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No-prison plea deals offered to four in Elmwood Park sex video with girl, 15
Three former Elmwood Park High School players and a fourth defendant were offered reduced plea deals that carry no prison time if they admit videotaping themselves having sex with a drunken 15-year-old...
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Wyckoff police say driver was drugged, threatening
A driver found by Wyckoff police in a parking lot after his disabled car had apparently struck something was under the influence of drugs, had heroin in the car and threatened officers, authorities...
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Bergen grand jury refuses to indict trucker in Route 17 crash that killed...
A grand jury in Hackensack on Tuesday refused to bring vehicular manslaughter charges against a long-haul trucker whose rig slammed into a Waldwick police officer’s car, killing him, on Route 17 in...
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SUV lands upside-down in Saddle River brook
A man who drove his SUV into a brook that feeds into the Saddle River in Garfield late Tuesday afternoon was being taken to an area hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening,...
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Ramsey police nab man in stolen car less than a day after Wyckoff heroin...
No sooner had a Pennsylvania man been released after a heroin-related incident in Wyckoff than Ramsey police collared him in a stolen car that had been left running at a Paramus gas station. The owner...
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Rochelle Park police nab trio with stolen goods, BB gun
A shoplifting call led Rochelle Park to a trio of arrests. Responding Officer Jared Shatkin and Sgt. Doug Arendacs had just released 19-year-old Matthew Talbot of West Orange after giving him a summons...
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Fair Lawn police officer charged with stealing ambulance supplies
A Fair Lawn police veteran stole blankets, pillow cases, sanitary wipes and other items worth $821 from the borough ambulance corps, authorities charged. Donald MacIsaac of Ringwood turned himself in...
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Englewood PD, state Treasury agents nab illegal Bangladeshis in fast-food raid
What began as a routine bust of an Englewood fast food restaurant that investigators said sold cigarettes to a 16-year-old led to the arrests of four illegal Bangladeshi nationals and the seizure of...
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Guatemalan national molested Palisades Park girl 8 years ago, authorities charge
A Guatemalan national living in Palisades Park was charged with molesting a borough girl nearly eight years ago. Detectives from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit took...
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Plea deal in works for Ho-Ho-Kus man charged with flinging feces at neighbor
Attorneys for both sides said they’re trying to negotiate a plea deal for a Ho-Ho-Kus man accused of stockpiling his own feces and flinging it at his neighbor’s house and child’s play set. William...
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Hackensack teacher’s aide hit student, authorities charge
A teacher’s aide in a Hackensack school was arrested Thursday after authorities said he hit a student. Jose D. Garrido, 60, of North Bergen was ordered held on $20,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail,...
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Teaneck police say accused counterfeiter, 21, caught on camera
A 21-year-old community college student from Teaneck turned himself in after learning that police wanted him on charges of passing counterfeit money at local businesses. Zavian Stephon Strader was...
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Paramus PD: Taser takes down disturbed man with box cutter
A tense standoff with a suicidal psychiatric patient who sliced his arms with a box cutter and then threatened to use it on Paramus police ended when one of the officers incapacitated him with a Taser,...
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Suspicious package clears Edgewater movie theaters
A suspicious package found Saturday night at the Multiplex Cinemas on River Road in Edgewater caused some confusion — and more than a bit of panic, according to some moviegoers. Anthony Cureton of the...
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Ex-school VP from Palisades Park jumps to death from Alpine cliffs
A Bergen Catholic graduate from Palisades Park who admitted selling crystal meth and GHB jumped 325 feet to his death from the Palisades cliffs in Alpine over the weekend, authorities said. Palisades...
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Murder suspect in chase drives wrong-way down PIP in Englewood Cliffs
An upstate New York man accused of stabbing his former live-in girlfriend to death drove his car through oncoming traffic and the gas station on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Englewood Cliffs...
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Fire kills 2 in Fair Lawn group home
Two people died and three were hospitalized, including a police officer who sustained a knee injury when he fell from a roof while rescuing a resident at a Fair Lawn group home for disabled adults late...
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Alert neighbor leads Hasbrouck Heights police to burglar in home
Hasbrouck Heights police said they caught a Clifton man inside a burglarized home thanks to an alert neighbor. Police who responded to a call of a man climbing into a Kipp Avenue basement window...
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Thanksgiving Lyndhurst recycling plant fire began in ‘burn barrel’
Smoke could be seen for miles as a fast-moving Thanksgiving fire consumed a Lyndhurst recycling center. A firefighter sustained an injury in the three-alarm blaze, which broke out just before noon at...
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PIP traffic stop in Alpine leads to NY grow houses
What began as a tailgating stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine led to the discovery of a two New York marijuana growhouses, the seizure of three ounces of pot and 648 prescription pills...
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