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Police: Hackensack Man Slams Windshield With Sledgehammer, Flees Police: Hackensack Man Slams Windshield With Sledgehammer, Flees
Police: Hackensack Man Slams Windshield With Sledgehammer, Flees A Hackensack man smashed a car windshield with a sledgehammer in the parking lot of a local supermarket, then led police on a brief chase Thursday afternoon before being caught in Ridgefield Park, authorities said. Responding Hackensack officers tried to stop Gary Jones, who sped off in an older-model BMW after damaging a vehicle at the West Pleasantview Avenue Stop & Shop across from his home around 2:45 p.m., Capt. Francesco Aquila said. The officers chased Jones onto Route 80 before terminating the pursuit due to safety concerns. After hearing the alert, Bogota police and Bergen Cou…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Clifton PD: Driver Nearly Rams Police Cruiser, Fights With Officers Clifton PD: Driver Nearly Rams Police Cruiser, Fights With Officers
Clifton PD: Driver Nearly Rams Police Cruiser, Fights With Officers A Clifton driver who nearly slammed his car head-on into a police cruiser fought with officers after they broke a window to get him out, authorities said. Maurice Wade, 29, locked himself in his car and belligerently refused to comply with the demands of officers who stopped him on Orchard Street near Colfax Avenue after the near-miss, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The standoff “continued for a considerable amount of time” before an officer smashed the passenger-side window with a baton, Bracken said. Wade resisted, and a lengthy struggle followed before he was subdued, the lieutenant…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson
Hasbrouck Heights Professor Found Unfit To Be Tried In Attempted St. Patrick's Arson UPDATE: A philosophy professor from Hasbrouck Heights who authorities said planned to burn down St. Patricks' Cathedral was found unfit to stand trial, Manhattan's district attorney announced Tuesday. Marc Lamparello, a 37-year-old East Rutherford native who'd been staying at a hotel in the city, was carrying a one-way ticket to Rome when he was caught entering the famed cathedral with four gallons of gasoline, two cans of lighter fluid and lighters on April 17, authorities said. He was charged with attempted arson and reckless endangerment. Earlier that same week, Essex County s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Clifton PD: Separate Assaults On Women Lead To Pursuits, Struggles, Arrests Clifton PD: Separate Assaults On Women Lead To Pursuits, Struggles, Arrests
Clifton PD: Separate Assaults On Women Lead To Pursuits, Struggles, Arrests One of two men chased down by Clifton police in separate assaults on women was carrying a knife, 41 folds of heroin and a crack pipe, authorities said. The incidents occurred within an hour of one another. Officers responding to a report of a 7 p.m. assault Wednesday at Norwood Avenue and Hazel Street began searching for 28-year-old Matthew Johnson of Clifton, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. When they spotted Johnson on Circle Avenue soon after, he took off, Bracken said. They chased Johnson into Paterson, where they eventually tackled, subdued and arrested him after a lengthy struggle…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bloomfield Man Carjacks Lyft Driver, Stabs Passenger In Clark: Police Bloomfield Man Carjacks Lyft Driver, Stabs Passenger In Clark: Police
Bloomfield Man Carjacks Lyft Driver, Stabs Passenger In Clark: Police A 27-year-old Bloomfield man was arrested Wednesday after he attacked a Lyft driver and a fellow passenger as the vehicle traveled through Clark early Wednesday morning, Chief of Police Pedro M. Matos said.  Patrolling officers found a 47-year-old man lying on Westfield Avenue around 1 a.m. who had been stabbed in the head, face and neck. A 20-year-old woman was also found on Westfield Avenue and had also been stabbed in the face and head. Officers learned that the man was the driver and the woman a passenger.  The woman and another man, Farrakhan S. Howard, had been picked up in …

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by Paul Milo
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NYPD: Hasbrouck Heights Professor Charged With Attempted Arson, Endangerment At St. Patrick's NYPD: Hasbrouck Heights Professor Charged With Attempted Arson, Endangerment At St. Patrick's
Nypd: Hasbrouck Heights Professor Charged With Attempted Arson, Endangerment At St. Patrick's UPDATE: A philosophy professor from Hasbrouck Heights was charged with attempted arson and reckless endangerment for trying to enter St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with four gallons of gasoline, two cans of lighter fluid and lighters Wednesday night, the NYPD said Thursday. Marc Lamparello, a 37-year-old East Rutherford native who'd been staying at a hotel in the city, was carrying a one-way ticket to Rome when he was arrested, police said. He remained held at the NYPD's Midtown North Precinct on Thursday as reports emerged that he'd also been arrested by Essex County sherif…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack
Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack Claiming he’d only just been released for carrying 140 envelopes of heroin, a user with visible track marks on his arm drew a crowd by shouting at Wayne detectives who said he was carrying six bags of crack and several unused folds of smack when they found him staggering from store to store in a commercial district. Detectives Skylar Cauceglia and Vincent Ricciardelli first spotted a 2014 Toyota in the area of the Hamburg Turnpike Quick Chek before watching it go to the Circle K store and then Trader Joe’s, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Each time, 32-year-old Paul C. Drake Jr. got o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park
Drugged Driver Flees After Route 80 Pileup In Teterboro, Caught In Elmwood Park UPDATE: A pickup truck driver who caused a multi-vehicle crash on eastbound Route 80 in Teterboro over the weekend that seriously injured her juvenile passenger ran from the scene but was later captured in Elmwood Park, State Police said. The Chevy pickup driven by Jaquina Sharron Davis, a 46-year-old repeat drug offender from Paterson, left the roadway and then re-entered it, crashing into a Subaru, at milepost 66 just after 8:30 p.m. Saturday, State Police Sgt. Lawrence Peele said. The Subaru, in turn, hit a Honda, he said. Davis, who was carrying heroin and crack, bailed out and ran, th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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DWI Driver From East Hanover Shoved Police, Threw Shoe At Computer, Chatham Police Charge DWI Driver From East Hanover Shoved Police, Threw Shoe At Computer, Chatham Police Charge
DWI Driver From East Hanover Shoved Police, Threw Shoe At Computer, Chatham Police Charge A 21-year-old drunk driver from East Hanover threw a shoe at a computer and shoved a police officer, authorities said. Chatham Borough police officers gave Michael Relich a field sobriety test after stopping him for speeding on Main Street around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, Detective Sgt. Michael Bochniak said. He was being given a breath test at police headquarters when he threw a shoe at a computer monitor and shoved an officer, Bochniak said. Redlich, who was arrested on drug charges after a 2016 traffic stop in Millburn, was charged this time with DWI, obstruction, crimin…

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by Cecilia Levine
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SWAT Team Seizes Accused New Milford Sex Offender Holed Up In Car At Englewood Boat Basin SWAT Team Seizes Accused New Milford Sex Offender Holed Up In Car At Englewood Boat Basin
SWAT Team Seizes Accused New Milford Sex Offender Holed Up In Car At Englewood Boat Basin A New Milford man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl had to be removed from his car by a SWAT team after he drove it into a restricted area of Palisades Interstate Park and then refused to get out, authorities said. A PIP police officer tried to stop 21-year-old Mike Andrew Urgiles after he drove on the wrong side of a closed gate on Tuesday, Officer-In-Charge Lt. Jock Watkins, Jr. said. Urgiles “eluded the officer and fled back into the park,” Watkins said. Officers found his car in the Englewood Boat Basin parking lot a short time later, but Urgiles refused their orders to g…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School
Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School UPDATE: An Englewood school custodian accidentally recorded himself installing a hidden camera in a Dwight Morrow High School bathroom used by a female night-shift employee, authorities said. Officials had considered canceling classes while police and sheriff's officers continued an hours-long pre-dawn search of the high school and adjoining Janis E. Dismus Middle School campuses for Francisco Jaius Lopez-Martinez, 59, of Bergenfield, who hid out there when he heard police were looking for him. It began when the victim, who is part of the night shift maintenance and cleaning crew that serv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School
Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School UPDATE: An Englewood school custodian accidentally recorded himself installing a hidden camera in a Dwight Morrow High School bathroom used by a female night-shift employee, authorities said. Officials had considered canceling classes while police and sheriff's officers continued an hours-long pre-dawn search of the high school and adjoining Janis E. Dismus Middle School campuses for Francisco Jaius Lopez-Martinez, 59, of Bergenfield, who hid out there when he heard police were looking for him. It began when the victim, who is part of the night shift maintenance and cleaning crew that serv…

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by Jerry DeMarco