Battle Rapper Serius Jones Caught Ditching Gun In Bathroom Of Bergen Restaurant: Police Battle Rapper Serius Jones Caught Ditching Gun In Bathroom Of Bergen Restaurant: Police
Battle Rapper Serius Jones Caught Ditching Gun In Bathroom Of Bergen Restaurant: Police A rapper from Bergen County who recently served time for pimping in California was carrying a gun when Ridgefield Park police investigating the possible violation of a restraining order found him in a local restaurant, authorities said. Saleem Bligen, 41, had fled when officers responded to a call at an apartment building where he once lived on Bergen Avenue and Mount Vernon Street shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, Lt. Art Jensen said. Officers Kenneth Knebl, Joe Avila, Christopher Dooley and Lavrone Green searched the nearby business district and found Bligen at a local eatery, the l…
Mall Shopping Spree With Stolen Credit Cards, Driver's Licenses Derailed By Officer: Maywood PD Mall Shopping Spree With Stolen Credit Cards, Driver's Licenses Derailed By Officer: Maywood PD
Mall Shopping Spree With Stolen Credit Cards, Driver's Licenses Derailed By Officer: Maywood PD GOTCHA! A group of ID thieves were headed to an apparent shopping spree at a mall in Paramus when they were stopped by a Maywood police officer who found an "alarming" amount of credit cards and driver's licenses in innocent victims' names, authorities said. Officer Matthew DellaBella stopped the Subaru Forester after the driver, Karina Espinal, 26, of Newark, made an illegal turn at Maywood Avenue and Essex Street, Police Chief Terence R. Kenny said. Espinal told the officer they were headed to the Garden State Plaza to do some holiday shopping, the chief said. She "didn't have her driver…
PA Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say PA Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say
PA Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say A Pennsylvania fugitive ex-con with a decades-long criminal record was busted again after he was caught on security footage unhooking a tractor from a trailer at an industrial building and driving off with it, authorities in New Jersey said. Moonachie Police Officer Scott Lemongello viewed the footage from a neighboring building on Hollister Road in Teterboro soon after the theft early Sunday, Oct. 9. It showed Christopher Mason, 58, most recently of Morrisville, PA, pulling up in a van, parking and then heading into the lot next door, where he began testing door handles on parked trucks, P…
GOTCHA! Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Off Route 46 Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say GOTCHA! Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Off Route 46 Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say
Gotcha! Ex-Con Who Took Truck From Lot Off Route 46 Caught Returning For His Ride, Police Say A fugitive ex-con with a decades-long criminal record was busted again after he was caught on security footage unhooking a tractor from a trailer at an industrial building off Route 46 and driving off with it, authorities said. Moonachie Police Officer Scott Lemongello viewed the footage from a neighboring building on Hollister Road in Teterboro soon after the theft early Sunday, Oct. 9. It showed Christopher Mason, 58, most recently of Morrisville, PA, pulling up in a van, parking and then heading into the lot next door, where he began testing door handles on parked trucks, Police Chief Ri…
Judge Refuses To Release Garfield Ex-Con Charged With Threatening Adult, Child With Scissors Judge Refuses To Release Garfield Ex-Con Charged With Threatening Adult, Child With Scissors
Judge Refuses To Release Garfield Ex-Con Charged With Threatening Adult, Child With Scissors A judge ordered that a Garfield ex-con remain jailed after authorities said he put a pair of scissors to the neck of an adult and threatened a child during a domestic assault. Several Garfield officers who responded to reports of a domestic dispute found Hugo A. Orejuela, 39, hiding behind a Lincoln Place garage shortly before 11 p.m. Sept. 29, Capt. Mario X. Pozo said. Orejuela had been breaking things before grabbing the scissors and threatening two victims, the captain said. Orejuela pushed one of them to the ground, causing a minor injury, he said. Police charged Orejuela with aggrava…
SCHOOL LOCKDOWN: Hackensack Police Capture Knife-Wielding Man Wanted For Attacking Woman SCHOOL LOCKDOWN: Hackensack Police Capture Knife-Wielding Man Wanted For Attacking Woman
School Lockdown: Hackensack Police Capture Knife-Wielding Man Wanted For Attacking Woman A Hackensack grade school was locked down as police pursued -- and then captured -- a knife-wielding Morris County man who they said had just assaulted and terrorized a local woman. Officer Aaron Rios and Police Officer Stanislav Tovbin heard "loud arguing" coming from a Railroad Avenue home while responding to a 911 call late Wednesday morning, Sept. 28, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. The frantic emerged and told them that she'd just been restrained by 19-year-old Jean Paul Rubio, the captain said. Rubio "attempted to strangle her, bit her lip and ref…
Traffic Stop: $51,000 Seized By Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Traffic Stop: $51,000 Seized By Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives
Traffic Stop: $51,000 Seized By Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives A Queens motorist had $51,154 in suspicious cash in his vehicle when he was stopped by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Peng Cheng, 33, who lives just off the Grand Central Parkway in Flushing, was stopped by members of his Narcotic Task Force in an undisclosed Ridgefield location. The investigators charged Cheng with money laundering after they found – and seized – the cash, the prosecutor said. They released him pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack, Musella said. Meanwhile, h…
Franklin Lakes Home Burglarized, Range Rover Stolen In Statewide Teen Crime Spree Franklin Lakes Home Burglarized, Range Rover Stolen In Statewide Teen Crime Spree
Franklin Lakes Home Burglarized, Range Rover Stolen In Statewide Teen Crime Spree Another beneficiary of New Jersey’s bail reform law broke into a million-dollar Franklin Lakes home and drove off in the owner’s car during a months-long crime spree from one end of the state to the other, authorities charged. Records show Tamir Pitts, 18, has been arrested numerous times over the past several months only to be released almost immediately from county jails or station houses in New Jersey under the state’s 2017 Bail Reform and Speedy Trial Act.  Then he’s arrested again. It was mid-July, authorities said, when Pitts was charged with stealing and then abandoning a BMW a…
GOTCHA! Saddle River Officers Nab Trio Of Teens Who Fled Burglary Attempt In Stolen SUV GOTCHA! Saddle River Officers Nab Trio Of Teens Who Fled Burglary Attempt In Stolen SUV
Gotcha! Saddle River Officers Nab Trio Of Teens Who Fled Burglary Attempt In Stolen SUV Police in Saddle River nabbed a trio of car thieves -- one of them 18, the others 15 -- moments after they tried breaking into a million-dollar-home, authorities said. Officers responding to a burglary-in-progress call on Bayberry Drive this past Tuesday morning spotted a parked Cadillac Escalade that had been reported stolen a short time earlier from a burglarized home in Mountain Lakes, Police Chief Jason Cosgriff said. Seeing them, the driver hit the gas. The officers pursued the SUV into Allendale and Waldwick before breaking off the pursuit at Route 17 out of concerns for civilian saf…
Detectives In Bergen Seize Enough Fentanyl To Kill 1.5 Million Users Detectives In Bergen Seize Enough Fentanyl To Kill 1.5 Million Users
Detectives In Bergen Seize Enough Fentanyl To Kill 1.5 Million Users Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives seized three kilos of deadly fentanyl – enough to produce nearly 1.5 million potentially fatal doses -- while arresting three men during a traffic stop in Teaneck. Charged with conspiracy and possessing 6½ pounds of the drug with the intent to distribute it are Bronx residents Edomar Troncoso, 28, Hanser Hernandez-Soto, 25, and Jefri Dominguez, 35, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of his Narcotic Task Force, along with Teaneck police, took the trio into custody late last week, Musella said. All three were booked into the Bergen Count…
It's 420 — As In Pounds Of Pot Seized In Bergen County Stop It's 420 — As In Pounds Of Pot Seized In Bergen County Stop
It's 420 — As In Pounds Of Pot Seized In Bergen County Stop A Queens driver stopped by detectives was charged with hauling more than 400 pounds of marijuana through Bergen County -- 420, to be exact. Coincidence? Lifan Feng, 20, of Flushing, Queens was stopped at an undisclosed location in Ridgefield, not far from the George Washington Bridge, by members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Narcotic Task Force. A search turned up the possibly random weight of 420 pounds of pot that the prosecutor said was packaged for sale. You can legally possess up to six ounces under New Jersey’s new marijuana laws. Any weight over that gets you ticketed …
Passaic Officer Abandons Seriously Injured Female Passenger In Pre-Dawn DWI Crash: Prosecutor Passaic Officer Abandons Seriously Injured Female Passenger In Pre-Dawn DWI Crash: Prosecutor
Passaic Officer Abandons Seriously Injured Female Passenger In Pre-Dawn DWI Crash: Prosecutor An off-duty City of Passaic police officer was drunk when he crashed his car and took off on foot, leaving a seriously injured female companion from Clifton behind, authorities said following his arrest. Edgar Delgado, 31, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on a host of charges -- including leaving the scene of a crash, endangering an injured victim and DWI -- following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson on Saturday. Clifton police found the 28-year-old victim in the vehicle, which had struck an unoccupied car outside the Passaic Metal & Building …