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Amputee In Wheelchair Busted For Baseball Bat Assault In Upper Saddle River Amputee In Wheelchair Busted For Baseball Bat Assault In Upper Saddle River
Amputee In Wheelchair Busted For Baseball Bat Assault In Upper Saddle River A 62-year-old amputee previously accused of setting a fire in his luxury high-rise apartment in Fort Lee was jailed on domestic assault charges following a weekend incident at an Upper Saddle River home. Jay Freedman was taken into custody at the $1.3 million home in the south end of Upper Saddle River around 8 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, according to a police report. Freedman is accused of hitting the victim with a baseball bat, it says. The victim reportedly refused treatment. Meanwhile, Freedman, who has a prosthetic leg and was reportedly using a wheelchair, was taken to Bergen New Bridge Me…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers GOTCHA! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers
Gotcha! NJ Man Wanted For Fort Lee Gas Station Holdup Chased Down By NY State Troopers A New Jersey man wanted for robbing a gas station convenience store in Fort Lee was captured in New York State following a pursuit that began on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Shahzad A. Khan, 41, of Carteret had just held up a Rockland County mini-mart when New York State Police tried to stop his southbound 2014 Chevy Equinox on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12, authorities said. Khan exited onto the Sprain Brook Parkway -- and directly into a moving roadblock, State Police said. What wasn’t known at the time, authorities said, was that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? Robber Flees Fort Lee Gas Station With $900 Cash, Two Bottles Of Booze SEE ANYTHING? Robber Flees Fort Lee Gas Station With $900 Cash, Two Bottles Of Booze
SEE Anything? Robber Flees Fort Lee Gas Station With $900 Cash, Two Bottles Of Booze IN CUSTODY: A New Jersey man wanted for robbing a gas station convenience store in Fort Lee was captured in New York State following a pursuit that began on the Tappan Zee Bridge. READ MORE HERE .... ****** ORIGINAL STORY: A robber threatened a Fort Lee gas station attendant with a handgun before fleeing with an estimated $900 in cash and two bottles of alcohol, authorities said. The robber entered the Gulf Express convenience store on Bergen Boulevard around 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, the attendant told police. Pointing a gun at her, he demanded all the money in the register, Police Capt. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First
Second Gas Station Robbery In Four Days Near GWB Just Like The First The script was nearly the same when armed robbers held up a second gas station in four days near the George Washington Bridge, authorities said. This time, a gang of five held up a LukOil station on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday, Police Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The robbers commanded an employee and patron in the store not to call police, then demanded money, Mirkovic said. One of them had a silver folding knife and anther made a gesture beneath his sweatshirt as if he had a gun, the captain said. One of the robbers took money from one register and then tried to…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700 ‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700
‘You Want To Die?’ Knife-Wielding Robbers Flee Gas Station Near GWB With $2,700 Three robbers fled a Fort Lee gas station with $2,700, cigars and cigarettes after one pulled a knife and another acted like he had a gun, authorities said. The trio entered the Patwalia Food Mart in the Shell station on eastbound Route 46 at Bergen Boulevard shortly before 4 a.m. Wednesday, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. Two kept a lookout while the third went behind the counter and began removing drawers from the cash register, Mirkovic said. One of the store clerks began to get up when one of the lookouts gestured with his hand from inside his jacket pocket. “Sit down," he told the clerk. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Koffeewagon Roasters Expands To Fort Lee Koffeewagon Roasters Expands To Fort Lee
Koffeewagon Roasters Expands To Fort Lee Fort Lee is getting a new coffee shop. Koffeewagon Roasters, which opened on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights in January 2016, will be coming to Bergen Boulevard, BoozyBurbs reports. The coffeeshop was named Best in New Jersey by Cosmopolitan and USA Today. KWR owner Bruce Juan Pettineo roasts and brews on-site. The cafe offers pour-over coffee, cold brews, teas and pastries baked fresh daily. No word yet on opening date. Koffeewagon Roasters: 1666 Bergen Blvd., Fort Lee

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by Cecilia Levine
Business
Fort Lee Pizzeria Thrives Through Changing Times Fort Lee Pizzeria Thrives Through Changing Times
Fort Lee Pizzeria Thrives Through Changing Times Much has changed in Fort Lee since Franco and Antonietta Bazzarelli opened their pizzeria, Franco's Metro. The shop's name. Its location. The menu. But one thing remains constant at Franco's Metro: Loyalty. Bazzarelli's adult kids who spent their childhoods watching their parents build their family's future are the ones spending upwards of 12 hours a day running the show at Franco's Metro. And his customers -- both old and new -- turn up at the store at least twice a week without fail sometimes to eat, sometimes just to say hello. "Our lives are inside of these four walls," sai…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car
Police ID Fort Lee Mom Who Left Toddler, 2, In Towed Car FORT LEE, N.J. -- Police on Thursday identified a Fort Lee woman whose illegally parked car was towed with her 2-year-old daughter in the back seat while she was inside a local bank. Yuqing Jiang, 46, was charged with abandonment, child abuse and endangerment after a borough police sergeant found the toddler still asleep in a Bergen Boulevard towing lot. Jiang had parked at the Towne Center on Schlosser Street while she went into the Chase Bank on Main Street early Monday evening, responders told Daily Voice on Wednesday. The car was towed at 5:30 p.m., records show. At 5:56 p.m., Fort Le…

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by Jerry DeMarco