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Market Street, Elmwood Park, NJ

Unlicensed Driver Caused Head-On Crash, Seriously Injured Victim In Bergen County: Prosecutor Unlicensed Driver Caused Head-On Crash, Seriously Injured Victim In Bergen County: Prosecutor
Unlicensed Driver Caused Head-On Crash, Seriously Injured Victim In Bergen County: Prosecutor A 24-year-old unlicensed driver has been charged in a head-on collision that left the other driver seriously injured this week in Bergen County, prosecutors said. Juan Alban Naranjo, of Elmwood Park, was heading west on Market Street in a 2008 Acura sedan when he crossed into the opposite lane of travel, hitting a 2007 Ford SUV head-on Monday, July 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A passenger in the Ford suffered serious injuries, Musella said. An investigation found Naranjo did not have a valid driver's license, and he was subsequently charged with assault by auto and c…
Fire Doused At Elmwood Park Entertainment Company Fire Doused At Elmwood Park Entertainment Company
Fire Doused At Elmwood Park Entertainment Company Firefighters doused a basement blaze Tuesday at an Elmwood Park entertainment company. The fire at Sound Surge on Market Street ignited around 10:30 a.m. Aug. 1 and quickly went to three alarms as a precaution because of where in the building it was located, Elmwood Park Police Chief and Borough Administrator Michael Foligno said. "It was difficult to get to, but our firefighters did an excellent job of knocking it down quickly," he said. They had to back out after flames began climbing the interior stairs, but they still had the fire doused in barely a half-hour. No injuries were report…
Box Truck Being Towed Tips Beneath Route 80 Overpass Box Truck Being Towed Tips Beneath Route 80 Overpass
Box Truck Being Towed Tips Beneath Route 80 Overpass A box truck tipped while being towed beneath a Route 80 overpass in Elmwood Park, jamming area traffic early Friday afternoon. Another tow was needed to straighten and remove the truck owned by Salerno's Custom Cabinetry in Saddle Brook from the corner of River Road and Market Street shortly after 1 p.m. No injuries were reported. Elmwood Park police and firefighters responded. Jo Fehl took the photos and contributed to this story. No injuries were reported.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE
VIDEO: Motorists Report Tractor-Trailer Weaving Before Driver Is Killed In Fiery Route 80 Crash VIDEO: Motorists Report Tractor-Trailer Weaving Before Driver Is Killed In Fiery Route 80 Crash
Video: Motorists Report Tractor-Trailer Weaving Before Driver Is Killed In Fiery Route 80 Crash UPDATE: A tractor-trailer driver apparently suffered a medical emergency before he died in a fiery crash off Route 80, authorities confirmed. Motorists had just reported the rig weaving back and forth in front of them when it barreled off the westbound highway close to the site of the old Marcal plant in Elmwood Park shortly before 8:30 p.m. Saturday,  New Jersey State Police Sgt. Alejandro Goez said. First it drifted onto the right shoulder, then it struck the guardrail and continued over the curbed median at the Exit 61 on-ramp before plowing through another guardrail and plummeting off …
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…
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…
SWAT STANDOFF: Elmwood Park Man Tear-Gassed Out After Threatening Officers With Knives SWAT STANDOFF: Elmwood Park Man Tear-Gassed Out After Threatening Officers With Knives
SWAT Standoff: Elmwood Park Man Tear-Gassed Out After Threatening Officers With Knives A potential tragedy was averted after two Elmwood Park police officers came face-to-face Saturday with an agitated ex-con threatening them with a pair of knives, authorities said. "Get the f*** out of my house!" Brian Rodriguez, 33, shouted as he descended the stairs toward them inside his mother's Obal Avenue home, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Coolly and calmly, the officers backed out, Foligno said. A 6½-hour standoff followed, with negotiators trying to talk Rodriguez out, before a SWAT team stormed the house and seized him without incident. Rodriguez was alone upstairs when of…
38 SPECIAL: Garfield Police Chase Ends With Elmwood Park Crash, Gun Arrest 38 SPECIAL: Garfield Police Chase Ends With Elmwood Park Crash, Gun Arrest
38 Special: Garfield Police Chase Ends With Elmwood Park Crash, Gun Arrest A pre-dawn police pursuit from Garfield into Elmwood Park ended with a crash, the arrest of a passenger carrying a gun and a search for the fleeing driver, authorities said. Sparks flying from beneath an Infiniti Q50 with New York licenses plates as it crossed the railroad tracks on Outwater Lane caught the attention of Officer Joseph Kopacz, who tried to stop the sedan for speeding shortly before 1 a.m., Capt. Richard Uram said. Kopacz got out and spotted two men and two women in the car – one of whom was trying to conceal a fanny pack holding what appeared to be a silver handgun, Uram sai…
RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS
Recognize HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS Police turned to the public for help finding a mugger who wrested a wallet from an Elmwood Park CVS customer, injuring him, before fleeing Friday afternoon. The robber lost a pair of Nike flip flops that he was wearing when he accosted the victim in the vestibule of the Market Street pharmacy just after noon, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was also wearing a sleeveless black tank top with the word "Proven" on the front, shorts and a black cap, Foligno said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification was processing the footwear and an iced tea bottle the robber had…
Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street
Police: Inattentive Pedestrian Struck Crossing Busy Elmwood Park Street A 69-year-old Paterson woman was struck crossing Market Street in Elmwood Park Monday night, authorities said. The woman parked her car on one side of the street, then got out to retrieve mail from a box at a business where she used to work, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. She was struck by a Nissan Sentra in the eastbound lane as she hustled back toward her car, Foligno said. The woman was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with some broken bones and road rash, the chief said. No summonses or charges will be filed against the Elmwood Park driver, he said. “The …
Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car
Investigators Probe Crash Involving Disgraced Former Elmwood Park Mayor, Police Car The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a weekend crash involving former Elmwood Park Mayor Frank Caramagna and a borough police vehicle, Daily Voice has learned. Investigators were examining the contention that Caramagna, who resigned after being arrested on voter fraud charges earlier this year, made an illegal U-turn on Market Street, causing Sunday’s accident, authorities confirmed. Both Caramagna, 74, and a borough officer were briefly hospitalized with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after the police car rammed the former mayor’s vehicle on the passenger…
Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15
Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 UPDATE: Elmwood Park police captured one of two men who they said robbed a 15-year-old boy of his cellphone Thursday night. Linden Browne-Jones, a 44-year-old Barbadian national living in Lyndhurst, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Friday with help from Lyndhurst police, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was charged with first-degree robbery and possession of a weapon -- a folding knife that the chief said was used to rob the teen on Market Street around 8 p.m. The victim told police he was walking near the CVS when Browne-Jones and an accomplice got out of a red SUV …
IMAGES: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines IMAGES: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines
Images: 'Big One' Consumes Marcal Plant, Ignites Nearby Buildings, Power Lines UPDATE: They feared it would happen sooner or later. Now it has -- in a way far worse than could have been imagined. Wind-whipped flames consumed the Marcal Plant in Elmwood Park Wednesday night in what quickly became the kind of fire many have long feared. The fire raged for several hours after breaking out in a warehouse around the start of the evening rush along nearby Route 80. Dozens of companies raced to help. Hundreds of smoke eaters jumped in. 500 people lost their jobs. And just when it seemed things couldn't get worse, another threat emerged.  Flames consumed the entire pl…