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Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police
Vandal Caught Spray Painting Elmwood Park Playground: Police Nothing like having a lawbreaker caught red-handed cop to the crime he'd just committed. Brian Silvestre, 20, of Elmwood Park had just finished spray-painting various equipment and a port-o-john at a park around the corner from his home when Officer Michael Juliano found him and a female walking toward a vehicle in the parking lot shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The paint hadn’t even dried yet, the chief said. Silvestre, who was carrying two cans of spray paint in his rear pants pocket, admitted to “spray painting a couple of things” in the playgr…

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Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park
Silent Clown-Masked Visitor Leaves Suspicious Item At Major Testing Lab In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A Westchester County resident who works at one of the largest clinical testing labs in the U.S. triggered a large emergency response Friday when she walked into the Bergen County building wearing a devil mask, handed a supervisor a jar of salsa with her name on it and left without saying a word, authorities said. Ray Greenwald, 27, of Ardsley, NY, and the supervisor at BioReference Laboratories just off Route 80 in Elmwood didn't know one another and apparently had never met before, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. However, Greenwald, who works in another building, told police sh…

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Passaic County Woman Charged With Stabbing Bergen BF Twice During Argument Passaic County Woman Charged With Stabbing Bergen BF Twice During Argument
Passaic County Woman Charged With Stabbing Bergen BF Twice During Argument An overnight argument left an Elmwood Park man hospitalized with knife wounds and his girlfriend from Clifton in custody, authorities said. Borough officers who responded to the stabbing at a private residence on Augusta Street just off Market Street stemmed the bleeding from the 36-year-old victim's shoulder before he was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday, April 23, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. They also took Maria Saenz, 37, into custody and recovered a serrated steak knife, he said. Saenz had stabbed the victim twice in the left shoulde…

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Missing Elmwood Park Teen Found Hiding In Garage Missing Elmwood Park Teen Found Hiding In Garage
Missing Elmwood Park Teen Found Hiding In Garage UPDATE: Police and firefighters flooded a garden apartment complex in Elmwood Park and found a teen who'd been reported missing a short time earlier, authorities said. The responders searched the grounds and around the Elmwood Village Apartments for the 15-year-old, who went missing after an argument with her mother Tuesday afternoon April 12. They were checking garages when one of them heard a noise and found the teen hiding behind a car, said Police Chief Michael Foligno, who is also the borough administrator. EMS was checking her out before returning the teen to her mom, he said.

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TRICK-OR-TREAT DRIVE-BY: Kids, Parents Shot With Air Soft Gun In Elmwood Park TRICK-OR-TREAT DRIVE-BY: Kids, Parents Shot With Air Soft Gun In Elmwood Park
Trick-or-treat Drive-by: Kids, Parents Shot With Air Soft Gun In Elmwood Park Five Elmwood Park kids and two parents out trick-or-treating Sunday night were shot with airsoft pellets from a passing vehicle, authorities said. The attackers emerged from the moon roof and two side windows of a black Nissan that pulled up to the group on Gilbert Avenue between Mola Boulevard and East 54th Street around 8:15 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. One of them then began firing an airsoft gun at them, he said. All seven victims refused medical treatment after being struck on various parts of their bodies, the chief said. Police saturated the area searching for those res…

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Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40 Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40
Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40 A drunken Wallington man fought with and spit on police who responded to a fight between him and his girlfriend outside the Domino’s in Elmwood Park, authorities said. A witness told police that Max Zaccone, 27, threatened to hit the 40-year-old Wyckoff woman with a bottle as she lay prone on the ground in front of the Market Street eatery shortly before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Both Zaccone and the woman “appeared to be heavily intoxicated and were extremely uncooperative with the investigating officers,” Foligno said. Zaccone then “became agitated and appro…

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Elmwood Park PD: Wanted Paterson Man Nabbed With Stolen Gun, Hollow Points, Oxy Elmwood Park PD: Wanted Paterson Man Nabbed With Stolen Gun, Hollow Points, Oxy
Elmwood Park PD: Wanted Paterson Man Nabbed With Stolen Gun, Hollow Points, Oxy A wanted Paterson man was carrying a stolen gun loaded with hollow-point bullets when Elmwood Park police arrested him, authorities said. Brandon Diaz, 21, was driving a 2005 Honda Accord with an expired registration when he was stopped over the weekend, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. They quickly learned that Diaz was wanted out of Paterson for aggravated assault with a firearm, Foligno said. The officers arrested Diaz on the outstanding warrant, then searched the car and found the 9mm Taurus pistol, reported stolen out of Georgia, the chief said. Diaz remained held Monday in the Ber…

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Elmwood Park Fourth-Grader Brings Bullet To School Elmwood Park Fourth-Grader Brings Bullet To School
Elmwood Park Fourth-Grader Brings Bullet To School An Elmwood Park fourth-grader brought a bullet to the Gantner Avenue School Thursday morning, triggering a shelter-in-place and bringing a large emergency response. "It was a fully-intact .40-caliber bullet," Police Chief Michael Foligno said. "He brought it to school and was showing the other kids in the playground. "Luckily, one of the kids was smart enough to tell a teacher." The school immediately went into a shelter-in-place and a K-9 from the Bergen County Sheriff's Office was summoned "to err on the side of caution and make sure there wasn't any danger,…

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Elmwood Park PD: DWI Driver Bails, Caught After Hitting Parked Cars Elmwood Park PD: DWI Driver Bails, Caught After Hitting Parked Cars
Elmwood Park PD: DWI Driver Bails, Caught After Hitting Parked Cars A drunk driver with a suspended license bailed out of his BMW after it hit two parked cars in Elmwood Park overnight but was quickly caught by borough police, authorities said. Charles Crosby, 30, also had an open container of alcohol in the 2002 Beamer when it struck the two vehicles on Locust Street around 1:20 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He tried to run off by was found several blocks away, the chief said. Crosby, whose last known address was in Masachusetts, was arrested and charged with DWI, Driving while suspended, leaving the scene of a crash, having the open c…

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