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Fort Lee, NJ
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: Pizzeria Employee Gets His Stolen E-Bike Back Thanks To Palisades Park PD
Palisades Park pizzeria employee Jose Romero thought he’d never seen his electric bicycle again after he let a prospective buyer take a test drive. Then borough police got involved. Romero, who works at Johnny’s Pizzeria on Bergen Boulevard, was contacted by Samuel Pena-Garcia, 30, of Guttenberg soon after posting a Facebook Marketplace ad, Detective Alex Monteleone said. Pena-Garcia asked to try it out before buying the bike for $1,299, Monteleone said. He never returned, the detective said. Just weeks ago, borough detectives recovered another electric bike for a Fairview victim. This …
Fort Lee, NJ
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: Palisades Park Police Resuscitate OD Victim
A 17-year-old drug user showed no signs of life when a trio of Palisades Park police officers found her on the back deck of a home off Broad Avenue. Officer Theo Christolias administered two doses of Narcan as Sgt. Marc Messing and Officer Robert DeVito conducted CPR, Detective Alex Monteleone said. DeVito applied defibrillator pads that advised no shock, Monteleone said. Messing and Christolias continued CPR and she eventually came around, the detective said . The girl was alert and conscious when taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, he said.
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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: Firefighters Douse Fairview Commercial Blaze
Firefighters doused a Wednesday night blaze in a Fairview commercial printing building. The two-alarm fire broke out on Broad Avenue across from Sedore Avenue around 7 p.m. Borough firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames. Providing mutual aid were their colleagues from Cliffside Park, Edgewater, Fort Lee, Leonia and Palisades Park and Ridgefield. Borough firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported.Werner Ennesser for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported. PHOTOS by Werner R. Ennesser AND Damien Danis. At th…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Prosecutor: Leonia Phys Ed Teacher Had 'Inappropriate Sexual Relationship' With Student
UPDATE: A Leonia High School physical education teacher was arrested after authorities learned of an "inappropriate sexual relationship" with a student, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Samantha Krakower, who turned 24 on Wednesday, was charged with second-degree sexual assault by someone with “supervisory or disciplinary power” over a victim 16 to 17 years old, he said. Krakower, a former high school and college softball standout who lives in Palisades Park, also was charged with criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. She remained held in the county l…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Leonia High School Phys Ed Teacher Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen
UPDATE: A Leonia High School physical education teacher was arrested after authorities learned of an "inappropriate sexual relationship" with a student, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Samantha Krakower, who turned 24 on Wednesday, was charged with second-degree sexual assault by someone with “supervisory or disciplinary power” over a victim 16 to 17 years old, he said. Krakower, a former high school and college softball standout who lives in Palisades Park, also was charged with criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. She remained held in the county lockup Frid…
Fort Lee, NJ
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PalPark PD Searches Days For Man Wanted For Assaulting Woman, Judge Frees Him In Minutes
Bail reform strikes again: A judge in Hackensack released a Paterson man hours after Palisades Park police who'd been looking for him for a week and a half charged him with assaulting and robbing a female companion. A passerby had called police after seeing Jamar Jones, 40, assault the woman on Grand Avenue near Route 46 on April 6, Detective Alex Monteleone said. Monteleone said he obtained surveillance video that showed Jones snatching a satchel from the woman's shoulder as the two argued, taking something out of it and then leaving. Police found an envelope at the scene from the nearby…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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'I Shot My Parents': Bogus Call Brings Police From Several Bergen Towns
A caller had just told a Montvale police dispatcher that she'd just shot her parents. Law enforcement colleagues from Hillsdale, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake immediately mobilized to assist their Pascack Valley colleagues Saturday night. Officers went to the parents' house and didn't find anyone home. They checked out at least one other claim the caller made that was bogus, too. "It was called in from out of state," Police Chief Joseph Sanfillipo said. "An investigation is ongoing." Authorities don't consider "swatting" pranks amusing. Summoning police from surrounding towns, depl…
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
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Fugitive From Bronx Wanted For Befriending, Then Robbing PalPark Man In Cliffside Surrenders
A fugitive who robbed a Palisades Park man he befriended at a local bar surrendered to Cliffside Park police this week after ducking them for 18 months. Christian Dominguez, 31, of the Bronx met the victim at Legends in Palisades Park in August 2019, Deputy Chief Vincent Capano said. He offered to give the 25-year-old victim a ride after he told Dominguez that he was going to buy some cocaine, the deputy chief said. They drove to the end of dead-ended Franklin Avenue, behind a commercial parking lot on Anderson Avenue (pictured), where Dominguez suggested they get out to smoke a cigarette,…
Hackensack, NJ
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Body Pulled From Hackensack River ID'd As Missing Palisades Park Man
UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose worried wife had reported him missing. Detective Alex Monteleone sent alerts to local law enforcement agencies, asked Port Authority and Palisades Interstate Parkway police to keep a lookout and called area hospitals. A GPS search for the missing man's Lexus at the bridges and tunnels and throughout the state returned nothing. There was no trace of the 51-year-old resident for days after he left his house without a word last Monday, depressed over health issues. Until this weekend. The Hac…
Hackensack, NJ
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Body Pulled From Hackensack River
UPDATE: For days, a Palisades Park detective searched in vain for a troubled borough man whose wife had reported him missing. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/hackensack/news/body-pulled-from-hackensack-river-idd-as-missing-palisades-park-man/805957/ ****** Authorities were trying to identify a man whose body was pulled from the Hackensack River in Little Ferry. Borough police Sgt. John Schwedhelm was on patrol when a trucker flagged him down around 3 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief James Walters said. He pointed the sergeant toward what appeared to be two legs sticking out of the water dur…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Palisades Park Day Laborer Charged With Raping Girl, 11
A day laborer from Palisades Park was charged with raping an 11-year-old girl. Santiago Quiaxan-Castro, a 37-year-old Guatemalan national, was arrested by members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit on Thursday, the prosecutor said. Borough police had told them that Quiaxan-Castro allegedly “engaged in sexual penetration with a child under the age of 13 while in Palisades Park,” Musella said Friday. Quiaxan-Castro remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. He’s charged with aggravated s…
Fort Lee, NJ
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Fort Lee Pedestrian Struck By Minivan
A pedestrian was struck by a minivan while crossing a busy Fort Lee street against the don't-walk signal, authorities said. The 58-year-old borough resident “stepped into the roadway prior to having a walk signal” on Fletcher Avenue near the Linwood Avenue intersection shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The pedestrian “attempted to cross the street between a utility pole and a traffic light pole on a diagonal to get to the crosswalk” when he was struck by a 2000 Fort Windstar, Mirkovic said. The impact sent the man flying into a utility pole, he said. The 65-year-old…
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