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Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack Man, 22, Charged With $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery
Thanks to a GPS tracking device hidden in a pack of cash, Hackensack police captured a 22-year-old city man moments after he robbed a TD Bank branch of $1,150 armed with a steak knife on Tuesday, authorities said. “Hey, gimme the money. Big bills only. It’s for my daughter,” police said Drew Hughes told a teller at the TD Bank on River Street at Atlantic Street just after noon. The teller then handed him $600, Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. Hughes "demanded more money, at which point the teller gave him an additional $468," Buscilgio said. "Hughes then turned his attention to t…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery
Thanks to a GPS tracking device hidden in a pack of cash, Hackensack police captured a 22-year-old city man moments after he robbed a TD Bank branch of $1,150 armed with a steak knife on Tuesday, authorities said. “Hey, gimme the money. Big bills only. It’s for my daughter,” police said Drew Hughes told a teller at the TD Bank on River Street at Atlantic Street just after noon. The teller then handed him $600, Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. Hughes "demanded more money, at which point the teller gave him an additional $468," Buscilgio said. "Hughes then turned his attention to t…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: Sub Saboteurs Didn't Swipe WWII Memorial Plaques From USS Ling
UPDATE: Four memorial plaques that vanished from the flooded USS Ling submarine on the Hackensack River weren't stolen by thieves, as originally suspected: A member of the once-floating museum took them home for safekeeping, police said Thursday. https://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/police-wwii-memorial-plaques-werent-stolen-from-hackensacks-flooded-uss-ling-after-all/742549/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: Someone stole four memorial plaques for Navy seamen killed in World War II from the USS Ling submarine on the Hackensack River and then flooded the museum, said authorities who were try…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Man Who Stole Power Tools From Cars At Home Depot In March Just Did It Again: Hackensack PD
An Englewood man who in March was caught taking power tools from a truck in the parking lot of Hackensack Avenue's Home Depot was captured on surveillance video doing the exact same thing in the exact same lot, authorities said. This time, 33-year-old Adan Lora is facing drug charges in addition to burglary and theft, for taking power tools from cars in the lot and putting them in a shopping cart, Hackensack Police Captain Peter Busciglio said. Last Friday afternoon, Hackensack police officers were dispatched to Home Depot on a report of a man peering into parked vehicles in the lot. Upon a…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: Philadelphia Man Had Pot, $137K In Suspected Drug Cash In Jeep
Hackensack police officers seized more than $137,000 in cash and marijuana from a Philadelphia man during a motor vehicle stop, authorities said. On Friday, July 13, members of the Hackensack Police Narcotics Division pulled over Jose Diaz-Velez, 38, on Hudson Street, Captain Peter Busciglio said. The officers found marijuana and cash suspiciously packaged inside of his white Jeep Liberty, the captain said. Diaz-Velez was charged him with one count of transporting or possessing property and possession of marijuana, and transported to the Bergen County Jail, Busciglio said.
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Police Officer, SUV Passengers Hospitalized After Crash
A Hackensack police officer responding to a call and two occupants of an SUV were hospitalized -- all for precautionary reasons -- after a collision Sunday afternoon. The driver of the Toyota refused medical attention after the 2:32 p.m. crash at the intersection of Prospect and Central avenues. The officer had her vehicle's lights and siren on at the time, Capt. Francesco Aquila said. No serious injuries were sustained, he said.
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Hackensack Man Collected Child Pornography
Authorities charged a Hackensack man with collecting kiddie porn. A judge ordered Leonard E. Liebmann, 60, released pending a July 11 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on possession of child pornography charges. Cyber Crimes Unit detectives caught Liebmann, of Clinton Place, with images of “nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Calo thanked Hackensack police for their assistance, as well as their colleagues from Carlstadt, Hillsdale, Lyndhurst, and Saddle River who contribute manp…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Crime Pays -- For Hackensack Police Dashcams
Money and property seized from criminals is paying to put video cameras in all 30 Hackensack Police Department patrol cars, authorities said. “This dispels false claims against police officers while serving the interests of the public,” Capt. Frank Aquila said. “Transparency is always a primary interest,” Hackensack Mayor John Labrosse added. “And what better way is there to be transparent than to monitor all traffic stops with this device? "In this day and age, where we have seen so many incidents captured on police cameras, it is best for the protection of our police officers, as we…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
New Hackensack Police Director Sworn
Gerard Marinelli is Hackensack’s new police director. Marinelli, who was sworn in during Tuesday’s City Council meeting, spent nine months with the Morris County Prosecutor's Office. He also is a sergeant in the National Guard and a former East Orange police officer. Mayor John Labrosse said Marinelli “comes here with an impressive reputation and resume and we believe he is the right man to lead our department for many years to come.” “The Hackensack Police Department has faced several challenges in recent years and is taking major steps, including its most recent Certificate of Accreditat…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Authorities: Accused Bank Robber Threatened To Blow Up Bergen Courthouse
A man once accused of participating in a Jersey Shore bank robbery called in a bomb threat earlier this year to the Bergen County courthouse, said authorities who arrested him. A judge ordered that 25-year-old Christopher Camargo remain held in the Bergen County Jail pending further court action on charges of making terroristic threats against critical infrastructure and causing false public alarm, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Camargo, “using technology to anonymize his calling line identity, contacted the Hackensack Police Department and made a bomb threat against the …
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Pounds Of Coke, Pot, THC Gummies Seized Just Steps From Hackensack School
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Detectives who raided an accused drug dealer’s Hackensack home barely a few hundred feet from a middle school said they seized seven pounds of pot, more than a quarter-pound of cocaine and 25 pounds of THC gummies, along with nearly $42,000 in proceeds and other drugs. Alejandro Camargo surrendered to police on Thursday following the Berry Street townhouse raid across the street from the middle school. He was sent to the Bergen County Jail on a variety of drug offenses -- only to be released by a judge, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, in time for his 39th birthd…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: Boy, 15, Crashes Mom's Car, Both Concoct Carjacking Story
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Hackensack woman and her 15-year-old son concocted a bogus carjacking story after he crashed and then abandoned her car on the New Jersey Turnpike, authorities said. The teen had taken the car belonging to Mercida Landron in the early morning hours of April 7 to pick up his girlfriend in Jersey City, Capt. Francesco Aquila said. New Jersey State Police recovered the vehicle, he said. The teen told Hackensack police at headquarters that a carjacker put a gun to the back of his neck, ordered him out of the vehicle and took the car, Aqula said. As detectives were comple…
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