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Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church
Grandfather Struck, Killed By Fellow Senior Parishioner Outside Fairview Church A 77-year-old grandfather from Ridgefield was laid to rest following a funeral at a Fairview church where he was fatally struck by a runaway sedan a week earlier. Athanios Dimitriou and a 56-year-old companion from North Bergen were having lunch under a canopy in the parking lot of the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church on Anderson Avenue when both were struck by a BMW 328 shortly before 11:30 a.m. Sept. 11. The driver – a fellow parishioner who, coincidentally, is also 77 – had accidentally hit the gas and backed into them, Fairview Police Capt. Michael Martic said. Detective Sgt. Anthony Sc…

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Smash-And-Grab Burglars Flee Fairview Deli With Cash, Lottery Tickets, Registers Smash-And-Grab Burglars Flee Fairview Deli With Cash, Lottery Tickets, Registers
Smash-And-Grab Burglars Flee Fairview Deli With Cash, Lottery Tickets, Registers A burglary crew smashed their way into a Fairview deli overnight before making off with two cash registers, $800 in cash and lottery tickets, police said. Three bandits threw a stone through the glass to enter Panela's Deli on Walker Street just off 6th Avenue shortly before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, Capt. Michael Martic said. They fled in a Honda Civic (photo above), driven by a fourth member, that headed east on Walker Street and then north on Anderson Avenue, the captain said. One of the burglars apparently had dreadlocks, Martic said. Detectives obtained area security video and the…

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FAT STACKS: NYC Driver Says He Got $18,322 Suspect Cash From 'Guy On The Street': Fairview PD FAT STACKS: NYC Driver Says He Got $18,322 Suspect Cash From 'Guy On The Street': Fairview PD
FAT Stacks: NYC Driver Says He Got $18,322 Suspect Cash From 'Guy On The Street': Fairview PD Fairview police seized $18,322 from a Washington Heights driver who claimed to have gotten the cash from a "guy on the street" for whom he was supposed to buy a vehicle, authorities said. The only problem: Luis A. Tavarez, 28, couldn't provide a name, phone number, receipt, text threads or any other information to corroborate his story, Capt. Michael Martic said. Tavarez was headed south on Bergen Boulevard when Officer Sebastian Castano stopped his Mercedes SUV -- with a Pennsylvania license plate -- near the North Bergen border around 1 a.m. Tuesday, March 7. He told the officer he was …

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Fleeing Driver Pursued Through Cliffside, Fairview, Ridgefield And North Bergen Nabbed At Home Fleeing Driver Pursued Through Cliffside, Fairview, Ridgefield And North Bergen Nabbed At Home
Fleeing Driver Pursued Through Cliffside, Fairview, Ridgefield And North Bergen Nabbed At Home A fleeing driver whose car collided with police cruisers three times during a low-speed chase through parts of East Bergen and North Hudson might've thought his pursuers gave up when he didn't see them behind him anymore. Wrong. Pulling his mother's 2011 Toyota Camry into their driveway in Fairview less than 20 minutes later, Joshua Hayes was immediately seized by a group of undercover Cliffside Park police officers. It all began after Cliffside Officer Julio Perez-Tavera stopped Hayes for improper passing on Anderson Avenue near Cliff Street shortly after 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, Deputy Po…

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‘Full Service’ Bergen Massage Parlors Raided: 4 Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized ‘Full Service’ Bergen Massage Parlors Raided: 4 Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized
‘Full Service’ Bergen Massage Parlors Raided: 4 Busted, Two Taken By Feds, $11,291 Seized An undercover detective had just entered a Fairview massage parlor when an employee stripped naked and listed the prices for oral sex and intercourse, authorities said. The investigator was part of a joint task force that took down what authorities said essentially were two “full service” brothels operating as massage parlors just blocks apart. Members of the federal Homeland Security Investigations’ Human Trafficking Unit seized two women on potential immigration violations, Fairview Police Detective Lt. Michael Martic said. Four other women were busted by borough police, the lieutenant…

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SEEN HER? Hudson Woman Sought In Robbery Assault Of Fairview Man Dragged By Car SEEN HER? Hudson Woman Sought In Robbery Assault Of Fairview Man Dragged By Car
Seen HER? Hudson Woman Sought In Robbery Assault Of Fairview Man Dragged By Car Fairview police sought the public's help finding a North Bergen woman accused of participating in a robbery that left a victim severely bruised and battered. Maritza Santos, 24, has eluded authorities ever since the Feb. 23 incident on Fairview Avenue, they said. It began when a 32-year-old borough man sought a ride from Santos's boyfriend, Andrew Melian, 24, on Feb. 23. Santos and another man were in the back seat when the victim got into Melian's Honda Accord,  Detective Ralph Guastella said. He then mistakenly thought that he'd forgotten his phone at home and got out, Guastella sa…

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NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer
NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer A Guttenberg man wanted for shooting and killing a school safety officer outside a Queens nightclub was in the hands of police in Fairview less than a half-hour later -- but had to be let go, authorities said. Now he’s at large and a local police chief is incensed. Mye Johnson and her twin sister were celebrating their 27th birthdays with a group of people before dawn Thursday when her ex-lover from Hudson County showed up, authorities said. Security guards at Solletto on Steinway Street near Astoria Boulevard turned away the as-yet unidentified man after finding him carrying a gun, law en…

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He Called Her By Another Woman's Name And Was Stabbed In The Chest, Victim Tells Fairview PD He Called Her By Another Woman's Name And Was Stabbed In The Chest, Victim Tells Fairview PD
He Called Her By Another Woman's Name And Was Stabbed In The Chest, Victim Tells Fairview PD A 20-year-old Fairview man was hospitalized with a collapsed lung after his girlfriend stabbed him with a pair of scissors for calling her by another woman's name, authorities said. Olga Sanai Tumux, a 31-year-old Ecuadoran national, remained held Tuesday in the Bergen County Jail following the incident in their Cliff Street apartment off Anderson Avenue. A good Samaritan who found the victim on the sidewalk picked him up and brought him to Palisades General Hospital in North Bergen in his sedan, telling security there that he didn't know the man, Fairview Police Detective Lt. Mic…

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GOTCHA! Hudson Driver, 24, Surrenders In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Pedestrian GOTCHA! Hudson Driver, 24, Surrenders In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Pedestrian
Gotcha! Hudson Driver, 24, Surrenders In Hit-Run Death Of Fairview Pedestrian A Jersey City man turned himself in following a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in Fairview before dawn Monday, authorities said. Danny M. Vasquez, 24, of Hancock Avenue left the minivan, registered to his father, near the scene of the overnight crash on Broad Avenue (Route 9) and took off on foot, Fairview Police Chief Martin Kahn said. He went to North Bergen police headquarters with the elder Vasquez to surrender Monday afternoon before he was turned over to Kahn's department. The as-yet unidentified pedestrian apparently was headed to the 7-Eleven on Fairview Avenue as he wa…

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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant Cliffside Park Building Identified Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant Cliffside Park Building Identified
Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant Cliffside Park Building Identified UPDATE: The family of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant found frozen to death in a vacant apartment in Cliffside Park won’t be able to bring his body home, friends say. A concerned friend who hadn’t seen him went to check the Palisade Avenue building near the Fairview border where Jorge Adalberto Roca had been staying with nearly a dozen other squatters, authorities said. Like him, Roca’s wife had suffered from severe alcoholism Roca’s wife, Virginia, died from alcoholism three months ago. Their children were placed with a caretaker in Fairview. That left Roca – an undocumented immigrant fro…

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Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash
Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash Three local men were arrested after they sped away from police and crashed at the Ridgefield/Palisades Park border, authorities said. Ridgefield Police Sgt. Edward Schaefer and Officer Ali Huda began chasing a 2015 Jeep GRC as it sped north up Broad Avenue, near Edgewater Avenue, around 1 a.m. Friday, Deputy Chief Robert Meurer said. Patrol units lost sight of the vehicle and continued northbound on Grand Avenue in an attempt to locate it, Meurer said. They found it crashed into a utility pole in front of a Japanese restaurant on Grand Avenue just north of the Route 46 overpass in Palisade…

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Bergen Prosecutor: Investigators Raid Mini Heroin Factory Near Fairview School, Bust Couple Bergen Prosecutor: Investigators Raid Mini Heroin Factory Near Fairview School, Bust Couple
Bergen Prosecutor: Investigators Raid Mini Heroin Factory Near Fairview School, Bust Couple Investigators arrested a Fairview couple who they said were producing heroin for sale at a home up the street from an elementary school. Jose R. Ulloa, 30, and Stephanie Picinich, 28, were charged with narcotics drug counts, including maintaining or operating a drug-production facility. The investigation leading to Wednesday's warranted raid on the Day Avenue ranch house near Lincoln Elementary School -- and a block from the borough Board of Education building -- began last month, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A judge the next day ordered both Ulloa and Picinich released with…

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SEE ANYTHING? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion SEE ANYTHING? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion
SEE Anything? Guns Shown In Fairview Home Invasion Fairview detectives investigating a gunpoint home invasion turned to the public for help. They asked that residents in the 300 block of Delano Place and surrounding area check their video surveillance footage from 11 p.m. Monday until midnight. "It is believed they initially left the area on foot" with an undisclosed amount of cash, the chief added. No one was injured, he said. Kahn asked that anyone who sees anything at all suspicious on their video to contact Fairview police immediately: (201) 943-2100. The same goes for anyone who might have been out at that time or looking from their…

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Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl
Fairview Laborer, 47, Charged With Molesting Girl FAIRVIEW, N.J. – A Fairview laborer was charged with aggravated sexual contact and child endangerment after authorities said he “inappropriately touched” a young girl over the course of a year. Leon Aguin-Lopez, a 47-year-old Guatemalan national, was being held in the Bergen County Jail on an ICE detainer, records show. Fairview police received a report Friday and notified the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Aguin-Lopez was taken into custody the next day, he said.

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