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Ice, snow around hydrants block Garfield firefighting effort
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A two-family Garfield house appeared a total loss after firefighters had trouble getting at hydrants that were covered in snow and ice. No injuries were immediately reported in...
View ArticleBomb threat clears Englewood City Hall, area businesses
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators were looking into the possibility of a disgruntled employee making a bomb threat that cleared Englewood City Hall and a half-dozen or so area businesses this...
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Judge refuses to dismiss charges, move trial in Bergen synagogue firebombings...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today angrily refused to dismiss charges or move the trial out of the county in the Bergen synagogue firebombing case against two men. Defense attorney...
View ArticlePark Ridge widower in suicide
A law enforcement sources tonight confirmed that an elderly Park Ridge widower killed himself with a gunshot to the head late this afternoon. Local and Bergen County PD police were at the scene of the...
View ArticleElmwood Park police make arrest in gas station holdup
UPDATE: A sharp-eyed Route 46 gas station attendant who’d just been robbed got a license plate number of the getaway car and Elmwood Park police arrested an ex-con from Clifton soon after. Nidal...
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Hackensack detectives smash fake ID operation that targeted Target
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Hackensack police detectives played a clever hunch and grabbed a pair of accused ID thieves who they said were tacking hundreds — and possibly thousands — of dollars in...
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Fair Lawn firefighters clear dangerous ice, snow from school
PUBLIC SAFETY: Firefighters from Fair Lawn Fire Company #1 used their tower ladder truck to clear a dangerous buildup of ice and snow from a local school this morning. Just below the buildup was the...
View ArticleBergen sheriff: Man assaulted wife on Route 46, had hundreds of illegal meds
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man having a fight with his wife on Route 46 in Little Ferry flagged down a passing Bergen County Sheriff’s officer before dawn today — and was arrested on charges of assault...
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No injuries in Lodi roof collapse
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: All employees were accounted for in roof collapse at a trucking company off Route 46 in Lodi. L&M Trucking, the site of the cave-in just before 4 o’clock this afternoon, is...
View ArticleNYC man pulled over in Paramus charged with sex trafficking girl, 16
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paramus police officer stopped a car driven by a 34-year-old Westchester man and discovered a 16-year-old girl whom he’d been using as a prostitute, Bergen County Prosecutor...
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SUV tips on Route 17 overpass in Paramus
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: The driver of a Toyota 4 Runner escaped injury, climbing out of the vehicle after it landed on its side just off Route 17 this morning. The crash occurred on the East Ridgewood...
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Good Samaritan thrown from car trying to stop Saddle Brook shoplifters
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A good Samaritan was thrown from the car of two shoplifters, the windshield wiper assembly still in his hand, after he tried to stop them from getting away from a Saddle Brook...
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Driver in botched Ridgefield Park undercover drug deal wants trial
ONLY ON CVP: The driver in a scheme to rob an undercover narcotics officer is headed to trial next week after turning down a final plea offer from prosecutors. Yohan Balcacer of East Elmhurst, N.Y.,...
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Charles Leaf to wife: ‘Tell the kids I love them’ after child sex assault...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: “Tell the kids I love them, Monica,” Charles Leaf shouted to his wife as Bergen County Sheriff’s officers led him from a Hackensack courtroom moments after jurors this afternoon...
View ArticleNew Milford school custodian charged with having sex with teen
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 46-year-old New Milford school maintenance worker was arrested on rape charges after a 23-year-old woman told police he had sex with her beginning when she was 15 and...
View ArticleTeaneck detectives nab two in connection with Fair Lawn, Paramus burglaries
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Teaneck Police Chief Robert A. Wilson said he expects other charges may follow against two men found with a fur coat, several women’s handbags and other items taken during...
View ArticlePort Authority PD: GWB scofflaw had 20 outstanding warrants
ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A cracked windshield and a partially covered licensed plate led to the discovery today of 20 local warrants — worth nearly $2,500 — against a driver from Washington State, Port...
View ArticleWyckoff baby clings to life after ingesting anti-heroin drug, mother,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 9-month-old Wyckoff boy who ingested a methadone-like drug was in intensive care with swelling of the brain at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and his mother...
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‘James Bond Gang’ successor cuts deal to keep girlfriend from prison, no...
ONLY ON CVP: In a deal that spares his girlfriend prison, the last known leader of what once was the notorious James Bond Gang pleaded guilty to drug and weapons offenses that will add four years to...
View ArticleBergen prosecutor charges two in heroin overdose death of Allendale man, 22
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office have charged two Paterson men with manslaughter and related offenses in the overdose death last month of a 22-year-old...
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