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'Tragic Accident': Boy, 7, Killed In Upper-Floor Fall From Fort Lee High-Rise 'Tragic Accident': Boy, 7, Killed In Upper-Floor Fall From Fort Lee High-Rise
'Tragic Accident': Boy, 7, Killed In Upper-Floor Fall From Fort Lee High-Rise UPDATE: The death of a 7-year-old boy who plunged from an upper-floor balcony of a Fort Lee high-rise was "the result of a tragic accident," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. It was around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, when the boy fell from the 21st floor of the Hampshire House on Anderson Avenue at Whiteman Street, multiple sources told Daily Voice. The child was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center, they said. "The circumstances surrounding the death...were the result of a tragic accident and no criminal activity was involved," Musella said Thursday follow…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Child, 7, Dies In Fort Lee High-Rise Plunge Child, 7, Dies In Fort Lee High-Rise Plunge
Child, 7, Dies In Fort Lee High-Rise Plunge UPDATE: The death of a 7-year-old boy who plunged from an upper-floor balcony of a Fort Lee high-rise was "the result of a tragic accident," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. It was around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, when the boy fell from the 21st floor of the Hampshire House on Anderson Avenue at Whiteman Street, multiple sources told Daily Voice. The child was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center, they said. "The circumstances surrounding the death...were the result of a tragic accident and no criminal activity was involved," Musella said Thursday follow…

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ALL CLEAR: Suspicious Devices Found In Fort Lee Were Discarded Household Items ALL CLEAR: Suspicious Devices Found In Fort Lee Were Discarded Household Items
ALL Clear: Suspicious Devices Found In Fort Lee Were Discarded Household Items UPDATE: What at first were considered suspicious devices found in Fort Lee on Wednesday turned out to be a pressure cooker and other discarded household items, authorities said. Police were called around 11:40 a.m. after a cooker was found atop a newspaper box near a bus stop on Anderson Avenue near Forest Road, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. "Other suspicious devices were located in the area of Anderson Avenue / 16th Street and in the area of 1365 16th Street" in the same vicinity, Mirkovic said. The busy area is near the local community center, borough offices and several stores and shops, a…

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Fort Lee PD: Pedestrian Struck By Shuttle Bus After Ignoring Signal, Crosswalk Fort Lee PD: Pedestrian Struck By Shuttle Bus After Ignoring Signal, Crosswalk
Fort Lee PD: Pedestrian Struck By Shuttle Bus After Ignoring Signal, Crosswalk A 24-year-old Fort Lee jaywalker was hospitalized with a serious head injury after she was struck by a shuttle bus, authorities said. The victim ignored the pedestrian signal and was struck by the Ford shuttle bus on Anderson Avenue north of the crosswalk at Columbia Avenue shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday , Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The 55-year-old driver from Jersey City immediately stopped and remained at the scene, he said. Fort Lee police and EMS responded with paramedics from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Mirkovic said, adding that an investigation by Lt. Mark Radoian and the…

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Fort Lee PD: Ex-Con Sold $25,000 Worth Of Stolen Power Tools Through e-Commerce App Fort Lee PD: Ex-Con Sold $25,000 Worth Of Stolen Power Tools Through e-Commerce App
Fort Lee PD: Ex-Con Sold $25,000 Worth Of Stolen Power Tools Through e-Commerce App A Fort Lee ex-con sold $25,000 worth of power tools online that he stole from various home improvement stores, said police who arrested him. Borough Police Sgt. Christopher Valacer was using an e-commerce app when he noticed that Ralph Censale, a 45-year-old carpenter, "was selling a large amount of new power tools for far less than the fair market value," Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. Detectives Thomas Keelen and John Klein dug further and found that Censale had sold more than 30 power tools in recent months, Mirkovic said. After discovering the thefts, the detectives obtained an arrest warr…

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by Jerry DeMarco