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Runaway Pickup With Kids Inside Slams Into Bergen County Restaurant Runaway Pickup With Kids Inside Slams Into Bergen County Restaurant
Runaway Pickup With Kids Inside Slams Into Bergen County Restaurant A possible tragedy was avoided when a pickup truck with two kids left inside slammed into the front of a restaurant in Montvale. An Upper Saddle River resident had parked the 2020 Chevy Silverado in front of the Chipotle at The Shoppes at DiPiero Farm when it rolled forward and struck a parked vehicle around 9 p.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. A 13-year-old who was waiting in the truck with a 9-year-old old tried to stop the pickup but apparently put it in reverse instead, Sanfilippo said. The truck rolled backwards through the parking lot before crashing through the fro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
HERO: Visiting Doctor Rescues Drowning Boy, 3, At Bergen County Hotel Pool HERO: Visiting Doctor Rescues Drowning Boy, 3, At Bergen County Hotel Pool
Hero: Visiting Doctor Rescues Drowning Boy, 3, At Bergen County Hotel Pool Fate intervened this weekend when an emergency room doctor revived a drowning 3-year-old boy pulled from a hotel pool near the New Jersey/New York border. Police who responded within a minute to the call of an unresponsive child at the Courtyard by Marriott on Chestnut Ridge Road in Montvale at 4:20 p.m. Saturday found Dr. John Blundell of Buffalo reviving the New York City boy, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. "Officers administered oxygen and worked to calm the child," Sanfilippo said. Officers from Woodcliff Lake and Park Ridge also responded to assist, he said. Tri-Boro Volunteer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Two Injured In Montvale Multi-Vehicle Crash UPDATE: Two Injured In Montvale Multi-Vehicle Crash
Update: Two Injured In Montvale Multi-Vehicle Crash A three-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in Montvale injured two drivers, authorities said. Montvale, Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake firefighters were among the responders following reports that the drivers of a box truck and a Jeep Wrangler were trapped in their vehicles outside The Fresh Market on Chestnut Ridge Road, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. "There don't appear to be any serious injuries," Sanfilippo said from the scene. One of the victims was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being extricated, the other to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. "Those guys are i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Convicted Montvale Public Masturbator Arrested Again, This Time On Weapons Charges Convicted Montvale Public Masturbator Arrested Again, This Time On Weapons Charges
Convicted Montvale Public Masturbator Arrested Again, This Time On Weapons Charges A convicted public masturbator from Montvale was back in jail, this time after being arrested on weapons charges. Borough police took Marty Napoleon, 38, into custody after finding him with brass knuckles when they responded to his home on a harassment complaint last Thursday, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday after a judge initially denied his release. Napoleon spent eight days in the county lockup less than a month ago after Upper Saddle River police said he spot on one officer and tried to head butt another. They'd caught him tre…

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by Jerry DeMarco