Hackensack firefighters rescue six cats in apartment blaze
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Hackensack firefighters rescued six cats and returned them to their owners after snuffing a kitchen stove fire that severely damaged a unit in a Polifly Road apartment complex...
View ArticleEx-con can be free again in two years for burglaries in six Bergen towns
ONLY ON CVP: A career criminal can be out of jail again in as little as two years after pleading guilty to home burglaries in six different Bergen County towns. “I did,” Sean Patrick Byrne answered in...
View ArticlePellet gun fires during Teaneck sex assault, ‘missing’ man held, prosecutor says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A pellet gun he was carrying fired several times as a 49-year-old Teaneck man tackled and tried to molest a woman who works in the building where he lives, Bergen County...
View ArticleBogota police search for assailant in stabbing, robbery
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 20-year-old Bogota man stabbed during a robbery last night tried making it to a friend’s house before collapsing just across the border in Teaneck, police said this morning....
View ArticleWoman, 44, struck, killed on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River a suicide, police...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 44-year-old woman struck and killed by a car on Route 17 last night left behind a suicide note, Upper Saddle River Police Chief Patrick Rotella said this morning. The woman...
View ArticlePalisades Park man, 33, charged in stabbing of Closter restaurant co-worker, 61
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A fight between two employees of a Closter Chinese restaurant left one stabbed in the back and another held on $75,000 bail. The 61-year-old victim was recovering this morning...
View ArticleTeaneck police issue sketch of robber who pistol-whipped pump jockey
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Teaneck police this morning issued a sketch of a scarred thug who they said pistol-whipped a gas station attendant during a robbery Monday night. A reward was being offered. The...
View ArticlePolice hunt for large truck in Route 4 fatal of Englewood man, 49
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A large truck struck and killed a 49-year-old Englewood man on the Grand Avenue entrance ramp and dragged him 500 feet onto eastbound Route 4 before taking off overnight, Bergen...
View ArticleRidgewood HS secure after local boy makes weapon threat on popular app
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A local juvenile was responsible for an unfounded online threat of bringing a weapon to Ridgewood High School, following an investigation that included the FBI and law...
View ArticleCresskill police search for man who tried to lure teen
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Cresskill police were searching for a man who they said tried to lure a local teen into his car and then got out and tried talking to her. The 18-year-old girl said the man...
View ArticleCivilian helps police grab 4 in Teaneck after Paramus home invasion, chase
UPDATE: Police from Hackensack caught four suspects in a Paramus home invasion robbery, with an assist from a good Samaritan, following a chase this afternoon. The robbers knocked first, then smashed...
View ArticleMaywood girl, 11, says two men pulled up, stared at her
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Maywood police were looking for two men who an 11-year-old girl said pulled up to her as she watched home from school. The girl said she was near the intersection of Oak Avenue...
View Article$550,000 bail each for 4 in Paramus home invasion, chase
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Four people chased and caught by Hackensack police in a home-invasion robbery in Paramus yesterday were being held on $550,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail. Charged with...
View ArticleFranklin Lakes driver, 19, charged with DWI after car barrels through Wyckoff...
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Franklin Lakes woman whose car toppled a utility pole and barreled across nearly 100 yards of private properties in Wyckoff was drunk at the time, police said this...
View ArticleSouth Hackensack police net 14 in Route 46 prostitution sweep
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A prostitution sweep along the Route 46 corridor netted South Hackensack police 14 arrests. Undercover detectives answered online ads, among other strategies, in making the...
View ArticleFort Lee police rescue fawn after mother deer is killed by car
SHOUT OUT: Fort Lee police rescued a fawn orphaned after a mother deer was struck and killed by a car near a local gas station. Workers at the station told responding officers this morning that the...
View ArticlePolice hunt Fair Lawn burglar
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A burglar tried to force his way into a Fair Lawn home, then took off when the owner showed up, police said this morning. The thief, who appeared in his early 20s, broke a window...
View ArticleGlen Rock man charged in Englewood card game shooting
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police arrested a 25-year-old Glen Rock resident in connection with a shooting earlier this month during an overnight card game. Michael “Mook” Williamson was being...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Audi ignites in Rochelle Park
ONLY ON CVP: We don’t do car fires as a general rule, but the quality of these shots — by CLIFFVIEW PILOT Contributing Photographer Ronald Strub — convinced us otherwise. This Audi convertible caught...
View ArticleNewark man charged with molesting Mahwah boy, 5
YOU SAID IT HERE FIRST: A gas station attendant from Newark is charged with molesting a 5-year-old Mahwah boy. Richard Diggs, 50, was arrested after the boy’s mother went to Mahwah police, who notified...
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