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Home Invaders Posed As Police Officers, Restrained Children In Bergen County House: Prosecutor Home Invaders Posed As Police Officers, Restrained Children In Bergen County House: Prosecutor
Home Invaders Posed As Police Officers, Restrained Children In Bergen County House: Prosecutor A New York trio has been arrested in connection with a home invasion earlier this month in Bergen County, authorities said. Diogenes A. Rosario, 49, of New York, NY; Leonel Perez, 38, of New York, NY; and Misael Diaz, 38, of Yonkers, broke into a multi-family home on Crescent Lane in Cliffside Park around 1:50 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. All three were wearing dark-colored clothing and facemasks, and were outwardly displaying imitation police-style badges, portraying themselves as police officers, Musella said.  Once inside, the suspects fo…
GOTCHA! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says GOTCHA! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says
Gotcha! Hit-And-Run Driver Who Struck Paramus Officer At Mall ID'd, Captured, Chief Says A suspect who hit a Paramus police officer with his car as he fled a local mall was identified and captured thanks to dogged detective work and crime-fighting teamwork, authorities said. Officers were investigating the use of credit cards stolen from vehicles at the Garden State Plaza when a black Honda CRV sped through the lower-level parking garage just before 8:30 p.m. Jan. 29, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Officer Michael Cleary was clipped by the car, whose driver kept going, Guidetti said. Cleary was treated for a knee injury at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Mea…
Video Shows Drunk NJ Driver Plowing Sedan Into 5 Cars At Busy NY Intersection: Police Video Shows Drunk NJ Driver Plowing Sedan Into 5 Cars At Busy NY Intersection: Police
Video Shows Drunk NJ Driver Plowing Sedan Into 5 Cars At Busy NY Intersection: Police A 21-year-old New Jersey man ha been charged in connection with a six-car crash at a busy intersection in Westchester, NY, police said. Phillipsburg resident Angel Illesscas' blood alcohol content was nearly three times over the legal limit of .08% in the wreck at the intersection of Caryl Avenue and South Broadway on Saturday, Feb. 17, Yonkers police said. Surveillance footage captured Illesscas plowing his gray Honda sedan into several vehicles, damaging five cars in addition to his own. The collision also caused one of the cars to hit a utility pole, which damaged several electronics inc…
'Nowhere Else To Run:' Bodycam Footage Shows NJ Porsche Thief's NY Capture After 75-Mile Drive 'Nowhere Else To Run:' Bodycam Footage Shows NJ Porsche Thief's NY Capture After 75-Mile Drive
'Nowhere Else To Run:' Bodycam Footage Shows NJ Porsche Thief's NY Capture After 75-Mile Drive Police in New York have released footage of the moment they captured a 20-year-old suspected Porsche thief who swiped the vehicle from a New Jersey car dealership, they said. Jayden Martell, of Newark, allegedly drove the vehicle nearly 75 miles from the Great Meadows, NJ, dealership to Yonkers, NY, where he was arrested on Monday night, Oct. 30, Yonkers police said. Yonkers police got a call Monday night from the car dealership saying the 2021 Porsche Macan stolen the day before was being tracked entering Yonkers, the department said. Fourth Precinct Officers Pete Denyssenko and Virginia …
Two Dead After Suicidal Man Jumps From Building, Lands On Victim In NY Two Dead After Suicidal Man Jumps From Building, Lands On Victim In NY
Two Dead After Suicidal Man Jumps From Building, Lands On Victim In NY Two men were dead after one of them jumped from the top of a building, landing on top of the other below overnight in Westchester County, NY. The incident took place around 6 p.m., Monday, Sept. 20 at 77 Locust Hill Ave., in Yonkers. A distraught 25-year-old man jumped off the roof of the building, falling 12 stories onto the concrete parking garage roof below and striking a 61-year-old man; both men died at the scene, Yonkers police said. Investigators are interviewing witnesses and family members at this time and reviewing surveillance videos.  The incident appears to be a tragic s…
Serial Robber Who Held Up Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights Banks, Targeted Englewood, Gets 5 Years Serial Robber Who Held Up Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights Banks, Targeted Englewood, Gets 5 Years
Serial Robber Who Held Up Fort Lee, Hasbrouck Heights Banks, Targeted Englewood, Gets 5 Years A serial bank robber from the Bronx was sentenced to five years in federal prison Tuesday for holding up banks in Fort Lee and Hasbrouck Heights and planning to hit another in Englewood before federal agents nabbed him. Eddy Cruz, 42, must serve out the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Cruz admitted in August that he robbed a TD Bank branch in Fort Lee on Feb. 13, 2017 and another in Hasbrouck Heights five days later, wearing a mask to disguise his identity both times and handing the tellers notes demanding cash. He said he also robbed a PNC Bank…
Wyckoff PD: Arrests Made In Casino Winner Car-Bump Robbery On Route 208 Wyckoff PD: Arrests Made In Casino Winner Car-Bump Robbery On Route 208
Wyckoff PD: Arrests Made In Casino Winner Car-Bump Robbery On Route 208 Two men were in custody after authorities said they robbed a casino gambler by bumping his car from behind on Route 208 in Wyckoff and claiming they were police officers. The driver told police he’d left the Empire City Casino in Yonkers around 5:30 a.m. Sept. 2 and was headed north on the highway when his vehicle was struck from behind near Cedar Hill Avenue. One of two men who got out of the other car “identified himself as a law enforcement officer and instructed him to place his hands on the trunk of his vehicle,” Wyckoff Police Chief David Murphy said. “They then held him while they r…