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Police & Fire
Two Men Arrested On Child Sex Crime Charges In Separate Bergen County Cases: Prosecutor
Two men are facing charges in separate child sexual assault investigations, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced this week. In the first case, 18-year-old Justin M. Urgiles of Demarest faces charges of second-degree sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and assault, Musella said. The Tenafly Police Department alerted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit on Sept. 14 regarding allegations involving a juvenile under 18 in Tenafly. Urgiles was arrested on Nov. 4 and remanded to the Bergen County Jail awaiting a court appearance. In the …
Police & Fire
Tenafly Bank Personnel, Police Aren't Fooled By ID Thief: Authorities
A 60-year-old Bronx man who tried to pull a fast one at a Tenafly bank pretended to be someone else when police caught up to him, authorities said. Andre Evans went to one bank and tried depositing $3,800 that wasn't his into an account, then went to another branch and tried to withdraw it using a New Jersey driver's license that also didn't belong to him, Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Employees refused to process the withdrawal, then called police when Evans left, the captain said. Officers found him a short distance away, deMoncada said. Even gave them the identification …
Police & Fire
Driver From Cresskill, 81, Killed In Tenafly Crash: Police Seek Witnesses
An 81-year-old driver from Cresskill was pronounced dead at the scene after her car struck a utility pole Monday morning in Tenafly, said police who are seeking witnesses. East Clinton Avenue was closed for more than an hour and a half after the victim's Ford Focus, which was headed toward Route 9W, crashed near Buckingham Road around 8 a.m. Nov. 27, Tenafly Police Lt. Michael Greeley said. A passing police officer immediately rendered aid to the driver and help firefighters and paramedics extricate her, the lieutenant said. Greeley asked that anyone who may have witnessed the crash o…
Police & Fire
Men Charged With Vandalizing Vehicle Draped In Palestinian Flag At Tenafly Youth Soccer Game
Two men were charged with vandalizing a vehicle that had a Palestinian flag draped over its hood and harassing the owner at a children’s soccer game in Tenafly, authorities said. The vehicle had been keyed along the rear trunk and had a Star of David etched into the hood while parked in the lot at Tenafly Borough Hall on Riveredge Road last Saturday, Nov. 4, Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Stuffed into the windshield were flyers “related to the current hostage situation occurring in the Gaza Strip,” the captain said on Friday. Several people in the area had been recording their activ…
Police & Fire
Aggravated
Manslaughter
: Husband Jailed In Shooting Death Of Beloved Bergen Police Officer
UPDATE: A retired Tenafly police officer has been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the shooting death of his husband, last month in their Sussex County home, Daily Voice has learned. Joseph Grieco, 37, remained held in the Morris County Correctional Facility in Morristown in connection with the July 26 death of retired NYPD Officer John Kelly, who had deep ties in Bergen County. The single aggravated manslaughter charge cites an "extreme indifference to human life." Under New Jersey law, that means the defendant didn't set out to kill the victim but acted in such a reckless and unr…
News
Disturbance At Englewood Apartment Complex Leads To Arrests
A disturbance brought Englewood police to an apartment complex where they said they found one man with a BB pistol and another wanted on a warrant. A 911 caller reported seeing several male suspects, one of them wearing a mask and pointing a gun at another, get out of a Jeep in the parking lot of the Sigma Apartments on Engle Street and then go into the building shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, Lt. Fred Pulice said. Responding officers found the Jeep as well as several people. One of them, Michael Mays, 25, of Englewood was arrested on weapons charges after they found him carrying a …
News
Rescue
: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Cold In Crash Between 9W And PIP
A team of police officers rescued a trapped driver who’d been knocked unconscious Thursday when her car barreled down an embankment and into a wooded area between Route 9W and the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The 63-year-old Cliffside Park motorist’s 2011 Toyota Corolla was in a precarious position after veering across the shoulder of northbound 9W, hitting a rock wall, vaulting into a tree and then careening down the embankment shortly before 9 a.m., Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Tenafly police were joined at the scene by fellow officers from Englewood Cliffs and the Palisa…
News
Bergen Pizza Deliveryman Doubled As Porch Pirate, Police Charge
A deliveryman for a Fort Lee pizzeria was also making pickups of packages from porches in town, as well as in Englewood Cliffs and Tenafly, authorities charged. Detective Lts. Ronald F. Waldt and Benjamin Totten were investigating a series of front-step thefts when they obtained surveillance video that they said gave them a “firm” suspect and vehicle description. Detectives shared information with their colleagues in the neighboring municipalities, then caught a break on Wednesday. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., Waldt said, an alert postal carrier saw a man later identified as Johan Arroyave Gav…
Police & Fire
Authorities: Infamous ‘James Bond Gang’ Of Burglars Is Back In NJ
They’re the criminal version of such musical oldies acts as the Temptations and Quiet Riot. The infamous James Bond Gang of burglars is back in several New Jersey counties, authorities say – only without their original members. It was in the mid-1990s that David Kirkland hooked up with Teaneck High School buddy Terence Lawton, who owned a detailing shop in Englewood where he created a car that gave the founding burglary crew its nickname. Pricey homes in Paramus, Englewood Cliffs and elsewhere yielded the gang an average of $30,000 in cash and valuables during what investigators said were …
Police & Fire
Police: PalPark Plumber Secretly Recorded Video In Tenafly Woman's Bathroom
A Palisades Park plumber secretly recorded video of a Tenafly customer by hiding his cellphone in her bathroom, said authorities who wonder whether there may be other victims. Tenafly police nabbed Eric Maldonado, 46, at the woman’s home after she discovered his cellphone “positioned in an unusual location actively recording” video in a specific bathroom he suspiciously insisted on using, Captain Michael deMoncada said Tuesday. Police charged Maldonado with two counts of invasion of privacy and released him on a summonses pending a court hearing. Now they’re trying to determine whether th…
Police & Fire
Authorities: Burglar Caught In The Act During Tenafly Crime Spree Pulls Knife On Police
Caught inside the same house he broke into the night before, a Tenafly burglar brandished a kitchen knife at police before dawn Friday, authorities said. The 3 a.m. standoff capped a crime spree during which the same man and an accomplice burglarized a local restaurant and a California man stole a $7,000 bicycle after smashing the front window of a downtown bike shop, among other offenses, they said. It began after Joseph Farfan, 34, of Anaheim, CA stole the bicycle from Fusion Cycles on Washington Street around 1:30 a.m. this past Monday, Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Surve…
Police & Fire
Tenafly PBA Angered By Councilman's Comments About Police Shooting Kids
As if police don’t already have enough grief: A Tenafly councilman has angered officers in his town with a racially-charged comment. School officials had been considering replacing a single resource officer -- who primarily patrols the high school and occasionally the middle school – with recently-retired armed police officers in all district buildings. Last week, a member of a Tenafly Facebook group posted a link about an armed guard on Long Island who left his gun in a school bathroom. In response, Councilman Max Basch wrote: “If they had an armed guard on duty the kid with a toy gun wou…
Police & Fire
Tenafly Police Officer Finds Crossing Guard's Missing Engagement Diamond From Late Husband
At some point Tuesday, Tenafly crossing guard Kathy Iannantuano noticed the diamond on her engagement ring had gone missing. The diamond ring -- given to her 52 years ago when her husband proposed -- became extra special to her after he passed away. Devastated and holding back tears, the Riveredge Road and Jefferson Avenue guard, with help from her son, searched the area after school to no avail. They assumed the diamond was gone forever. "Well, the Tenafly Police Department doesn't 'assume' anything," the department wrote on its page. "Back-up was called in and an organi…
Police & Fire
Police Seek Help Finding Hit-Run SUV That Struck Bicyclist In Tenafly
UPDATE: A self-employed garment salesman from Cresskill was behind the wheel of a hit-and-run vehicle that injured a bicyclist in Tenafly this past weekend, said authorities who arrested him. A witness captured the license plate of the fleeing vehicle and reported it to police, leading to the arrest of 61-year-old Peter Lee, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. Lee was driving recklessly when he struck the 28-year-old victim at 4:15 p.m. on County Road, Calo said interviews with witnesses and surveillance video shows. Surveillance video from a local business shows ano…
Police & Fire
Alert Tenafly Resident Leads Police To Accused Car Burglar From The Bronx
Tenafly is one of those towns where police consider themselves fortunate to have residents who call them as soon as they see something suspicious – which is how an accused car burglar from the Bronx was caught. Officers responding to a call from a witness that the man was trying car doors Friday night found 47-year-old Luis Camacho, who claimed he was “going door to door looking for work,” on Elm Street near Engle Street, Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Camacho, in fact, “was lost and looking for a way to get back to New York City,” deMoncada said. Police took Camacho into custody, charged h…
Police & Fire
Watch
: Video Footage Shows Tenafly's Caren Z. Turner Cursing Out Police
New video footage has surfaced of former Port Authority Commissioner Caren Z. Turner launching into a tirade at two police officers during a routine traffic stop involving her daughter. The more than eight-minute video was released by the Tenafly Police Department days after Turner suddenly resigned from her Port Authority position. It appeared in the video that Turner was upset that an unregistered vehicle was being towed. Her daughter was a back seat passenger. Turner can be seen in the Easter weekend video telling the officers: "You may not tell me when to take my child. You may s…
Police & Fire
Bergen Prosecutor: 'Helping Hand' Continues To Reach Opioid Addicts
HACKENSACK, N.J. – More than three dozen heroin users arrested in Bergen County over a four-day period got more than summonses to appear in court: They were each also offered the opportunity to connect with a recovering addict who could one day help save his or her life. Of the 37 users given the chance, 19 of those charged with heroin agreed to work with a “recovery specialist” -- – a recovering addict who has remained clean and knows how to help them find treatment, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. A dozen of them completed 5-day detox and had long-term treatment options …
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