North Hunterdon, NJ
Police & Fire
Passengers Going To Doctors Office Had Meth, Arrest Warrants, Blairstown PD Says Passengers Going To Doctors Office Had Meth, Arrest Warrants, Blairstown PD Says
Passengers Going To Doctors Office Had Meth, Arrest Warrants, Blairstown PD Says One had a national crime warrant out for her arrest, and another had methamphetamine and Xanax residue, said Blairstown police who arrested the two passengers in a motor vehicle stop. Police stopped a car on Sept. 16 after noticing that neither the driver nor the three other passengers were wearing seatbelts, Blairstown police said in a news release. The driver, who was being paid to drive two of the passengers to the doctors, told police she didn't have anything illegal on her but could not speak for her passengers, police said. The driver allowed police to check the vehicle and found tha…

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by Cecilia Levine
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound
Found! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound UPDATE: "I just wanted to reach out to if not a hundred people possibly a thousand who have done everything that they can to help me locate my son, Anthony," John Galione of Blairstown posted Wednesday night after the missing Paterson resident was found safe and sound. Anthony Galione, 27, "wanted me to thank everyone who reached out and with concern about his well-being," his father added. "I personally can't thank you all enough for the enormous support through another trying time in my life," he wrote in a Facebook post. "I'm forever indebted to all of you. God bless you all." ****** O…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound FOUND! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound
Found! Missing Paterson Man, 27, Formerly Of Warren County, Safe, Sound UPDATE: "I just wanted to reach out to if not a hundred people possibly a thousand who have done everything that they can to help me locate my son, Anthony," John Galione of Blairstown posted Wednesday night after the missing Paterson resident was found safe and sound. Anthony Galione, 27, "wanted me to thank everyone who reached out and with concern about his well-being," the relieved dad added.  "I personally can't thank you all enough for the enormous support through another trying time in my life," he wrote in a Facebook post. "I'm forever indebted to all of you. God bless you all.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
North Hunterdon, NJ
Police & Fire
Community Rallies For Blairstown Family Displaced By Fire Community Rallies For Blairstown Family Displaced By Fire
Community Rallies For Blairstown Family Displaced By Fire The community is rallying for a Blairstown family that lost most of their belongings in a fire. Firefighters responded to the first alarm fire on Frontage Road around 4 a.m. Monday morning after a resident called 9-1-1, fire officials said. The fire began in the attached garage but quickly spread to the house by the time firefighters had arrived -- upgrading the blaze to a second-alarm, responding departments said. Everything had been knocked down around noon, fire officials said. "While there were no injuries, the residents unfortunately lost most of what they own," Knowlton Township Fir…

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by Daily Voice
North Hunterdon, NJ
Police & Fire
Blairstown PD: Overdose Victim Revived Blairstown PD: Overdose Victim Revived
Blairstown PD: Overdose Victim Revived A man overdosing on suspected heroin was revived by emergency medical technicians in Blairstown, authorities said. The man was found unresponsive laying against a bathroom door (blocking entry) at a house on State Highway 94 when police responded on Sept. 29 just before 6 p.m., local police said in a news release. After gained entry to the bathroom and administered one dose of Narcan to the man -- who at this point was turning purple and had stopped breathing, police said. First responders noticed an uncapped syringe on the ground, two paper folds in the toilet, a cotton swab and metal spo…

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by Cecilia Levine
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
SWEPT UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged SWEPT UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged
Swept UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged The ringleader and a crew of 16 members of a Paterson-based heroin ring tied to the Bloods street gang – along with 16 accused buyers from Bergen, Rockland and Orange counties -- were named in a sweeping indictment produced by a massive multi-agency investigation, New Jersey authorities said Thursday. The investigation targeted open-air drug dealing and gun violence controlled by a multi-layered ring in a section of the 4th Ward of Paterson known as the four corners -- or “4K” area – where Mercer, Putnam and Warren streets meet Rosa Parks Boulevard. Leading the “4K Bloods” – also known as t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Armonk, NY
Lifestyle
New MTV 'Jersey Shore'-Type Show Filming In Hudson Valley New MTV 'Jersey Shore'-Type Show Filming In Hudson Valley
New MTV 'Jersey Shore'-Type Show Filming In Hudson Valley Get ready for some wild partying and drama, Hudson Valley. MTV announced it's filming a new "Jersey Shore" type show in the area complete with wannabe Snooki's. On its teaser for the show called "Winter Break: Hunter Mountain," MTV says the docuseries will feature eight twentysomethings, who all want to escape and have a little fun during winter break. The network says the show is set "in a cabin near an idyllic ski resort," or in other words, Hunter Mountain in Greene County. The show, set to hit the air on Feb. 27, will tell "the raw story of eight youn…

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by Kathy Reakes