Body in Hackensack River in Teaneck ID’d as missing Dumont man, police say no foul play involved

UPDATE: A man whose body was found on a Hackensack River mud bank about 25 feet from shore this afternoon was identified as John Tonincelli of Dumont, who went missing more than four months ago, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.

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Jerry DeMarco

04/04/2015 9:22 p.m.

No foul play was involved, Teaneck police said.

The 6-foot-2-inch, 250-pound Tonincelli, who police said had a schizo-affective disorder, was reported missing by his mother on Nov. 27 after he didn’t show up for Thanksgiving dinner at the Woodcrest Health Care Center in New Milford.

He was last seen Nov. 25 on Atlantic Street in Hackensack, authorities said at the time, adding that he didn’t drive or use public transportation, often walked around the western end of Dumont and into New Milford and ran from people he wasn’t familiar with.

His body was spotted face-up on a river mud bank off River Road near Downing Street just before 4 p.m. today. By 6:30 p.m. it had been removed and taken to the Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office in Paramus.

In addition to the ME, the Bergen County Water Search and Recovery Unit and the county sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification were among the responders who joined Teaneck police at the scene in the township’s north end near Clarence W. Brett Park.

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