Find Your Daily Voice
Garfield-Lodi
Your Local News for Garfield and Lodi, New Jersey
Tuesday, apr 30
45°
Follow
News
Schools
Business
Obituaries
Police & Fire
Weather
Lifestyle
Politics
Sports
Events
Real Estate
Tags
Jobs
Shop
Support Us
Garfield-Lodi
Follow
Find Your Daily Voice
News
Schools
Business
Obituaries
Police & Fire
Weather
Lifestyle
Politics
Sports
Events
Real Estate
Tags
Jobs
Shop
Support Us
Home
About us
All sites
Advertise with us
Contact us
Terms of use
Privacy policy
Code of ethics
Site Map
© 2024 Cantata Media
45°
Tuesday, apr 30
Tag:
West Englewood Avenue, Englewood, NJ
Police & Fire
Landmark Liquor Store In Englewood Severely Damaged By Fire
Fire severely damaged a landmark business that has been part of Englewood's fabric for well over a century, officials said. The two-alarm blaze at I Wides Liquors on West Englewood Avenue broke out around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31. Firefighters kept the flames from spreading past the front of the building and had the blaze under control in barely an hour. The damage nonetheless was significant enough to render the building uninhabitable. Although an official cause wasn't immediately released, fire officials said they didn't suspect any wrongdoing. Mutual aid responders included firefight…
Police & Fire
Blood-Soaked Homeless Man Seized In Stabbing Of Fellow Englewood Squatter
UPDATE: A homeless man drenched in blood and holding a knife was captured by Englewood police without incident after he stabbed a fellow squatter in a vacant building, authorities said. The 44-year-old victim was expected to survive cuts to his hands, elbow, shoulder and foot, as well as an injury to the bridge of the nose, following the attack shortly before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. The victim staggered out of the long-unoccupied building at 215 West Englewood Avenue near Lafayette Place and collapsed on the sidewalk, witnesses told responding officers, …
Police & Fire
Englewood Officers Injured While Arresting Unruly Driver: Police
A driver was in custody after an incident on Saturday that sent two Englewood police officers to the hospital. Officers responding to a call of a parked driver who appeared unconscious found Alpha Diallo, 28, of Englewood in a BMW sedan with New York license plates on West Englewood Avenue near Humphrey Street a little after 11 a.m. on April 22, Lt. Fred Pulice said. Officers Michael McCue and Michael Holland banged on the driver's side window but had trouble waking him, the lieutenant said. Once he came to, Diallo ignored the officers, put the car in gear and tried to maneuver out of a ti…
News
Englewood Police Try To ID Pedestrian Struck, Knocked Unconscious Crossing Dark, Rainy Street
Englewood police are trying to identify a pedestrian who they said was struck and knocked unconscious on a dark and rainy street. A 21-year-old city woman was driving a 2013 Nissan Altima south on West Englewood Avenue when the man crossed the street near Brookway Avenue around 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, Lt. Fred Pulice said. The sedan hit him, sending him over the hood, the lieutenant said. The shaken driver immediately called police, who found the severely injured pedestrian in the street, he said. The man was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center's trauma unit with a head injur…
News
Three Victims Had Been Stabbed When Police Shot Knife-Wielding Englewood Man, 22, NJ AG Says
Three people had been stabbed at an Englewood home over the Labor Day weekend, authorities said, when city police confronted a 22-year-old city man holding a knife. An officer fired a taser at Bernard Placide inside the home on West Englewood Avenue off the corner of Reade Street shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said Thursday. A fellow officer then fired one round from her service weapon, fatally wounding Placide, the attorney general said. CPR was in progress as Placide was taken by ambulance to nearby Englewood Hospital and Med…
News
Police-Involved Shooting Reported In Englewood
Police responding to a stabbing in Englewood were involved in a fatal shooting, according to multiple sources. CPR was in progress as a shooting victim was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in grave condition with a gunshot wound in the chest following the incident on West Englewood Avenue off the corner of Reade Street shortly before 8:30 a.m. Saturday, they said. He was pronounced dead at EHMC at 9:17 a.m., according to the office of Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin in Trenton. His identity was temporarily being withheld. At least two stabbing victims we…
News
Gotcha
! Detectives Nab Armed Englewood Teen, Alleged Teaneck Accomplice In Paterson Shooting
A 19-year-old Englewood man was carrying a loaded gun when city police detectives nabbed him and an ex-con from Teaneck on attempted murder charges out of Paterson, authorities said. The investigators chased down Zion Martin, 19, of Englewood, and Malik Lee, 26, of Teaneck after spotting them in the area of West Englewood Avenue and Lafayette Place earlier this week, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. Both were wanted on warrants in connection with the May 5 shooting of a 28-year-old Paterson man who survived after being struck multiple times on Summer Street and Hamilton Avenue, authorities s…
News
Police: Mugger Bites Man Walking Dog In Englewood
An Englewood man walking his dog was bitten by a mugger who was later caught while the victim was reporting the incident, authorities said. The resident said the stranger approached and "engaged him in a conversation about his dog" on West Englewood Avenue and William Street shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, Lt. Fred Pulice said. When he turned to walk away, he said, the would-be robber "grabbed him from behind and began reaching into his pockets." The victim told police he fought him off but was bitten on the hand during the scuffle, Pulice said. By coincidence, the victim was at …
News
GOT
Video
? Englewood Police Seek Help Identifying Housing Complex Gunman
Police turned to the public for help identifying whoever fired shots outside an Englewood housing complex Monday night. Detectives were seeking witnesses and/or surveillance video recorded between 8:45 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday at the 100-unit Martin Luther King Gardens complex at William Street and West Englewood Avenue, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said in a Ring message to residents. "Luckily, it appears that no one was injured" in the 9:15 p.m. shooting, he added. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. A sheriff's K-9 unit also responded in an…
News
Update
: Authorities Investigate Death Of Teaneck Motorcyclist In Englewood Crash
Detectives were investigating a weekend crash that killed a Teaneck motorcyclist in Englewood. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit was investigating the circumstances of the crash, which involved another vehicle, on West Englewood Avenue near Oak Street shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday. The 31-year-old motorcyclist was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, authorities said. West Englewood Avenue remained closed between Oak Street and Orange Street until Sunday morning. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Cri…
Police & Fire
SEE
Anything
? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border
Two guns came flying out the window of a car during a wild Englewood police pursuit following a shooting last month, said authorities who grabbed the occupant of one vehicle and were seeking the public’s help finding those in the other. Several officers heard gunfire at the One William Street apartment complex at West Englewood Avenue and William Street and saw two vehicles speed away just after midnight April 13, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Police pursed both vehicle along South Dean Street, where the two guns were tossed from a late model Jeep Grand Cherokee, he said. “Whe…
Police & Fire
Police: Ex-Con Uses Children As Human Shields Against Englewood Officers After Assault, Crash
Englewood police avoided a potential tragedy when they calmly captured an ex-con who used his two children as human shields after assaulting his ex-girlfriend and causing a hit-and-run crash that hospitalized a pizza delivery man, authorities said. Rameesh Dula, 34, first grabbed one of the youngsters after responding officers found both him and the woman bleeding, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. The woman told police that Dula had stolen her car moments earlier, crashed it and then returned to her home, Torell said. Police tried to take Dula into custody, but he “grabbed one of …
Police & Fire
Detectives: Three Stabbed -- None Cooperating -- In Englewood Street Fight
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- Police were trying to determine who stabbed three men -- one of whom suffered a collapsed lung -- during an Englewood street fight. The trouble is: None of the victims is cooperating, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. Two victims were found at West Englewood Avenue and Reade Street around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Torell said. The fight, in the 100 block of Reade Street, sent a 22-year-old Englewood victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with a stab wound to his chest and the collapsed lung, Torell said. The second victim, 25, also from Englewood, "claimed he …
45°
