Lawyer doesn’t want jurors looking negatively at gang tattoo on man charged...
ONLY ON CVP: The lawyer for a Cliffside Park gang member headed to trial on charges of breaking an 80-year old Port Authority employee’s jaw during a violent armed robbery in Fairview last summer asked...
View ArticleMan urinated on Ridgewood dispatch center door, tried doing same to...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Elmwood Park man urinated on the front door to the Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch center and then tried doing the same to staffers there, Ridgewood police said. Richard...
View ArticleHigh-speed chase from Newark ends in Fairview crash, two state troopers injured
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A high-speed police chase that began in Newark ended in Fairview with the arrest of two men after their car rammed several police vehicles and they tried to take off on foot,...
View ArticleTwo sought, one caught after Englewood Cliffs stolen vehicle chase ends in...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The second chase and crash in Bergen County overnight led to the arrest of an Englewood man and a teenage girl and the search for a second passenger. Englewood Cliffs Officer...
View ArticleConvict in Hackensack 40-kilo, $1M cocaine deal facing 40 years
ONLY ON CVP: Jurors in Hackensack needed less than three hours yesterday to convict a California truck driver of transporting 40 kilos of cocaine cross country to a New Jersey warehouse in exchange for...
View ArticleMan held in Palisades Park slashing, fight with Fairview police
ONLY ON CVP: A Guatemalan native was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with slashing his girlfriend in Palisasdes Park and fighting with police in Fairview. The INS has...
View ArticleEnglewood police officer, motorist injured in crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood police officer was involved in a collision while responding to a call of a female motorist injured by a tree limb that crashed through her windshield. The officer...
View ArticleArrest for Oakland massage parlor employee charged with prostitution
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Oakland police and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office busted a 42-year-old massage parlor employee on prostitution charges today. A two-month investigation led an undercover...
View ArticleHackensack home health-care aide from Fort Lee, others, charged with Medicaid...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee home health care aide working for a Hackensack-based agency billed Medicaid for services he didn’t provide during a period when he was out of the country or working...
View ArticleOvernight storm topples tree branch, smashes windshield, yanks wires in...
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Cleanup from an overnight storm continued into this afternoon in Ridgewood, where a large tree branch took down cable TV and telephone lines and smashed the front windshield of a...
View ArticleEx-Ridgewood parking inspector who stole half-million dollars in quarters...
UPDATE: An assistant Bergen County prosecutor handed a $64,000 check to a detective in a Hackensack courtroom today, representing a down payment on $460,000 that a former Ridgewood public works...
View ArticleHackensack man charged with setting hair of 78-year-old female barfly on fire
ONLY ON CVP: A dispute that had been simmering for some time erupted when a 64-year-old Hackensack man lit a 78-year-old woman’s hair on fire in a bar downstairs from the high-rise where each lives,...
View ArticleFort Lee high-rise fire quickly put down
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Fort Lee firefighters quickly snuffed a third-floor high-rise fire, preventing a potential catastrophe, last night. Firefighters and police got tenants safely out of the...
View ArticleRiver Vale couple dealt heroin, authorities charge
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities have charged a River Vale couple with dealing heroin. Investigators recovered less than a half ounce of the drug during a search of the Midvale Court home of Shelby...
View ArticleLeonia per diem recreation employee charged with luring boy, 6, having sex...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia per diem employee had sex with a 13-year-old girl he supervised during open gym sessions at the borough recreation center earlier this year, said authorities who...
View ArticleSUV plows through front of Waldwick martial arts studio
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Lexus SUV plowed through the front of a vacant martial arts studio in Waldwick early this evening. The crash at Master Cha’s Summit Martial Arts occurred around 5 p.m. on East...
View ArticleEx-Ridgewood parking inspector who got probation repaying $188,337 of...
SPECIAL REPORT: A former Ridgewood public works inspector sentenced to probation yesterday is repaying the village only $188,337 of the nearly half-million dollars in parking-meter quarters that...
View ArticleFire damages three vehicles at Englewood dealership
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fire damaged three cars at an Englewood auto dealership tonight. Firefighters limited the damage in the 7 p.m. blaze to a car being worked on that suddenly ignited and two...
View ArticleSurfer charged with sucker-punching Manhattan pedestrian has Bergenfield...
A man with roots in Bergenfield who authorities said was caught on cellphone video sucker-punching a bartender in the face in Hell’s Kitchen — then jumped out of a police car on his way to being...
View ArticleDid critically injured man jump, fall or get pushed from Fair Lawn window?
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fair Lawn police detectives were trying to determine whether a bloodied man found lying on a sidewalk fell, jumped or was pushed from a second-story window above a walk-in...
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