Mother Goose tale from Edgewater ends with woman, 62, in jail
EXCLUSIVE: A judge in Edgewater is hoping that Livia Prochnow’s beloved Canada geese will no longer feast on her illegally provided meals after he put the 63-year-old North Bergen woman behind bars for...
View ArticlePot sale rip-off leaves Cliffside Park man pistol-whipped, hit by car
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man who police said tried to rip off a drug dealer was pistol-whipped with his partner’s gun and then knocked down by the intended target’s car while fleeing...
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Washington Township officer in hit and run on mend, reward increased, driver...
SHOUT OUT: The reward for finding the hit-and-run driver whose speeding SUV knocked down and injured Washington Township Police Officer Heather Castronova on a darkened local street went to $6,000...
View ArticleAlbanian national gets 108 months in violent Wallington, Clifton bank holdups
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A violent Albanian national who went by the nicknames “Shpend Mazari” and “Luie Belushi” was sentenced today in Newark to 108 months in federal prison for robbing two TD Bank...
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Murderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in his Bronx apartment testified today that he was guided by voices when he dismembered her body and sealed the pieces in the...
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Fort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Fort Lee man was arrested by investigators from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old...
View ArticleFort Lee police motorcycle unit wins big in Special Olympics fundraiser
SHOUT OUT: A fundraiser for Special Olympics New Jersey saw motorcycle officers from the Fort Lee Police Department win several awards this past weekend. Officers and civilians from the New Jersey and...
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Driver of ‘other’ car in Ridgewood pedestrian crash found
EXCLUSIVE: Ridgewood police have found the driver of a car that a motorist said she swerved to avoid, sending her vehicle into a utility pole and a pedestrian who was thrown nearly 20 feet. As of this...
View ArticleRoute 46 traffic incident leads to weapons charges in Carlstadt
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An early-morning traffic incident on Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights spilled into a Carlstadt parking lot, where, police said, a driver wielding a baseball bat confronted two...
View ArticleArrests made in brazen Paramus T-Mobile holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Federal agents this morning arrested two Brooklyn men and charged them in separate holdups of T-Mobile stores, including one this past January on Route 17 in Paramus. Unique...
View ArticleRidgewood police probe possible burglary connections to juveniles
Ridgewood police, who took two juveniles into custody in connection with a pair of car burglaries on the same street last night, were still collecting reports today of break-ins to other vehicles, as...
View ArticleFemale Saddle Brook police officer appointed
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Saddle Brook has appointed a new female police officer who will begin training this Monday at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. An EMT who has...
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Englewood burglary crew members convicted in heist of safe
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three remaining members of the infamous Boone burglary gang were convicted by a jury in Hackensack today for their roles in the theft of a 600-pound safe from Connecticut that a...
View ArticleArrest in brutal Edgewater rape
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A multi-state manhunt ended on a West New York rooftop when detectives from Edgewater and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit chased down and arrested a Mexican...
View ArticleAlpine promotes new sergeant
SHOUT OUT: Alpine police officer Michael Lizzi offically was promoted to sergeant tonight at the mayor and council meeting. Lizzi began his career in 1994 with the New York State Police. Two years...
View ArticleIndictment: Some of Bergen’s elite scammed
EXCLUSIVE: Alpine philanthropist Lenora Klein, Englewood restaurant owner Carlo Bartolomeo and Bergenfield photographer/writer Elizabeth R. Burchard were among a group of Bergen County victims taken in...
View ArticleEarly-morning Hillsdale deck fire quickly put down
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hillsdale firefighters quickly extinguished an early-morning blaze on the rear deck and back of a two-family house after a citizen who saw smoke alerted a passing police...
View ArticleCyclists struck on 9W in Alpine
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two bicyclists were taken to area hospitals this morning after they were struck from behind by a car on 9W in Alpine. Injuries didn’t appear life-threatening, Alpine Police...
View ArticleShoplifting suspect swims across Passaic River into waiting arms of Fair Lawn...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn shoplifting suspect who was chased into Paterson this morning jumped into the Passaic River, swam across — and found Fair Lawn police waiting on the other side. Lt....
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DPW workers, citizens help police nab ex-con, accomplice in Fairview bank...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: With the help of two DPW workers and several good Samaritans, police tracked down two men — one a career criminal who once escaped from the Hudson County Jail — who they said...
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