Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files
Prosecutor: Midland Park HS Neighbor Had 263 Child Porn Files An unemployed man who lives across the street from Midland Park Junior Senior High School was caught with more than 250 images of child pornography, authorities said. A judge on Friday ordered 31-year-old Jeff Vaz released pending a hearing on charges of endangerment by possessing child pornography. Vaz was arrested a day earlier by members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit after a warranted search of his home, the prosecutor said. The investigators learned that Vaz “used the Internet to view, download, or possess approximately 263 digital files depicting nude or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Police & Fire
Garfield Man Had Thousands Of Child Pornography Files: Prosecutor Garfield Man Had Thousands Of Child Pornography Files: Prosecutor
Garfield Man Had Thousands Of Child Pornography Files: Prosecutor A 59-year-old Garfield man has been charged with possession of child pornography after a search of his home last week turned up thousands of electronic files of children, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office said Monday.  A search warrant was executed at the Pierre Avenue home of Robert E. Banas Thursday following months of investigation by the prosecutor's Cyber Crimes Unit. Authorities say Banas viewed or downloaded 3,323 files of prepubescent and pubescent children who were nude, depicted in sexual situations, or both.  Banas was granted pretrial release Friday following an in…

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by Paul Milo
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
Police & Fire
Authorities: Next-Door Garfield Neighbor Of Accused Teacher Also Had Child Porn, 30,525 Images Authorities: Next-Door Garfield Neighbor Of Accused Teacher Also Had Child Porn, 30,525 Images
Authorities: Next-Door Garfield Neighbor Of Accused Teacher Also Had Child Porn, 30,525 Images The Garfield neighbor of a Tenafly fifth grade teacher who was charged with possession of child porn had similar images of his own -- 30,525 of them, authorities said. Leonardo L. Perez, 18, was arrested on Thursday, the same day as teacher Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, and joined his Ray Street neighbor in the Bergen County Jail, authorities said. Perez was arrested by Cyber Crimes Unit detectives who conducted a warranted search at his house and found that he “used the Internet to view, download, or possess approximately 30,525 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubes…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
North Bergen Offender Who Sexually Assaulted NYC Child Does It Again In Bergen, Authorities Say North Bergen Offender Who Sexually Assaulted NYC Child Does It Again In Bergen, Authorities Say
North Bergen Offender Who Sexually Assaulted NYC Child Does It Again In Bergen, Authorities Say Having just completed 10 years of probation, a registered sex offender living in North Bergen who lost his job teaching music for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy in Queens did it again – this time with a 13-year-old in Bergen County, authorities said. Amos Duque, 35, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail, charged with several counts of sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. Duque spent several months in jail after pleading guilty in April 2009 to offering a child money to take pictures and a video of his genitals with his cellphone and to touch him i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
After Year In Jail, 'Compulsive' Bergen Cyber-Stalker From Old Tappan Charged Again After Year In Jail, 'Compulsive' Bergen Cyber-Stalker From Old Tappan Charged Again
After Year In Jail, 'Compulsive' Bergen Cyber-Stalker From Old Tappan Charged Again A year behind bars apparently made little difference to a convicted “compulsive and repetitive” cyber-stalker from Old Tappan who went after his victim yet again after being released, said authorities who seized him once more on Wednesday. Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 29, spent 364 days in the Bergen County Jail after being convicted of posting fake nude photos and creating bogus social medial accounts of a woman he’d dated nearly seven years earlier. This came after three arrests for similar behavior over a two-year span. The unemployed salesman was released in late October. Bergen County Prosecu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bergenfield, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl
Prosecutor: Delaware Man, 23, Had Sex Chats, Planned Meeting With 12-Year-Old New Milford Girl A Delaware man who’d been having sexually explicit online chats with a 12-year-old New Milford girl arranged a meeting with her, said authorities who arrested him before that could happen. A family member interrupted the planned liaison and alerted authorities who arrested Nicholas G. Clark, a 23-year-old package handler from Newark, DE, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Tuesday. The chats had gone on for nearly two months before Clark planned what was to be an April 5 meeting, Calo said. Thanks to the relative, a detective from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit took contro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Monsey, NY
Police & Fire
Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says
Spring Valley Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT Team, Prosecutor Says An unemployed Spring Valley man called in a bogus report of an active shooter at a Bergen County home, bringing a SWAT team, among other responders, said authorities who took him into custody. Austin Parks, 48, was already in the Rockland County Jail in connection with another arrest when investigators identified him, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. Parks used technology to block his number when he made the April 17 call, claiming there was an active shooter at a residence in Park Ridge, Calo said. Detectives from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit and Park Ridg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
RECOGNIZE HIM? Video Shows $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery RECOGNIZE HIM? Video Shows $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery
Recognize HIM? Video Shows $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery UPDATE (MAY 9, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Bogus 'Shots Fired' 911 Call Made Before $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery UPDATE: Bogus 'Shots Fired' 911 Call Made Before $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery
Update: Bogus 'Shots Fired' 911 Call Made Before $32,000+ Park Ridge Bank Robbery UPDATE (MAY 9, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Garfield-Lodi, NJ
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Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites
Prosecutor: Lodi Stalker Impersonated Woman, 18, On Dating Sites A self-employed insurance adjuster from Lodi impersonated an 18-year-old woman on dating sites for several months -- and even tried making a date, authorities charged Friday. Matthew J. Bolger Jr., 46, created two “fictitious social media accounts on dating and romance websites/applications in the likeness” of the victim for “a period spanning several months,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Detectives from Calo’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Bolger’s Long Valley Road residence and took him into custody on Friday. They charged him with stalking, impersonation and cyber-harass…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: Teen Caught With 1,400 Child Porn Images, Some Young As 3 Years Old Bergen Prosecutor: Teen Caught With 1,400 Child Porn Images, Some Young As 3 Years Old
Bergen Prosecutor: Teen Caught With 1,400 Child Porn Images, Some Young As 3 Years Old A 17-year-old Bergen County boy was caught with 1,400 child pornography images featuring kids as young as 3, authorities said. Cyber Crimes Unit detectives executed a search warrant Friday at the teen’s house in connection with an Internet child pornography investigation, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The boy “used two different electronic devices to view and possess approximately 1,400 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children as young as approximately three-years-old,” the prosecutor said. Detectives took the boy into pr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Want To Protect Your Kids From Online Dangers? Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Show You How Want To Protect Your Kids From Online Dangers? Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Show You How
Want To Protect Your Kids From Online Dangers? Bergen Prosecutor's Detectives Show You How Do you know what your kids are up to online? Are you worried about Internet predators? How about cyberbullying? Parents who are concerned about dangers that lurk online can attend an in-depth Internet safety presentation by the Bergen County prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit at Pascack Valley High School on March 20. “Staying Safe in Cyberspace – Internet Safety for Parents” is a comprehensive examination of today’s Internet and the dangers that lurk inside chat rooms, instant messages, e-mail and blogs,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. “This is for parents only – no ch…

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by Jerry DeMarco