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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Heroes
: Glen Rock Police Rescue Suicidal Man Who Threatened To Jump In Front Of Train
A crying Hoboken man told Glen Rock police who found him pacing back and forth at the local train station that he wanted to end it all, authorities said. Responding to a call from a concerned citizen, Officers John Tarantino and James McGill, along with Detective T.J. Graziani, found the troubled 44-year-old man at the Bergen Line Train Station near Harding Plaza, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. He told Tarantino that he was about to jump in front of a train but spotted several children nearby and "did not want to commit suicide in front of them,” the chief said. After about 20 minutes, …
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
‘Community Vehicle’ Owned By No One Seized By Glen Rock PD, Driver Busted With Stolen ID
Not only did a Paterson driver give Glen Rock police who pulled him over a license created with a stolen ID, authorities said. And not only was the SUV he was driving unregistered and uninsured. The black 2005 Honda CRV also carried license plates taken from another car and was considered a "community vehicle," they said. Several people from the same neighborhood used the SUV and never bothered to register or insure it, Police Chief Dean Ackermann explained. Felix Montero-Terrero, 44, happened to be behind the wheel when borough Police Officer Jim Donnelly stopped the CRV on Lincoln …
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Found
! Wayward Woman From Rockland, 74, Turns Up In Glen Rock
A lost Rockland County senior was found at a dry cleaners in Glen Rock, authorities said. Responding to the Prospect Street business, Officer Sarah Orsita found the distraught 74-year-old woman from Spring Valley, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She told Orsita that she’d became lost while traveling from home – a distance a little over 17 miles. The officer tried to give her directions, but the woman remained confused, he said. So Orsita contacted a friend of the woman who came to Glen Rock to pick her up, the chief said.
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Seen
HIM? Drug Store Masturbator Subject Of Glen Rock Police Search
Police turned to the public for help Monday while investigating a female shopper’s report that she’d seen a man masturbating in the aisle of a Glen Rock pharmacy. The shopper left, called police at 11:10 a.m. Sunday and told them the incident occurred at the CVS on Rock Road about 20 minutes earlier, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The man was no longer at the store when officers arrived and store employees were unaware of the incident,” he said. Detectives were reviewing surveillance video in an attempt to identify the masturbator, whom the woman described as wearing a puffer jack…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Glen Rock Burglaries Raise Question: How Secure Is Your Home?
WORTH CONSIDERING: Glen Rock police are joining other local law enforcement agencies in reminding residents to keep their homes as secure as they can amid a series of recent burglaries in northwest Bergen County. One of the most recent occurred around 8 p.m. Monday on Berry Place, where someone forced their way in through a rear door and fled with cash and jewelry, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. An unlocked rear door made it wasy for another burglar or burgars in the 500 block of Maple Avenue near Central School sometime during the afternoon last week, the chief said. “Second-floor bed…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Glen Rock PD: DWI Hawthorne Driver Uses Shoulder To Pass Route 208 Traffic Following Crash
Seeing them, the driver quickly tried to return to a legal lane, they said. With their vehicles blocking traffic to protect the stranded car, the officers stopped the Jeep driver -- and found that he was drunk, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Gavin Walsh, 52, of Hawthorne was taken into custody after the 3:50 p.m. incident on the southbound highway near Lincoln Avenue, the chief said. His vehicle was towed and impounded for at least 12 hours, Ackermann said. Police charged Walsh with DWI and gave him summonses for careless driving and improper passing before releasing him to a responsi…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Police: Bergen Wingman Who Thought He Bought Plane Scammed Out Of $10,000
A Bergen County man who thought he’d put a down payment on a Cessna got taken for $10,000 by a scam artist who told him the aircraft had crashed, authorities said. The Glen Rock victim told borough police he thought he had an agreement to purchase a 2004 Cessna 182T for $200,000 through a website called planecheck.com, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. As part of the deal, he told police, he sent the purported seller a $10,000 non-refundable deposit. The “seller” was to have flown the aircraft from Georgia and to Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford for delivery, Ackermann said. Wh…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Train Kept Rollin' (
Update
): Driver Of Car Struck At Glen Rock RR Crossing Gets Summons
A Glen Rock driver whose car was clipped by a commuter train will have to explain what happened to a judge, authorities said. The 59-year-old driver wasn't injured after the last car of the Hoboken-bound Bergen Line NJ Transit train struck the front of his eastbound 2015 Honda Civic, ripping off its bumper, at the Rock Road crossing shortly after 7 a.m. Nov. 24. The train kept rolling. "The engineer was not immediately aware of the collision, as the head end of the train had already cleared the crossing," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police gave the driver a summons f…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Train Kept Rollin': Driver Of Car Struck At Glen Rock RR Crossing Gets Summons
A Glen Rock driver whose car was clipped by a commuter train will have to explain what happened to a judge, authorities said. The 59-year-old driver wasn't injured after the last car of the Hoboken-bound Bergen Line NJ Transit train struck the front of his eastbound 2015 Honda Civic, ripping off its bumper, at the Rock Road crossing shortly after 7 a.m. Nov. 24. The train kept rolling. "The engineer was not immediately aware of the collision, as the head end of the train had already cleared the crossing," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police gave the driver a summons f…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home
The results of a medical exam will determine whether summonses are in store for a Glen Rock driver whose car barreled across a sidewalk and lawn and into another borough resident’s house, authorities said. The crash occurred on Lincoln Avenue, directly across from Van Winkle Avenue, after the 62-year-old driver appeared to suffer some type of medical emergency just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The motorist, who seemed “pretty out of it,” drove off the property and continued a short distance onto Van Winkle Avenue, Ackermann said. Police recovered the vehicle befo…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
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…
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Police: Bichon Frisé Breaks Loose, Killed By Pit Bull On Glen Rock Street
A pit bull killed a Bichon Frisé who’d broken loose while being walked on a Glen Rock street, authorities said. The plume-tailed toy dog slipped his harness while being walked by a young boy on Dean Street, Police Chief Dean Ackermann. As the boy ran home to get his help, a pit bull being walked by a 69-year-old man coming from the opposite direction grabbed hold of the other dog, the chief said. Responding officers found the Bichon Frisé dead, Ackermann said. The man, who’d been bitten on his hand as he tried to pull the dogs apart, refused medical attention, he added. TYCO Animal Cont…
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