A 59-year-old Elmwood Park man armed with a machete went after his stepson Monday night, said police who took him into custody.Police rushed to Godwin Avenue after receiving a call just after 6:30 p.m. that Wycliffe Graham was breaking down a door, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.Damage to the door "substantiated the victim's account of the incident," Foligno said.Officers arrested ...

A high-level Passaic County drug dealer who flooded North Jersey and New York with heroin trafficked in from the Dominican Republic, Mexico and elsewhere must spend all of the next 24 years in federal prison.Yasmil "Animal" Minaya, 33, also will remain under supervised release, under the sentence imposed Monday by U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark.There's no parole in the ...

Bergen County's top law enforcement officers are hosting a safety briefing this Friday for Jewish community leaders and local police officials.Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella and Sheriff Anthony Cureton will "give faith leaders an opportunity to bring community concerns to the attention of law enforcement and also inform them about safety precautions law enforcement will take ...

A Paramus man was caught taking “upskirt” photos of high school girls at a Route 17 Starbucks, Ridgewood police said.Detectives and uniformed officers rushed to the business on Friday following reports that someone had been taking the photos of Immaculate Heart Academy students at the shop the day before.Louis Tournour, 52, returned, did it again and was taken into custody, village ...

Fair Lawn police responding to a call found a mom holding her newborn son, authorities said Monday.Responding to a 4th Street home just after 7 a.m., Officers Brendan Loaiza and Luke Hintzen found 37-year-old Sarah Wagner with her bundle of joy.Thomas Wagner, who now gives his older sister a sibling, was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center by the Fair Lawn Volunteer ...

A chain-reaction crash Monday afternoon in Ridgewood sent three people to the hospital.A fourth occupant refused medical attention following the crash shortly before 1:30 p.m. at Linwood and North Maple avenues.Village police, firefighters, EMS and a paramedic team from The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood all responded. Two tow trucks removed the wreckage.A report that one of the drivers ...

Less than a week after he was released for breaking into two area businesses, a habitual Hackensack offender did it again -- at the same deli he'd burglarized twice before, authorities said.Peter Tobin, 52, was picked up last Thursday and released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law for three Main Street burglaries within a block and a half of one another -- twice at Fairmount Eats ...

A Paterson man who fired a gun at two men on a city street eight months ago, hitting one, was captured and charged with two counts of attempted murder, authorities said Monday.Yhamere F. Mayo, 28, also was charged with weapons offenses in connection with the Jan. 13 shooting on North Main Street shortly before 1:30 a.m., they said.The 28-year-old victim checked into St. Joseph’s ...

"Death bells were ringing" in Croatia as news spread of the sudden death of a Fort Lee attorney from Tenafly.A funeral Mass was scheduled for this coming Wednesday for Ann Mrkic-Zgonene, 47, who died early last week in Edgewater.Mrkic, formerly of Tuxedo Park, NY, leaves behind four children -- Kate, Emma, Niko and Matthew -- as well as her parents, an aunt, uncle and nephew, cousins ...

A suspicious car fire spread to a Garfield home before dawn Monday.A firefighter sustained a minor injury in the 2 a.m. blaze on Prospect Avenue.Garfield firefighters were joined by their colleagues from Elmwood Park, Hackensack, Lodi, Saddle Brook, Teaneck and Wallington.They had the blaze officially knocked in about an hour and a half.The Bergen County Prosecutor's Arson Investigation ...