Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208 Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208
Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208 A driver escaped serious injury Thursday morning after his cement truck rolled onto a divider at an entrance to Route 208 in Fair Lawn. The truck was fully loaded and tipping the scale at 70,000 pounds -- as in: 35 tons -- when it tipped on the ramp to the southbound highway from eastbound Fair Lawn Avenue around 9:30 a.m. April 4, according to a representative for Tanis Concrete who was at the scene. The truck was doing about 20 to 25 miles an hour, the employee of the Fair Lawn-based company said. Fair Lawn police officers who arrived first assisted the 51-year-old driver from Jerse…
Teaneck Tax Preparer Got $1.43M For Himself, $40M For Clients In COVID Scam: Indictment Teaneck Tax Preparer Got $1.43M For Himself, $40M For Clients In COVID Scam: Indictment
Teaneck Tax Preparer Got $1.43M For Himself, $40M For Clients In COVID Scam: Indictment A Teaneck tax preparer illegally collected $1.43 million for himself and $40 million for clients from the IRS by purposefully exploiting COVID-related credits that neither he nor they were entitled to, a federal indictment alleges. Leon Haynes, 50, was originally arrested on a criminal complaint last July. The investigation leading to the charges continued before a grand jury in Newark. The result: a 55-count indictment for tax evasion, preparing false returns, aggravated ID theft and mail fraud, authorities said. Haynes fraudulently sought more than $150 million from the IRS by claim…
Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD
Trio Nabbed With Thousands Worth Of Designer Clothes, Bags, Anti-Security Device: Lyndhurst PD Three out-of-towners traveling with thousands of dollars worth of stolen designer clothing and purses were busted by Lyndhurst police after the driver made an illegal turn in a vehicle that was missing both a front license plate and an inspection sticker. Officer Michael Clifford was on patrol in the area of Schuyler and Page avenues when it happened. As Clifford approached the vehicle after stopping it, he saw the rear passenger "remove her jacket and place it over something on the seat next to her," Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. She, the driver and a second passenger all said they d…
'Extremely Difficult' Extrication Ends With Firefighters Freeing Trapped Driver Off Route 17 'Extremely Difficult' Extrication Ends With Firefighters Freeing Trapped Driver Off Route 17
Route 17 Crash Waldwick Sheridan Firefighters Extricate HEROES: Waldwick firefighters completed what authorities called an "extremely difficult operation" by freeing a driver whose sedan had crashed in a wooded area off rain-slicked Route 17. The BMW crashed partially down an embankment at the particularly troublesome Sheridan Avenue ramp off the southbound highway around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 3. The single-vehicle collision heavily entrapped the driver, responders said. Waldwick's finest (Rescue 642 and Squad 633) had to contend with the elements, mud on the slope and a heavily damaged vehicle. They safely extricated the driver, who…
One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck
One Arrest Made During Gaza War Protest In Teaneck FOLLOW UP: An Upper Manhattanite was the only person arrested at a large demonstration outside a Teaneck synagogue, authorities said. Pro-Palestinian protestors faced off against Jewish counter-demonstrators during a fundraiser on Monday, April 1, at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun on West Englewood Avenue. The private event featured a representative of ZAKA, a Jewish group that collects body parts and blood for burial at the scenes of accidents and terrorist attacks. After American Muslims for Palestine and Within Our Lifetime announced plans to picket the event, township authorities took the …
Fired Bank Employee Steals $35,250 From Vault On His Way Out: Closter PD Fired Bank Employee Steals $35,250 From Vault On His Way Out: Closter PD
Fired Bank Employee Steals $35,250 From Vault On His Way Out: Closter PD A bank employee who'd just been fired bid goodbye to his co-workers, then walked into the vault and walked out with $35,250, Closter police said. Video cameras captured Marvin Herrera, 25, of New Milford gathering up the cash and stuffing it under his coat before leaving the PNC Bank branch in Closter Plaza last Wednesday, March 27, Capt. Vincent Aiello said. Police were called when the money was found missing, the captain said. They’d been searching for Herrera when he surrendered on Tuesday, April 2, Aiello said. He was issued a summons charging him with theft and was released pending a…
'Ruthless' Brick City Brims Druglord From Montclair Convicted Of Three Murders, More 'Ruthless' Brick City Brims Druglord From Montclair Convicted Of Three Murders, More
'Ruthless' Brick City Brims Druglord From Montclair Convicted Of Three Murders, More The leader of a notorious Essex County street gang that dominated the region's drug trade was convicted by a federal jury of three murders, among other counts, authorities said. Michael Healy, 43, of Montclair, "ruthlessly ordered murders so that he could protect his narcotics operation and continue to sell large quantities of dangerous [drugs],” U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said after federal jurors in Newark returned their verdicts on Wednesday, April 3. Healy "recruited men to kill someone he thought was an informant, and even when they killed the wrong person – a bystander – he ord…
Sticky-Fingered Traveler Prompts Warning In Bergen Sticky-Fingered Traveler Prompts Warning In Bergen
Sticky-Fingered Traveler Prompts Warning In Bergen A traveler from out of state wrought some havoc in the Pascack Valley before moving on, authorities said. Mircea Catalin Petrovici, 26, of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, is wanted by several North Jersey police departments, including those in Hillsdale and Emerson, as well as in nearby Closter and in South Plainfield. A wallet that a customer left in a cart at the Shop Rite in Hillsdale disappeared along with multiple credit cards, ID and cash, Police Chief Sean Smith said. Soon after, the thief tried using a Discover card to make a $2,598.98 purchase at an Apple store in Nanuet (Rockland County), …
Trio Caught Burglarizing Lyndhurst Museum For Newspaper's 9/11 Front Page Trio Caught Burglarizing Lyndhurst Museum For Newspaper's 9/11 Front Page
Trio Caught Burglarizing Lyndhurst Museum For Newspaper's 9/11 Front Page A Lyndhurst police officer caught a trio of teens moments after they broke into a 120-year-old museum and stole the front page from a 2001 newspaper that featured coverage of 9/11, authorities said. Officer Michael Carrino found two young men and a young woman running from the Little Red Schoolhouse Museum on Riverside Avenue while responding to a burglar alarm shortly before 7:20 p.m. Sunday, March 31, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Carrino immediately identified himself as a police officer, stopping all three in their tracks, the lieutenant said. Lt. Richard Holicki and Officers Mark…
Englewood Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen Englewood Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen
Englewood Man Charged With Sexually Assaulting Underage Teen An underage teenager was sexually abused by a 24-year-old Englewood man multiple times over the past year, city police charged. Jowel G. Pinnock remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, April 2, following his arrest the day before, records show. Pinnock had been "engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a nonconsenting [teenage] female," Englewood Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. "The acts occurred over the past year, beginning when the victim was 16 years of age," the lieutenant said. Pinnock is charged with three counts of aggravated sexual contact and one of child e…
NJ Man Killed By Teen's Punch Was Popular Youth Hockey Coach, Loving Dad NJ Man Killed By Teen's Punch Was Popular Youth Hockey Coach, Loving Dad
NJ Man Killed By Teen's Punch Was Popular Youth Hockey Coach, Loving Dad They called him Snook. He was a hockey coach, who treated each player like his own kid. A dad, never shy with hugs. Oron Carl Beebe was a friend to all, those who knew him say. Life doesn’t always make sense. But, our lives and world were better with Carl Beebe in it. RIP to a great man,... Posted by Holy City Publick House on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 The 46-year-old Mount Ephraim dad died more than a week after he was punched by a 16-year-old Collingswood boy in the parking lot of a business at 20 West Kings highway, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay said. His death leaves man…
'I Love You, Goodbye': Romanian Traveler Caught, GF Gone After Pickpocketing Bust: Montvale PD 'I Love You, Goodbye': Romanian Traveler Caught, GF Gone After Pickpocketing Bust: Montvale PD
'I Love You, Goodbye': Romanian Traveler Caught, GF Gone After Pickpocketing Bust: Montvale PD "I love you," a woman told her fellow Romanian traveler after Montvale police arrested him for pickpocketing an elderly victim. "Goodbye." And she was gone. A wallet that Robert P. Nuta, a 31-year-old fugitive wanted out of Florida, swiped from the late-70-something victim outside Wegman's held $100 in cash, credit cards and a Social Security card, Montvale Police Chief Douglas McDowell said. The victim's cellphone also was taken, the chief said. Nuta and the woman he was with "piggybacked" at the nearby Apple store, with her fraudulently purchasing a $3,700 laptop while he waited outside…