Hackensack Police Seize Youngsters, Including 12-Year-Old, In Mini Market Cash, Cigars Burglary Hackensack Police Seize Youngsters, Including 12-Year-Old, In Mini Market Cash, Cigars Burglary
Hackensack Police Seize Youngsters, Including 12-Year-Old, In Mini Market Cash, Cigars Burglary Hackensack police chased down and seized three juveniles – ages 12, 15 and 17 – who they said smashed their way into a mini market and stole money and cigars. Police had identified the trio as taking $200 in change from a jar on the counter and $100 worth of cigars from Miss T's Two on 1st Street before dawn Monday, Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. They were searching from them when a Bergen County sheriff’s officer alerted them that the trio had run away from the county Juvenile Detention Center in Teterboro, DeWitt said Tuesday. City police chased the youths “through streets, yar…
Route 80 Road Rage: Tractor-Trailer Driver Charged With Threatening Motorist With Loaded Gun Route 80 Road Rage: Tractor-Trailer Driver Charged With Threatening Motorist With Loaded Gun
Route 80 Road Rage: Tractor-Trailer Driver Charged With Threatening Motorist With Loaded Gun A tractor-trailer driver was captured by Moonachie police after he threatened another motorist with a handgun on Route 80, authorities said. Officers John Bussanich and Frank Tamargo were on patrol in the Teterboro area when NJ State Police issued an alert following Tuesday night’s alleged road rage incident. The driver of the rig “reportedly brandished a black firearm and threatened another driver,” Sgt. Jeff Napolitano said. The officers were checking businesses near the Route 80 exit ramp to North Street in Teterboro when Tamargo spotted the truck leaving a local business, Napolitano sa…
Four Hospitalized In Multi-Vehicle Route 46 Pileup Involving Motorcycle In Teterboro Four Hospitalized In Multi-Vehicle Route 46 Pileup Involving Motorcycle In Teterboro
Four Hospitalized In Multi-Vehicle Route 46 Pileup Involving Motorcycle In Teterboro Four victims including a motorcyclist were hospitalized after a multi-vehicle crash on Route 46 in Teterboro late Tuesday. None of their injuries was life-threatening, Moonachie Police Chief Richard Behrens said. "Initially it was believed a vehicle may have fled the scene," Behrens said. "Once officers arrived, it was determined that all vehicles remained." All of those injured in the pileup shortly after 11 p.m. were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief said. Responders included Moonachie police and the borough's First Aid & Rescue Squad, Hasbrouck Heights firefi…
Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19 Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19
Authorities: Cliffside Park Police Capture Muggers, 15, 19 Cliffside Park police captured two strong-armed robbers moments after they mugged a victim on a local street, authorities said. One of them, a 15-year-old delinquent, is about to become a high school freshman, they said. The 24-year-old victim had just been dropped off from work by a motorist who apparently drove off without yielding to the teen and another juvenile who were on bicycles in the roadway, Capt. Vincent Capano said. The delinquent followed the victim and began yelling and spitting on him while waving over 19-year-old Juan Toro, the captain said. Both then went through his poc…
Alexander Babia Of Teaneck, 28 Alexander Babia Of Teaneck, 28
Alexander Babia Of Teaneck, 28 Alexander Michael Cortez Babia of Teaneck died on Aug. 5. He was 28 years old. Nicknamed Mikey for family and Alex for friends, Alex was born at New York Presbyterian to  Belen Babia and Michael Babia. He attended elementary and middle school at St. Joseph Roman Catholic School in Bogota and high school at Bergen County Tech in Teterboro, his obituary says. Alex earned his bachelor's cumlaude in neurobiology from NJIT, during which he worked as a research assistant in Rutgers University-Newark and NJIT. A staff writer and science columnist at the "Vector," NJIT's student newspap…
Deaf, Blind Dog Dumped In Bergen Industrial Area Last Year Dies Deaf, Blind Dog Dumped In Bergen Industrial Area Last Year Dies
Deaf, Blind Dog Dumped In Bergen Industrial Area Last Year Dies UPDATE: A deaf and blind senior dog who authorities said was dumped from a car in Teterboro last summer by her Fort Lee owner died Tuesday. Someone in another car saw Bruna, 16, being dumped on Industrial Avenue on Sept. 1 and gave authorities the license plate number and a description of the vehicle, Bergen County SPCA officials said at the time. A Good Samaritan found the black and white Boston Terrier during a search and brought her to the Bergen County Animal Shelter. Investigators from Bergen County SPCA’s Law Enforcement Division issued a complaint against 59-year-old Tania Connelly…
Ex-Husband Pours Gasoline Around Hackensack Woman's Home, Car, Police Charge Ex-Husband Pours Gasoline Around Hackensack Woman's Home, Car, Police Charge
Ex-Husband Pours Gasoline Around Hackensack Woman's Home, Car, Police Charge A would-be arsonist poured gasoline around his ex-wife's Hackensack house, then fled as police arrived, said authorities who arrested him a short time later. Wildemar Dangcil, 37, of Jersey City surrendered to city Detective Kley Peralta early Thursday evening in Teterboro after police found his car abandoned at a Little Ferry shopping center, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. His ex-wife was parked in her car in the driveway outside her Kent Street home around 5:30 p.m. when Dangcil, of Gifford Avenue, poured the gasoline from a red plastic container around it, Busciglio said. "She was able to…
VIDEO: Single Rt 46W Lane In Teterboro Reopens, Hit-Run Driver Who Took Out Hydrant Sought VIDEO: Single Rt 46W Lane In Teterboro Reopens, Hit-Run Driver Who Took Out Hydrant Sought
Video: Single Rt 46W Lane In Teterboro Reopens, Hit-Run Driver Who Took Out Hydrant Sought UPDATE: Moonachie police hope someone saw the hit-and-run driver whose commercial vehicle slammed into a fire hydrant in Teterboro on Tuesday, flooding Route 46 and indefinitely closing the westbound lanes. “We got the call of a possible water main break,” Police Chief Richard Behrens said. “When we got there the fire hydrant was knocked off and water was flowing.” The damage at the highway’s intersection with Hollister Road was expected to keep the road closed indefinitely, Suez Water said. Anyone who saw something or has information that can help find whoever was responsible was asked…
NEW RANKINGS: These North Jersey High Schools Among Nation's Best In U.S. NEW RANKINGS: These North Jersey High Schools Among Nation's Best In U.S.
NEW Rankings: These North Jersey High Schools Among Nation's Best In U.S. Where does your high school rank nationally? Now, you can find out. More than 17,000 schools nationwide are numerically ranked, up from last year's 2,700 schools in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best high schools in the nation. The six factors weighed in the rankings were graduation rates, number of AP courses offered, college readiness, reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, and underserved student performance. "Our mission with the Best High Schools rankings has always been to educate families about the schools in their district," said…
Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park
Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A pickup truck driver who caused a multi-vehicle crash on eastbound Route 80 in Teterboro over the weekend that seriously injured her juvenile passenger ran from the scene but was later captured in Elmwood Park, State Police said. The Chevy pickup driven by Jaquina Sharron Davis, a 46-year-old repeat drug offender from Paterson, left the roadway and then re-entered it, crashing into a Subaru, at milepost 66 just after 8:30 p.m. Saturday, State Police Sgt. Lawrence Peele said. The Subaru, in turn, hit a Honda, he said. Davis, who was carrying heroin and crack, bailed out and ran, th…
Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical
Ex Charged With Attempted Murder In Stabbing That Left Elmwood Park Woman's Boyfriend Critical An Elmwood Park woman’s ex-boyfriend forced his way into her apartment and repeatedly stabbed her current boyfriend Sunday night, said authorities who charged him with attempted murder. Responding to the woman's frantic 911 call, officers found the 40-year-old victim unresponsive and bleeding profusely just before 10 p.m. Sunday, according to a police report. He’d been stabbed six times in the chest, back and side by Jason Gardner, 31, who'd forced his way into the 29-year-old Donor Avenue woman's apartment at knifepoint, the report says. While his colleagues tended to the victim, Officer …
RANKING: Residential Property Tax Bills Spiked Highest In These North Jersey Towns RANKING: Residential Property Tax Bills Spiked Highest In These North Jersey Towns
Ranking: Residential Property Tax Bills Spiked Highest In These North Jersey Towns Residential property tax bills spiked across New Jersey -- again. A new report by NJ 101.5 found that the median residential tax increase among 565 municipalities in 2018 was 1.9 percent -- down from a 2.1 percent increase in 2017. Only three towns across Bergen and Passaic counties saw decreases in residential property taxes: East Rutherford, Alpine and West Milford. These area towns saw the highest residential property tax increase last year, according to the NJ101.5 report. Englewood Cliffs: $13,619: 5.98 percent increase Paterson: $8,088: 5.07 percent increase Rockleigh: $14,953…