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Man Holds Ex-Employer Hostage, Threatens To Have His Pit Bull Attack In Norwood: Cops Man Holds Ex-Employer Hostage, Threatens To Have His Pit Bull Attack In Norwood: Cops
Man Holds Ex-Employer Hostage, Threatens To Have His Pit Bull Attack In Norwood: Cops A Rockland County man is being held in the Bergen County jail after police said he held his former employer and coworkers hostage, demanding money and threatening them with his dog. Police were called to a business suite on Broad Street in Norwood around 1:50 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, where Wayne Gordon, of New City, NY had come in with his pit bull, removed the dog's muzzle, and threatened to have the dog attack them if they didn't pay him $7,000 that he claimed he was owed, Norwood Police Chief Christopher Federici said. Gordon also threatened to kill the people in the room and to send people…
32-Year-Old Woman Jumps To Death From Upper Floor Of Palisades Center Mall 32-Year-Old Woman Jumps To Death From Upper Floor Of Palisades Center Mall
32-Year-Old Woman Jumps To Death From Upper Floor Of Palisades Center Mall A woman jumped to her death from an upper floor inside a busy Hudson Valley mall. Related: Hundreds Petition For Safety Barriers At Hudson Valley Mall To Prevent Suicides The incident occurred in Rockland County around 2:45 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 18, at the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack. According to Det. Norm Peters of the Clarkstown Police officers responded to the mall after receiving reports that someone had jumped from an interior floor. Arriving officers found the 32-year-old woman, from Rockland County, on the ground and administered CPR before she was transported to …
Accused Crew Member Wanted For Glen Rock Liquor Store Thefts Brought To NJ From Rockland Accused Crew Member Wanted For Glen Rock Liquor Store Thefts Brought To NJ From Rockland
Accused Crew Member Wanted For Glen Rock Liquor Store Thefts Brought To NJ From Rockland A fugitive member of an organized retail theft crew from more than 50 miles away was brought to New Jersey after being captured across the state line in Rockland, authorities said. How long she'll remain jailed in the Garden State is open to question, however. Clarkstown police nabbed repeat offender Shatoya L. Smith, 26, of the Orange County, NY town of Newburgh on a fugitive warrant, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She’d been held in the Rockland County Correctional Center in New City before being extradited to New Jersey early last week to be charged in connection with a ser…
Erratic Bergen County Driver, 24, Caused Wreck That Left Woman Dead In NY: Police Erratic Bergen County Driver, 24, Caused Wreck That Left Woman Dead In NY: Police
Erratic Bergen County Driver, 24, Caused Wreck That Left Woman Dead In NY: Police A 24-year-old erratic driver from New Jersey is facing charges out of Rockland County, NY for a crash that left one woman dead this week, authorities said. Corey Womack, of Englewood, was heading west on Route 59 in a gray Audi A6 when he struck a Ford Edge near Broome Boulevard around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 30 in Clarkstown, Det. Norm Peters said. Witnesses reported seeing a gray Audi being operated erratically while traveling westbound on Route 59 from Waldron Avenue, Peters said. The impact sent both vehicles over the curb and into the Hub Shopping Center, where they came to&n…
Human Fetal Remains Found At NY Pump Station, Authorities Urge Mother To Come Forward Human Fetal Remains Found At NY Pump Station, Authorities Urge Mother To Come Forward
Human Fetal Remains Found At NY Pump Station, Authorities Urge Mother To Come Forward Authorities promised anonymity to anyone who comes forward with information about human fetal remains found at a pumping station in Rockland County. A worker found the remains of the fetus -- believed to be a little over four months old -- in a catch drain at the facility on Convent Road in Nanuet shortly before 2:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said in a Tuesday morning release. The worker at first reportedly thought the 18-week-old fetal remains were parts of a doll. Falco said his officers and Clarkstown police responded to the pumping station, roughly two mi…
LATEST: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel LATEST: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel
Latest: Head-On Bridge Crash, Attempted Murder Charge Follows Hammer Attack At Rockland Hotel UPDATE: A man accused of trying to kill his girlfriend with a hammer at a Clarkstown hotel was captured after a wild chase that ended in a head-on crash on a heavily-traveled bridge. Clarkstown police said they responded to reports of a woman screaming at the Tappan Zee Hotel on northbound Route 303 shortly after 5 a.m. Monday, Oct. 17. They found a victim, they said, who told them that her boyfriend, 46-year-old Todd Humphrey of Stony Point, had hit her in the head with a hammer while she was in the shower.  She escaped the room and got the attention of hotel staff who dialed 911 as Hump…
NJ Transit Train Strikes Car On Tracks In Rockland NJ Transit Train Strikes Car On Tracks In Rockland
NJ Transit Train Strikes Car On Tracks In Rockland A driver was able to escape before a car on the tracks was struck by a train early Sunday afternoon in Rockland County. At about 1:30 p.m., the New Jersey transit train traveling to Spring Valley struck the car at the New Clarkstown Road crossing in Nanuet. The vehicle was sitting in traffic, on the tracks, when the railroad crossing gates began to come down as the train was approaching the crossing, Clarkstown Police said. The railroad crossing gates blocked the driver's ability to get off the tracks, but the driver was able to exit the vehicle without injury, according to police. The fe…