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Beloved Pet Services Company Owner From Clifton, 31, Struck, Killed, Arrest Made Beloved Pet Services Company Owner From Clifton, 31, Struck, Killed, Arrest Made
Beloved Pet Services Company Owner From Clifton, 31, Struck, Killed, Arrest Made Detectives arrested a driver who they said struck and killed a beloved pet services company owner outside a Clifton supermarket. Chloe Villar-Severino, 31, was struck by an SUV in the parking lot of the Aldi on Lakeview Avenue on Tuesday, authorities said. Villar-Severino, who owned and operated Ruff Lyfe, died the next day at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, they said. “My heart is broken to a million pieces on the passing of my beautiful daughter,” wrote her mother, Esther Velez. Digna A. Lazala, 63, of Randolph, was driving the 2010 Honda Pilot that struck Villar-Seve…

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Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist
Korean War Vet, 92, Charged With Hit-Run Crash That Injured Young Bogota Bicyclist UPDATE: A 92-year-old Korean War veteran from Bogota was the driver who kept going after he hit a boy on a bicycle, injuring him, over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Joseph Toth told police he thought he'd struck a tree branch on Larch Avenue near his home around 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. The 14-year-old victim was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center for an arm injury following the crash, he said. An officer on patrol spotted the damaged vehicle in Toth's driveway late Sunday, the sergeant said. He was charged with leaving the scene…

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Fair Lawn PD Chase: Ex-Medical Service Worker Caught In Paterson Traffic After Ambulance Crash Fair Lawn PD Chase: Ex-Medical Service Worker Caught In Paterson Traffic After Ambulance Crash
Fair Lawn PD Chase: Ex-Medical Service Worker Caught In Paterson Traffic After Ambulance Crash A former local medical services worker from Bayonne led Fair Lawn police on a pursuit into Paterson after hitting an ambulance with her car, authorities said. Officers responded to an early morning call Wednesday of an unwanted former employee on the property of A&M Medical Services on Lincoln Avenue, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. They found Diana Payamps, 27, sitting in her 2015 Mini Cooper in the parking lot, he said. When the officers approached to talk with her, Payamps hit the gas, crashing into an ambulance in the lot, and kept going, Metzler said. Officers pursued her car at low spe…

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