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E-Bike Operator Hospitalized With Head Trauma In Bergen County Crash E-Bike Operator Hospitalized With Head Trauma In Bergen County Crash
E-Bike Operator Hospitalized With Head Trauma In Bergen County Crash The operator of an electric bicycle was hospitalized in an early-morning Fairview crash Thursday, June 20, police said. The man appears to have tried to pass a landscaping truck while heading west on Fairview Avenue when he was struck by an eastbound motorist around 7:40 a.m., Deputy Chief John Pierotti said. He was rushed to HMH Hackensack University Medical Center with head trauma, Pierotti said. The crash remains under investigation.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police
Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police A Cliffside Park ex-con with a lengthy drug-related criminal history who police in Fairview said they busted before dawn Thursday sported a distinctive message for them atop his balding head. Tattooed on his scalp: “F*ck The Police.” David Weber, 40, also had a knife hanging from a lanyard around his neck and another on his hip when borough police caught him peering into the windows of businesses on Anderson Avenue around 4 a.m. Dec. 15, Detective Capt. Michael Martic said. Weber is known to police. He has a criminal record stretching back more than 15 years for offenses that include thef…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hudson Woman Charged In Robbery Of Fairview Victim Dragged By Car Hudson Woman Charged In Robbery Of Fairview Victim Dragged By Car
Hudson Woman Charged In Robbery Of Fairview Victim Dragged By Car UPDATE: A wanted North Bergen woman who participated in a robbery during which a Fairview man was dragged by a car surrendered to police amid media attention, authorities said. Maritza Santos, 24, eluded them for nearly a month following the Feb. 23 incident on Fairview Avenue, Fairview Detective Ralph Guastella said. She'd been in the back seat of a Honda Accord that day when her boyfriend, Andrew Melian, also 24 of North Bergen, offered the borough man a ride, Guastella said. Mistakenly thinking he'd forgotten his cellphone at home, the 32-year-old victim got out -- but then immediatel…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cliffside Park Boy, 12, Struck By Van, Undocumented Immigrant Charged Cliffside Park Boy, 12, Struck By Van, Undocumented Immigrant Charged
Cliffside Park Boy, 12, Struck By Van, Undocumented Immigrant Charged An undocumented immigrant using a fake driver's license was behind the wheel of a Fairview contractor's van that struck a 12-year-old boy in Cliffside Park, authorities said. The 2006 Ford E250 painting company van was headed south on Anderson Avenue when the boy suddenly stepped into its path near the corner of Greenmount Avenue around 6 p.m. Thursday, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. The youngster was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with foot pain and swelling on his forehead, Capano said. The driver, Brandon H. Chitic-Mayor, 25, of 90th Street in North Bergen, gave…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Enraged Fairview Mom Restrained From Attacking Homeless Man Who Fondled Daughter, 13 Police: Enraged Fairview Mom Restrained From Attacking Homeless Man Who Fondled Daughter, 13
Police: Enraged Fairview Mom Restrained From Attacking Homeless Man Who Fondled Daughter, 13 A furious mom had to be restrained after she went after a homeless man who Fairview police said fondled her 13-year-old daughter on the street. The pair were walking past a restaurant on Anderson Avenue near Walker Street when Mario Camey “cupped” the girl’s butt around 10 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. The mother confronted the 45-year-old Guatemalan national, who laughed and said her daughter was “very pretty,” the chief said. A bystander jumped in and separated them, then told the 5-foot-2-inch, 130-pound Camey to go into the restaurant, after the mother tried to get at h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Wyckoff Native Anthony Luppino Of Little Falls Dies, 27 Wyckoff Native Anthony Luppino Of Little Falls Dies, 27
Wyckoff Native Anthony Luppino Of Little Falls Dies, 27 Anthony P. Luppino of Little Falls died on Feb. 2. He was 27 years old. The Wyckoff native had been working as a website designer, according to his obituary. He attended Ramapo High School and Seminole State College of Florida. Anthony is survived by his parents Pasquale Luppino of Tampa, Florida, and Lisa Luppino (nee Koch) of Rochelle Park; sister Maria Concetta Luppino; along with aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Services were held Feb. 9 with entombment at Fairview Cemetery Mausoleum in Fairview. Click here for Anthony's complete obituary.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal
Driver May Have Passed Out In Bus Crash At Port Authority Terminal Two severely injured victims were among 16 in all who were hospitalized following a Saturday morning bus crash at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, they said. Authorities suspect a medical condition was to blame for the driver of the #156 bus losing consciousness prior to the crash. Six were moderately hurt and the rest considered minor, mostly with face and neck injuries, after the bus slammed into a guardrail on an inbound ramp around 9:30 a.m., responders told Daily Voice. The trip apparently originated out of the bus depot in Fairview. PAPD officers and Tunnel & Bridge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Plainfield Native Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama Plainfield Native Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama
Plainfield Native Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama Jackie Sibblies Drury has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the prize committee announced Monday.  Drury's play, "Fairview," is a "hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices," the committee said.  Fairview, which was staged in New York last year and will have a return engagement in June, has also been described as a play that made one reviewer "the most uncomfortable I've ever been inside a theater. In a good way."  Drury grew up in Plainfield an…

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by Paul Milo