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Undercover Unit Busts Burglars Hitting Fort Lee Shoppers' Cars Undercover Unit Busts Burglars Hitting Fort Lee Shoppers' Cars
Undercover Unit Busts Burglars Hitting Fort Lee Shoppers' Cars Two members of a Queens burglary crew who've been hitting Fort Lee shopping centers were hard at work when an undercover team of police caught them in the act, authorities said. Plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit officers and detectives have been keeping an eye on Plaza West on Bergen Boulevard amid a rash of thefts of purses from shopping carts and vehicles there and at Linwood Plaza, Capt. Edward Young said. They were secretly watching when a BMW X5 that had been flagged in a previous burglary pulled into a parking spot in the Plaza West lot around 4 p.m. Dec. 22, the captain said. The vehicle…

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Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria
Community Grieves Double COVID Deaths At Popular Bergen County Pizzeria A community reeled as news spread that COVID-19 had claimed the lives of two longtime members of an extended family from the same Bergen County pizzeria. Friends, loved ones and customers from Linwood Pizza in Fort Lee prayed hard for manager Gus Karageorge and primary pie guy Manny Macancela to survive the disease. “Our hearts are broken after this week’s tragic turn of events,” the Missiris family, who own the landmark eatery near the George Washington Bridge, wrote Thursday. Karageorge and Macancela “touched both the people they worked with and the community they served,” they added. J…

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Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza
Pedestrian Struck Outside Fort Lee Shopping Plaza A pedestrian was struck by a car outside a Fort Lee shopping plaza Tuesday night, authorities said. The Palisades Park driver of a 2009 Lexus ES was making a turn out of the Linwood Plaza on Fletcher Avenue when his car hit the 39-year-old Hicksville, Long Island man in the crosswalk, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after complaining of neck and other pain, he said. The driver received a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian, the captain said. ****** ALSO SEE: A 78-year-old pedestrian who was struck and killed by an SUV…

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by Jerry DeMarco