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Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash
Specialized Paramus Police Unit Cranks Up Chainsaws After Pickup Crash Members of the Paramus Police Emergency Services Unit got to work after a pickup truck toppled a pole at the Oradell border on Thursday. The 22-year-old Mosquito Squad driver from Basking Ridge apparently looked down at his GPS and looked up too late to avoid hitting the curb, uprooting a fire hydrant and toppling the guy-wire pole on Oradell Avenue at Terrace Drive at 10:20 a.m. May 25, Paramus Police Sgt. Todd Colaianni said. The driver refused medical treatment, Colaianni said, but Bergen Brookside Auto Body & Towing had to remove his pickup on a flatbed. The cross-trained membe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence
Double Amputee's Sedan Plows Through Paramus Bank Fence A sedan driven by a double amputee plowed through a wooden fence outside a Paramus bank Friday afternoon. The senior driver was fortunate that his BMW X5 lodged onto the curb, stopping just short of a drop of a few feet behind the Spencer Savings Bank on Oradell Avenue around 2:30 p.m. March 31. He was tended to by EMS and firefighters and refused further treatment. A Paramus Emergency Services Unit winched out the sedan, which took down a section of fence that landed on the hood. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. The BMW crashed through the fence behind t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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WATCH: Paramus Residents Home As Brazen Bandit Enters, Takes Keys, Flees With Hi-End Sedan WATCH: Paramus Residents Home As Brazen Bandit Enters, Takes Keys, Flees With Hi-End Sedan
Watch: Paramus Residents Home As Brazen Bandit Enters, Takes Keys, Flees With Hi-End Sedan A brazen thief entered a Paramus home at night while the owners were upstairs, took the keys to their BMW and drove off with it, authorities said. It was at least the third time in the past several months in Paramus that a brazen burglar has gone into someone's home to snatch keys to high-end vehicles, said Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg, who released home security video of the theft from various angles. An undetermined number of bandits pulled up to the Bruce Drive home off Oradell Avenue in a white SUV around 10:30 p.m. Monday, June 20, Ehrenberg said Wednesday. One of them got out, fou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street
Woman Rescued From Rape Attempt On Busy Paramus Street A good Samaritan rescued a Paramus woman who was tackled and pulled into the bushes on a local street in broad daylight by a would-be rapist carrying a knife, authorities said. The 35-year-old victim told police she was walking on Oradell Avenue near Wilsey Court and the Garden State Parkway when Hector W. Alameda, 34, of Paterson approached her shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Alameda asked her where the bus stop is, then demanded she kiss him, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The woman said she yelled and tried to get away, but Alameda knocked her down, groped her and “attempted …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Emerson Driver Charged In Paramus Hit-And-Run That Killed Pedestrian, 58 UPDATE: Emerson Driver Charged In Paramus Hit-And-Run That Killed Pedestrian, 58
Update: Emerson Driver Charged In Paramus Hit-And-Run That Killed Pedestrian, 58 UPDATE: Sometimes sharing stories really does make a difference. A Daily Voice reader who saw a story shared in a Facebook group about the search for a hit-and-run vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Paramus provided the tip that led to the capture of the accused driver. The tipster said he suspected the damaged Ford brought into an auto body shop in Congers was the same one mentioned in a Daily Voice story about the search for the fleeing driver who killed the 58-year-old woman as she walked along a local road early Thursday. So he notified authorities. READ MORE HERE.... The origin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paterson Man Captured After Wild Stolen Car Chase Charged In Ridgewood Crime Spree Paterson Man Captured After Wild Stolen Car Chase Charged In Ridgewood Crime Spree
Paterson Man Captured After Wild Stolen Car Chase Charged In Ridgewood Crime Spree A Paterson man captured in Paramus after a wild stolen car chase that went through several Bergen County towns was responsible for a series of vehicle thefts and burglaries, as well as home break-ins in Ridgewood, authorities said. John Chavan Johnson, 32, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest two days earlier. He’s charged with five counts of burglary, six of theft, three of resisting arrest among 19 offenses in all, most of them in Ridgewood. Also still being held was Johnson’s alleged accomplice, Samantha Boseski, 30, of Clifton. She was charged with&nbs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Wild Stolen Ridgewood Car Chase Goes East From Hackensack, Then Back West To Paramus, 2 Caught Wild Stolen Ridgewood Car Chase Goes East From Hackensack, Then Back West To Paramus, 2 Caught
Wild Stolen Ridgewood Car Chase Goes East From Hackensack, Then Back West To Paramus, 2 Caught Police once again pleaded with owners to lock their vehicles -- and not leave their keys or fobs behind -- after a wild noontime car chase Sunday that criss-crossed Bergen County and ended with two in custody. "I really don't want anyone hurt or killed when we are responding to stolen vehicles," said Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke. "Anyone on the road or in a home, are at risk during foot or vehicle pursuits." Ridgewood police who were tracking a stolen Land Rover's GPS notified Hackensack police around noon, city police Lt. James Smith said. A patrol officer spotted the vehicle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Waldwick Fire Victim, 83, Dies From Candle Lit In Storm UPDATE: Waldwick Fire Victim, 83, Dies From Candle Lit In Storm
Update: Waldwick Fire Victim, 83, Dies From Candle Lit In Storm UPDATE: A candle lit during the storm that hammered North Jersey on Tuesday likely caused the fire that killed an 83-year-old Waldwick woman, authorities said. Results of the preliminary investigation indicate an unattended candle, lit due to a power outage, may have been the cause of the fire" that broke out around 6:40 p.m. on Van Court and killed Valentina Turley, Police Chief Mark Messner said Wednesday afternoon. First responders in North Jersey rushed from one emergency to another, as the rainstorm threw a one-two punch of high winds and lightning. One lightning bolt split a tre…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car 88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car
88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car An 88-year-old woman turned herself in to police Sunday evening after her car struck a marked Paramus patrol cruiser and kept going, authorities said. Police were responding to reports of a 4-month-old baby who had stopped breathing when the woman's black Mercedes Benz hit the driver's side door of the police car parked on Oradell Avenue, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The officer wasn't inside the vehicle at the time and no injuries were reported, Ehrenberg said. The baby was in stable condition and an investigation was under way, the chief said. On Friday, a 103-year-old driver cr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Paramus Rescue Squad Frees Victim In Crash Paramus Rescue Squad Frees Victim In Crash
Paramus Rescue Squad Frees Victim In Crash PARAMUS, N.J. -- Members of the Paramus Rescue Squad extricated a trapped passenger following a two-car crash Sunday afternoon. A Paramus EMS ambulance took the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center after a Toyota Corolla he was in collided with a Ford SUV at the intersection of Forest and Oradell avenues. Tow trucks removed both vehicles. Paramus and Oradell police and borough firefighters also responded. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this article.

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by Jerry DeMarco