Tow trucks collide on Route 208 in Wyckoff, drivers hospitalized
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 38-year-old driver from Sussex County was extricated by firefighters after his tow truck — carrying a vintage 1950s-era Cadillac — struck the rear of another truck on...
View ArticleCliffside Park detectives nab man in motorcycle, van thefts
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Aiming to crack a series of vehicle thefts, Cliffside Park detectives arranged to see a motorcycle that stolen from town — and arrested a suspect. Albert Salcedo, 35, was riding...
View ArticleFather in Englewood chop-shop operation arrested, son still a fugitive
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man wanted in the investigation of a local chop shop operation was arrested after showing up for a meeting with his probation officer on another matter. His son,...
View ArticleBergenfield doctor charged with inappropriately touching patient, staff
A Bergenfield doctor touched the private parts of current and former employees — one of whom he bit on the cheek — and at least one patient at his Dumont office, authorities charged. Raja K. Jagtiani,...
View ArticleEnglewood police hunt gunman who robbed Jackson Hole Diner owner
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood detectives were reviewing surveillance video from the gunpoint robbery of an owner of the Jackson Hole Diner outside the popular eatery before dawn this morning. “We...
View ArticleSaddle Brook police say heroin-using postal carrier had 1,000 undelivered...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A postal carrier with a criminal history had more than 1,000 pieces of undelivered mail dating back three months in the trunk of his car after Saddle Brook police found him with...
View Article‘S’ tattoo leads to charges in Englewood bus stop robbery
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A distinctive tattoo helped Englewood detectives identify a Newark man who they said robbed a woman at a local bus stop. Detective Carlos Marte tracked down Pablo M. Perez,...
View ArticleNaked man in cowboy hat tasered by Ridgewood police after burglary
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood man wearing only a cowboy hat and wielding a bottle was tasered by police after he charged officers investigating a neighborhood burglary, witnesses told CLIFFVIEW...
View Article$500,000 bail for California trucker accused of trafficking teen girls for...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 53-year-old Mexican national from California was ordered held on $500,000 bail on charges of trafficking two teenage girls to work as escorts after Bergen County authorities...
View ArticleRutherford police seek help finding hit-and-run motorist who struck bicyclist...
PUBLIC ALERT: Rutherford police are seeking the public’s help finding a motorist who fled after his car struck a bicyclist on Route 17 who was headed from New York City to Pennsylvania. The 32-year-old...
View ArticleTennessee man charged with sexually assaulting girl in Hackensack beginning...
FROM YESTERDAY: Bergen County detectives arrested a Tennessee man in Connecticut after a 27-year-old woman reported that he’d sexually abused her at his previous home in Hackensack over the course of...
View ArticleWallington DWI motorist gets probation for high-speed police chase, crash
CVP EXCLUSIVE: “Someone could have been killed,” a judge in Hackensack yesterday told a Wallington motorcyclist as she sentenced him to probation for two years for leading a police chase while drunk....
View ArticleOne dead, one arrested in shooting at Hasbrouck Heights home
UPDATE: One man was dead and a suspect who authorities said called to 911 to report the shooting in Hasbrouck Heights just before 5 p.m.was in custody, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. The 40-year-old...
View ArticleDriver in stolen car ejected in NJ Turnpike off-ramp crash in Ridgefield Park
UPDATE: One occupant was ejected and the other seriously injured, as well, after they flipped a stolen car on a northbound New Jersey Turnpike off ramp in Ridgefield Park during a chase tonight, an NJ...
View ArticleDriver hospitalized after Ridgewood SUV crash
PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving PHOTOS: A driver was hospitalized with injuries that police said weren’t life-threatening after she lost control of her older-model Honda CRV and it careened into a wooded area...
View ArticleNew Milford police officer nabs Bronx quartet in major ID fraud
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A New Milford police officer checking out an illegally parked car in front of a local bank led to the arrests of four Bronx men and the seizure of assorted bogus debit, Social...
View ArticleLittle Ferry runaway, 17, vanishes again, parents worried
HAVE YOU SEEN HER? A troubled 17-year-old Little Ferry girl who made headlines when she ran away two years ago has done it again — only this time her father said he’s concerned that she might be...
View ArticleHasbrouck Heights man, 83, pleads not guilty in shooting death of tenant
Defense attorney Robert Galantucci, John Wisse (STORY / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia) YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A defense attorney this afternoon entered a not-guilty plea...
View ArticleAggravated manslaughter charge for ZZ Top fan in friend’s Elmwood Park...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A grand jury in Hackensack today returned aggravated manslaughter charges against a Morris County man who authorities said beat his friend to death after their car crashed on...
View Article$100,000 bail for man charged with Route 17 bicyclist hit and run in Rutherford
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fatal accident investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Rutherford police tracked down and charged a Belleville man who they said took off after his car...
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