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PHOTOS: Toppled Tractor-Trailer Closes Route 80 Ramp In Hackensack PHOTOS: Toppled Tractor-Trailer Closes Route 80 Ramp In Hackensack
Photos: Toppled Tractor-Trailer Closes Route 80 Ramp In Hackensack A toppled tractor-trailer closed the Route 80 entrance ramp in Hackensack Tuesday afternoon. The rig was hauling candles when it keeled over, closing the interstate's eastbound ramp at Polifly Road, responders said. The driver wasn't injured, they said. ABC Towing righted the rig and removed the wreck.COURTESY: ABC Towing ABC Towing righted the rig, removed the wreck and provided the photo above. The road was reopened at 5:50 p.m. City firefighters cleaned up a crash-related fuel spill. State Police responded.DAILY VOICE photo At the scene of the tractor-trailer crash at the P…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Overturned Dump Truck Shuts Route 80 In Morris County After Collision With Mail Truck Overturned Dump Truck Shuts Route 80 In Morris County After Collision With Mail Truck
Overturned Dump Truck Shuts Route 80 In Morris County After Collision With Mail Truck Traffic backed up on Route 80 westbound Wednesday morning due to an overturned dump truck in Denville. The truck apparently collided with a mail truck around 6:45 a.m., which had veered off to the side of the highway near milepost 38.1, State Police said. Both drivers suffered non life-threatening injuries, police said. Sand was spread across the roadway and the left and center lanes were closed between exits 37 and 39. Traffic was backed up to exit 43 as of 9 a.m., with an hour of delays. Photos courtesy of OmarJosue El Cariduro with permission: dump truckOmarJosue El Cariduro

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust 'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust
'Operation Icebox': 19 Indicted In Heroin-Dealing Paterson East Side Gang Bust Innocent children and gang members alike have been killed by shots randomly fired in anger by “So Icy Boys,” a violent Bloods set that has controlled the heroin trade on Paterson’s east side for years. Last week, nine reputed members of the gang were charged with racketeering, and 10 more people with buying heroin, cocaine, or Ketamine from them, during a joint investigation that became known as “Operation Icebox.” Two gang members were killed during the five-month probe – one of them at 10th Avenue and 28th Street, the network’s drug-trafficking hub, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term 6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term
6,000-Image Shared Child Porn Collection Gets Postal Worker 2½-Year Minimum Prison Term A 64-year-old postal worker who gathered more than 6,000 videos and photos of child pornography that he was sharing with others must spend the next 2½ in state prison before he’s eligible for parole. Kevin M. Groeger, 64, of Carteret, was sentenced Friday to five years behind bars. He also must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to lifetime parole supervision, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Groeger was among 79 men seized statewide during “Operation Safety Net,” a multi-agency child protection operation led by the New Jersey Regional Internet Cri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered
Update: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: The bodies of a 17-year-old boy and girl from Essex County who drowned in Ramapo Lake in Oakland during Tuesday evening's storm were both recovered hours later, responders said. Matthew Poole and Isabella Brodsky were about to become seniors at Livingston High School. “They were swimming when the storm hit," a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "The boy went in to save the girl." Poole's body was recovered just before 9 p.m., nearly three hours after going under, he said. Brodsky's was found an hour or so later. Several dive teams responded to a staging area…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered
Update: Bodies Of Teen Ramapo Lake Drowning Victims Recovered UPDATE: The bodies of a 17-year-old boy and girl from Essex County who drowned in Ramapo Lake in Oakland during Tuesday evening's storm were both recovered hours later, responders said. Matthew Poole and Isabella Brodsky were about to become seniors at Livingston High School. “They were swimming when the storm hit," a law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "The boy went in to save the girl." Poole's body was recovered just before 9 p.m., nearly three hours after going under, he said. Brodsky's was found an hour or so later. Several dive teams responded to a staging area…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Mercedes-Benz Driver From Ramsey Hospitalized In Two-Car Crash That Kills Woman, 73 Mercedes-Benz Driver From Ramsey Hospitalized In Two-Car Crash That Kills Woman, 73
Mercedes-Benz Driver From Ramsey Hospitalized In Two-Car Crash That Kills Woman, 73 A motorist from Bergen County failed to stop at a stop sign before crossing the double yellow lines while turning in a crash that resulted in the death of a 73-year-old woman in the Hudson Valley, police said.  On Friday, July 20, at about 9:20 a.m., state police from the Liberty barracks responded to a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Route 17 westbound exit 100A in the town of Liberty in Sullivan County. Their investigation revealed that a 2015 Mercedes-Benz, operated by Edward Schaffner, 77. of Ramsey, exited Route 17 west at exit 100A, according to police. Schaffner report…

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by Jon Craig
Obituaries
Heartbroken Fraternity Mourns Montvale Brother Who Died In ATV Accident Heartbroken Fraternity Mourns Montvale Brother Who Died In ATV Accident
Heartbroken Fraternity Mourns Montvale Brother Who Died In ATV Accident A sincere gentleman with a heart of gold, infectious smile and contagious laugh. This is how members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (New Jersey) remember their brother Drew Bloodworth of Montvale, who succumbed to his injuries from an ATV accident on July 1 at 22 years old. Bloodworth and Dylan Kells were thrown from the John Deere Gator ATV while off-roading in Toms River around 2 a.m. when the driver lost control, State Police spokesman SFC Jeff Flynn said. Kells sustained serious injuries and was transported to a nearby hospital. Meanwhile, the Rowan University fraternity had raised more than $…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft
Marilyn Manson Concert Pocketbook Thief Charged In Wayne Trader Joe’s Theft A local man whose criminal record includes snatching a woman’s pocketbook at a Marilyn Manson concert pulled up to the Trader Joe’s in Wayne, loaded his car with plants and flowers and took off, township police said. Store employees got the plate number, though. A Wayne dispatcher directed Officers Cory Deak and Bruce Conklin to 39-year-old Matthew Powell’s home, where they found him, his 2000 Chevy Prizm and nearly $100 worth of stolen items, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. The perishable merchandise was returned to the Trader Joe’s on Hamburg Turnpike. Powell, meanwhile, was proce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Maywood Detectives Help Capture Gunman Who Shot Couple In Englewood UPDATE: Maywood Detectives Help Capture Gunman Who Shot Couple In Englewood
Update: Maywood Detectives Help Capture Gunman Who Shot Couple In Englewood ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Thanks to two Maywood police detectives, a gunman who shot a couple Tuesday morning in Englewood and then carjacked a vehicle in Hackensack was captured after a chase down the Garden State Parkway, authorities said. ****** (UPDATE) A Teaneck man who led police on a more than 15-mile chase after shooting a couple in Englewood tried to shoot two other people, but his handgun jammed, authorities said Friday. https://englewood.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/prosecutor-teaneck-man-who-shot-englewood-pair-aimed-at-2-more-gun-jammed/735673/ ****** The man and woman were …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Nine Charged In Paterson-Based Cocaine-Supply Ring: Kilos, Guns, Cash Found Nine Charged In Paterson-Based Cocaine-Supply Ring: Kilos, Guns, Cash Found
Nine Charged In Paterson-Based Cocaine-Supply Ring: Kilos, Guns, Cash Found PATERSON, N.J. -- Nine members of a Paterson-based major cocaine supply network were indicted following a joint investigation that involved the Passaic County Sheriff's Office and State Police, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators seized nearly 18 pounds of cocaine, a small quantity of heroin, 82 pills containing fentanyl, three handguns and more than $76,000 in drug proceeds during what was called “Operation Stillwater,” Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The top suppliers in the network are all from Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city, Grewal said: Jose Encarnacion, 35, wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Passersby Stop Cars To Help Victims In Fiery Route 80 Crash Passersby Stop Cars To Help Victims In Fiery Route 80 Crash
Passersby Stop Cars To Help Victims In Fiery Route 80 Crash TOTOWA, N.J. -- Passersby stopped their cars to help five people involved in a fiery rush-hour crash on eastbound Route 80 in Woodland Park. Totowa and Woodland Park firefighters extinguished the flames, which spread from one sedan to one it T-boned on the passenger side around 4 p.m. The Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad tended to those injured. Several State Police vehicles surrounded the scene, closing off three lanes. Werner R. Ennesser contributed to this story.

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by Jerry DeMarco