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Man Who Lives Near Bergen Grade School Charged With Collecting, Sharing Child Porn Man Who Lives Near Bergen Grade School Charged With Collecting, Sharing Child Porn
Man Who Lives Near Bergen Grade School Charged With Collecting, Sharing Child Porn A 26-year-old college student who lives around the corner from a Closter grade school was caught trafficking child porn, authorities said. John S. Soh was charged following a warranted raid at his home just off Houmans Avenue near the PK-4 Hillside Elementary School late last week, authorities said. Soh had “used the Internet to view, download, possess, and distribute items depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit charged Soh with possession and distribution of child porn…

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Garbage Truck Crash In Bergen Brings Two Choppers, Massive Response Garbage Truck Crash In Bergen Brings Two Choppers, Massive Response
Garbage Truck Crash In Bergen Brings Two Choppers, Massive Response Two victims were airlifted by separate medical choppers after a minivan slammed into a tractor-trailer hauling garbage in what responders and witnesses said was a horrific crash in Closter. Firefighters had to extricate both of them from their Toyota Sienna after the crash with an Interstate Waste Disposal rig at Closter Dock Road and High Street around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, responders said. Both were conscious and alert when taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, Closter Police Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. The minivan was traveling east on High Street, which is cont…

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Driver, 21, Killed In Predawn Closter Crash Driver, 21, Killed In Predawn Closter Crash
Driver, 21, Killed In Predawn Closter Crash A Closter driver died in a predawn crash despite furious efforts to save him, authorities said. The victim, 21, failed to negotiate a turn when his 2018 Mercedes GLE hit a tree and telephone pole before coming to rest on its side on Piermont Road near Alpine Drive at 4:46 a.m. Wednesday, Closter Police Chief John McTigue said. Closter police, assisted by their colleagues from Norwood and Haworth, lifted the car and freed the driver, who was pinned beneath the vehicle, the chief said.  They began CPR and summoned a medical chopper that was then cancelled because of the foggy weather. …

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FOUND! Demarest Police Find Missing Rockland Woman Safe, Sound FOUND! Demarest Police Find Missing Rockland Woman Safe, Sound
Found! Demarest Police Find Missing Rockland Woman Safe, Sound Demarest police found a missing Rockland woman who became the subject of a search after her car and phone were left at a shopping center in Closter. Police searching for Amy Clarke, 48, of Tappan found her Lexus SUV after pinging her phone to the Closter Plaza around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Closter Police Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Demarest police found Clarke – who has no direct ties to the area -- on Piermont Road nearly 24 hours later, the lieutenant said. "She's safe and sound," he said.

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by Jerry DeMarco