Sunday morning active shooter drill at Paramus mall tests police response
Paramus police and the Bergen County Office of Emergency Management conducted a small-scale active shooter drill Sunday morning at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus. “This is just to test how fast area...
View ArticleDid PILOT mugshot taint Cliffside Park sex assault cold case?
A judge in Hackensack said she will hold a special hearing to determine whether a decade-old rape case was tainted by a mugshot on CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Authorities arrested Jose Augusto Masmela-Sarmiento...
View ArticleLyndhurst kidnappers shaved victim’s head, body, burned tongue with...
A trio of kidnappers shaved a Mahwah man’s head, eyebrows and body, burned his tongue with a cigarette and threatened him with a handgun before Wayne police intervened, Lyndhurst police said. The...
View ArticleMolinelli says he returning to private practice after retiring in mid-January
Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli on Monday announced that he’s retiring from the post in mid-January and returning to private practice in his Woodcliff Lake hometown. The Price, Meese,...
View ArticleCresskill man charged with dumping Dumont woman’s body after OD brought to court
A 20-year-old Cresskill man accused of disposing his girlfriend’s body on the Palisades in Alpine after she overdosed in his home was brought to court on Monday for a formal arraignment. A defense...
View ArticleRidgefield Park police release surveillance images of 2 wanted in strong-arm...
Ridgefield Park police, seeking the public’s help, released surveillance camera images of two me who they said robbed a bus passenger after he got off at Route 46 overpass over Teaneck Road. The...
View ArticleNew employee at Hasbrouck Heights job stabs security guard, police charge
A Passaic woman starting a new job pulled a knife and stabbed a security guard who told her she was in a restricted area, said Hasbrouck Heights police who arrested her a short time later. Police...
View ArticleBergenfield therapist made sex videos of teen patient, FBI charges
Federal authorities who arrested a child therapist from Bergenfield on charges of getting a former teenage patient to pose for sexual images and videos said they believe that there may be more victims....
View ArticleLyndhurst arrest 4th in shaving, burning kidnapping
Lyndhurst police last night arrested a fourth defendant in the kidnapping of a Mahwah man whose head, eyebrows and body were shaved and tongue burned with a cigarette. Salvador J. Santiago, 25, was...
View ArticleCliffside Park construction worker struck by own van in Ridgewood
An employee from a Cliffside Park-based construction company was seriously injured Wednesday night after he tried stop a runaway van. The driver tried jumping into the driver’s seat but fell from the...
View ArticleParamus police trying to rescue residents from fire find pot grow house
PARAMUS, N.J. — Paramus police trying to rescue residents from an overnight house fire on Thursday said they arrested four of them after finding a pot grow room in the basement. Police Chief Kenneth...
View ArticleStudents at Bergen high schools becoming dating abuse counselors
SHOUT OUT: Overwhelmed by the realization that she was a victim, a young high-schooler walked out of a forum on dating abuse presented by A Partnership for Change to compose herself. A staff member...
View ArticleEnglewood residents foils FedEx package theft scam
An Englewood man knew something was fishy when a woman came to his door while he was opening a FedEx delivery addressed to his wife with three new iPhone 6s inside and asked whether he’d mistakenly...
View ArticleLodi police pinch pair with help from Hasbrouck Heights PD
A Lodi man being sought by police didn’t get far. Officers responding to a dispute call around 11 a.m. Wednesday at the area of Lawrence and Oak Grove avenues learned that Marco Bedoya had fled, Lodi...
View ArticlePIP police: Driver illegally parks car outside traffic court with...
A motorist who went to traffic court in Alpine to answer a speeding ticket had nearly a quarter-pound of pot in his car — found parked illegally outside Palisades Interstate Parkway police...
View ArticleLockdowns follow shell casings found at Glen Rock elementary, middle schools
Glen Rock authorities locked down the borough’s elementary schools Friday afternoon after several shell casings were found in a playground — a short time after lockdowns followed a student’s discovery...
View ArticleQuartet sentenced in beating, robbery of Edgewater millionaire developer
Four people involved in the home invasion robbery of Edgewater developer Fred Daibes at his luxury high-rise apartment were sentenced to prison terms of 12 to 18 years in Hackensack on Friday. Daibes,...
View ArticleDriver in Palisades Park head-on crash may have been pushed, police say
A driver involved in a head-on collision in Palisades Park just before rush-hour Friday afternoon may have been pushed into oncoming traffic, police said Saturday. Authorities originally thought the...
View ArticleCar bounces off house in Leonia crash
One occupant was hospitalized and three others refused medical attention Sunday afternoon after a crash sent a vehicle into a house on Fort Lee Road in Leonia. All of the occupants were out of the...
View ArticleNo threat in suspicous package found outside Fair Lawn restaurant
The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office gave the all-clear at 11:20 a.m. Monday after examining a suspicious package found outside a Turkish restaurant in downtown Fair Lawn. The shopping center housing...
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