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Pascack Valley, NJ
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Rabbi Gets Six Years For Sexually Assaulting Woodcliff Lake Boy 20 Years Ago
A rabbi formerly from Woodcliff Lake was sentenced to a plea-bargained six years in state prison for sexually assaulting a local boy in 1999 when he lived in town. Menachem M. Weiss, 47, must serve at least three years of the sentence handed down Monday in Superior Court in Hackensack before being eligible for parole, authorities said. He also must register as a sex offender and avoid contact with the victim or his family. "It was heart-wrenching to hear the victim describe [during the sentencing] how the abuse turned his life upside down and how it has impacted him for two decades," said …
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
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Attorney: Driver In Gas Station Crash That Killed 3 Didn't Know Heroin Was Laced With Fentanyl
The drugged Sussex County driver accused of killing a father, son and gas station attendant in a fiery Route 23 crash didn't know that his heroin was laced with fentanyl, his lawyer said. Defense attorney John Latoracca said if the case goes to trial he'll argue that Jason Vanderee was passed out behind the wheel because of the fentanyl, News12 reports. Vanderee, 29, of Vernon, said he doesn't remember the February crash. Jon Warbeck and his son, Luke, both of Lincoln Park, were getting gas the morning of Feb. 19 when the speeding Honda Pilot with an overdosed Vanderee behind the wheel lit…
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Police: Eighth-Grader Stabs Rutherford Principal With Folding Knife At Graduation Practice
A 14-year-old Rutherford eighth-grader stabbed a school principal several times in the chest with a folding knife during graduation practice Friday afternoon before throwing his hands up in surrender, police said. Union School Principal Kurt Schweitzer was treated for injuries that weren't life-threatening, Lt. Marc A. Amatucci said. The principal was leading his school's 8th-grade graduation in the Washington School gymnasium around 9:30 a.m. when the boy "ran across the gym and proceeded to thrust the knife, striking the chest of the principal several times," Amatucci said. The boy …
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Oakland PD: Police Nab ID Thief Who Bought $15,000 In Gift Cards With Victim's Credit Card
An identity thief ordered $15,000 in gift cards using an innocent victim's credit card – then was nabbed by Oakland police as he picked them up, authorities said. Sgt. Michael O’Neill and Officers Gary Fiore and Gary Gusterson were waiting when Gregory Gordon, 27, showed up at the local Walgreens to pick up the cards, which were shipped there via FedEx, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. A Wanaque resident had alerted authorities after discovering bogus charges on his credit card, Eldridge said. Police then “coordinated with employees of Walgreens, who alerted [them] when an [Gordon] a…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts
Fort Lee police cracked a rash of vehicle burglaries and thefts by seizing seven Hudson County teens – three of them 16 and one 15, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 17 break-ins and four outright thefts of automobiles were reported over a 10-day span in August in Fort Lee alone, Capt. Matthew Hintze said, adding that others were reported in neighboring Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Leonia. Blame key fobs, he said. “Although this technology has added a level of convenience, it has also created opportunities for criminals to burglarize and steal vehicles without hav…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Women's Civil Liberties Union Founder Captured, Charged With Abducting Glen Rock Daughter, 14
Karin Wolf, a founder of the Women's Civil Liberties Union, was charged by Glen Rock police with abducting her 14-year-old daughter after a search led to her capture in Connecticut. Police in Torrington seized the 46-year-old Wolf, a onetime Glen Rock resident who has addresses in Westchester and Connecticut, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. Glen Rock police united for the nine-day search with their colleagues in North Carolina, Virginia and Connecticut, Ackerman said. She was being held in the York Women’s prison, pending extradition to New Jersey to face charges in Glen…
Hackensack, NJ
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Maywood Police Stolen Jeep Chase Up Route 17 Ends With Two Teens In Custody
Maywood police were chasing a stolen Jeep overnight when it abruptly stopped in the left lane of northbound Route 17. Two juveniles bailed and bolted across the highway. One was caught immediately and the other a short time later, they said. It began just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday, when Officers William Phayre and Michael McMahon spotted the red 2002 Jeep Liberty attempting to enter the northbound highway through the Essex Street exit ramp, Detective Jason Liaban said. A quick check showed the vehicle was reported stolen from Garfield earlier that night, he said. The officers tried pull…
Lyndhurst, NJ
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Prosecutor: NYC Man Downloaded Child Porn At North Arlington Home
You don’t have to use your home computer to get busted for downloading kiddie porn, said authorities who arrested a Queens man for doing so while at a North Arlington home. George L. Cordova, 33, who’s single and unemployed, was charged with having more than 100 files “depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Working with the NYPD, members of Calo’s Cyber Crimes Unit zeroed in on Cordova, who, the prosecutor said, “used the Internet while at a residence in North Arlington to view and possess” the files. Cord…
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Garfield Police Bust Teen Pair In Online-Arranged Sale Turned Robbery
GARFIELD, N.J. – A pair of online sellers who arranged a meeting in Garfield were robbed by two purported buyers, one armed with a gun, said police who nabbed two teenage suspects Tuesday. The couple – a 19-year-old man and 20-year-old woman – told police they went to Malcolm Avenue to meet the would-be buyers just before 6 p.m. Sunday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. Instead, one of the pair pulled out a handgun and took their cash, the couple told police. In short time, Lt. Joseph Delaney and Det. Marc Amos identified two suspects. On Tuesday, detectives took two juveniles into custody –…
