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UPDATE: Aid Arranged For Fort Lee Fire Victims, Police Say Blaze Didn't Seem Suspicious UPDATE: Aid Arranged For Fort Lee Fire Victims, Police Say Blaze Didn't Seem Suspicious
Update: Aid Arranged For Fort Lee Fire Victims, Police Say Blaze Didn't Seem Suspicious UPDATE: A fire that began in a crawl space and eventually destroyed a Fort Lee apartment building Thursday night didn’t claim any lives, produced three minor injuries and didn’t appear suspicious, authorities announced. Several measures were being taken to assist the victims, they said. “The Red Cross, New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management and Fort Lee Office of Emergency Management are working together with other borough departments to provide assistance for the displaced residents,” Police Capt. Matthew Hintze said late Friday afternoon. The borough established an offici…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Stashing Pot In A Storage Unit? Dumb Move, Say Fair Lawn Police Who Seized Four Pounds Stashing Pot In A Storage Unit? Dumb Move, Say Fair Lawn Police Who Seized Four Pounds
Stashing Pot In A Storage Unit? Dumb Move, Say Fair Lawn Police Who Seized Four Pounds The thing about trying to stash several pounds of marijuana in a storage unit: People will smell it. Just ask Fair Lawn police. Investigators called to Life Storage on Wagaraw Road could smell it, too, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. With help from a Bergen County Sheriff’s Department K-9 team, narcotics Detectives Brian Rypkema, Anthony Lugo and Mark Wyka figured out which unit to obtain a search warrant for. Inside they found four pounds of pot, along with packaging materials, that they said a Paterson dealer stashed there, Metzler said. The renter, 34-year-old Milton Hall, was released after …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation A suicide call led New Milford police to a pot-growing operation in the basement of a local home. Officers were originally called to do a welfare check on a woman at a River Road home, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The woman answered the door -- not telling police that she was the one who made the call -- then directed them to the basement. There they found her brother, 48-year-old Victor A. Collado, and “detected an odor of raw marijuana,” Van Saders said. On a table in plain view was pot, the lieutenant said. Collado admitted growing the weed, then showed the officers “a climate…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Man Shot In Englewood; Reward Offered For Information Man Shot In Englewood; Reward Offered For Information
Man Shot In Englewood; Reward Offered For Information A 29-year-old man was transported to the hospital after he was found with two gunshot wounds early Sunday morning, authorities said. Englewood police officers were responding to a disturbance on Bennett Road at approximately 2:30 a.m., when they heard gunshots a short distance away, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. The officers went toward the gunfire and found the man on Englewood Avenue near Nesbitt Funeral Home, he said. The officers determined the incident occurred nearby, on Brookway and W. Englewood avenues, Torell said. Authorities were investigating the scene with the Bergen Co…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Teaneck's First Black Township Manager William Broughton Retires Teaneck's First Black Township Manager William Broughton Retires
Teaneck's First Black Township Manager William Broughton Retires Teaneck's first black township manager William Broughton announced at Tuesday's council meeting that he will be stepping down. Broughton, who has held the position for nearly nine years despite the two hour commute from Jackson, said simply that the time has come.  The Teaneck High School graduate worked as a township police officer before retiring as captain in 2009. He went on to work as an undersheriff in the Bergen County Sheriff's Department. In 2009, he was sworn in as township manager. Broughton's last day will be Oct. 15.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
YOU DECIDE: Who's North Jersey's 'Fittest Cop'? YOU DECIDE: Who's North Jersey's 'Fittest Cop'?
YOU Decide: Who's North Jersey's 'Fittest Cop'? You've seen the bodybuilders and the marathoners, the cyclists, personal trainers, CrossFitters and military vets -- but of all the "Fit Cops" in Bergen and Passaic counties brought to you by Daily Voice this year, whom do you consider fittest of all? *** (Due to problems reported by iPhone users, best to vote on computers. Apologies for the inconvenience) *** Our first-ever "Fit Cops" competition highlights the 10 law enforcement officers whose stories received the most clicks in the series.  The winner will receive apparel from Fit & Blue and a banner to hang at he…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk
Hackensack PD: Chicken Store Robber Frightens Teen Clerk "I don't want to use this," the robber of a new Hackensack fried chicken restaurant told a juvenile cashier, pointing to his hip. City police soon after arrested local resident Valmir Xhemajli, 29, who they said made off with $60 to $80 in cash from the Blaze'd Chicken on Passaic Street after convincing the young cashier that he had a knife. The cashier and cook waved in police who'd responded to a panic alarm just after 4 p.m. Thursday, Capt. Peter Busciglio said. They found the cashier crying, he said. Moments earlier, the captain said, Xhemajli entered the restaurant and deman…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fit Cops: Bergen Sheriff's Department Member Was All Natural Bodybuilder Fit Cops: Bergen Sheriff's Department Member Was All Natural Bodybuilder
Fit Cops: Bergen Sheriff's Department Member Was All Natural Bodybuilder John Yoon of the Bergen County Sheriff's Department was a freshman in college when someone offered him steroids for the first time. He didn't even know what they were and wasn't interested. Yoon would come to learn as an all-natural body builder that he'd have to work harder than opponents who rely on performance-enhancing drugs. "If you want something, you have to go get it," said the 48-year-old New Milford father of three. "You do what you have to do and you don't complain." Yoon's late parents ingrained that lesson in him when he was growing up in South Korea. Hi…

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by Cecilia Levine