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Officer Whose Car Struck, Killed Clifton Woman, 65, Committed No Wrongdoing, Grand Jury Finds Officer Whose Car Struck, Killed Clifton Woman, 65, Committed No Wrongdoing, Grand Jury Finds
Officer Whose Car Struck, Killed Clifton Woman, 65, Committed No Wrongdoing, Grand Jury Finds UPDATE: A Clifton police officer wasn't at fault for the death of a 65-year-old pedestrian who was struck as he headed to a call, a state grand jury has found. Officer Garrell Middleton was responding to a radio alert of an attempted carjacking at Clifton Commons with his emergency lights on when he hit his brakes, swerved to avoid a turning vehicle and struck Sook Hee Lee, who was on the sidewalk, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. State law and Platkin's own guidelines require his staff to investigate all deaths in New Jersey that occur “during an encounter with a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FOUND! Missing NJ Student, 19, Safe And Sound, Taken To Hospital For Evaluation FOUND! Missing NJ Student, 19, Safe And Sound, Taken To Hospital For Evaluation
Found! Missing NJ Student, 19, Safe And Sound, Taken To Hospital For Evaluation UPDATE: Morgan Panzer, a 19-year-old Bergen Community College freshman from Nutley whose parents reported her missing on Wednesday, was found Friday evening in Clifton, a family member confirmed. "They found her in the Wendy's by the Clifton Commons," he told Daily Voice around 5:30 p.m. "She's OK. She heading to Clara Maas Medical Center (in Belleville).  "A huge shout out to the Nutley and Clifton police departments." It was a police officer's wife who spotted her, in fact. Morgan hadn't strayed far. Her father, Richard Panzer, had confirmed that Morgan was spotted at least twice on T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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MYSTERY: Body Found On Route 3 MYSTERY: Body Found On Route 3
Mystery: Body Found On Route 3 UPDATE: Authorities turned to the public for help Monday after confirming that a man whose body was found on the left shoulder of Route 3 over the weekend was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver. Police found the unidentified man's body on the eastbound highway outside Clifton Commons shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in an officials statement. The officers were responding to calls of debris in the roadway, law enforcement sources said. "It's unusual, to say the least," one said. "At no poin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home
Authorities: Perv Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Bathroom Did Same To Girls At Paterson Home A man caught secretly recording women in bathroom stalls at a Barnes & Noble on Route 3 in Clifton did the same with two children at a Paterson home, authorities said. Juan Mejia, 46, of Paterson was arrested in February 2020 after a woman alerted security officers at Clifton Commons who found him in the bathroom. An investigation by Clifton police and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Sexual Investigations Unit found that Mejia “secretly recorded two women at separate times who were utilizing adjoining bathroom stalls,” an indictment returned by a grand jury in Paterson says. They also …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PD: Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Girl's Bathroom Not Same As Driver Who Exposed Himself Twice PD: Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Girl's Bathroom Not Same As Driver Who Exposed Himself Twice
PD: Pic Taker In Route 3 Bookstore Girl's Bathroom Not Same As Driver Who Exposed Himself Twice A man reportedly caught secretly taking photos in a women's bathroom stall at a Barnes & Noble on Route 3 isn't the same one who exposed himself last month to two different girls in Clifton -- and possibly elsewhere, authorities said Thursday.  The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office was expected to release information about Wednesday's incident at the Clifton Commons shopping center. A customer said it began while she and her mother were looking for a book and her cellphone "started going off like crazy." It was her daughter texting her that someone in the bathroom stall…

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by Jerry DeMarco