UPDATE: A search for a 15-year-old boy who witnesses said drowned in a Passaic County reservoir was suspended until the light of Sunday morning.The boy apparently had gone under about 15 to 20 feet from shore at the Great Notch Reservoir off Old Rifle Camp Road on Garrett Mountain in Woodland Park around 3:45 p.m., authorities said.A report that he'd been swimming with friends ...

A tree worker died after suffering a noontime medical emergency on the job in Closter on Saturday, responders said.The unresponsive worker was suspended by rigging high outside a home on Anderson Avenue and had to be reached by firefighters.A Northstar medical helicopter was summoned to take him to the hospital while CPR was conducted.News came soon after that the worker had died.OSHA ...

A man was beaten, stomped on and bashed in the head with a chair during a vicous brawl Friday night in the food court of the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, authorities said.The melee ignited a panic, with people running for the exits -- and some wrongly telling police they heard gunshots -- around 7 p.m. It also sent the 26-year-old victim from Paterson to the hospital with serious ...

A street-level drug operation that opened for business off a highly-trafficked corner in Paterson around 7 a.m. each day had reached an estimated $90,000 a month in sales before city detectives put a stop to it, authorities said.Investigators seized two pounds of cocaine, dozens of pills and more while arresting six people during an investigation centered on a corner that pours constant ...

A Colombian national from Hackensack remained jailed nearly a week after he was arrested for a domestic violence incident.Slavko Vrhovnik Salamanca, 59, is charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment, weapons possession and making threats of severe harm.Salamanca was arrested without incident at his home around 1:30 a.m. May 15, city police confirmed.Public information remains ...

A pair of violent Bergen County carjackings – one that produced a 110 mph pursuit and another that left a driver wounded – both involved a Bronx man who’s now in custody, authorities said.Authorities have moved to extradite Dariel Perez-Grullon and an accused associate, Luis Guzman-Encarnacion, both 22, to New Jersey to face charges.The first incident literally began and ended in ...

Firefighters quickly doused a Lodi kitchen blaze early Friday night.The fire in the two-family Church Street home broke out shortly after 7 p.m. and was knocked down in under 20 minutes.Hackensack and Wallington firefighters assisted their Lodi colleagues.The Church Street fire broke out shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, May 20.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICENo injuries were reported.The Lodi Fire ...

Two days after he was laid to rest, authorities announced the capture of two men accused of participating in the cold-blooded execution of a camp counselor from Paterson who’d worked for the city DPW.The gunman who authorities believe fired the fatal shots at Nasir Davis, 26, on May 3 has yet to be publicly identified.They did say on Friday, however, that they’d arrested Anthony Powell, ...

Three New Jersey auto dealers accused of ripping off customers agreed to pay nearly $400,000 combined to end a state investigation while promising not to do it again, authorities announced.Buyers of both new and used vehicles have already been frustrated by supply chain issues, Acting Attorney Matthew J. Platkin said in a joint release with the state Division of Consumer Affairs on ...

A state judge refused to release a defendant from Newark who was captured in New York City and charged with shooting a Jersey Shore man following a robbery in Paterson.The 27-year-old Sea Bright victim was shot near the corner of Putnam Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard on Jan. 8, 2021.He sought treatment at Riverside Medical Center in Red Bank without telling city police, Passaic County ...