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WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard
Wild Ride: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard Nearly a dozen jitney passengers survived a wild ride after their 71-year-old driver first pulled over for police in Fairview, then hit the gas and sped from the stop. Adrian Marin was driving erratically when Fairview Police Officer Diego Porras stopped the bus on Bergen Boulevard and Harding Place back on the morning of June 30. Two officers doing jitney bus inspections at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church on Anderson Avenue headed over as backup as Porras asked Marin for his paperwork, Detective Lt. Michael Martic said. "He started to get his documents, then took off with the 10 passe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cliffside Park Woman Charged With Stabbing Roommate Cliffside Park Woman Charged With Stabbing Roommate
Cliffside Park Woman Charged With Stabbing Roommate A Cliffside Park man had settled down to sleep when his roommate – suspecting he’d stolen jewelry from her -- stabbed him in the leg, authorities said. Catalina Sacasa, 40, was brought to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday based on statements that they said she made about her emotional state following her arrest the day before. The 5-foot-2-inch, 110-pound Sacasa jabbed her 41-year-old roommate in the leg with a folding knife in the Palisade Avenue apartment that they share near DeSoto Place around 6 a.m. Tuesday, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Sacasa was…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Edgewater PD: Valet Drove Car That Killed Woman, 63, In Parking Garage Edgewater PD: Valet Drove Car That Killed Woman, 63, In Parking Garage
Edgewater PD: Valet Drove Car That Killed Woman, 63, In Parking Garage A valet was behind the wheel of a slow-moving car that struck and killed a 63-year-old Palisades Park woman in the parking garage of an Edgewater spa, authorities said early Wednesday. Responding officers lifted the car off of Keum Soon Lim and administered aid following the 8 p.m. accident Sunday on the third level of the SOJO Spa Club at 660 River Road, Police Chief Donald Martin said. Edgewater EMS took her to nearby Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, where she was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m., Martin said. Detectives determined that the 2008 Acura TL sedan "was traveling at…

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by Jerry DeMarco