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Bergen County Man Submits False Bank Statements In NY Court: DA Says Bergen County Man Submits False Bank Statements In NY Court: DA Says
Bergen County Man Submits False Bank Statements In NY Court: DA Says A New Jersey man has been charged after presenting falsified bank statements in a Hudson Valley court and testifying they were real, authorities said. James Wolff, 50, of Teaneck, NJ, was arraigned on Monday, Sept. 30, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh II announced on Thursday, Oct. 3. According to the district attorney, in June, an investigation found that Wolff knowingly possessed and submitted falsified bank statements to the Rockland County Surrogate’s Court and testified, under oath, to their validity.  The documents filed by the Wolff with the Ro…

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by Kathy Reakes
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Children Critical, Mahwah Driver Hospitalized In Wrong-Way NY Crash Children Critical, Mahwah Driver Hospitalized In Wrong-Way NY Crash
Children Critical, Mahwah Driver Hospitalized In Wrong-Way NY Crash A wrong-way, three-vehicle crash in New York sent multiple people to the hospital, including two drivers from New Jersey. Police responded to a crash in Rockland County at the intersection of Route 303 and Greenbush Road in Blauvelt at about 12:40 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, according to the Orangetown Police Department. A 2001 BMW X5, driven by 20-year-old Thomas Robb, was southbound, traveling the wrong way on a one-way section of Greenbush Road, and entered the intersection at Route 303, striking a 2017 Chevrolet Cruze driven by a 32-year-old woman from Newark. The Chevrolet then collide…

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by Nicole Valinote
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NJ Man, 19, Admits To Fatally Shooting Man At NY Apartment NJ Man, 19, Admits To Fatally Shooting Man At NY Apartment
NJ Man, 19, Admits To Fatally Shooting Man At NY Apartment A 19-year-old New Jersey teen has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a Hudson Valley man in 2019. Jayden Rodriguez, of North Bergen, made the plea on Tuesday, May 1, for the homicide which took place in Spring Valley, according to Rockland County District Attorney Tom Walsh. During his plea, Rodriguez admitted that on or about Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, he entered a Spring Valley apartment building and fired numerous shots at an individual identified as 20-year-old Emerson Jean-Baptiste, ultimately causing his death, Walsh said. Rodriguez was arrested the followi…

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by Kathy Reakes
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UPDATE: 'Bomb Carrying' Bergen, Rockland, Dutchess Bank Robber Stole $233,000, Feds Say UPDATE: 'Bomb Carrying' Bergen, Rockland, Dutchess Bank Robber Stole $233,000, Feds Say
Update: 'Bomb Carrying' Bergen, Rockland, Dutchess Bank Robber Stole $233,000, Feds Say UPDATE: A 29-year-old Airmont man captured by a team of law enforcement agents on Tuesday robbed four banks in Bergen, Rockland and Dutchess counties of $233,000 in all, often by claiming to have a bomb and once by pointing what appeared to be a weapon, authorities said. Yosef Ziegler was taken into custody in Airmont early Tuesday by a team of federal agents and law enforcement officersfrom the jurisdictions where the banks were robbed -- among them, investigators from the FBI and Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Ziegler held up the four banks in the two states over a 10-month period be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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FBI Captures 'Bomb Carrying' Park Ridge, Rockland Bank Robber, Authorities Confirm FBI Captures 'Bomb Carrying' Park Ridge, Rockland Bank Robber, Authorities Confirm
FBI Captures 'Bomb Carrying' Park Ridge, Rockland Bank Robber, Authorities Confirm UPDATE: A 29-year-old Airmont man captured by a team of law enforcement agents on Tuesday robbed four banks in Bergen, Rockland and Dutchess counties of $233,000 in all, often by claiming to have a bomb and once by pointing what appeared to be a weapon, authorities said. Yosef Ziegler was taken into custody in Airmont early Tuesday by a team of federal agents and law enforcement officersfrom the jurisdictions where the banks were robbed -- among them, investigators from the FBI and Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Ziegler held up the four banks in the two states over a 10-month period be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers
Rockland Men Charged With Stalking, Posting Personal Info Of North Jersey Police Officers Two Rockland men waged a harassment campaign against dozens of North Jersey police officers, researching and posting personal information about them online through what’s known as “doxing,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday. Evan V. Koulikov, 21, of Spring Valley “unlawfully accessed a secure database of a New Jersey medical services company and unlawfully copied the personal identifying information of approximately 50 public employees,” most of them police officers, Musella said. Koulikov got help from Eric Williams, 24, of New City in choosing targets, the prosecutor ad…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge
Bergen Prosecutor: Rockland Stalker's Bogus 'Active Shooter' Call Brings SWAT To Park Ridge UPDATE (MAY 8, 2019): As coincidences go, it's odd: A bogus 911 "active shooter" call that brought a SWAT team and swarms of other responders to a Park Ridge home had nothing to do with a bank robbery across town that occurred at almost the same time, authorities said. Questions of a possible connection arose after authorities last week announced that Austin Parks, 48, of Spring Valley had been charged with making the April 17 call. However, a senior law enforcement official told Daily Voice that the call was "unrelated...oddly" to the robbery at nearly the same time of an Oritani Bank bra…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Rockland Podiatrist In Murder-For-Hire Plot Wants Plea Deal Nixed Rockland Podiatrist In Murder-For-Hire Plot Wants Plea Deal Nixed
Rockland Podiatrist In Murder-For-Hire Plot Wants Plea Deal Nixed A Rockland podiatrist who is behind bars for allegedly plotting to kill his wife along with his beautiful girlfriend has filed paperwork to have his guilty plea vacated so he can have his day, and say in court, according to his attorney. Ira Bernstein claims his girlfriend, Kelly Gribeluk, pressured him into pleading guilty to plotting to have his wife killed in order to protect her sentencing deal, said Bernstein's attorney Jeffrey Millman. "Dr. Ira Bernstein intended to go to trial on January 9, 2017, to show he was not guilty of Conspiracy to Murder his wife, Susan Bernstein," …

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by Kathy Reakes
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Court Worker In Rockland Charged With Forgery Court Worker In Rockland Charged With Forgery
Court Worker In Rockland Charged With Forgery A Spring Valley Court worker has been charged with forgery after forging a fake plea agreement in traffic court with the prosecutor's name, according to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe. According to the charges, Evelyn Stefos, 59, of Blauvelt, while acting as a clerk for former Village of Spring Valley Special Prosecutor Lawrence Weissman, forged Weissman’s signature on a plea agreement in order to unlawfully give a plea deal to a traffic court defendant, said the DA's office. “The public must have full faith and confidence in our judicial system,” said Zugibe. “When the …

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by Kathy Reakes