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Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police
Drunken Man With .327 BAC Puts Fist Through Restaurant Window, Bleeds On Cliffside Police A drunken man who put his fist through a Guatemalan restaurant window bled all over Cliffside Park police while trying to fight them, authorities said. Marcus Camargo Machado, a 39-year-old Brazilian national who lives in Palisades Park, recorded a staggering .327 blood-alcohol level, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Machado also told EMS workers that he’s HIV positive, forcing bloodwork at Palisade Medical Center in North Bergen that found he isn’t, the deputy chief said. Machado was angry about something when he shattered the window at La Estancia at the corner of Palisade and Wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ROUTE 46 CRASH: DWI Driver Injures Mom, Son ROUTE 46 CRASH: DWI Driver Injures Mom, Son
Route 46 Crash: DWI Driver Injures Mom, Son UPDATE: A Hasbrouck Heights driver and her teenage son were injured when a car driven by a drunk motorist from Teaneck slammed into theirs on Route 46, authorities said. The 50-year-old woman and her son, 15, were stopped at the traffic light at Huyler Street on the westbound highway in South Hackensack when their 2020 Tesla was rear-ended shortly after midnight Friday, Detective Sgt. James Donatello said. The driver of the 2008 Volkswagen Passat that hit them -- Dayana Perez-Kazimierczak, 29, of Teaneck -- was intoxicated, the sergeant said. The mother complained of neck and back pain, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway Police: Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway
Police: Drunk PA Airport Trespasser Tried Making Snow Plow Getaway Planes diverted at Reading Regional Airport earlier this week to avoid a drunken Lansdale man rolling in the grass, who then climbed an airport fence and hopped in a snow plow in an attempt to make a quick getaway, police said. Bern Township police responded to Route 183 near the airport around 2:20 p.m. on Dec. 15, where a man later identified as Norman J. Lee was rolling in grass and jumping in front of vehicles, authorities said in a press release. When he saw the police coming, Lee climbed over the 10-foot barbed wire-rimmed fence at near Millennium Aviation then broke into a red compan…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out
Wayne PD: Drunken Trespasser Climbs Head First Into Race Car, Can't Get Out Rescuers had to cut off a roll cage to free a drunken trespasser who climbed into a sports car head first and couldn’t get out, authorities said. Jagdeep Singh, 30, apparently got into the Mazda Miata parked at the Delta gas station on southbound Route 23 to take a nap and got wedged upside-down in the roll cage, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Officers who responded detected an “overwhelming odor of alcohol” and summoned rescuers to get him out, Daly said. Members of the Wayne Township Memorial First Aid Squad cut off the cage and freed the intruder, he said. The Miata's 60-year-old owner…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: East Orange Man Was Twice Legal Limit In Crash That Cost Passenger His Leg Authorities: East Orange Man Was Twice Legal Limit In Crash That Cost Passenger His Leg
Authorities: East Orange Man Was Twice Legal Limit In Crash That Cost Passenger His Leg An East Orange man's blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when he crashed into a tree causing his 19-year-old passenger to have one of her legs amputated, authorities said Friday. Charles D. Sloan, Jr., 33, was charged with second-degree assault by auto causing serious bodily injury while intoxicated within 1,000 feet of school property, fourth degree assault by auto, and fourth degree causing serious bodily injury while driving on a suspended license, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, said in a joint release. Sloan was driving with a suspended lice…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police Pepper-Spray Didn't Kill Fair Lawn Man At Paterson Bar -- Alcohol Did, Authorities Find Police Pepper-Spray Didn't Kill Fair Lawn Man At Paterson Bar -- Alcohol Did, Authorities Find
Police Pepper-Spray Didn't Kill Fair Lawn Man At Paterson Bar -- Alcohol Did, Authorities Find Paterson police weren’t responsible for the death earlier this year of a 25-year-old Fair Lawn man who’d been involved in a bar fight, state authorities announced Monday. Alcohol was, they said. In simplified terms, Steven Sherlock drank himself to death, an autopsy showed. Surveillance video confirmed witnesses’ accounts that Sherlock was involved in a fight with two bar patrons, a man and a woman, at Duffy’s Bar and Tavern on River Street before dawn on March 17, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Sherlock punched the man repeatedly, apparently knocking him out, he said. Sherlock “…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Shotgun Blast That Killed Cliffside Park Woman, 18, 'Likely Accidental,' Authorities Say Shotgun Blast That Killed Cliffside Park Woman, 18, 'Likely Accidental,' Authorities Say
Shotgun Blast That Killed Cliffside Park Woman, 18, 'Likely Accidental,' Authorities Say UPDATE: Investigators believe that it was "likely accidental" that an 18-year-old Cliffside Park woman fired the shotgun blast that killed her in the basement of her boyfriend's Paramus home over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Faith Youngling knew the gun was loaded, they noted -- however, they aren't convinced that she intentionally shot herself. According to responders, Youngling clearly had been intoxicated when Kenneth Pinte, 21, claimed he gave her the weapon and told her the safety was on. Investigators, in turn, charged him with reckless manslaughter, hindering and weapons c…

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by Jerry DeMarco