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DEMOLITION DERBY: Chain-Reaction DWI Crash Leaves 100 Yards Of Damage, Debris In Elmwood Park DEMOLITION DERBY: Chain-Reaction DWI Crash Leaves 100 Yards Of Damage, Debris In Elmwood Park
Demolition Derby: Chain-Reaction DWI Crash Leaves 100 Yards Of Damage, Debris In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A demolition derby-type crash involving what police said was a drunk driver left eight severely damaged vehicles and dozens of parts strewn along a lengthy stretch of street and sidewalk in Elmwood Park. Jean Carlos Lizardo, 29, was behind the wheel of a Honda Accord that witnesses said slammed head-on into a Dodge Challenger at the corner of Mola Boulevard and Elmwood Drive shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, May 3. The sedan hit several other vehicles, leaving a swath of damage and debris -- including the Honda's engine -- that measured nearly 100 yards from one side of Elmwood Dri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Brazen Looters Ram Stolen Truck Through Window Of Route 46 Thrift Store Brazen Looters Ram Stolen Truck Through Window Of Route 46 Thrift Store
Brazen Looters Ram Stolen Truck Through Window Of Route 46 Thrift Store A group of masked burglars looted a new thrift store off Route 46 in Little Ferry by ramming a pickup they’d just stolen through the front window before dawn Wednesday. The quartet hopped out wearing gloves and hoodies and quickly snatched up mostly handbags at Ron’s Buy Sell Trade after the crash bent a metal security gate around 2 a.m. Dec. 20, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters said. The bandits then sped off east on the highway in a black Dodge Challenger, leaving behind the pickup stolen moments earlier from outside the Ridgefield Park home of an employee for a landscaping company…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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23 Traffic Tickets, Criminal Charges Follow NYC Driver Who Did 104MPH On PIP, Police Say 23 Traffic Tickets, Criminal Charges Follow NYC Driver Who Did 104MPH On PIP, Police Say
23 Traffic Tickets, Criminal Charges Follow NYC Driver Who Did 104MPH On PIP, Police Say Tyler A. Laguerre may have sped off from Palisades Interstate Parkway police at over 100 miles an hour while recklessly weaving in and out of traffic on the Fourth of July. They eventually reeled him in, however -- both on criminal charges and so he could collect a whopping 23 traffic summonses, authorities said. PIP Officer Amir Sikder pulled behind a red Dodge Challenger driven by Laugerre, 19, that waved in and out of southbound traffic on the parkway -- nearly causing two separate accidents in Englewood Cliffs -- shortly before 9:30 p.m. July 4, Lt. Raymond E. Walter said. Sikder activ…

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What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say
What, No Ejector Seat? NJ Driver Had Bond-Like Gizmo To Duck Tolls, Police Say VIDEO: You might've thought he was a James Bond or "Kingsman" fan after a New Jersey driver was nabbed by Port Authority police for using an electronic gizmo to evade tolls. A New Jersey State Police trooper had notified them after seeing a blackout curtain descend over the rear license plate of a white Dodge Challenger as it passed through the cashless toll gate at the Holland Tunnel earlier this month, Port Authority Spokesperson Lenis Valens said. The muscle car had no front plate, she said. A Port Authority officer spotted the driver -- identified as Mark A. Aponte, 28, of Parlin -- d…

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Newark Barbershop Robber Shot In Face By Off-Duty Officer Headed To Fed Pen Newark Barbershop Robber Shot In Face By Off-Duty Officer Headed To Fed Pen
Newark Barbershop Robber Shot In Face By Off-Duty Officer Headed To Fed Pen Philip Hedgespeth picked the wrong barbershop to rob when the man in the chair turned out to be an off-duty Newark police officer who shot him in the face. Now the ex-con is headed back behind bars -- only this time it's for a federal stretch of more than nine years. Hedgespeth, 45, must serve out the entire plea-bargained sentence: Unlike in the state prison system, federal convicts don’t get parole. Hedgespeth was wearing a hoodie when he walked into the Cache Barbershop on Orange Street, pointed a handgun and demanded cash from an employee and off-duty city officer getting a haircut on…

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Police: Armed Uber Eats Driver Captured After Dumont Carjacking Police: Armed Uber Eats Driver Captured After Dumont Carjacking
Police: Armed Uber Eats Driver Captured After Dumont Carjacking Police captured a gun-toting Uber Eats deliveryman who carjacked a driver in Dumont and then crashed during Wednesday night's snowstorm, authorities said Thursday. The victim told police an SUV struck his orange Dodge Challenger from behind at the intersection of Washington and Madison avenues shortly after 11 p.m. The victim said he got out and was confronted by two men, one carrying a gun, Police Chief Thomas McKeary said. The gunman, identified as Abel Gomez-Pichardo of the Bronx, “snatched the keys from around the victim’s neck and fled with the victim’s vehicle," he said. Officer Ja…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson Shootings Continue: Total Now Two Dead, 16 Wounded Over Week-Plus Paterson Shootings Continue: Total Now Two Dead, 16 Wounded Over Week-Plus
Paterson Shootings Continue: Total Now Two Dead, 16 Wounded Over Week-Plus A 26-year-old male Paterson man survived a drive-by shooting on a city street Monday afternoon as gunfire continued in the Silk City. The victim was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center with a gunshot wound in the leg that wasn't considered life-threatening after the 1:20 p.m. shooting on North Main Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. Police were looking for a Dodge Challenger that sped from the scene. Less than 18 hours earlier, a 34-year-old city man was shot and killed in a home at 15th…

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by Jerry DeMarco