Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
BUSTED: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say BUSTED: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say
Busted: Newark Hotel Heroin Mill Linked To 15 New Jersey ODs, State Police Say A 26-year-old Elizabeth man was arrested at a Newark hotel, where he had been running a mobile heroin mill linked to 15 suspected overdoses across New Jersey, authorities said Agents found Marlon Lopez operating a heroin mill out of a hotel on Routes 1 & 9 in Newark, in which he was able to quickly mobilize the entire operation from room-to-room and to different locations altogether, New Jersey State Police said in a news release. A search of the room turned up 145 bricks of heroin, 80 grams of raw heroin, 3 pounds of marijuana, narcotics packaging materials, and several diffe…

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by Cecilia Levine
Paramus, NJ
News
SEEN HIM? Brazen Route 17 Bank Robber Wore ‘Planned Parenthood’ Hoodie, Got $5,000 SEEN HIM? Brazen Route 17 Bank Robber Wore ‘Planned Parenthood’ Hoodie, Got $5,000
Seen HIM? Brazen Route 17 Bank Robber Wore ‘Planned Parenthood’ Hoodie, Got $5,000 Paramus police released surveillance photos Monday of a man who robbed a Route 17 bank on Friday wearing a hooded “Planned Parenthood” sweatshirt. The robber handed a teller at the Citibank on the northbound highway a note shortly before 2 p.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The note said to “hand over the money or [he] would begin shooting,” the chief said. The robber got nearly $5,000 in cash, then ran toward the Fashion Center parking lot, Ehrenberg said. He described the robber as black, between 40 and 50 years old and roughly 200 pounds, with white stubble on his neck. Besid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
News
Unregistered, Suspended: Officer Finds Out-Of-State Duo With Gun In Route 17 Speeding Stop Unregistered, Suspended: Officer Finds Out-Of-State Duo With Gun In Route 17 Speeding Stop
Unregistered, Suspended: Officer Finds Out-Of-State Duo With Gun In Route 17 Speeding Stop A Paramus police officer found an out-of-state duo carrying a loaded gun, nearly five dozen pills and several bags of pot for sale after stopping their speeding sedan on Route 17, authorities said. Naqwain Johnson, 36, of Schenectady, NY and Justin Hawkins, 30, of Dallas, NC were in an unregistered 2007 Buick Lacrosse stopped by Officer Michael Mordaga on the southbound highway near the entrance to the southbound Garden State Parkway shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday. They’d been smoking pot in the car and Hawkins, who was driving, had a suspended license, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
News
FOUND! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow FOUND! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow
Found! Missing Paramus Man With Special Needs Found Lying Shoeless In Snow HERO: A Paramus police lieutenant saved the life of a missing 42-year-old borough man with special needs when he found him lying shoeless and gloveless in the snow in a nearby park. Temperatures were in the teens when what became an intensive search for the Spring Valley Road man began around 6 a.m. They'd only reached the low 20s when Detective Lt. John Devine, who was among those searching for him, found the man in nearby Van Saun Park several hours later, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. He was taken to New Bridge Medical Center for observation, the chief said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
News
Snow Collapses Paramus Home (VIDEO) Snow Collapses Paramus Home (VIDEO)
Snow Collapses Paramus Home (Video) The weight of the early-week snowstorm collapsed a Paramus house that was being built, authorities said. The framed-out Arbor Road structure "has been under construction and confirmed vacant," Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday. Police and firefighters immediately responded to the collapse shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, the chief said. PSE&G and the borough building department were also notified, he said. No injuries were reported. Boyd A. Loving shot the video and contributed to this account. ****** ALSO SEE: Police tried in vain to rescue a Little Ferry driver who was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
News
Authorities: Paramus PD Nabs New Yorkers Who Pulled Gun During Mall Brawl Authorities: Paramus PD Nabs New Yorkers Who Pulled Gun During Mall Brawl
Authorities: Paramus PD Nabs New Yorkers Who Pulled Gun During Mall Brawl Police responding to a report of a man who pulled a pistol during a dispute at a Paramus mall grabbed two fleeing Brooklyn residents with a stolen handgun, authorities said. The gunman and a companion fled following the Christmas Eve confrontation outside the Louis Vuitton store at the Garden State Plaza, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Responding Detective Jon Umanzor and Officers Jon Henderson and Diego Cruz spotted the pair on the mall's second level near Nieman Marcus about 20 minutes later, he said. Seeing them, the duo fled down an escalator, Ehrenberg said. One hande…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Fight Draws Large Police Presence To Garden State Plaza Fight Draws Large Police Presence To Garden State Plaza
Fight Draws Large Police Presence To Garden State Plaza A fight drew a large police presence to the Garden State Plaza Saturday evening. The melee broke out on first floor near the AMC theater around 8:15 p.m. The Paramus Police Department was assisted by the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, along with officers from Ridgewood, Maywood, Rochelle Park and other local departments while diffusing the situation. Footage of the fight posted to Instagram by user passaicshoefights2 shows what appears to be teenage boys fighting outside stores on the outskirts of the food court. A video sent to Daily Voice shows dozens of people running from the food c…

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by Cecilia Levine
Paramus, NJ
News
HEROES: Paramus Police Officers Rescue Suicidal Hackensack Man Atop IKEA Ledge HEROES: Paramus Police Officers Rescue Suicidal Hackensack Man Atop IKEA Ledge
Heroes: Paramus Police Officers Rescue Suicidal Hackensack Man Atop IKEA Ledge A suicidal Hackensack man sat on a ledge atop the parking deck at the IKEA off Routes 4 and 17, looking down with his legs dangling over the side, when Paramus Police Officers William Stallone and Nicholas Tanelli arrived Monday morning. As the troubled 20-year-old man talked with his frightened mother and a few other witnesses 30 feet above the pavement, Stallen and Tanelli worked their way toward him, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Stallone then grabbed him and pulled the man to safety with help from Tanelli, the deputy chief sdaid. He was taken to nearby New Bridge Medical Ce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
WATCH: Hero Paramus Officer Breaks Doll Stroller Rescuing Girl -- Then Buys Her Brand New One WATCH: Hero Paramus Officer Breaks Doll Stroller Rescuing Girl -- Then Buys Her Brand New One
Watch: Hero Paramus Officer Breaks Doll Stroller Rescuing Girl -- Then Buys Her Brand New One All that a pair of Paramus police officers had to do on one particular call Tuesday afternoon was free a toddler who had somehow gotten her doll's stroller stuck around her waist. But that wasn't enough for one of the officers, who not only talked 4-year-old Yasmeen "Nina" Saleh through the whole rescue, but returned less than an hour later with a brand new stroller since he broke the other one during the rescue. "I felt like it was the right thing to do," Officer Robert Sobocinski said "This is a human job. When you're dealing with people, everything is different." "Our emergency service…

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by Cecilia Levine
Paramus, NJ
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PD: Overdosing Driver From Bergenfield Crashes Into Route 4 Dealership Lot In Paramus PD: Overdosing Driver From Bergenfield Crashes Into Route 4 Dealership Lot In Paramus
PD: Overdosing Driver From Bergenfield Crashes Into Route 4 Dealership Lot In Paramus A 47-year-old Bergenfield driver had to be revived with Narcan after he passed out behind the wheel on Route 4 and his car slammed into two vehicles in a car dealership parking lot, Paramus police said. Miraculously, no one else was injured when the 2010 Ford Fusion driven by Glenn D. Gross careened off the eastbound highway and barreled across a grass median into the Paramus Honda lot, where it struck a parked Porsche and SUV shortly after 12:30 p.m. Officers immediately treated the unconscious and unresponsive Gross with Narcan, reviving him, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Paramus…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms
Police: Peeping-Tom Contractor Hid Video Camera In Paramus, Wayne Family Bathrooms A contractor hid a micro camera that recorded video in bathrooms at homes in Paramus and Wayne, authorities said. The Paramus victim went to local police after finding the camera, with a micro-SD memory card, hidden in a bathroom wall, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday. Detectives learned that the homeowner had hired Romeo Sanchez, 47, of West New York to replace a window, Ehrenberg said. Sanchez "had not finished the job and reported that he would return at a later date and time," the chief said. Detective Mark Pinajian examined the device's memory card and found "several vid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paramus, NJ
Police & Fire
Daily Voice Story Shared In Rockland Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Pedestrian Daily Voice Story Shared In Rockland Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Pedestrian
Daily Voice Story Shared In Rockland Leads To Arrest In Hit-Run That Killed Paramus Pedestrian UPDATE: Sharing stories really does make a difference. A Daily Voice reader who saw a story shared in a Facebook group about the search for a hit-and-run vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Paramus provided the tip that led to the capture of the accused driver. The tipster said he suspected the damaged Ford brought into an auto body shop in Congers was the same one mentioned in a Daily Voice story about the search for the fleeing driver who killed the 58-year-old woman as she walked along a local road early Thursday. So he notified authorities. Detectives from the Bergen County …

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by Jerry DeMarco