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Burglarized Ridgewood Couple Finds $15K Missing From Bedroom, Air Jordans From Basement: PD Burglarized Ridgewood Couple Finds $15K Missing From Bedroom, Air Jordans From Basement: PD
Burglarized Ridgewood Couple Finds $15K Missing From Bedroom, Air Jordans From Basement: PD A couple from Ridgewood returned after a couple of days away to hear a rear door slam and someone run from their house, police said. Village police quickly responded and found the rear door broken into and the home off Godwin Avenue near Midland Park ransacked late Sunday afternoon, April 30, Capt. Forest Lyons said. The couple said roughly $15,000 was missing from their bedroom and two pair of Air Jordan collector sneakers from the basement, the captain said. Village police converged on the area, along with their colleagues from Midland Park and Wyckoff and a Bergen County Sheriff's K9 un…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Snapchat Threats By Bergen County Boy, 13, Prompt Searches Of School, Home Snapchat Threats By Bergen County Boy, 13, Prompt Searches Of School, Home
Snapchat Threats By Bergen County Boy, 13, Prompt Searches Of School, Home Authorities searched Bergenfield's middle school and the home of a 13-year-old boy who they said posted threatening Snap Chat messages. The messages "detailed a school bombing and school shooting" at the Roy Brown Middle School last Friday, Detective Lt. William Duran said Thursday. A shelter-in-place immediately went into effect at the Washington Avenue school that day after the messages were received, Duran said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad and K9 Unit were among the responders. "A sweep of the school and search of the juvenile's home were conducted with nothing found to indi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen Boy Who Painted Popular Flag Pallets Donates $2,500 For PD's New K9 Bergen Boy Who Painted Popular Flag Pallets Donates $2,500 For PD's New K9
Bergen Boy Who Painted Popular Flag Pallets Donates $2,500 For PD's New K9 A dog may be man’s best friend, but an 8-year-old boy from Mahwah now has some buddies of his own at the Little Ferry Police Department. Mason Duffy didn’t expect that so many people would offer to buy the flags that he’d painted on wooden pallets during the COVID lockdown. “He wasn’t looking to sell them,” Little Ferry Police Chief James Walter said. “But he was getting tons of requests.” So Mason decided to fundraise his art and contribute some of the proceeds to a worthy cause. By the time he was finished, Mason had painted 66 pallets with the Stars and Stripes, as well as Blue Line (…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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‘She Was My Rock': Hackettstown Officer Pens Tribute To Lost K9 Jada ‘She Was My Rock': Hackettstown Officer Pens Tribute To Lost K9 Jada
‘She Was My Rock': Hackettstown Officer Pens Tribute To Lost K9 Jada Officer Christopher Laver of the Hackettstown Police Department posted a tribute to his beloved K9 partner after her abrupt and unexpected death. Jada --a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois-- suffered a medical episode while on duty Wednesday night, the department said. She died at Newton Animal Hospital shortly after. “What words do I use, what is it that I’m searching for to say?” Officer Christopher Laver wrote on social media. “Heartbroken? Devastated? Numb?” Laver's interest in K9 officers began when he was learned about military working dogs during his 2005 overseas deployment, he…

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by Valerie Musson