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Robber With Meat Tenderizer Attacks Woman Outside Bergenfield School, Takes Cash, Phone, More Robber With Meat Tenderizer Attacks Woman Outside Bergenfield School, Takes Cash, Phone, More
Robber With Meat Tenderizer Attacks Woman Outside Bergenfield School, Takes Cash, Phone, More A robber wielding a meat tenderizing hammer took a cellphone, purse, credit cards and $400 in cash from a woman in broad daylight outside a Bergenfield elementary school, said authorities who arrested him moments later. Uniformed officers and detectives flooded the neighborhood around the Hoover Elementary School at Murray Hill Terrace and Sylvan Avenue shortly before 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 1, Capt. William Duran said. The terrorized 45-year-old victim from Little Falls had surrendered her belongings to Rickent Carrasco, 33, after being threatened, the captain said. Responding officers cap…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Englewood Man In Hudson River Crime Spree Charged With Assaulting Bergenfield Officer Englewood Man In Hudson River Crime Spree Charged With Assaulting Bergenfield Officer
Englewood Man In Hudson River Crime Spree Charged With Assaulting Bergenfield Officer Two weeks after he was busted for a crime spree at a Hudson River marina, an Englewood man spit in a Bergenfield police officer’s face while deliberately banging his head several times inside a squad car, authorities said. Jason Pinilla, 19, “became extremely uncooperative and resisted arrest” after officers caught him with pot behind the Hoover Elementary School on Murray Hill Terrace on Thursday, Detective Lt. William Duran said. “Once he was subdued and placed into the rear of the police vehicle, he was acting erratic and began to bang his head into the partition,” Duran said Friday. Pi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Neighbors
PHOTOS: Bergenfield Balloon Release Honors 9-Year-Old Boy's Sudden Death PHOTOS: Bergenfield Balloon Release Honors 9-Year-Old Boy's Sudden Death
Photos: Bergenfield Balloon Release Honors 9-Year-Old Boy's Sudden Death Families gathered at the Hoover Elementary School Saturday morning in Bergenfield to honor a 9-year-old boy with special needs who died suddenly this week. Joseph "Jojo" Birney -- who was a beloved member of the Bergenfield Lou Harris Challenger group -- passed away on Oct. 16. He was an active participant with the Challenger program, an extracurricular program for youth with special needs. He was also a student at Oakland's CTC Academy. Green and white balloons were released in his memory -- green for his Irish heritage and white because of his new angel wings. "He was a s…

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by Cecilia Levine