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Robbers Rush Cliffside Park Resident At His Door, Take $34G Worth Of Valuables At Gunpoint Robbers Rush Cliffside Park Resident At His Door, Take $34G Worth Of Valuables At Gunpoint
Robbers Rush Cliffside Park Resident At His Door, Take $34G Worth Of Valuables At Gunpoint A Cliffside Park man was accosted at his front door by two robbers who took an iPhone 13, a custom Rolex watch and a white-gold ring at gunpoint worth a combined $34,200, authorities said. The robbers pulled up to the Crescent Lane home just off Palisade Avenue in a silver older model Audi SUV shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, March 20, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. They rushed the victim brandishing a black handgun as he walked up his stairs and into his foyer, the deputy chief said. The robber "demanded in Spanish that the victim turn over his belongings or they would kill him," …

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Female Jumper Rescued From Bridge Over Teaneck RR Tracks Female Jumper Rescued From Bridge Over Teaneck RR Tracks
Female Jumper Rescued From Bridge Over Teaneck RR Tracks HEROES: Crisis negotiators got a troubled woman to safety after she threatened to jump onto the CSX railroad tracks from an overpass in Teaneck. Traffic and pedestrian traffic was stopped over the Grayson Place Bridge near Palisade Avenue after the woman was spotted outside the protective fence around 7:15 p.m. Saturday, April 9. The woman apparently was waiting for a train before jumping, one responder said. Township police alerted a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, which sent a crisis negotiation unit.  Train traffic was also halted as negotiators spoke with her. The standoff end…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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High-Rise Drama Atop Palisades: Fort Lee PD, FD Rescue Workers On Dangling Scaffold High-Rise Drama Atop Palisades: Fort Lee PD, FD Rescue Workers On Dangling Scaffold
High-Rise Drama Atop Palisades: Fort Lee PD, FD Rescue Workers On Dangling Scaffold Fort Lee police and firefighters rescued two workers who were trapped Tuesday on a scaffold that dangled from the 12th floor of a high-rise atop the Palisades. One of the workers was hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening following the 4 p.m. rescue at the Atrium Palace on Palisade Avenue overlooking the Hudson River, Police Capt. Edward Young said. The other declined medical attention, he said. A Fort Lee Ambulance squad responded with police and firefighters. O.S.H.A was contacted and was responding to investigate the cause of the mishap in tandem with the F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect
Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect Port Authority police were searching for a suspect who’d just bailed out of a stolen car near the Holland Tunnel when an elderly apartment building resident pointed from her window to a couch in the alleyway below. There, they said, they found the driver who tried to elude them covered in a blanket. Officer Joshua Oliveri first stopped 46-year-old Ismael Hernandez on Hoboken Avenue Thursday night because the vehicle he was driving didn’t have a license plate, Port Authority spokesman Lenis Rodrigues said. Hernandez immediately hopped out and took off, she said. Oliveri chased him, joined …

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by Jerry DeMarco