken into custody on the warrant, Flannelly said.

A fingerprint scan further confirmed that “Tony Agoro” doesn’t exist, he said.

Agoro spent 19 days in the county jail before he was released after posting $20,000 bail. Charges of hindering, resisting and false swearing remain pending.

“This is just another example of the extremes people will go to escape justice,” Flannelly said last month.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators were exploring the possible connections between a Bronx couple arrested in Washington Township while trying to collect cellphones that scammers had sent to a local address and a 25-year-old Passaic man caught doing the same thing in Rochelle Park two days earlier.

As CLIFFVIEW PILOT originally reported last week, Rochelle Park police responding to a call from a Rochelle Avenue resident that a strange man was banging on her door on March 11 said they found their suspect, Duany Perez-Clemente, talking to her neighbor.

Perez-Clemente told Sgt. Dan Urban and Officer Todd Starling that he was trying to retrieve a friend’s mailed cellphone, Detective James DePreta told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time.

The caller said she found two packaged iPhones on her porch but didn’t know the addressees.

Duany Perez-Clemente (MUGSHOT: Courtesy ROCHELLE PARK PD)

Detectives who arrived soon after found two other packages of iPhones in Perez-Clemente’s car that had been mailed to a Passaic Street address in Maywood with two different names on the labels, DePreta said.

They contacted colleagues in Hillsdale, who found four more packages that Perez-Clemente had planned to pick up, he said. They also got a call from Maywood police, who said a resident reported receiving a cellphone that wasn’t ordered.

An insurance company had sent the phones as replacements to the various addresses after the scammers filed bogus claims, the detective said.

Using delivery apps, Perez-Clemente knew where and when they were being dropped off, DePreta said.

Perez-Clemente remained held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with receiving stolen property, attempted theft by deception and defiant trespassing.

Washington Township police today revealed that they made a similar arrest on March 13.

Lt. Rich Skinner spoke with a Washington Avenue resident who said “a black or [H]ispanic male rang his doorbell asking him for a package that was delivered to the residence” after receiving a box with cellphones that he didn’t order, Officer Heather Castronova said this afternoon.

Skinner had noticed a man leaving the area in a car with New York license plates, so he stopped it on Colonial Boulevard, Castronova said.

The female driver matched a description given by the Washington Avenue resident, the officer said.

Backup officers arrived, and both she and two male passengers were ordered out of the car.

“Due to a language barrier, PO Liz Zimmerman of the Hillsdale PD was dispatched to the scene to assist with translating,” Castronova said. “All three parties were taken into custody without incident and transported to police headquarters.”

Medina Fontana, 22, and Aldo Suarez, 48, were both charged with receiving stolen property and conspiracy to commit theft.

The third vehicle occupant was released without charges.

Castronova said Police Chief Glenn Hooper “commends the resident in this incident for reporting the suspicous incidents in a timely matter and assisting us in apprehending these criminals.”

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP PD

CVP EXCLUSIVE: Over the past week, bantamweight boxer Claude Staten Jr. bought a BMW all-cash in Tenafly, had brunch in Ridgewood and found himself in the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack awaiting extradition to Atlanta to face domestic violence charges.

“Claudie Boy” Staten, 26, who had no bouts all last year and was returning to fighting when a match in North Carolina was cancelled earlier this month, was taken into custody by New Jersey State Police on Wednesday on a fugitive warrant out of Fulton County, GA.

Originally from Brooklyn, Staten was raised by his grandmother after his mother had him at 14.

Staten with what he said is his Mercedes SUV poses with NBA star Dwight Howard (Instagram)

He once told an interviewer he was making $1,000 to$1,500 a week selling drugs when he was arrested at 17. He pleaded guilty to possession charges, spent six months on Riker’s Island and took up boxing.

After a few amateur fights, Staten turned professional and made a quick name for himself — not in the ring but with a self-financed feeding tour for the homeless in downtown Los Angeles. Driving a rented U-Haul, Staten delivered hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and clothing.

Staten had his first fight in March 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on the undercard of a bout in which Bernard Hopkins broke his own record of becoming the oldest man in history to win a major boxing title by beating Tavoris Cloud.

He sold $14,000 worth of tickets and floored Mike Hill twice that night while winning a unanimous decision.

On Sept. 29, Staten returned to Barclays for his second fight, a draw with Derrick Bivins.

Ten days before that fight, authorities in Atlanta arrested Staten on charges of family violence battery, aggravated stalking and criminal damage stemming from an April 28 incident, records show.

He spent two days in the Fulton County Jail before posting $29,000 in surety bonds (MUGSHOT, above: Courtesy FULTON COUNTY SHERIFF).

Staten had kept up daily Instagram posts for nearly 15 months — until Wednesday.

A brief recent sampling:

Jan 21: “Seems like my whole life I either been chasing or running from something. Makes me wonder are there ppl that just say still. Or is this life?”

Feb 22: “There comes a time in life when you have to stand up and just accept that your life ups and downs may be the product of what your doing.”

March 14: “I will like to thank @v*********a and @m*******8 and the whole staff at BMW of Tenafly. I just purchased the all new BMW 6 series to add to my collection of cars! No lease agreements, no finance agreements, paid for in cash!”

OVERNIGHT: An overnight bedroom fire believed caused by a night light severely damaged a Glen Rock home, displacing three residents and their dog.

Police arrived around 1 a.m. to find flames coming through a second-floor front window of the 2½-story Dean Street house.

The blaze then blew through the attic before it was declared under control around 3:30 a.m.

Additional responders at the scene or providing mutual aid included Fair Lawn FAST and Hawthorne, Midland Park, Paramus and Ridgewood engines.

PHOTOS: Jon Ryan

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A South Korean national from Teaneck described as mentally challenged stuck his finger into a woman’s vagina while pointing a pellet gun at her as she struggled, an indictment returned by a grand jury in Hackensack yesterday alleges.

Bum S. Suh – who made headlines after authorities reported him missing four years ago – was arrested by Teaneck police following the alleged May 11, 2014 sexual assault, during which they said the gun discharged several times.

The 10-count indictment also accuses Suh of groping the 33-year-old woman after tackling her.

She eventually broke free and flagged down a passing motorist.

Besides assaulting her, the indictment accuses Suh, 50, of threatening to kill the woman and restraining and injuring her with a deadly weapon “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life,” among other offenses.

Suh remained held in the Bergen County Jail on $375,000 bail, down from an original $500,000.

Authorities characterized Suh, formerly of Fort Lee, as “mentally challenged” when he was reported missing by his family in December 2010. He was last seen at the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd Street in Manhattan and was believed headed to California at the time.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE

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Bum S. Suh

CLIFFVIEW PILOT broke the story (YOU READ IT HERE FIRST): A 49-year-old Fort Lee man who’d been reported missing three years ago was arrested by Teaneck police before dawn today following a gunpoint sexual assault. READ MORE ….

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ALSO SEE: A pellet gun he was carrying fired several times as a 49-year-old Teaneck man tackled and tried to molest a woman who works in the building where he lives, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon. READ MORE….

Neil Finn, who was Glen Rock’s police chief for 33 years, has died. He was 88.

Finn was appointed in July 27, 1948, became chief a decade later and retired on Nov. 30, 1991.

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ONLY ON CVP: Ridgewood emergency responders freed a terrier whose paw got caught in a treadmill late this morning.

The North Murray Avenue homeowner was bitten trying to free the dog but declined hospitalization after police and firefighters responded around 11 a.m., Police Chief John Ward told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The dog was fine, he said.

The terrier’s rear paw was stuck between the tread roller and the side rail, so responders loosened the rail.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paterson man who police said bought hundreds of bags of heroin after robbing a Saddle Brook bank of roughly $4,500 last summer was indicted yesterday by a grand jury in Hackensack.

Saddle Brook detectives investigating the Sept. 19 holdup at the Spencer Savings Bank in the Terra Mini Mall on Market Street were scouring area hotels when they found the getaway car — a four-door, gold 2000 Mazda Millenia — in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn off the Garden State Parkway in Rochelle Park, authorities said at the time.

Soon after, William Petrucelli II emerged from the lobby following an apparent visit and was arrested.

In his car, police said, they found a key to a South Hackensack hotel, where they recovered approximately $1,500 in cash, along with 300 or so heroin bags that Police Chief Robert Kugler said Petrucelli bought with the rest of the booty.

He later confessed during questioning, the chief said.

A witness earlier reported seeing Petrucelli — wearing a grey sweatshirt and dark shorts — run across the parking lot of the mini mall, get into a four-door, late-90s model gold-colored vehicle and drive off immediately after the robbery.

Detectives from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification lifted a fingerprint matching Petrucelli’s from a demand note that he left behind, the chief said.

The note said he had a gun and instructed the teller to put the cash into a bag that he’d brought, Kugler said at the time.

Petrucelli, 25 (photo above), remained held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

The indictment returned yesterday charged Petrucelli with threatening “immediate bodily injury” to the female teller during a robbery in Saddle Brook, in addition to heroin and cocaine possession in South Hackensack.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy SADDLE BROOK PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police believe a masked man who took more than $1,000 at gunpoint robbed a westbound Route 4 service station convenience store in Englewood overnight had an accomplice.

The 5-foot-2-inch gunman, who spoke with an Hispanic accent, hit the Exxon Tiger Mart in the area known as Gasoline Alley just just west of the South Van Brunt Street on/off ramp before midnight (see surveillance image), Detective Capt. Timothy Torell told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

No shots were fired and the clerk was unharmed, he said.

“We believe there are a number of people who were in the area at the time who may be able to provide us with helpful information, such as if the suspects escaped in a vehicle or not – especially in the area of the 4 West Diner which was open at the time,” Torell said.

The suspected accomplice is more than 6 feet tall and was wearing a similar mask, he said.

“He hung back during the robbery, possibly as the lookout,” the captain said.

Officers from various area law enforcement agencies flooded the area — including a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit. The sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification collected and was processing evidence.

Anyone with information that could help the investigation is asked to call Englewood detectives: (201) 568-4875. All calls will remain confidential, Torell said.