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UPDATE: Six Injured In Overnight Route 4 Crash, Impaired Wrong-Way Driver Charged UPDATE: Six Injured In Overnight Route 4 Crash, Impaired Wrong-Way Driver Charged
Update: Six Injured In Overnight Route 4 Crash, Impaired Wrong-Way Driver Charged 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: An impaired driver from Westchester was headed the wrong way on westbound Route 4 in Paramus when his SUV slammed head-on into another over the weekend, sending five people as well as himself to the hospital, authorities said. Whigmer J. Villanueva, 56, of Harrison was "operating his vehicle recklessly and under the influence of drugs and or alcohol" when his eastbound 2008 Toyota rammed an unidentified vehicle shortly near Paramus Road before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, March 23, a criminal complaint says. "Two passengers in the defendant's vehicle were injured as a result of the accident …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Runaway Boy, 2, Wanders Naked Into Paramus Pizzeria, Grabs Oreos UPDATE: Runaway Boy, 2, Wanders Naked Into Paramus Pizzeria, Grabs Oreos
Update: Runaway Boy, 2, Wanders Naked Into Paramus Pizzeria, Grabs Oreos A 2-year-old boy was reunited with his mother after he walked naked into a Paramus pizzeria around noontime Tuesday, authorities said. The toddler wandered into La Bella Roma on North Farview Avenue just off Route 17 around 12:30 p.m. March 12, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. "it was crazy. He just walked in stark naked," a witness said. "He grabbed a package of Oreos and started to eat them. "He didn’t know English and didn’t respond to yes or no, either. He sat with the owner [until] the police. Just happy he’s OK." Guidetti's officers summoned Paramus EMTs who checked o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Car Meet Draws More Than 1,000 Vehicles To Paramus, Jams Route 17: Police Car Meet Draws More Than 1,000 Vehicles To Paramus, Jams Route 17: Police
Car Meet Draws More Than 1,000 Vehicles To Paramus, Jams Route 17: Police More than 1,000 vehicles converged on a Paramus shopping center on Sunday, jamming Route 17, in what authorities said was another in a series of unsanctioned car meets. Longtime area natives said it may well have been the largest ever to come to Paramus. No incidents were reported -- other than a stretch of major congestion on the one day of the week when retail businesses In Bergen County are closed under blue laws. The orderly gathering began shortly before 10 a.m. March 3 at the Paramus Town Square and Raymour & Flanigan parking lot on the northbound highway just before the Gar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paramus Detectives Nab Thief Accused Of Burglarizing Local Home, Stealing BMW, Eluding Pursuit Paramus Detectives Nab Thief Accused Of Burglarizing Local Home, Stealing BMW, Eluding Pursuit
Paramus Detectives Nab Thief Accused Of Burglarizing Local Home, Stealing BMW, Eluding Pursuit Paramus police detectives identified and arrested an Irvington resident who they said stole a brand new BMW during a burglary and forced a uniformed officer to terminate a pursuit out of safety concerns. Kasieum Frye, 21, and an accomplice broke into an Oakwood Drive home and snatched the key fob for the 2024 X6 shortly before 4:30 a.m. late last September, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. A neighbor alerted police, who found sliding glass doors to the kitchen pried open, the chief said on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Officer Matthew Mulick pursued the SUV on Farview Avenue until high spe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Hundreds Line Up To Meet 50 Cent At Stew Leonard's In Paramus Hundreds Line Up To Meet 50 Cent At Stew Leonard's In Paramus
Hundreds Line Up To Meet 50 Cent At Stew Leonard's In Paramus 50 Cent can still draw a crowd. The legendary "Candy Shop" and "In Da Club" rapper hosted a bottle signing of his new Branson Cognac and Chemin du Roi champagne at Stew Leonard's on Wednesday, Feb. 21, attracting a crowd of hundreds of people. A few hundred fans lined up to see Musician and entrepreneur Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. 50 Cent held a bottle signing... Posted by Paramus Police Department on Thursday, February 22, 2024 50 Cent a.ka. Curtis Jackson had previously done a signing at Stew Leonard's in Westchester County, NY.  Blake Leonard, the president of Stew Leonard's…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Paramus Man Who Stabbed Dad Dead Tried Burning Body To Destroy Evidence, Detectives Say Paramus Man Who Stabbed Dad Dead Tried Burning Body To Destroy Evidence, Detectives Say
Paramus Man Who Stabbed Dad Dead Tried Burning Body To Destroy Evidence, Detectives Say UPDATE: A Paramus man who’d just stabbed his father to death dragged the body to a bathroom and tried to set it on fire last week as part of an attempt to conceal what he’d done, authorities said. Melvin Thomas repeatedly stabbed his father, 61-year-old Manuel Thomas, in the chest with a kitchen knife on Valentine’s Day, a criminal complaint says. He then dragged the bloody corpse to a bathroom where he tried igniting it with a lighter, according to the complaint filed by Paramus Police Detective Justin Sicari. “This attempt failed,” the detective wrote. Melvin Thomas wiped off the bloody…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paramus Man Stabbed Dead By Son, Left For Two Days: Authorities Paramus Man Stabbed Dead By Son, Left For Two Days: Authorities
Paramus Man Stabbed Dead By Son, Left For Two Days: Authorities UPDATE: A Paramus man who’d just stabbed his father to death dragged the body to a bathroom and tried to set it on fire last week as part of an attempt to conceal what he’d done, authorities said. Melvin Thomas repeatedly stabbed his father, 61-year-old Manuel Thomas, in the chest with a kitchen knife on Valentine’s Day, a criminal complaint says. He then dragged the bloody corpse to a bathroom where he tried igniting it with a lighter, according to the complaint filed by Paramus Police Detective Justin Sicari. “This attempt failed,” the detective wrote. Melvin Thomas wiped off …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paramus Police Department Drops New Holiday PSA Starring The Grinch Paramus Police Department Drops New Holiday PSA Starring The Grinch
Paramus Police Department Drops New Holiday PSA Starring The Grinch A green man, with a reported heart condition, was recently arrested in Paramus for stealing packages. No, it wasn't a real bust. It was Paramus police taking a new approach — with a dash of Christmas spirit — to holiday season package thefts. They released the video starring none other than the Grinch himself, and a few of their officers, on Wednesday, Dec. 13. "The uptick in thefts of unattended packages being delivered to homes has gone up so much over the years, we were trying to think of an attention-grabbing way to make people more vigilant in protecting their deliveries," Paramus Pol…

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by Daily Voice
Police & Fire
Wire Theft Arrest Made After Former Longtime Paramus Boro Employee Is Caught On Camera: Police Wire Theft Arrest Made After Former Longtime Paramus Boro Employee Is Caught On Camera: Police
Wire Theft Arrest Made After Former Longtime Paramus Boro Employee Is Caught On Camera: Police GOTCHA! A former Paramus animal control officer was charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of wire after the property owner installed a security camera, authorities said. The northbound Route 17 site had copper wire stolen twice when the new layer of security was added, Paramus Police Robert Guidetti said. Following a third break-in on Monday, Nov. 27, Detective Nicholas Luciano responded and reviewed the video. It showed a man smashing the padlock off a storage room door and removing $2,000 worth of metal-clad wire and $500 worth of Thermoplastic high-heat resistant nylon-c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Teen Thieves In Stolen Car Bail Out On Garden State Parkway, Nabbed By Mahwah, Paramus Police Teen Thieves In Stolen Car Bail Out On Garden State Parkway, Nabbed By Mahwah, Paramus Police
Teen Thieves In Stolen Car Bail Out On Garden State Parkway, Nabbed By Mahwah, Paramus Police A trio of teenagers bailed out of a stolen car on the Garden State Parkway during an overnight chase and were quickly captured by police from Mahwah and Paramus. Mahwah Police Officer Brian Doolittle was on pro-active patrol in the township’s Scotch Hills area when he spotted the 2023 Honda Civic moving slowly along McIntosh Drive shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. An instant license plate check showed the Civic had been reported stolen out of Orange on Sept. 29, Bussinelli said. Doolittle called for backups and activated his vehicle’s overhead lights, the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TIGHT TURN: Tractor Trailer Topples Traffic Signal In Paramus (VIDEO) TIGHT TURN: Tractor Trailer Topples Traffic Signal In Paramus (VIDEO)
Tight Turn: Tractor Trailer Topples Traffic Signal In Paramus (Video) An elongated tractor trailer took down a traffic control signal in a tight turn at a Paramus intersection Tuesday, Oct. 10. The truck driver was turning right from A&S Drive onto Winters Avenue, when a car coming toward him forced him to quickly steer more to the right, around 1 p.m., sources tell Daily Voice. Because of the quick steering move, the wide turn became a tight one, and the trailer bed ended up toppling the traffic signal outside of the Oradell Animal Hospital. The Paramus Police Department's traffic maintenance unit was on scene in minutes to quickly clear the intersecti…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
HOW'S THIS FOR A COLD CASE? Luxury SUV Stolen 7 Years Ago In CT Recovered By Saddle River PD HOW'S THIS FOR A COLD CASE? Luxury SUV Stolen 7 Years Ago In CT Recovered By Saddle River PD
HOW'S This FOR A Cold CASE? Luxury SUV Stolen 7 Years Ago In CT Recovered By Saddle River PD The owner of a luxury SUV that was stolen from a train station in Fairfield County, CT in 2016 likely thought he'd never see it again. Fate intervened, however -- or, rather, the Saddle River Police Department. Officers Greg Bulick and Det. Michael Cooper stopped the 2015 Land Rover on northbound Route 17 for having tinted windows, among other violations, Police Chief Jason Cosgriff said. They quickly noticed some inconsistencies, he said. The vehicle had a temporary Georgia license plate for a 2019 Range Rover, for one thing, the chief said Wednesday, Aug. 30.  The VIN numbers didn't m…

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by Jerry DeMarco