A burglar went car to car on a bicycle in Clifton overnight before police chased down and subdued him after a struggle, authorities said.Officers responding to a burglary call on Madison Avenue around 3 a.m. found the bicycle on the sidewalk and soon began chasing 25-year-old Hector Torres-Duran of Passaic, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.For several blocks, Torres-Duran "continued to ...

An ex-con who ran from a traffic stop was carrying a loaded handgun, said Paterson police who chased him down.Officers James Iandoli and Joseph Rodriguez of their department’s Emergency Response Team stopped the Honda minivan, which had a brake light out, shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday in the area of Carroll and Fair streets, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said.A computer check ...

UPDATE: A 22-year-old Teaneck woman with a criminal history was captured moments after police said she stabbed and tried to run over a Bergenfield man early Friday evening.The 25-year-old victim survived but was "sliced up pretty badly" following the incident on Morgan Street near the corner of Melrose Avenue, one responder said.The woman accused in the attack, Ashley Amanda Gilead, ...

UPDATE: A 5-month-old Paramus boy who authorities said had his skull fractured and a rib and wrist broken by his father was recovering from injuries, his grandmother said.A judge in Hackensack ordered the release of the father – Avery Foote, 31 -- less than 24 hours after he was jailed, meanwhile.Roman Foote “was initially brought in to the ER for a virus he had been suffering from the ...

A suicidal man shot and killed himself in a car parked on a Teaneck street before dawn Monday, responders said.The 33-year-old man's estranged wife summoned police, who found him in his car near the corner of Bogert Street and Queen Anne Road near Votee Park around 3:30 a.m., they said.He pulled the trigger as officers approached, they said.Life-saving efforts continued before EMS ...

Construction workers prevented a tragedy when they stopped a drunk pickup truck driver who was headed the wrong way on Route 23, West Milford police said.The employees took the key from Dillon Hoffman, 23, of Hawthorne after stopping his southbound Chevy in the northbound construction lanes around 11 p.m., they said.Hoffman was arrested for DWI after failing standard field sobriety ...

A 26-year-old Fair Lawn native was sentenced in Russia to 7½ years in prison for having a third of an ounce of pot in her bag, in what has become an international incident involving an alleged hacker held for the United States by authorities in Israel.Naama Issachar, who was born and raised in Fair Lawn before moving to Israel when she was 16, was returning there after a three-month ...

The Garfield neighbor of a Tenafly fifth grade teacher who was charged with possession of child porn had similar images of his own -- 30,525 of them, authorities said.Leonardo L. Perez, 18, was arrested on Thursday, the same day as teacher Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, and joined his Ray Street neighbor in the Bergen County Jail, authorities said.Perez was arrested by Cyber Crimes Unit ...

A security guard from Paramus intentionally fractured his infant son’s skull, broke a rib and wrist and caused retinal bleeding, said authorities who arrested him.Avery Foote, 31, remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault and abuse of the nearly 5-month-old infant named Roman.He was arrested after an ambulance brought the baby to Hackensack ...

A car salesman from Philadelphia had more than four pounds of heroin stashed in two secret compartments of a vehicle stopped by Bergen County detectives as he headed south on Route 95 in Ridgefield, authorities said.Prosecutor Mark Musella said Diovin Emma Urena-Abreu, 29, was alone when he was stopped and taken into custody Wednesday by members of his Narcotic Task Force.Urena-Abreu, ...