Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Police
: Missing Hackensack Man Found With Violent Ex-Con Who Bummed Ride To Paterson For Drugs
UPDATE: A missing 82-year-old Hackensack man who became the subject of a statewide Silver Alert was found Friday morning with an ex-con who police said convinced him to drive him to Paterson, among other destinations, over the course of some 18 or so hours. Nathaniel James-Booth -- whose 25-year criminal history includes recent arrests for kidnapping and robbery -- was immediately seized by police who found him in a car driven by John Ingallinera near the corner of Lehigh and Essex streets, said Capt. Darren DeWitt. They charged James-Booth, 42, with illegal possession of Percocet, DeWitt s…
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
News
Njsp
: Motorcyclist, 28, Killed In Ridgefield Park NJ Turnpike Crash
A 28-year-old motorcyclist from New York City was killed in an early-morning crash on the New Jersey Turnpike in Ridgefield Park Saturday, authorities said. Jesus Patino-Tapia's Yamaha bike went off the northbound side of the highway near milepost 116.7 around 3:45 a.m., NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. The bike struck a guardrail ejecting Patino-Tapia, who was pronounced dead at the scene, Goez said. No other vehicles were involved.
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Dashcam: Speeding Wrong-Way Driver Narrowly Misses Tow-Trucker On Route 280 In Morris County
Anthony Archibald says he was inches away from death when a wrong-way driver zoomed past him in the fast lane of Route 280 in Parsippany. His dashcam captured it all. Archibald, 50 of Hopatcong, was headed eastbound in his tow-truck after pulling a car out of the woods in Roxbury when he saw bright lights coming right at him just around 3:20 a.m. The next thing he knew, the car whipped past him, missing his truck by only several inches, he said. "I was like a deer in headlights," said Archibald, an Ajaco Towing & Recovery employee. Anthony Archibald captured a wrong-way driver c…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
NJ Police Community Affairs Association Graduates 30+ Students Trained In Bergen
Students from more than 30 universities and colleges were graduated last week from a Law Enforcement Career Development Course sponsored by the state Police Community Affairs Officers Association. The students completed 10 weeks of intense preparation by the staffs of Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo and Sheriff Anthony Cureton. It was the Police Community Affairs Officers Association's 10th year of operating the program in the region, said President William Schievella. "To date we have graduated more than 800 college students who have attended this free training," Schievella sa…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Feds Charge Morris County Ex-Con With Building, Exploding Bomb
Federal agents arrested a Morris County man who they said built and exploded a bomb. Christopher Faschan, a 31-year-old ex-con from Landing, remained in custody Thursday pending an appearance Friday in U.S. District Court in Newark. He is charged with possessing several “explosive/destructive devices,” as well as precursor materials, and with being a felon in possession of explosive materials, firearms and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Fashon showed the bomb to an unidentified woman on Feb. 1 in Stanhope, then detonated it at Lake Lackawanna, Carpenito said. “That’s some…
Bergenfield, NJ
News
Bergenfield Pair Killed In Crash Were Headed To North Carolina To Start New Life, Friends Say
Sebastian Martinez Gaviria and Sabrina Acosta of Bergenfield were only minutes into their trip to North Carolina Sunday morning when their lives were cut short. The 22-year-old friends, who both graduated from Bergenfield High School in 2015, were standing outside their crashed car after it hit the divider on westbound Route 80 in Paterson when they were struck and killed by a sedan driven by a Morris County woman, responders said. Gaviria suggested they set out for a better life together in North Carolina, friends said. "Sebastian always put others before himself," said Aaron Vaz, his fr…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Update
: Bergenfield Man, Woman Killed In Route 80 Double-Crash In Paterson
Sebastian Martinez Gaviria and Sabrina Acosta of Bergenfield were only minutes into their trip to North Carolina Sunday morning when their lives were cut short. The 22-year-old friends, who both graduated from Bergenfield High School in 2015, were standing outside their crashed car after it hit the divider on westbound Route 80 in Paterson when they were struck and killed by a sedan driven by a Morris County woman, responders said. Both had set out that morning for North Carolina, friends and family said. "They were two friends in search of the next chapter in their life," parents Ricci …
Ridgefield Park-Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
Police & Fire
North Jersey Man, 21, Fatally Struck By Car-Carrier On NJ Turnpike
A 21-year-old Paterson man was fatally struck by a tractor-trailer early Monday morning when he got out of his car in a crossover lane on the New Jersey Turnpike, authorities said. Tyrell Henry was stopped in a crossover section for I-95 and Route 80 on the southbound lane of the turnpike in Ridgefield Park when he walked into a travel lane and was struck by a car carrier, operated by a 63-year-old man from Patchogue, N.Y., NJ State Police said. The incident occurred just before 3 a.m. and is under investigation, police said.
Paterson, NJ
Events
Food Network Show Contestant Caters Wayne Pet Rescue's Event
Former Food Network's cooking show contestant Ariane Duarte will be catering a fundraiser for a Wayne animal rescue. The event will aid homeless pets and pet victims of domestic violence and is Only Kindness Rescue's second annual event. Duarte was featured on Season 5 of "Top Chef" and also beat Bobby Flay on "Beat Bobby Flay." The fundraiser will include music, a live auction and more. In 2016, there were 63,420 domestic violence offenses reported in New Jersey, according to the most recent NJ State Police Annual domestic violence report (2016). The goal is to raise…
West Milford, NJ
Police & Fire
Authorities: West Milford Body Likely That Of Woman Missing After Car Crash
Authorities on Monday wouldn't conclusively say that a body found in West Milford over the weekend was that of a 29-year-old woman who went missing a week before after a crash nearby -- but they admitted that it's most likely her. The body was found Saturday “in heavy brush” near where Stephanie Bronaugh of Lafayette went missing on July 1, Detective Sgt. Joseph Walker said. "Clothing matching the description of the missing adult female were discovered with the remains," Walker said in a release Monday. "At this time formal identification is pending from the medical examine…
Paramus, NJ
Obituaries
Services Set For Bergen Catholic Alum Cyrus Ashtyani Killed In Crash
A funeral was held Thursday, June 21 for Cyrus John Ashtyani of Montvale, who died on June 15 in a Woodcliff Lake motorcycle accident. He was 21 years old. Interment was at George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus. Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Born and raised in Montvale, Cyrus attended the Montvale elementary schools. He attended Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey and graduated from Bergen Catholic High Schoo…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Kills Montvale Motorcyclist, 21
A 21-year-old Fort Lee native who lived in Montvale and worked in Emerson was killed in a motorcycle crash Friday night on the southbound Garden State Parkway in Woodcliff Lake, State Police confirmed. Cyrus Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. “It struck a guardrail, overturned and went into center median, ejecting him,” Goez said. Ashtyani was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where he was pronounced…
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