One hospitalized after Route 17 rollover in Lodi
PHOTOS: A motorist was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after a sedan rolled over on northbound Route 17 outside National Wholesale Liquidators in Lodi this morning. The northbound...
View ArticleTrio flees Glen Rock house blaze
UPDATE: A Glen Rock couple got out of their home of the last 52 years along with a home health aide before a basement fire rushed through the house and blew out the roof just after noon today. Midland...
View ArticleBergen sheriff, feds nab 10-year Leonia fugitive in Teaneck
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ten years on the run for fugitive Arturo Castelo ended when he peeked out the window of a Teaneck residence and was nabbed by Bergen County Sheriff’s officers and U.S. Marshals....
View ArticleDriver serious, three also hospitalized in wrong-way Palisades Park crash
CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos. No commercial re-use without permission. UPDATE: One driver sustained a severe head injury and three others were taken to area hospitals in a four-vehicle evening rush-hour...
View ArticleFugitive who sued NYPD after Harlem shootout arrested on warrant in Cliffside...
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A former Harlem resident dubbed the “Swiss Cheese Man” after an NYPD shootout 4½ years ago left him with more than two dozen bullet holes was picked up by city police on a fugitive...
View ArticleTwo reject pleas, headed to trial for trafficking gun used in Hackensack...
ONLY ON CVP: Two men charged with trafficking a handgun that a fleeing fugitive used to shoot at Hackensack police have rejected a final seven-year state prison plea deal from prosecutors and will go...
View ArticleBrother of fugitive Ramsey auto dealer held on $1M bail
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The brother of fugitive Afzal “Bobby” Khan, a former Ramsey luxury car dealer wanted by federal authorities for defrauding dozens of customers and lenders, was being held on $1...
View ArticlePolice charge Hackensack man, 74, with sexually touching Bogota girl
MUGSHOT: A 74-year-old Hackensack man was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with inappropriately touching a Bogota teenager. City police arrested Peter Sigmon yesterday...
View ArticlePolice officer from Bergen sheriff’s office nabs Teaneck man who fled in...
A Bergen County Sheriff’s police officer who chased a Teaneck man driving a stolen car from Fort Lee overnight went to his house a short time later and arrested him. Officer Matt Bartlett of the...
View ArticleAccused ‘Taxi Cab Bandit’ indicted in Elmwood Park, South Hackensack,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Clifton man dubbed the “Taxi Cab Bandit” was named in a nine-count indictment charging him with robbing an Elmwood Park bank, a Hackensack CVS and a Route 46 motel in South...
View ArticleKidnapping charges returned against man who police said broke broomstick over...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Passaic man who police said held his ex-girlfriend captive after breaking a broomstick over her head and dragging her from her Garfield apartment on New Year’s Day was...
View ArticleGarfield man charged with stabbing Lodi girlfriend’s ex after hiding in closet
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Garfield man hid in his Lodi girlfriend’s closet with a kitchen knife, then stabbed her ex-boyfriend several times in the chest — after which she was cut on the...
View ArticleDetectives investigate Teaneck drive-by shooting
ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: None of seven people at home during a drive-by shooting at a Teaneck house on a quiet street tonight was injured, responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Detectives were trying to...
View ArticleElmwood Park police make separate drug arrests in less than 90 minutes
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police seized 25 bags of heroin, two bags of crack and prescription drugs while separately arresting two men, one of whom was wanted on warrants out of Hackensack...
View ArticleIndictment charges Guatemalan national with kidnapping, assaulting,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant who police said burst into his ex-girlfriend’s Palisades Park bedroom, grabbed her by throat, dragged her from house and threatened to kill her...
View ArticleClifton man arrested in pot, cocaine sting in Paramus
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Clifton gas station attendant was charged with selling $680 worth of pot and cocaine to undercover detectives with Bergen County Narcotic Task Force and Paramus police. Ghaith...
View ArticleParamus computer tech held on child sex charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 46-year-old Paramus computer tech was arrested by borough and Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives on charges of having sexual contact with an 11-year-old girl. The girl, now...
View ArticleElmwood Park man charged with having sex with girl, 14
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An unemployed 36-year-old Elmwood Park man posted $50,000 bail and was released yesterday following his arrest on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Rene Casteneda...
View ArticleTotal in Paramus car sale ripoffs tops $250,000, authorities allege
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A widening investigation has found that two Paramus car dealership employees pocketed more than $250,000 in deposits, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Steven Amato, 45, of Clifton and...
View ArticleGuatemalan deportee who sexually assaulted Fairview girl caught sneaking back...
SPECIAL REPORT: An illegal Guatemalan immigrant deported after he sexually assaulted an 8-year old Fairview girl in front of her younger sister was arrested trying to sneak back into the country,...
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