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School Bus Company Brothers Charged With Using Criminals, Unlicensed Drivers In Bergen, Passaic
A River Edge police officer was in for a surprise when he pulled over a school bus driver for running a stop sign earlier this year. The driver for American Star Transportation of Paterson not only didn't have a license -- he had a criminal case pending in court for patronizing a prostitute, authorities said. Two brothers who operate American Star were arrested this week by state authorities who said they employed criminals and people with suspended licenses as drivers and then lied about it. Public school district officials not just in River Edge but also in Mahwah, Franklin Lakes, Paters…
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Ditch The Face Mask, Hit The Dance Floor: NJ Relaxes COVID Guidelines
Social distancing and face mask requirements are so last year -- at least in New Jersey. Come this Friday, face masks will no longer be required at most public indoor spaces in the Garden Sate, and social distancing will no longer be required, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday. Dance floors at bars and restaurants will also be allowed to reopen come and alcohol can be served at bars again on May 28, Murphy said. On Friday, June 4, all indoor and outdoor gathering limits will be lifted. The new regulations come several weeks after the CDC relaxed their face mask guidelines. "I am proud t…
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19 Closes One Third Of New Jersey's MVC Agencies
Thirteen of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission agencies were closed due to COVID-19 as of Thursday. The Cardiff and North Bergen agencies reopened Thursday, but then a worker in Rahway tested positive and that location closed. The following are the centers that are closed and their re-opening dates: Freehold Licensing Center - Monday, Dec 21. Toms River Licensing Center - Tuesday, Dec 22. Bayonne Licensing Center - Wednesday, Dec 23. Wallington Vehicle Center - Wednesday, Dec 23. Edison Licensing Center - Thursday, Dec 24. Wayne Licensing Center - Thursday, Dec 24. Vineland Licensing C…
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Paterson PD: Burglars Caught In School Charged In Nine Break-Ins
Paterson detectives cracked a month-long burglary spree when they caught two suspects inside an elementary school. Detectives and uniformed officers responding to a burglar alarm converged on the K-8 Norman S. Weir School on College Boulevard (Van Houten Street), which had also been burglarized the day before, authorities said. Inside the school they found city resident Jeremiah Carter, 39, and Justin Poff, 23, of Wharton, Paterson Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Both men confessed to a string of burglaries that began exactly a month before, Speziale said. These included four…
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19 Closes 6 Of New Jersey's MVC Offices, 7th Shuts For Construction
Coronavirus closed six of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission agencies. Wayne's regional center would be closed Thursday through Saturday for construction. The following six centers were closed after an employee tested positive: Springfield Vehicle Center: Closed until Oct. 16 Delanco Licensing Center: Closed until Oct. 24 Eatontown Regional/Licensing Center: Closed until Oct. 24. The road test operations in a separate facility is open for appointments Paterson Licensing Center: Closed until Oct. 16 North Bergen Licensing Center: Closed until Oct. 20 Newark Regional Licensing Center: Cl…
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Nearly 2 Dozen MVC Agencies At Capacity, Another Location Closes After Employee Tests Positive
Nearly two dozen of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission agencies agencies were closed as of 11:30 Monday morning after reaching capacity. Additionally, a Newark center was closed for two weeks after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. The Newark Regional Service Center shut last Friday and is expected to reopen Oct. 16. The center handles driver's license transactions. A Jersey City agency that's been closed after an employee tested positive was expected to reopen Tuesday. Officials said the volume experienced Monday was due to since reopening during the summer. The foll…
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NJ Drivers Infuriated By Network Outage At All 39 MVC Centers
All of New Jersey's 39 Motor Vehicle Commission agencies are back up and running after a network issue that kept them from processing transactions Monday morning. The problem reported at 9 a.m. was caused by vendor software and did not affect online transactions, state officials said. The issue has since been resolved, though the Edison center remains closed until Tuesday, due to a power outage. Some New Jersey drivers have been lining up at the state's centers nearly every day since July, when they reopened after months of closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This incident did not help.…
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NJ Charges 9 With Using Stolen IDs, Bogus Driver's Licenses To Buy $1.3M Worth Of Vehicles
Nine people from New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio used stolen IDs to get digital driver’s licenses that they used to finance more than $1.3 million worth of vehicles and water craft, Garden State authorities charged. The defendants got the driver’s licenses from motor vehicle agencies in Jersey City and North Bergen using stolen identities of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. They also used fake Puerto Rico driver’s licenses, along with other false documents to land big-ticket items at dealerships in New Jersey, Pennsylv…
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MVC Reopening Postponed Due To Notification System Malfunction
New Jersey drivers looking to make it to the DMV will have to wait one more week. Phase II of the state's Motor Vehicle Commission’s reopening after the COVID-19 has been pushed back due to problem with a new notification system. The system is designed to minimize overcrowding to prevent the spread of COVID-19. While inspection stations and road tests for student drivers will become available on June 29, certain public transactions have been delayed until Tuesday, July 7, the MVC announced on Twitter, citing the need to update a text notification system that allows customers to leave the lo…
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Long Lines, Be Gone: MVC Reopening Means 'Reimagined Work Flow'
The reopening of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission offices could mean the end of long lines at the facilities. In-person customer services will restart for drop-off and pick-up transactions -- the beginning of a phased reopening -- is set for Monday, June 15, Gov. Phil Murphy announced. Behind-the-wheel road tests and the issuing of new licenses and permits will resume June 29, the tentative "real" reopening date. Sue Fulton, the chief administrator of NJ's MVC offices, encourages customers to continue using the MVC's online services even as offices begin to reopen. The more peopl…
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MVC Just Brought Back Fee For Online Renewals Of License, Registration In NJ
Renewing your drivers license and registration online again comes with a price in New Jersey. A fee that Gov. Chris Christie did away with in 2016 has returned for those looking to skip the line at the Motor Vehicle Commission. Formerly called a "convenience fee," the $1.50 service fee made a comeback this spring, around the time the MVC began encouraging drivers to do the work online, NJ.com says. Christie banished the fee in August 2016, kicking off an 18-month trial period in which MVC officials said there was "zero increase in usage on online services." So when the trial was up, the t…
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Paterson School Bus Firm Used Unqualified Drivers In Newark: Prosecutor
A Paterson-based school bus company that has routes in Newark is under investigation for alleged safety violations, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday. The prosecutor’s office executed a search warrant at the headquarters of A-1 Elegant Friday afternoon. Essex County personnel were seen at the headquarters of A-1 Elegant hauling off filing cabinets, boxes and other material, NorthJersey.com reported. Authorities say several of the drivers lacked credentials to operate a school bus. A spot inspection in Newark Friday morning revealed that eight drivers, more than half investig…
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Scuffle At DMV: Bronx Man Caught Trying To Use Fake Docs To Get NJ License, Oakland Police Say
Some pushing and shoving at the DMV office in Oakland preceded the arrest of a Bronx man who police said tried to use a fake driver's license from Puerto Rico to get one in New Jersey. An investigator and security guard tried to stop Sean Volguez, 26, from leaving when things got a little physical last Tuesday, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. Officer Jonathan Coleman and Sgt. Ryan O'Keefe responded to the Motor Vehicle Commission office at the Copper Tree Mall on Ramapo Valley Road, where Volguez gave them a bogus name, Eldridge said. They took him into custody, he said. Both the s…
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Elmwood Park Woman, 91, Gets Careless Driving Ticket In Death Of Saddle Brook Retiree, 80
UPDATE: A 91-year-old driver from Elmwood Park whose out-of-control sedan struck and killed an 80-year-old Saddle Brook man outside a local bank last week received a summons for careless driving, authorities said Monday. Dolores Voris also must under a medical evaluation by the state Motor Vehicle Commission if she wants to get her driver's license back, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Voris was pulling into a parking spot at 11:40 a.m. this past Thursday when her 2010 Chevrolet Malibu jumped the curb and hit a pillar outside the Spencer Savings Bank at the Terra Mini Mall, s…
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Elmwood Park Woman, 91, Gets Careless Driving Summons In Death Of Saddle Brook Tailor, 80
UPDATE: A 91-year-old driver from Elmwood Park whose out-of-control sedan struck and killed an 80-year-old Saddle Brook man outside a local bank last week received a summons for careless driving, authorities said Monday. Dolores Voris also must under a medical evaluation by the state Motor Vehicle Commission if she wants to get her driver's license back, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. Voris was pulling into a parking spot at 11:40 a.m. this past Thursday when her 2010 Chevrolet Malibu jumped the curb and hit a pillar outside the Spencer Savings Bank at the Terra Mini Mall, s…
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Enraged New Jersey DMV Goers Take Computer Crash Complaints To Twitter
No day at the DMV is a fun one but Monday was the worst of them all in New Jersey. A problem that shut down the Motor Vehicle Commission's computer system over the weekend lingered into the work week. The server outage was prepared toward the end of the day. Many angry New Jerseyans waited in lines for hours only to be turned away because of lingering issues with payment processing and took to social media to express their complaints: @NJ_MVC anyway that we can get an alert when your systems are back up?? Been waiting since Saturday and took a trip there this morning and it’s still down …
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