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Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say
Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Police who followed a blood trail after a 21-year-old Clifton man was stabbed in the back during a fight over a parking spot identified his assailant as an ex-con who’s already spent several years in prison for a series of violent crimes. Officers followed a blood trail along Van Winkle Avenue toward Passaic after responding to the 9 p.m. stabbing near Lake Avenue, Clifton Police Lt. Robert Anderson said. They were quickly joined by a K9 team and crime scene detectives from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, he said. The officers began reviewing surveillance video along the trail and saw …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Clifton Burglary Victim: Second Break-In Thwarted Clifton Burglary Victim: Second Break-In Thwarted
Clifton Burglary Victim: Second Break-In Thwarted CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton woman told police she scared off a burglar just three days after her apartment was broken into and ransacked. The woman said she was asleep in her bedroom on Lake Avenue near Van Winkle Avenue when the sound of someone trying to come in through the bathroom woke her around 9:20 a.m. Monday. She told police she made a noise to scare off the intruder, then saw a shadow run past her window, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Last Friday night, someone entered the same apartment through the bathroom window when no one was home and took jewelry and various other items…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Three Caught, One Sought In Armed Street Robberies SEEN HIM? Three Caught, One Sought In Armed Street Robberies
Seen HIM? Three Caught, One Sought In Armed Street Robberies UPDATE: The man accused of shooting baseball legend David “Big Papi” Ortiz has been wanted for a pair of street robberies in Clifton last year, Daily Voice has learned. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/police-fire/man-accused-of-shooting-david-ortiz-was-wanted-in-clifton-street-robberies/770094/ ****** CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police turned to the public for help Tuesday finding a man suspected of participating in a pair of street holdups. Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz, 23, of Paterson, was with a group of others who held up two men blocks apart last month, Detective Lt. Rob…

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by Jerry DeMarco