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Judge Frees Soccer Player From Poland Charged With Viciously Beating Wallington Bar Patron Judge Frees Soccer Player From Poland Charged With Viciously Beating Wallington Bar Patron
Judge Frees Soccer Player From Poland Charged With Viciously Beating Wallington Bar Patron A soccer player from Poland pummeled a man with his fists and feet outside a Wallington bar, sending the victim to the hospital with four broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a facial fracture, authorities said. Detectives who reviewed surveillance video identified the assailant as Oskar Potoczny, a 21-year-old Polish national who apparently quit playing football in his homeland last year. They arrested Potoczny on aggravated assault charges only to have a Superior Court judge in Hackensack release him the very next day. Potoczny played soccer in Poland most recently for Swit Szczecin la…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Firefighters Free Victim In Wallington Rollover Firefighters Free Victim In Wallington Rollover
Firefighters Free Victim In Wallington Rollover WALLINGTON, N.J. -- Wallington firefighters freed an occupant after a crash between two vehicles Thursday morning left one on its side. Two occupants were hospitalized with minor injuries after the 8:30 a.m. collision at Maple and Locust avenues, responders said. Rescue 204 members stabilized the overturned vehicle and got the occupant out. Mutual aid from Carlstadt for additional rescue and ambulance assistance was requested as a precaution, Wallington's emergency squad said. ****** ALSO SEE: A young female driver was hospitalized as a precaution Thursday morning after her car rolled on…

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by Jerry DeMarco