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Illegal Border Crosser Seized By ICE After Punching Local NJ Officer In Face Illegal Border Crosser Seized By ICE After Punching Local NJ Officer In Face
Illegal Border Crosser Seized By ICE After Punching Local NJ Officer In Face A Guatemalan national who authorities said crossed the U.S. border illegally was seized by federal agents after he punched a Closter police officer in the face. Emiliano Cotzalo-Santiago, 24, was living in Palisades Park and working on a construction site in Closter when he began walking down the middle of Cedar Lane, obstructing traffic, Police Capt. Vincent Aiello said. This prompted calls to police. Cotzal-Santiago “attacked the first officer that he came in contact with by punching him in the face,” the captain said. A second officer sustained cuts on his hand as they attempted to han…
Crazed Robber Beats Fair Lawn Gas Station Worker, 83, Fights Officers, Smears Feces At HQ: PD Crazed Robber Beats Fair Lawn Gas Station Worker, 83, Fights Officers, Smears Feces At HQ: PD
Crazed Robber Beats Fair Lawn Gas Station Worker, 83, Fights Officers, Smears Feces At HQ: PD A crazed female robber beat a defenseless 83-year-old gas station employee, fought with Fair Lawn police and then urinated and defecated at headquarters, authorities said. Sincere Wiley, 30, began arguing with the attendant at the BP station on Wagaraw Road before shoving him, kneeing him in the face and punching him in the eye shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, Detective Eric Eleshewich said. She then brandished a box cutter, grabbed some tobacco product and $88 in cash and ran, the detective said. Responding officers saw Wiley – who lives in the upstate New York town of Lockport …
Distressed Hawthorne Man Disarmed By Fair Lawn Police After Threatening To Kill Dad Distressed Hawthorne Man Disarmed By Fair Lawn Police After Threatening To Kill Dad
Distressed Hawthorne Man Disarmed By Fair Lawn Police After Threatening To Kill Dad An armed and distressed Hawthorne man was subdued by police in Fair Lawn after he threatened to kill his father, authorities said. Officers who responded to a 911 call from the 25-year-old man himself found him holding a knife and a baseball bat on River Road at Berdan Avenue shortly after 2:30 a.m., Fair Lawn Sgt. Brian Metzler said. His father wasn't around, Metzler said. The officers were joined by Glen Rock police, who helped get the man to drop the knife, the sergeant said. "He tried to walk away from the officers," Metzler said, "but they were able to take him to the ground and sec…
Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40 Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40
Wallington Man, 27, Charged With Assaulting Elmwood Park Police After Threatening GF, 40 A drunken Wallington man fought with and spit on police who responded to a fight between him and his girlfriend outside the Domino’s in Elmwood Park, authorities said. A witness told police that Max Zaccone, 27, threatened to hit the 40-year-old Wyckoff woman with a bottle as she lay prone on the ground in front of the Market Street eatery shortly before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Both Zaccone and the woman “appeared to be heavily intoxicated and were extremely uncooperative with the investigating officers,” Foligno said. Zaccone then “became agitated and appro…
'Most Wanted' Fugitive From Westchester Captured By Fair Lawn Police 'Most Wanted' Fugitive From Westchester Captured By Fair Lawn Police
'Most Wanted' Fugitive From Westchester Captured By Fair Lawn Police An ex-con was removed from Westchester County’s "Most Wanted Fugitives" list after Fair Lawn police found him strung out on heroin, authorities said. Officers responding to a March 8 call of a man going in and out of consciousness in parking lot next to a Broadway (Route 4) check cashing business found Jordan Seacor, 31, of Ossining, sitting in his car, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. “He was sweating profusely and having difficulty staying awake,” the sergeant said. As the officers watched, Seacor dug into his pockets, pulled out a bundle of heroin bags and stuffed them into a backpack, Metzler…
Bergenfield PD: Repeat Ex-Con With Medical Emergency Caught Carrying Stolen Gun Bergenfield PD: Repeat Ex-Con With Medical Emergency Caught Carrying Stolen Gun
Bergenfield PD: Repeat Ex-Con With Medical Emergency Caught Carrying Stolen Gun What began as a medical emergency at a local Taco Bell ended with the arrest of a Florida ex-con with an extensive criminal history who asked a Bergenfield police officer to watch what turned out to be a stolen gun for him, authorities said. Michael Kanzer, 49, formerly of Rutherford, told Officer Gregory Slater that he needed to go to the hospital for an unspecified reason after the officer responded to the Washington Avenue eatery, Detective Lt. William Duran said. Kanzer then asked him to secure a gun that he'd been carrying in his backpack, Duran said. Slater found the 9mm handgun, whi…
Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery
Troubled Naked Man Runs Out Of Hackensack Cemetery An emotionally troubled River Edge man ran naked and bleeding from Hackensack Cemetery on Tuesday after apparently trying to dig up a grave there, authorities said. Temperatures had barely topped freezing when a police officer working a traffic detail on Kinderkamack Road outside the Madison Arms apartment complex spotted the 31-year-old man as he emerged from behind the cemetery near the River Edge border and Route 4 shortly before 10:30 a.m., they said. He was bleeding, apparently from digging with his hands in the cold ground, responders said. The man was taken to New Bridge M…
COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio
COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio A celebrated startup business advisor with an escalating history of violence smashed an Englewood police officer in the face with his own radio after causing a commotion at a local Starbucks when he refused to wear a COVID mask, authorities said. Frank Denbow, 35, eventually was subdued with help from a good Samaritan, police said. The attack, captured on video, came just weeks after authorities said Denbow kicked a police officer in Wyoming in the chest and sprayed him with a carbonated energy drink. An Englewood native, Denbow has been featured on various online business shows and tech …
New Milford Police Capture Shoeless, Disoriented Burglar Inside Home New Milford Police Capture Shoeless, Disoriented Burglar Inside Home
New Milford Police Capture Shoeless, Disoriented Burglar Inside Home New Milford police captured a shoeless burglar who'd broken into a home Thursday afternoon in a remote neighborhood along the Hackensack River. The homeowner told police he and his family returned home shortly after 4:30 p.m. to find the intruder standing in a puddle in their driveway on dead-ended Steuben Avenue wearing a Spongebob Squarepants sweatshirt and no shoes, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Aaron Warner, 19, of the Burlington County town of Browns Mills, entered the house through the front door as the resident called police, Van Saders said. Responding officers found him on …
Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman
Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Franklin Lakes Home, Assaults Terrified Woman A suspect fleeing police broke into a Franklin Lakes woman’s home, knocked her down and tried to hide in her chimney before he was captured, authorities said. Then he inexplicably smiled for his mugshot. Justin M. Gonzalez, 24, hopped out of a parked car and took off on foot as Oakland police responded to a suspicious person’s report on Brook Hollow Road before dawn last Friday Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Gonzalez, of the Hudson Valley, NY town of Livingston Manor, got away, but not for long, the prosecutor said. Several hours later, Franklin Lakes and Oakland police respo…
HERO: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge HERO: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge
Hero: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge Route 46 was closed down and an air mattress was inflated beneath a Bergen County overpass as police tried to convince a troubled 15-year-old not to jump. Officers found the Saddle Brook teen perilously perched on the Outwater Lane overpass in Garfield, near the Lodi border, around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “The parents said the youth left the home in a crisis state of mind,” Kugler said Wednesday. “They were deeply concerned for the juvenile's well-being.” The teen, apparently upset over a conflict involving a life choice, had climbed the curved fence…
Troubled Military Vet Leads Police On Brief Route 17 Chase, Apologizes, Admits He Needs Help Troubled Military Vet Leads Police On Brief Route 17 Chase, Apologizes, Admits He Needs Help
Troubled Military Vet Leads Police On Brief Route 17 Chase, Apologizes, Admits He Needs Help A troubled military veteran led Mahwah police on a brief pursuit before apologizing and admitting he needed help, authorities said. Detective Christopher Fasulo was in an unmarked police vehicle when he said he saw the man’s 2005 Subaru Legacy drift over the double-yellow line twice on Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202) around 9:45 p.m. July 7. A third time it appeared that the steering wheel had been "jerked," sending the wagon “so far into the oncoming lane that a collision with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction would have been [imminent]," the detective reported. Fasulo stopped …
AUTHORITIES: Incident At Teaneck Kosher Deli Not Bias Crime AUTHORITIES: Incident At Teaneck Kosher Deli Not Bias Crime
Authorities: Incident At Teaneck Kosher Deli Not Bias Crime UPDATE: Teaneck police in consultation with the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office determined that a Christmas incident at a popular Jewish kosher deli in town "didn't rise to the level of a bias crime." The man entered Sammy's Bagels on Queen Anne Road and said "take off your f****** hat" to one man and then to another, Township Manager Dean Kazinci said. There was some pushing and shoving between the man and the second victim, who was scratched on the face, Kazinci said. He didn't require medical attention, the township manager said. After leaving the store, the suspect approached a …
Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police
Allendale Ex-Con Captured After Breaking Into Woman’s Home, Furiously Fighting Police An Allendale ex-con released from prison only three days earlier fought fiercely with police in a waist-deep stream after a local woman found him in her home before dawn Friday, authorities said. An Allendale dispatcher called the West Crescent Avenue resident back after getting an abandoned 911 call around 3:40 a.m. and was told that there was someone in the house, Police Chief George Scherb said. Borough police were joined in setting up a perimeter by officers from neighboring towns – among them, Mahwah, Midland Park, Ramsey, Saddle River, Waldwick and Wyckoff, Scherb said. Soon after, h…
UPDATE: Barricaded Park Ridge Gun Collector, 32, Surrenders Peacefully UPDATE: Barricaded Park Ridge Gun Collector, 32, Surrenders Peacefully
Update: Barricaded Park Ridge Gun Collector, 32, Surrenders Peacefully UPDATE: An agitated weapons collector who barricaded himself in a Park Ridge basement with a loaded gun during a family dispute finally emerged peacefully nearly 2½ hours later, thanks to a local police sergeant, authorities said. The 32-year-old former U.S. Army veteran had been drinking when he had words with his mother, grabbed a rifle and went to the basement of the Johnsvale Road home around 9:15 p.m., they said. Police were aware that he had "a large cache of weapons at the ready," Police Chief Joseph Madden said Friday morning. Inside the house were at least 30 legally-registered we…
Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully
Three-Hour SWAT Standoff With Emotionally Troubled Englewood Man Ends Peacefully No charges will be filed against an emotionally troubled 37-year-old Englewood man armed with scissors who kept police at bay for more than three hours, insisting they commit "suicide by cop" by shooting him, authorities said. Responding officers to a 1:30 p.m. call in the Forest Gardens apartment complex on East Forest Avenue found him inside "armed with the scissors, acting irrationally, telling the officers to shoot him and that he was going to harm himself and others," Capt. Timothy Torell told Daily Voice. The officers summoned their department's Emergency Services …