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Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
News
Midland Park Officer Injured Subduing Angered Suspect
A Midland Park police officer required hospital treatment after a disturbed man bit him and hit him with a metal laundry basket, authorities said. The officer and his colleagues were trying to speak with Richard Harris, 30, when he became violent, Police Chief Michael Powderley said. Harris then took off running and was grabbed outside Park Laudromat on Godwin Avenue, the chief said. He then resisted attempts to subdue him, sending one of the officers to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, Powderley said. Officers charged Harris with three counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement o…
Stony Point, NY
News
Bear Mountain Bridge Fatal Jumper Identified
A man who jumped to his death from Bear Mountain Bridge has been identified by state police. The incident took place in Northern Westchester County in Cortlandt around 2:15 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12. Trooper AJ Hicks said the troopers responded to the bridge for a report of a disabled vehicle. An investigation determined that Ronald E. Welte Jr., age 62, of Midland Park, New Jersey, left his vehicle and jumped from the bridge, Hicks said. His body was recovered by the Continental Village Fire Department, the state Medical Examiner's Office, and the state police. This investigation rema…
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire
Authorities have identified the teen killed in this week's Midland Park house fire as a 16-year-old male resident. Alexander Lopez-Pena's body was found by responders on the first floor of the 222 Franklin Ave. home on Thursday, Feb. 2, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He was brought to an ambulance before being pronounced dead at the scene, responders said. There was no immediate indication of a possible cause of the Midland Park fire. An investigation was continuing, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.Kyle Mazza for DAILY VOICE A 16-year-old boy was killed Thursd…
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Teenage Boy Killed In Midland Park House Fire
A teenage boy was killed Thursday night in a ferocious, fast-moving house fire in Midland Park. UPDATE: Boy, 16, ID'd As Victim Killed In Midland Park Fire Two other victims were hospitalized in the blaze, which apparently ignited on the first floor of the two-family home on Franklin Avenue home next to the borough public library shortly after 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Firefighters found the 16-year-old boy in the front left side of the home -- apparently his bedroom -- soon after arriving, responders said. He was brought to an ambulance before being pronounced dead at the scene, they said. …
West Milford, NJ
News
Gas-Fed Fire Ravages North Haledon Home
No injuries were reported in a heavy house fire in North Haledon. Fed by gas from a stove, the noontime blaze on Monday, Jan. 16, ravaged the two-story, wood-frame home across from the Salesian Sisters' Mary Help of Christians Academy on Belmont Avenue. PSE&G was called on a rush to cut the feed. Mutual aid firefighters included companies from Franklin Lakes, Haledon, Hawthorne, Midland Park, Paterson, Prospect Park and Wyckoff. The gas-fed fire ravaged the Belmont Avenue home in North Haledon.FRANKLIN LAKES FD
Pascack Valley, NJ
News
'Was That An Earthquake?' North Jersey Asks
"What was that?" was the question that rumbled through a large swath of North Jersey and into New York State early Wednesday afternoon. Mine blasting? A sonic boom? Seneca guns? Unconfirmed reports of an earthquake or "seismic-like event" stretched from Newton and Sparta in Sussex County to as far east as the Palisades in Alpine beginning at 12:52 p.m. Jan. 11. There were similar calls in several southern New York State counties, as well as in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. All are basically in the area of the Ramapo Fault Line. The longest and oldest in the Northeast -- at 185 m…
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
News
Violent Fugitive From Bergen County Captured
A violent fugitive being sought by state authorities forced some schools in northwest Bergen County to shelter in place during a manhunt that ended in his capture early Tuesday, authorities said. Ex-con Justinian Rocco, 26, of Allendale was seized by Waldwick police shortly after 7:30 a.m. Jan. 3 after colleagues from Saddle River, Midland Park and Wyckoff -- along with a K-9 unit -- converged on the area to assist, they said. Rocco had absconded from a state facility last Thursday, Dec. 29, after spending time behind bars for a variety of convictions. Then came a call early Tuesday …
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
News
Salesman, 23, From Midland Park Charged With Trafficking Child Porn
A 23-year-old salesman from Midland Park was arrested Tuesday and charged with trafficking child porn, authorities confirmed. Ali Aldoise was taken into custody during the execution of a search warrant at his home on Vreeland Avenue early Nov. 6, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit found that Aldoise “used the Internet to view, download, possess, distribute and share items depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” the prosecutor said. They charged Aldoise with possessing and distributing child pornography and…
Hackensack, NJ
News
Notorious NJ Serial Killer To Plead Guilty To Murders Of Five Long Island Women: Report
The number of brutal murder confessions continues to mount for imprisoned New Jersey serial killer Richard Cottingham, who reportedly is scheduled to plead guilty to five more killings, all of women on Long Island. Cottingham, now 76, has been serving multiple life sentences in South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, NJ, for more than four decades for killing six Garden State women between 1967 and 1980. He's spent a considerable part of that time lately claiming he's committed several other killings. “For a long time now I have been trying to understand the darkness that enveloped my soul…
Northern Highlands, NJ
News
Update
: Fire Ravages Home At NJ/NY Border
An early morning fire severely damaged an Upper Saddle River home near the New York State border on Friday. The fire broke out in the garage of the home on Rambling Brook Road in the northwest section of town -- barely 300 yards from the Rockland County line -- shortly before 6:30 a.m. Nov. 18, Police Detective Capt. Edward Kane said. It spread quickly, engulfing the rear of the home, responders said. All of the residents got out OK and no injuries were reported, Kane said. The three-alarm blaze, which went to four for coverage, was doused within 90 minutes, the captain said. Mutual aid…
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
News
Crash Cracks Utility Pole On Midland Park Main Drag
Two occupants sustained injuries that weren't considered serious when their hatchback split a utility pole before dawn outside the Midland Park Post Office.Utility wires were downed across Godwin as the Hyundai continued into the corner of a building housing an embroidery shop just up the street around 4:45 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25. Godwin Avenue was temporarily closed while a utility crew replaced the pole. No power outages were reported. Midland Park police were investigating the cause. Borough police and firefighters were assisted with traffic by Ridgewood police. Boyd A. Loving took …
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
News
Inferno Levels Home Of Franklin Lakes School Board Member
A ferocious fire leveled the home of a Franklin Lakes Board of Education member. The 2½-story, wood-frame house that Ari Donio and his wife, Eveyln, bought at the corner of Kings Point Trail and Phelps Road less than two years ago was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. A partial collapse required a defensive response, with all firefighters being kept outside. A partial collapse of the Kings Point Trail home in Franklin Lakes required a defensive response, with all firefighters being kept outside.FRANKLIN LAKES FD They had the bulk of the bl…
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