Englewood, NJ
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WILD NIGHT: Bergen Homeowner Grabs Car Thief, 3 Others Captured In Multi-Agency Dragnet WILD NIGHT: Bergen Homeowner Grabs Car Thief, 3 Others Captured In Multi-Agency Dragnet WILD NIGHT: Bergen Homeowner Grabs Car Thief, 3 Others Captured In Multi-Agency Dragnet
Wild Night: Bergen Homeowner Grabs Car Thief, 3 Others Captured In Multi-Agency Dragnet Police from several agencies converged on the area and nabbed three juveniles after an Englewood Cliffs homeowner grabbed their companion and held him for officers, authorities said. The Allison Drive homeowner alerted police after the first thief had entered a car in his driveway shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday, Detective Lt. Ronald F Waldt said. The other three took off on foot, leaving behind a Mercedes Benz S550 that had been reported stolen on Staten Island late last week. Englewood Cliffs police notified surrounding agencies, a perimeter was established and the search was on, Waldt sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Englewood, NJ
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Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again
Authorities: Street Evangelist Violates Judge's Order, Stalks Englewood Abortion Doc Again A self-described Christian missionary from Bergenfield who was accused of using a drone to peer into the second-floor office of an Englewood abortion doctor was arrested again Friday morning for violating a restraining order, authorities said. A Superior Court judge in March ordered Daniel Stephen Courney, 37, not to return to Metropolitan Medical Associates on Engle Street as a condition of his release after city police charged him with stalking the doctor. He was back Friday morning -- and recorded it on Facebook. Officers responding to a call of excessive noise by a small group of peopl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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UPDATE: Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland UPDATE: Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland UPDATE: Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland
Update: Accused Killer In Palisades Park Stabbing Captured In Maryland UPDATE (JULY 31): A bus company employee who stabbed and killed a fellow Palisades Park resident fled to Maryland, where he was captured, authorities said. Jose M. Rivera Mes, 29, remained held in the Prince George’s County Jail in Upper Marlboro, MD pending extradition to New Jersey to face murder and weapons charges in Superior Court in Hackensack. Rivera-Mes stabbed Danilo Gonzalez-Flores, 37, with a kitchen knife outside the ShopRite on Roosevelt Avenue shortly after 7 p.m. last Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd been gashed so deeply across his stomach that organ…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Stony Point, NY
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Fatal Shooting Suspect Who Allegedly Fled Through Rockland Apprehended Fatal Shooting Suspect Who Allegedly Fled Through Rockland Apprehended Fatal Shooting Suspect Who Allegedly Fled Through Rockland Apprehended
Fatal Shooting Suspect Who Allegedly Fled Through Rockland Apprehended A trio of New York City police officers helped capture a 23-year-old Mahwah, New Jersey man who authorities said fled, including through Rockland County, after killing his roommate Monday night, July 12. Milan Ghimire was nabbed in the Bronx by members of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said late Tuesday morning, July 13. Mahwah police and detectives from Musella's Major Crimes Unit participated in the capture, law enforcement sources said. "In the process they took another illegally possessed gun out of our community," NYPD Capt. Isaac Soberal noted…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Hawthorne, Glen Rock Officers Capture Quartet Who Crashed Stolen Ridgewood Lexus Hawthorne, Glen Rock Officers Capture Quartet Who Crashed Stolen Ridgewood Lexus Hawthorne, Glen Rock Officers Capture Quartet Who Crashed Stolen Ridgewood Lexus
Hawthorne, Glen Rock Officers Capture Quartet Who Crashed Stolen Ridgewood Lexus Hawthorne and Glen Rock police captured a quartet of juveniles from three counties -- two of them 15 years old -- after they crashed a Lexus stolen out of Ridgewood during a brief overnight chase Monday. Glen Rock police tried to stop the car, but the driver hit the gas and continued into Hawthorne, crashing on Parker Avenue shortly after 12:30 a.m., Hawthorne Police Capt. Robert King said. The four occupants immediately bailed, he said. Hawthorne officers chased down three of them in a backyard on Rea Avenue after they ran there from 11the Avenue, King said. Glen Rock police nabbed the f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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GOTCHA! Fair Lawn Teens Who Left Anti-Transgender Graffiti On Glen Rock Cafe Return To Scene GOTCHA! Fair Lawn Teens Who Left Anti-Transgender Graffiti On Glen Rock Cafe Return To Scene GOTCHA! Fair Lawn Teens Who Left Anti-Transgender Graffiti On Glen Rock Cafe Return To Scene
Gotcha! Fair Lawn Teens Who Left Anti-Transgender Graffiti On Glen Rock Cafe Return To Scene Two Fair Lawn teens scrawled anti-transgender graffiti outside a Glen Rock café, said police who took both into custody following an investigation helped in large part by area surveillance video. Juvenile complaints were signed against the 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy who left the LGBQT+ graffiti outside Nectar Café in a Rock Road shopping complex earlier this month, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Wednesday. The vandalism, discovered when the owner opened for the day on Oct. 7, was “a random act,” Ackermann said. “No specific individual, person, or business was targeted,” the chi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images ‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images ‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images
‘Operation Reboot’: 7 Bergen Men, Juvenile Busted With 32,500 Child Porn Images Men from seven different Bergen County towns were busted with more than 32,500 child porn images combined -- among them, a trucker from Westwood who alone had 5,733 illegal files, authorities said. Detectives who participated in “Operation Reboot” arrested the men and a juvenile while seizing files from online accounts and electronic devices of victims “as young as infants and toddlers to pubescent children aged 13-16, in nude, semi-nude, or sexually explicit poses, including child rape videos and images,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Some of those nabbed trafficked images, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Rutherford, NJ
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Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More
Carlstadt PD: NYC Pair Nabbed With Stolen Car After Swiping $1,500 In OTC Meds, More Carlstadt police captured a pair of teen thieves as they left a local supermarket with nearly $1,500 worth of stolen over-the-counter medications and vitamins, authorities said. Alerted by security at the Stop & Shop on Paterson Avenue, Officers John Sanzari and Kyle Torres spotted Jayshawn Brayboy, 19, of Queens and a Brooklyn 16-year-old pushing a cart that held a black plastic trash bag filled with the stolen merchandise last Wednesday, Police Chief Thomas Berta said. Both ran but were caught by the officers. Brayboy and the minor drove to the store in a 2000 Ford Mustang reported s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Montvale Man Who Murdered Parents, Brothers Denied Parole Again Montvale Man Who Murdered Parents, Brothers Denied Parole Again Montvale Man Who Murdered Parents, Brothers Denied Parole Again
Montvale Man Who Murdered Parents, Brothers Denied Parole Again An infamous Bergen County convict who shot and killed his parents and two younger brothers in their Montvale home during Thanksgiving weekend 43 years ago must spend at least another nine years behind bars before he'll be eligible again for parole. A state appeals court on Friday ruled that the New Jersey State Parole Board had good reason to deny a bid for freedom last year and make Harry De La Roche wait until 2028 before he can make a seventh application for release. De La Roche was an 18-year-old freshman at The Citadel military college in South Carolina when authorities said he shot an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Oakland 'Candy Man' Doc Who Dubbed Himself ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Admits Scamming Insurers Oakland 'Candy Man' Doc Who Dubbed Himself ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Admits Scamming Insurers Oakland 'Candy Man' Doc Who Dubbed Himself ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Admits Scamming Insurers
Oakland 'Candy Man' Doc Who Dubbed Himself ‘El Chapo Of Opioids' Admits Scamming Insurers An Oakland doctor who boasted of being the “El Chapo of Opioids” will be sentenced to a plea-bargained five years in state prison after admitting that he submitted $32,000 in bogus health insurance claims. Under the terms of his deal with the state, Robert Delagente will be sentenced to the five years on Jan. 10 in exchange for pleading guilty to health care claims fraud during a hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack. Delagente, 45, admitted that he submitted seven fraudulent claims to Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey totaling $32,006 between May and December 2016 while practicing at …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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NJ Transit Driver Injured In Ridgefield Park School Bus Crash Gets $2.25M In Settlement NJ Transit Driver Injured In Ridgefield Park School Bus Crash Gets $2.25M In Settlement NJ Transit Driver Injured In Ridgefield Park School Bus Crash Gets $2.25M In Settlement
NJ Transit Driver Injured In Ridgefield Park School Bus Crash Gets $2.25M In Settlement A driver who suffered spinal injuries that kept him from ever returning to work when his NJ Transit bus was struck from behind by a school bus in Ridgefield Park received a $2.25 million settlement, a published report says. Miguel Alvarez had stopped to collect passengers on eastbound Route 46 when his bus was struck from behind on June 22, 2017, aggravating a previous injury, attorney Edward Capozzi, told New Jersey Law Journal. Capozzi filed a personal injury suit on Alvarez’s behalf against Felix Rodriguez-Esprit, the driver of the Morgan Educational Services bus, in Superior Court in Ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Three Teens Nabbed In Paramus After Another Pre-Dawn Police Chase, Glen Rock Officer Injured Three Teens Nabbed In Paramus After Another Pre-Dawn Police Chase, Glen Rock Officer Injured Three Teens Nabbed In Paramus After Another Pre-Dawn Police Chase, Glen Rock Officer Injured
Three Teens Nabbed In Paramus After Another Pre-Dawn Police Chase, Glen Rock Officer Injured Another stolen vehicle, another wild pre-dawn police chase in Bergen County occurred before overnight Saturday – only this time an officer was injured. And once again, out-of-town teenagers were responsible, police said. Detective Sgt. James Calaski was working a detail aimed at catching car thieves when he spotted a vehicle with a burned-out tail light and a passenger wearing a ski mask on Lincoln Avenue just after 2:30 a.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A computer check showed the vehicle stolen out of Elizabeth, he said. Calaski followed it into Ridgewood, where a village officer …

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by Jerry DeMarco