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Three arrested in Dumont SWAT drug raid
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A SWAT team raid on a Dumont home headed by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Narcotic Task Force led to the arrests of three people and the seizure of pot packaged for sale, LSD...
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Mahwah police nab half-naked man shouting obscenities in hotel lobby
A drugged and disturbed man wearing only a tank top and nothing else walked through a Mahwah hotel lobby and parking lot screaming obscenities, then assaulted a hotel manager, before police subdued...
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Ridgewood police grab man in Captain America costume running across rooftops
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: In a Fourth of July incident that nearly passed unnoticed, Ridgewood police reported finding a 37-year-old Hackensack man drunk and running across the roofs of a string of...
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Authorities pluck alligator from Passaic River
UPDATE: What apparently was a pet alligator that grew too big for its owner was plucked from the Passaic River near the Paterson shore by Elmwood Park and Fair Lawn emergency responders around noon...
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Rutherford police match dumbbells after attempted deli burglary
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Kearny man who Rutherford police said tried to smash a deli window with a dumbbell in an attempted burglary was arrested overnight after officers found the matching weight in...
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Ski-masked robber takes $800 at gunpoint from Lodi 7-Eleven
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Lodi police released a surveillance image this morning of a robber wearing a ski mask who took $800 at gunpoint overnight from a local 7-Eleven. An employee was mopping the...
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Boy, 17, charged with repeatedly raping female English-language student, 6,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 17-year-old volunteer at a Fair Lawn school that teaches English to children raped a 6-year-old student several times, authorities charged. The incidents occurred at the...
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Arson investigators probe blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in...
UPDATE: Arson investigators were looking into what was preliminarily deemed a suspicious fire at an abandoned Curtiss Wright test cell in Wood-Ridge this afternoon. The three-alarm blaze broke out...
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CAUGHT: Fugitive animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at...
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The owner and operator of a Newark non-profit animal rescue charged with having two dead dogs and a half-dozen emaciated canines at her Dumont home is no longer a fugitive: She was...
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Two men, boy charged in rapes of Hackensack girl, 10
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives took a Moonachie construction worker and a 15-year-old boy into custody, and were searching for a second man, in connection with a series of rapes of a 10-year-old...
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Teaneck man convicted of failing to register as sex offender
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A federal judge in Newark today convicted a New York sex offender of failing to register when he moved to Teaneck in September 2013. Richard Joseph, 42, used the aliases...
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Five female drivers taken to two hospitals after seven-vehicle crash in...
PHOTOS: A chain-reaction crash caused by a tractor-trailer and involving six other vehicles in Bergenfield this afternoon sent five female drivers to two area hospitals with injuries that authorities...
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Passenger hospitalized, two others and dog OK in Mercedes SUV crash off Route...
ONLY ON CVP: A Mercedes SUV coming off southbound Route 17 barreled across a median and hit a curb, sending a female rear-seat passenger to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood this afternoon. PHOTOS: Boyd...
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Elmwood Park police arrest three out-of-towners, seize 100 bags of heroin
Elmwood Park police seized nearly 100 bags of heroin in a pair of traffic stops of out-of-towners less than two hours apart. They first stopped Mark Depaola, 24, of River Vale on Locust Street at 8:24...
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Driver hits 3 cars, warehouse in East Rutherford crash
PHOTOS: Stefanie Lopez PHOTOS: A suspected DWI driver was behind the wheel of a sedan that struck other vehicles and a warehouse in East Rutherford. Firefighters extricated the driver, who was...
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Port Authority police talk suicidal man down from Fort Lee Palisades
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police this morning talked a suicidal homeless man down from a rock wall that overlooks the George Washington Bridge on the New Jersey side. The Fort Lee...
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Garfield police officer sustains head injuries in single-car crash
UPDATE: A Garfield police officer was released from Hackensack University Medical Center with some stitches and bruises on his head after his cruiser struck a utility pole before dawn. Officer Jonathan...
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Animal rescue operator who had dead, emaciated dogs at Dumont home pleads not...
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A judge in Hackensack today ordered the owner and operator of a Newark non-profit animal rescue back to jail and set another court appearance for next Tuesday on charges stemming...
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Five juveniles charged in arson blaze at abandoned Curtiss Wright building in...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Five juveniles face Family Court hearings for their roles in an arson fire yesterday in an abandoned building in the Curtiss Wright complex in Wood-Ridge. Two of the youngsters...
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Tenafly police grab three Long Islanders in bogus check scheme
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Tenafly police, with help from their Cresskill colleagues, chased down a Long Island trio who they said tried passing a bogus check at a local bank last night. The TD Bank...
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