Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
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Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY
Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY Brazen bandits robbed a man at gunpoint on a Ridgefield Park street of a Rolex watch and a gold necklace -- worth a combined $65,000 -- before leading what became a relay-race police pursuit through nearly 20 North Jersey municipalities. The robbers first headed north through Teaneck, then into Englewood and Tenafly, following the holdup late Saturday, April 2, authorities said Monday. The fleeing bandits eventually made their way down Route 95 to westbound Route 3, up northbound Route 21 to eastbound Route 80 and then all the way from there to the George Washington Bridge before they got a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
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What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say
What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say VIDEO: You might've thought he was a James Bond or "Kingsman" fan after a New Jersey driver was nabbed by Port Authority police for using an electronic gizmo to evade tolls. A New Jersey State Police trooper had notified them after seeing a blackout curtain descend over the rear license plate of a white Dodge Challenger as it passed through the cashless toll gate at the Holland Tunnel earlier this month, Port Authority Spokesperson Lenis Valens said. The muscle car had no front plate, she said. A Port Authority officer spotted the driver -- identified as Mark A. Aponte, 28, of Parlin -- d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Cliffside PD: $71,000, Gun Found In Illegally Parked Car After ID Thief Tries To Cash Bum Check Cliffside PD: $71,000, Gun Found In Illegally Parked Car After ID Thief Tries To Cash Bum Check
Cliffside PD: $71,000, Gun Found In Illegally Parked Car After ID Thief Tries To Cash Bum Check An identity thief left a car containing a loaded gun, $71,000 in cash and more illegally parked outside a Cliffside Park bank as he unsuccessfully tried to cash a bogus check inside, said police who arrested him when he emerged. Officers J.J. McGuire and Ryan Stanek spotted the unoccupied 2018 Infiniti Q50 with no license plates and completely tinted windows outside the M&T Bank at the corner of Anderson and Lawton avenues early Wednesday, March 23, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. The sedan wasn't registered, its engine was idling and its hazard lights were on, Capano said Em…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
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Speeds Exceed 110 MPH As Police Pursue Carjacked Vehicle From Northwest Bergen To GWB Speeds Exceed 110 MPH As Police Pursue Carjacked Vehicle From Northwest Bergen To GWB
Speeds Exceed 110 MPH As Police Pursue Carjacked Vehicle From Northwest Bergen To GWB Bandits who carjacked a livery driver at gunpoint in Bergen County topped 110 miles an hour to outrace police to the George Washington Bridge before vanishing across the Hudson, responders said. It literally began and ended in minutes.  The Lexus E350 was taken by force from its 31-year-old driver outside a home on Pascack Road in Washington Township, just down the street from Ridgewood Road, at 1:21 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, township Police Chief Richard Skinner said. Paramus police spotted the vehicle soon after and pursued it northbound on Route 208. The vehicle exited at Grandvie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Woman Threatening To Jump Closes Upper Level Of GWB Woman Threatening To Jump Closes Upper Level Of GWB
Woman Threatening To Jump Closes Upper Level Of GWB The upper level of the George Washington Bridge was closed while New York City police rescued a woman who threatened to jump. Several members of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit converged on a railing above a ledge where the woman had perched herself on the Washington Heights side of the bridge's eastbound lanes around 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 20. Responders said she had a knife. The officers "were able to successfully engage the individual in conversation before rescuing her from the ledge" about 90 minutes later, NYPD Special Operations reported. The bridge was reopened and the woman was ta…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer
NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer A Guttenberg man wanted for shooting and killing a school safety officer outside a Queens nightclub was in the hands of police in Fairview less than a half-hour later -- but had to be let go, authorities said. Now he’s at large and a local police chief is incensed. Mye Johnson and her twin sister were celebrating their 27th birthdays with a group of people before dawn Thursday when her ex-lover from Hudson County showed up, authorities said. Security guards at Solletto on Steinway Street near Astoria Boulevard turned away the as-yet unidentified man after finding him carrying a gun, law en…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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HELL ON WHEELS: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County HELL ON WHEELS: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County
Hell ON Wheels: GWB Tractor-Trailer Crash Jams Morning Rush Several Miles Into Bergen County UPDATE: It became worse than the usual hell heading into Manhattan on Monday after a tractor-trailer jack-knifed and slammed into the divider on the upper level of the George Washington Bridge before dawn. Wreckers were needed to remove the wreckage, the median required repairs and firefighters had to clean up a fuel spill following the 5 a.m. crash, which ruptured the rig's fuel tank. This kept three of four inbound lanes closed for several hours, jamming local streets and producing highway backups that lasted well past the morning rush -- at one point reaching all the way to Route 17, whi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman
Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman An Albanian man from Fort Lee was arrested after police said he repeatedly screamed "biased derogatory remarks” at an Asian woman in a high rise near the George Washington Bridge. The two were sharing an elevator at the Mediterranean Towers when Afrim Haxhaj, 31, began harassing the 41-year-old victim, Fort Lee Police Capt. Edward Young said. “The profane bias derogatory remarks directed towards her continued as she exited the elevator,” the captain said. Police arrested Haxhaj, charged him with two counts of bias intimidation and sent him to the Bergen County Jail following last Monday’s …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fort Lee, NJ
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F-16 Fighter Jet Intercepts Plane In Restricted Airspace Over GWB F-16 Fighter Jet Intercepts Plane In Restricted Airspace Over GWB
F-16 Fighter Jet Intercepts Plane In Restricted Airspace Over GWB In a moment that froze some witnesses on the ground, Air Force fighter jets intercepted a Cessna aircraft above the George Washington Bridge and escorted it away from restricted air space during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan on Tuesday. The Cessna 182 is owned by the United States Military Academy at West Point and was being flown by an Army instructor pilot, the academy said in a statement.  The instructor was conducting a "civil and mechanical engineering" flight lab for cadets when the aircraft "briefly violated" a Temporary Flight Restriction Area …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lyndhurst, NJ
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KIDNAPPING: Driver Seized On Route 46 After Abducting Giants Game Companion, Police Report KIDNAPPING: Driver Seized On Route 46 After Abducting Giants Game Companion, Police Report
Kidnapping: Driver Seized On Route 46 After Abducting Giants Game Companion, Police Report An intense police search for a domestic violence victim who was abducted in Lyndhurst following Sunday’s Giants game ended with her Hudson County captor captured at gunpoint on Route 46, responders said. Iran Iznaga Garabito shoved the domestic violence victim into a Chevy wagon and drove her around for nearly an hour with the child safety locks on before she escaped at the network of ramps that connect highways in Ridgefield Park, authorities said. The 25-year-old Cuban national then chased her on foot through the grass median and halfway across Route 46 before a Port Authority police offi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Passenger, 72, Critical, Driver, 70, Hurt Following Crash On Hudson Waterfront In Edgewater Passenger, 72, Critical, Driver, 70, Hurt Following Crash On Hudson Waterfront In Edgewater
Passenger, 72, Critical, Driver, 70, Hurt Following Crash On Hudson Waterfront In Edgewater UPDATE: A crash Wednesday afternoon in Edgewater critically injured a 70-year-old passenger and also sent her 72-year-old driver to the hospital, authorities said. The severity of life-threatening injuries to the passenger brought the Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit, along with borough police, firefighters and EMS. The women, both from Cliffside Park, were in a 2007 Toyota Corolla headed south on River Road that suddenly turned left into the gated Independence Harbor housing development around 2 p.m., Police Chief Donald Martin said. The 19-year-old driver o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fatal Accident Investigators Respond To Crash On Busy Road Along Hudson River Fatal Accident Investigators Respond To Crash On Busy Road Along Hudson River
Fatal Accident Investigators Respond To Crash On Busy Road Along Hudson River UPDATE: A crash Wednesday afternoon in Edgewater critically injured a 70-year-old passenger and also sent her 72-year-old driver to the hospital, authorities said. The severity of life-threatening injuries to the passenger brought the Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit, along with borough police, firefighters and EMS. The women, both from Cliffside Park, were in a 2007 Toyota Corolla headed south on River Road that suddenly turned left into the gated Independence Harbor housing development around 2 p.m., Police Chief Donald Martin said. The 19-year-old driver of…

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by Jerry DeMarco