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Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY
Masked Gunmen Rob Man Of $65,000, Lead Police On Roundabout Route Through Bergen, Passaic To NY Brazen bandits robbed a man at gunpoint on a Ridgefield Park street of a Rolex watch and a gold necklace -- worth a combined $65,000 -- before leading what became a relay-race police pursuit through nearly 20 North Jersey municipalities. The robbers first headed north through Teaneck, then into Englewood and Tenafly, following the holdup late Saturday, April 2, authorities said Monday. The fleeing bandits eventually made their way down Route 95 to westbound Route 3, up northbound Route 21 to eastbound Route 80 and then all the way from there to the George Washington Bridge before they got a…

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GOTCHA! Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Captured, Police Say GOTCHA! Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Captured, Police Say
Gotcha! Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Captured, Police Say A man wanted for mugging a postal carrier in broad daylight on a busy downtown Englewood street last month is in custody, authorities said. Ronald A. Benitez Santana, a 31-year-old Dominican national who lives in the Bronx, was nabbed by New Jersey State Police who stopped him for a traffic violation and found a warrant for his arrest in connection with the Feb. 10 incident, city Capt. Fred Pulice said. Santana was so intent on intercepting a particular delivery that day that he staked out the local postal annex, Pulice said. He also took cellphone photos of the contents of the carrier's t…

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FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street
Fierce Struggle: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street SEE ANYTHING? An Englewood postal carrier escaped serious injury Thursday in a knockdown, broad-daylight struggle with a strong-arm robber now being sought by police. The assailant was so intent on intercepting a particular package that he apparently staked out the local postal annex earlier in the day and then took cellphone photos of the contents of the carrier's truck while it was parked outside a downtown residential/commercial building on West Palisade Avenue. An employee at the Towne Centre at Englewood alerted the carrier to the stranger, Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. "Can I help you…

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Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective
Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective GOTCHA! A fresh eye cracked the mugging of a woman who got into a fierce broad-daylight struggle with a robber outside an Englewood cafe over a year ago, authorities announced. Surveillance images show the suspect cruising the area on a bicycle before donning a face mask, pulling up a hood and riding up to the woman, who was having cake and coffee outside Dulce Le Leche on busy West Palisade Avenue in early November 2020. The would-be robber tried snatching the woman's wallet, but he didn't know what he was in for: She wasn't giving it up that easily, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. The wa…

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ONE YEAR LATER: Englewood Man Who Went Missing Still Hasn't Been Found ONE YEAR LATER: Englewood Man Who Went Missing Still Hasn't Been Found
ONE Year Later: Englewood Man Who Went Missing Still Hasn't Been Found SEEN HIM? The search continued for a lifelong Englewood resident with dementia who went missing a year ago Thursday. Ruben Wilson, 69, had wandered off from his home near Cross Street and West Palisade Avenue before. He's been known, in fact, "to travel significant distances despite his age and other challenges,” Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. The 6-foot, 240-pound Wilson has always turned up -- from as close as Teaneck, Hackensack and Tenafly, and as far as Wall Township. That changed after Wilson went missing on May 27, 2020, just weeks after a previous walkaway. Englewood p…

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