Lyndhurst, NJ
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Wallington PD: Driver Asleep At Wheel Had Heroin Folds Taped To Bra Wallington PD: Driver Asleep At Wheel Had Heroin Folds Taped To Bra Wallington PD: Driver Asleep At Wheel Had Heroin Folds Taped To Bra
Wallington PD: Driver Asleep At Wheel Had Heroin Folds Taped To Bra A Wallington driver found passed out behind the wheel outside a local 7-Eleven had 100 folds of heroin taped to her bra, police said. Sgt. Paul Stolarz, a recognized drug expert, noticed that the woman’s eyes were droopy and “she appeared to be emotionally detached from answering questions posed to her,” Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. “She was fumbling through paperwork and had trouble making eye contact.” Christina Maiella, 27, needed help getting out of the car and had to hold onto it for balance, Kudlacik said. After falling a series of dexterity tests, she was taken into custody, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Palisades Park Barber Does Laser Surgery, Damages Woman's Face, Authorities Charge Palisades Park Barber Does Laser Surgery, Damages Woman's Face, Authorities Charge Palisades Park Barber Does Laser Surgery, Damages Woman's Face, Authorities Charge
Palisades Park Barber Does Laser Surgery, Damages Woman's Face, Authorities Charge A Palisades Park barbershop owner gave a woman laser treatment that severely damaged her face, said authorities who arrested him for illegally practicing medicine. Young Hwan Choi, the 72-year-old owner of Shil La Barber Shop on Broad Avenue, was charged with aggravated assault and the unlicensed practice of medicine. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said his detectives and their borough colleagues investigated after the victim alerted them earlier this month of the November 2017 procedure. “The surgery caused significant bodily injury, including scars [that] were visible on the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Police: Quiet Paterson Neighborhood, Busy THC Dealers Police: Quiet Paterson Neighborhood, Busy THC Dealers Police: Quiet Paterson Neighborhood, Busy THC Dealers
Police: Quiet Paterson Neighborhood, Busy THC Dealers A quiet neighborhood betrayed what Paterson police said a city couple packaging various forms of THC for sale might have mistaken as proctective cover for their operation. Narcotics detectives got a tip pointing to the tiny home on Garrison Street, just off Broadway, which city Police Director Jerry Speziale said “doesn’t have a lot of vehicle or pedestrian traffic” – ordinarily, anyway. Investigators kept watch and were soon led across town to another home, this one in the 800 block of 22nd Street. An evening raid there Tuesday turned up dozens of THC vape cartridges, jars of edibles and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
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Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial
Judge Frees Teacher Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Elmwood Park Pre-School Pending Trial A judge in Hackensack on Wednesday ordered the release of a teacher who police said threatened to shoot up the Elmwood Park pre-school where she works. Gina Schroeder of Nutley was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday after police said she “made the threatening statements towards" the Goddard School.  A judge released her, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, following a detention hearing Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. The school was placed in lockdown last Friday after staffers there said that Schroeder, 39, threatened to “one day…come here…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Wayne PD: 179 Oxy Pills, Coke, $832 Drug Money Found In SUV Parked After-Hours At Wendy's Wayne PD: 179 Oxy Pills, Coke, $832 Drug Money Found In SUV Parked After-Hours At Wendy's Wayne PD: 179 Oxy Pills, Coke, $832 Drug Money Found In SUV Parked After-Hours At Wendy's
Wayne PD: 179 Oxy Pills, Coke, $832 Drug Money Found In SUV Parked After-Hours At Wendy's Wayne police seized 179 Oxycodone pills, a bag of cocaine and $832 in suspected drug proceeds from a Queens driver who’d been parked at the Wendy’s on Route 46 nearly two hours before it opened. Officers Ardian Cela and Gerard Venezia had noticed the 2016 Mazda SUV while responding to another incident about an hour earlier, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Drug paraphernalia in plain view raised their suspicions, prompting a search that turned up the drugs and cash, Martin said. The driver, 44-year-old Edward Cahill, was released pending court action on various drug offenses, under Ne…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Doubling Back Does In Car Burglar, South Hackensack Police Say Doubling Back Does In Car Burglar, South Hackensack Police Say Doubling Back Does In Car Burglar, South Hackensack Police Say
Doubling Back Does In Car Burglar, South Hackensack Police Say Returning to the scene got a career car burglar caught by a South Hackensack police detective, authorities said. Detective Brian Kropp reviewed home surveillance footage after a car was broken into and an iPad and pair of Chanel sunglasses were stolen, Capt. Robert Kaiser said Monday. Kropp worked the case and, with help from Hackensack police, arrested 58-year-old Kevin Gresham of Hackensack. On Friday night, Gresham returned to the same street and was arrested, Kaiser said. He was charged with burglary and sent to the Bergen County Jail. A judge hours later ordered Gresham released pen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say CANDID CAMERA: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say
Candid Camera: Gate Guard At Private Edgewater Community Caught Swiping Packages, Police Say A series of package thefts convinced management at a private community in Edgewater to install a surveillance camera, leading to the arrest of a gate guard, authorities said. Police arrested Darcel E. Wood, 21, after reviewing the video, Detective Sgt. Tim Farell said Saturday. Wood, who worked the overnight shift, “abandoned his post at the gatehouse to walk into the mailroom and take packages” at Independence Harbor, Farell said. He was charged with two counts each of burglary and attempted theft and sent to the Bergen County Jail on Thursday. A judge ordered him released the next day p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags
Paterson PD: Stop Yields Semi-Auto, High-Capacity Magazine, 460 Heroin Folds, 27 Cocaine Bags A pair of Paterson detectives who stopped a sedan believed involved in a robbery found a semi-automatic handgun -- with a high-capacity magazine – along with 460 folds of heroin and more than two dozen bags of cocaine, authorities said. Backups arrived as Detectives Martin Luizzi and John Farfan pulled over the green Chevy in the area of Presidential Boulevard and Clinton Street just before 10 p.m. Monday, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. They arrested Frank Warren III, of Paterson, on drug and weapons charges after finding the 9mm handgun, ammo and drugs -- including 27 bags of cocaine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist
Palisades Park PD: Repeat Offender Couple Tried Selling Stolen Steak On Craigslist A male-female pair of repeat offenders from Ridgefield were caught trying to fence shoplifted steak on Craigslist, Palisades Park police said. An off-duty Palisades Park police officer whose suspicions were raised alerted patrol units after he spotted Danielle Rose Marttine, 29, and James Vietzen, 33, toting stuffed supermarket bags. Responding officers arrested Vietzen and Marttine on 8th Street at East Brinkerhoff Avenue around 8 p.m. Friday after Vietzen showed them a bogus receipt for the steaks, which were shoplifted from the Shop-Rite on South River Street in Hackensack, police said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Again? Mahwah Grandparents With Drug-Dealing History Busted For Selling Oxy, Xanax, More Again? Mahwah Grandparents With Drug-Dealing History Busted For Selling Oxy, Xanax, More Again? Mahwah Grandparents With Drug-Dealing History Busted For Selling Oxy, Xanax, More
Again? Mahwah Grandparents With Drug-Dealing History Busted For Selling Oxy, Xanax, More Two grandparents busted on similar charges in Rockland County were running an opioid distribution ring in Mahwah, according to police who said they arrested them with Oxycodone, Xanax and DAB for sale – as well as $16,000 in proceeds -- after a raid on their home. Linda Famelico, 61, who has a history of similar arrests in Rockland and Bergen counties, was arrested Friday night at a local restaurant where she works as a delivery person, Police Chief James N. Batelli said. Moments earlier, her husband, 62-year-old Aniello Famelico, was taken into custody during a court-approved search of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Observant Maywood Police Officer Nabs Four Out-Of-Staters In Area Gym Locker Thefts Observant Maywood Police Officer Nabs Four Out-Of-Staters In Area Gym Locker Thefts Observant Maywood Police Officer Nabs Four Out-Of-Staters In Area Gym Locker Thefts
Observant Maywood Police Officer Nabs Four Out-Of-Staters In Area Gym Locker Thefts A keen-eyed Maywood police officer arrested three people from Maryland and one from Washington, DC who authorities suspect in a string of thefts from lockers at local gyms. Officer Peter Donatello was patrolling the parking lot of the HUMC Fitness & Wellness Center on northbound Route 17 when a parked vehicle caught his eye. Mindful of recent burglaries at the gym, he turned his police cruiser around to have a look. At that point, the driver suddenly sped off onto the highway – and was stopped moments later by Donatello, Detective Sgt. Matthew Parodi said. On the floor of the vehicle …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Clifton Police Suspect Accused Porch Pirate In Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Thefts Clifton Police Suspect Accused Porch Pirate In Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Thefts Clifton Police Suspect Accused Porch Pirate In Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Thefts
Clifton Police Suspect Accused Porch Pirate In Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Thefts A Clifton man who police suspect stole tens of thousands of dollars of items – including packages from porches, tools and landscaping equipment – was busted following a raid of his home, authorities said. Kazimir Poplawski, 42, of Althea Street has a history of drug offenses and probation violations in both Passaic and Bergen counties, records show. Clifton police charged him with five recent thefts, as well as a car burglary on Speer Avenue, and consider him the prime suspect in 10 other incidents being investigated in the Athena section of the city. Tens of thousands of dollars in procee…

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by Jerry DeMarco