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What Happens When You Try To Rob Two Stores Across From Police HQ? Ask Little Ferry PD What Happens When You Try To Rob Two Stores Across From Police HQ? Ask Little Ferry PD
What Happens When You Try To Rob Two Stores Across From Police HQ? Ask Little Ferry PD "This is a robbery, give me all your Oxy pills and Percocet,” read the note a would-be robber handed to a female pharmacist at a CVS in Little Ferry. “Otherwise my boys are coming in.” The unarmed bandit might have succeeded had he not chosen a target DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET from police HQ. It was shortly before noon Wednesday, Feb. 21, when Santiago Munoz-Pelaez entered the Liberty Street CVS in a blue hoodie, batting gloves and a mask covering his nose and mouth, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters said. The pharmacist backed up after reading the note and told Munoz-Pelaez, 25, of…

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Man Charged With Vicious $30,000 Baseball Bat Assault-Robbery In Little Ferry Man Charged With Vicious $30,000 Baseball Bat Assault-Robbery In Little Ferry
Man Charged With Vicious $30,000 Baseball Bat Assault-Robbery In Little Ferry Federal authorities have moved to take custody of a Bergen County Jail inmate charged with stealing $30,000 from a man he bashed in the head with a baseball bat outside a Little Ferry business. Jose Mejia, a 32-year-old Salvadoran national, was wanted for a Dec. 28 robbery in a parking lot just off Route 46 and Liberty Street. He was captured this past Thursday, Jan. 11, records show. The 39-year-old victim, from Clifton, and two companions told Little Ferry police that an assailant in a ski mask, black shirt and blue jeans hit him in the head with a baseball bat, then snatched a blue duff…

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Out-Of-State Driver Tases Owner Of Little Ferry Impound Lot, Police Charge Out-Of-State Driver Tases Owner Of Little Ferry Impound Lot, Police Charge
Out-Of-State Driver Tases Owner Of Little Ferry Impound Lot, Police Charge An out-of-state driver zapped the owner of a Little Ferry impound lot with a stun gun when he couldn't get his car back, authorities charged. Leon Henry, 29, of Wilmington, NC, had been stopped and issued summonses early Monday, Dec. 12, for, among other offenses, having fictitious plates and driving an unregistered vehicle, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters said. The license plate on the 2018 Dodge Challenger had a blacked-out frame over it, Walters said. Officer Joseph Convery also immediately spotted a long knife on the passenger seat after stopping Henry on westbound Route 46, th…

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Driver, Police Officer Hospitalized After Route 46 Crash Driver, Police Officer Hospitalized After Route 46 Crash
Driver, Police Officer Hospitalized After Route 46 Crash A driver from Lodi and a Little Ferry police officer were both hospitalized after their vehicles collided Friday morning on Route 46. The good news: Neither was seriously injured in the crash at Liberty Street shortly before 11 a.m., Police Chief James Walters said. The crash occurred as the officer began making a left onto the eastbound highway from southbound Liberty with his lights and sirens on to make a traffic stop, Walters said. The other motorist's Nissan Altima was in the westbound highway's middle lane next to a tractor-trailer on her right whose driver slowed down when he saw th…

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Peeping Tom Strikes Again At Apartment Complex Along Hackensack River, Police Charge Peeping Tom Strikes Again At Apartment Complex Along Hackensack River, Police Charge
Peeping Tom Strikes Again At Apartment Complex Along Hackensack River, Police Charge A man who was banned from an apartment complex along the Hackensack River after he was caught peeking into windows was back at it, authorities charged. Joshua Purvis, 22, was arrested after Little Ferry police received a call of a peeping Tom at the Waterside Village Apartments beneath the Route 46 bridge shortly after midnight Tuesday, April 5, Chief James Walters said. Purvis, who lives on nearby Liberty Street, was previously banned from the property after surveillance footage showed him “peering through windows and attempting to open them to gain entry,” the chief said. Responding to t…

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Little Ferry PD: Driver Caught With Gun Blames Philadelphia Unrest Little Ferry PD: Driver Caught With Gun Blames Philadelphia Unrest
Little Ferry PD: Driver Caught With Gun Blames Philadelphia Unrest An Elizabeth driver caught with a gun following a traffic stop told Little Ferry police it was because he’d been to Philadelphia and was “worried about what was currently happening there,” authorities said. Amsell Osorio-Fuentes, 23, remained held in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest on drug and weapons charges shortly after 2:30 a.m. Thursday, records show. It began when Sgt. John Andronaco spotted a 2012 Ford Focus with heavily tinted windows and an expired temporary registration in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at the corner of Main and Liberty streets, Police Chief James Wal…

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CAUGHT! Little Ferry Officer Dragged By Jeep, Fleeing Driver Captured With Armful Of THC Oil CAUGHT! Little Ferry Officer Dragged By Jeep, Fleeing Driver Captured With Armful Of THC Oil
Caught! Little Ferry Officer Dragged By Jeep, Fleeing Driver Captured With Armful Of THC Oil A Little Ferry driver who dragged a police officer with his Jeep while fleeing a traffic stop was found hiding in the basement laundry room of a garden apartment complex with dozens of vials of THC oil, authorities said. Eric Williams, 21, had 55 vials of the synthetic drug and a bag of pot in the Jeep when Officers James Serio and Joseph Convery pulled him over on Main Street for running a stop sign near his home Friday night, Police Chief James Walters said. After spotting the bundled canisters on the passenger-seat floor, the officers asked Williams to get out of the vehicle, Walters sai…

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Pedestrian Struck At Busy Little Ferry Intersection Pedestrian Struck At Busy Little Ferry Intersection
Pedestrian Struck At Busy Little Ferry Intersection A pedestrian was hospitalized with serious injuries after he was struck by a sedan Tuesday afternoon at a busy Little Ferry intersection. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being struck around 12:30 p.m. at the intersection of Main and Liberty streets, Detective Lt. Ronald Klein said. The driver remained at the scene, he said. Police were interviewing witnesses. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. Main Street between Route 46 and Liberty Street remained temporarily closed.

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Little Ferry Woman Accused Of Stabbing 5-Day-Old Daughter Dead Posted Pic Hours Earlier Little Ferry Woman Accused Of Stabbing 5-Day-Old Daughter Dead Posted Pic Hours Earlier
Little Ferry Woman Accused Of Stabbing 5-Day-Old Daughter Dead Posted Pic Hours Earlier UPDATE: Family members were having dinner when a 29-year-old Little Ferry woman grabbed a knife, locked the bedroom door and stabbed her crying 5-day-old daughter in the throat, killing her, records show. Hiralbahen Bhavsar initially told police in a 911 call Thursday night that her husband had a knife and was trying to kill her, court records show. Family members had stopped responding officers from taking the husband into custody at the Liberty Street garden apartment when, according to court documents, the mother emerged from the bedroom and said, "I did it. I killed my baby." The offic…

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