Hasbrouck Heights repeat offender cuts deal, reduces prison term in East...
ONLY ON CVP: A Hasbrouck Heights ex-con with a long criminal history and repeated probation violations pleaded guilty to armed robbery this week, reducing his prison time for being caught with a gun by...
View ArticleCitizen, fellow police help lead to Wyckoff burglary arrest
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A helpful citizen and assistance from neighboring law enforcement helped Wyckoff police arrested a 31-year-old burglary suspect from Haledon. Wyckoff Police Sgt. Kevin Kasak...
View ArticleRamsey bookkeeper charged with stealing $500,000 to feed gambling habit
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ramsey flooring company bookkeeper with a gambling habit systematically stole $500,000 over the past four years by forging the owner’s signature on checks that she noted as...
View ArticleSpencer Bank in Lodi robbed
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A lone robber held up the Spencer Savings Bank in Lodi around 12:30 this afternoon. The robber was described as black, 5-foot-6 and wearing a white t-shirt, jeans and a baseball...
View ArticleAuthorities charge Elmwood Park man with rape, relative with trying to help...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Investigators charged an Elmwood Park man with raping a 22-year-old woman and charged a relative with trying to help him duck authorities. Carlos Zambrano (above, left), 34,...
View ArticleCharles Leaf blames state child welfare workers, sentenced to 26 years for...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Despite an impassioned insistence of innocence, former Fox 5 investigative reporter Charles Leaf was sentenced in Hackensack today to 26 years in state prison for sexually...
View ArticleBody recovered of Montvale man who jumped from GWB after hour-long talk
UPDATE: Port Authority police confirmed this morning that the body of a 50-year-old Montvale man who jumped from the George Washington Bridge last Sunday after rescuers spent more than an hour trying...
View ArticleWeapons charges against North Carolina man in Hackensack road rage incident
ONLY ON CVP: A grand jury in Hackensack brought several weapons charges against a North Carolina man who got into a road-rage beef with a city resident backing out of his driveway. Richard Zahn first...
View ArticleBrawl at Montvale hotel ends quickly
ONLY ON CVP: Two large groups clashed at a Montvale hotel after its restaurant closed last night, but order was restored before police arrived. None of the nearly two dozen people involved initially...
View ArticleCar rolls onto roof in Fair Lawn crash
ONLY ON CVP: A crash in Fair Lawn this afternoon sent a car rolling onto its roof and two occupants to the hospital with what weren’t considered serious injuries. An 18-year-old woman driving a 2012...
View ArticleHo-Ho-Kus industrial fire quickly snuffed
ONLY ON CVP: A smoky two-alarm fire in a multi-tenant Ho-Ho-Kus industrial complex brought out fire departments from several northwest Bergen County municipalities this afternoon. The blaze was...
View ArticleTeaneck trio plead guilty in Hurricane Sandy gas station robbery
ONLY ON CVP: Three Teaneck men thought a Lodi gas station would be a perfect place to rob because Hurricane Sandy left it without electricity. And now two are headed to prison and another for...
View ArticleWest New York man in brutal Edgewater rape, beating threatens victim after...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A West New York man convicted in the brutal rape of his girlfriend at an Edgewater construction site this afternoon threatened the victim in Spanish, making her cry, as he was...
View ArticleEnglewood armed robber punches woman, 60, in face
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Englewood police believe a street thug who punched a 60-year-old woman in the face, pointed a gun at her and took cash from her purse last night is the same one who robbed a...
View Article4-car chain-reaction crash ties up Route 17 in Paramus
ONLY ON CVP: A four-vehicle chain-reaction crash in Paramus tied up southbound traffic on Route 17 during tonight’s rush hour. The 5:30 p.m. left-lane collision, between A&S Drive and Midland...
View ArticleOrdeal for Old Tappan couple ends with guilty pleas by ex-drug users in...
SPECIAL REPORT: “I’m glad it’s finally over,” said businessman Michael LoRusso of Old Tappan, as two drug addicts pleaded guilty in a Hackensack courtroom today to their roles in the theft of $79,000...
View ArticleFallen tree causes traffic headache in Moonachie, Little Ferry
TRAFFIC ALERT: A fallen tree was expected to keep Liberty Street, a major Moonachie/Little Ferry thoroughfare, closed past lunch, authorities said. Among those affected are NJ Transit Bus #161. PHOTO:...
View ArticleMahwah police seize more than 40 pounds of pot, hash oil, arrest 2 in MV stop
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police seized more than 40 pounds of marijuana and arrested two Rensselaer, NY men with drug records after stopping their minivan on Route 17. Officer Ryan Hill pulled...
View ArticleReoffend, release, reoffend, release — the saga of onetime Englewood...
SPECIAL REPORT: Englewood police were surprised when a woman told them that she was assaulted before dawn yesterday by basketball phenom Sean Banks. They thought he was behind bars. Over the past 18...
View ArticleWestwood apartment building fire quickly contained
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Westwood firefighters quickly smacked down an apartment building kitchen blaze around lunchtime today. They arrived at the seven-story Westwood House at the end of Madison...
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