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Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside
Police: Drugged Bergen Dad's Car Stalls On RR Tracks With Boy, $110,000 Cash Inside Elmwood Park police who rescued a local driver and his young son after their car got stuck on railroad tracks found the man under the influence of drugs and $110,000 in cash in a bag, authorities said. Officers responding to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway freight line found Asad Ali with his 11-year-old son in a Toyota Corolla with no license plates shortly before 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ali, who was disoriented and appeared impaired by drugs, said his credentials were in a backpack in the trunk, so the officers let him retrieve it, Foligno said…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Authorities: Drunk Elmwood Park Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Police Authorities: Drunk Elmwood Park Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Police
Authorities: Drunk Elmwood Park Car Salesman Flees After Hitting Pedestrian In Front Of Police A car salesman from Elmwood Park who’d turned 21 just hours earlier was drunk when he struck and critically injured a pedestrian right in front of borough police and then tried to flee, authorities said. Omar Firozvi was driving a Ford Fusion that struck an 18-year-old New York man who was standing next to a disabled vehicle on River Drive near Marginal Road shortly after 2 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Borough police officers who were assisting the driver whose car broke down witnessed the crash, then chased and quickly caught Firozvi, who’d kept going north on River D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Assailant At Large In Route 46 Hotel Stabbing Assailant At Large In Route 46 Hotel Stabbing
Assailant At Large In Route 46 Hotel Stabbing Authorities were hunting for the assailant who stabbed a man Sunday at an Elmwood Park hotel. Witnesses reported seeing the bleeding victim outside the Red Carpet Inn on eastbound Route 46 around 3:30 p.m.Detectives were interviewing them and the victim, whose injuries didn't initially appear life-threatening, responders said. The investigators also reviewed surveillance video, they said. Anyone who might have seen something, or who has information that could help find the suspect, is asked to contact Elmwood Park police: (201) 796-0700. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
VIDEO: They Just Wanted To Play In Traffic! Elmwood Park Police Make Daring Duckling Rescue VIDEO: They Just Wanted To Play In Traffic! Elmwood Park Police Make Daring Duckling Rescue
Video: They Just Wanted To Play In Traffic! Elmwood Park Police Make Daring Duckling Rescue A trio of mischievous ducklings just wanted to play in the roadway -- but Elmwood Park police knew better. At 8 a.m. Monday, patrol received a call for the three ducklings playing in the street at the intersection of the Route 46 offramp and River Drive.  Officers arrived to find a trio of ducklings hiding underneath the caller’s vehicle.  After a brief game of hide and seek, police removed the trio was from underneath the car and escorted them to the other side of the road in hopes they'd reunite with mama duck. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the ducks attempted to go back into the roa…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Retiree Charged With Sexually Abusing Elmwood Park Child Retiree Charged With Sexually Abusing Elmwood Park Child
Retiree Charged With Sexually Abusing Elmwood Park Child A retiree inappropriately touched a child in Elmwood Park, authorities charged. Leo Sarno, 67, was ordered held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing this Monday. The former Lodi resident is charged with sexual assault and child endangerment. Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Sarno was arrested Wednesday, a little over a week after Elmwood Park police and investigators from his office were notified of the alleged incident.

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PHOTOS: Sedan Downs Elmwood Park Hedge, Fence, Slams Into Minivan, House PHOTOS: Sedan Downs Elmwood Park Hedge, Fence, Slams Into Minivan, House
Photos: Sedan Downs Elmwood Park Hedge, Fence, Slams Into Minivan, House ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- A car slammed into an Elmwood Park house -- narrowly missing a gas meter -- after downing part of a fence and a hedge, hitting a minivan and barreling across several lawns late Saturday morning. The 80-something driver was hospitalized with a severe leg injury after the chain-reaction crash on East 54th Street. After her sedan mounted a resident's lawn, the driver put it into reverse and hit the accelerator instead of the brake, knocking down a hedge and the fence before hitting the minivan, neighbor Dominick Scalcione told Daily Voice. "She then went forward, j…

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by Jerry DeMarco