Drizzle Fog/Mist 45°
Tag:

Bergen Turnpike, NJ

News
Driver Stopped For Tinted Glass, Phone Use Also Had Loaded Gun, Hollow Points: Little Ferry PD Driver Stopped For Tinted Glass, Phone Use Also Had Loaded Gun, Hollow Points: Little Ferry PD
Driver Stopped For Tinted Glass, Phone Use Also Had Loaded Gun, Hollow Points: Little Ferry PD An out-of-state motorist who was stopped for talking on his cellphone had a gun loaded with hollow-point bullets in a high-capacity magazine in his glove compartment, Little Ferry police said. Officer James Serio spotted the 2017 Acura sedan with tinted windows in the area of eastbound Route 46 and Bergen Turnpike shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday, Police Chief James Walters said. Serio activated his lights and siren, stopping the vehicle on the other side of the Hackensack River bridge in Ridgefield Park, he said. Jamir Budd, 21, of Virginia Beach, VA, had a driver's license on him and proo…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Out-Of-State Driver Busted With $3M Worth Of Cocaine At Motel Off Route 46, Authorities Charge Out-Of-State Driver Busted With $3M Worth Of Cocaine At Motel Off Route 46, Authorities Charge
Out-Of-State Driver Busted With $3M Worth Of Cocaine At Motel Off Route 46, Authorities Charge An out-of-state driver was caught transporting 132 pounds of cocaine at a motel off Route 46, Bergen County authorities said. Juan Carlos Nunez-Perez, 27, of Bozeman, Montana had the 60 kilos of coke – worth an estimated $3 million on the street – in his vehicle at the Capri Inn on Valley Road off Bergen Turnpike, they said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives with his Narcotics Task Force found the drugs during a warranted search on Tuesday. They were assisted by the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (Newark), Little Ferry police and the Bergen County Regional SWAT T…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
Remember Rosie's Diner? You Don't Want To See It Now Remember Rosie's Diner? You Don't Want To See It Now
Remember Rosie's Diner? You Don't Want To See It Now Those saddened to see what used to be Rosie’s Diner carted away hoped the vintage greasy spoon would be cared for once it left what used to be the Little Ferry Circle on Route 46.  Didn’t turn out that way. Not only is the diner that was made famous in a TV commercial for the “quicker picker-upper” gone. So is its beauty. The tale can be told through the exploits of different people. George DenHerder is among those who’ve visited Rosie’s Farmland Diner at its current address in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Carlstadt native went there carrying decades-old memories of his mom dropping him …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Body Of Bogota Man Who Jumped From Route 95 Bridge Recovered From Creek In Ridgefield Body Of Bogota Man Who Jumped From Route 95 Bridge Recovered From Creek In Ridgefield
Body Of Bogota Man Who Jumped From Route 95 Bridge Recovered From Creek In Ridgefield UPDATE: Responders early Monday afternoon recovered the body of a despondent Bogota man who jumped from the Route 95 bridge in Ridgefield Park. The 60-something man left his home around 5 a.m. following a family dispute, authorities said. New Jersey State Police found his abandoned car on the highway before noon and alerted local authorities. Ridgefield Park responders pulled the man's body from Mill Creek in the area of 295 Bergen Turnpike, and he was pronounced dead a short time later. Rescuers from Teaneck, Ridgefield and Leonia also converged on the area along with New Jersey State Po…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Driver Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer Totals Kia Approaching Little Ferry Bridge Driver Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer Totals Kia Approaching Little Ferry Bridge
Driver Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer Totals Kia Approaching Little Ferry Bridge A 29-year-old Lodi woman was hospitalized with minor injuries Monday after her Kia and a tractor-trailer collided approaching the Hackensack River bridge in Little Ferry, authorities said. The tractor-trailer "was making a left going south on Bergen Turnpike onto 46 East when they crashed, pushing the Kia into a [utility] pole," Detective Sgt. Ronald Klein Jr. said following the noontime collision. "It's unclear at this point who was at fault." The woman was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after Little Ferry and Hackensack firefighters extricated her from the car, Klein said. …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco