RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS
Recognize HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS Police turned to the public for help finding a mugger who wrested a wallet from an Elmwood Park CVS customer, injuring him, before fleeing Friday afternoon. The robber lost a pair of Nike flip flops that he was wearing when he accosted the victim in the vestibule of the Market Street pharmacy just after noon, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was also wearing a sleeveless black tank top with the word "Proven" on the front, shorts and a black cap, Foligno said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification was processing the footwear and an iced tea bottle the robber had…
COVID-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say COVID-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say
Covid-19: NY Man Wanted In Ramapo, Mahwah Drug Thefts Coughs On Montvale Officers, Police Say One of three people wanted for swiping $5,000 worth of allergy medicine from CVS stores in Mahwah and Ramapo claimed he had COVID-19 while repeatedly coughing on the Montvale police officers who captured them, authorities said Wednesday. He also gouged the paint on a police vehicle with his handcuffs, they said. Officer John Guico was at the CVS on Chestnut Ridge Road around 4 p.m. Tuesday when he spotted a vehicle described in an alert issued by Ramapo police shortly after a theft at one of their stores, Montvale Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. Police arrested the trio, identified as…
Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs
Walmart, Quest Labs Offer Drive-Thru Covid-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Walmart and Quest Diagnostic labs will offer self-administered tests for coronavirus starting next week, Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday. By appointment only, residents can drive-up to seven Walmart stores to be tested for COVID-19, and get results in about two days, Murphy said during an afternoon briefing. More details can be found at www.MyQuestCOVIDtest.com.  Tests will be offered at Walmart drive-thru sites in Garfield, North Bergen, Kearny, Flemington, Burlington, Howell and Mount Laurel. Walmart tests will be offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday next week, and Monday, Wednesda…
18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores 18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer COVID-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores
18K Pharmacists Cleared To Administer Covid-19 Tests, Self-Swabs Coming To Select CVS Stores More than 18,000 licensed New Jersey pharmacists have been authorized by state officials to administer FDA-approved coronavirus tests to customers, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. The tests can be given without a prescription, Murphy said. Additionally, 50 CVS pharmacy locations across the state will be offering self-swab tests by the end of May. The governor did not say which locations would have self-swab tests. "This is another important step forward as we continue to build testing capacity in our state," Murphy said. A significant ramp up in COVID-19 testing and contact tracing are inte…
High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed
High Winds Wreak Havoc In North Jersey: Trees, Poles, Wires Down, Roads Closed High winds on Monday toppled trees and utility poles, damaging homes and vehicles and closing North Jersey roadways. Among the damage: No injuries were reported when high winds blew off part of a Saddle Brook rooftop, blanketing a vehicle parked on President Street; Tenafly responders were busy with a window broken by high winds that rained glass on the sidewalk below from the second floor of the CVS on Washington Street, downed wires from a tree that toppled on Johnson Avenue and a large transformer fire at East Clinton Avenue and Woodland Street; Downed wires closed Route 46 in in both …
Dumont PD: Two Girls Say Man In Trench Coat Exposed Himself In CVS Lot Dumont PD: Two Girls Say Man In Trench Coat Exposed Himself In CVS Lot
Dumont PD: Two Girls Say Man In Trench Coat Exposed Himself In CVS Lot A man in a beige trench coat exposed himself to two girls in the parking lot of the Dumont CVS on Monday, said police who sought the public's help finding him. The two high school students told police the man was in his mid to late 20s and driving a newer model white Audi. They said he played loud music to get their attention in the store's West Madison Avenue parking lot, then exposed himself to them, police said. Anyone who saw something or has information that could help police investigating the case is asked to call the Dumont PD: (201) 387-5000.
BAIL REFORM: Fair Lawn Police Nab Shoplifting Duo With 9 Outstanding Warrants BAIL REFORM: Fair Lawn Police Nab Shoplifting Duo With 9 Outstanding Warrants
Bail Reform: Fair Lawn Police Nab Shoplifting Duo With 9 Outstanding Warrants Fair Lawn police nabbed four out-of-town shoplifters who were apparently operating as group – two of whom, in turned out, had several outstanding warrants between them, authorities said. Officers responding to the shoplifting call at the CVS on Fair Lawn Avenue stopped a vehicle with the four inside. They recovered nearly $500 worth of stolen merchandise and a small amount of drugs, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Arrested were Michael Bouchotte, 32, and Julia Macello, 27, both of Teaneck; Robert Pitts, 44, of Paterson and Samantha Boseski, 30, of Clifton, Metzler said. Boseski was released…
Authorities: Teaneck Police Capture Cough Syrup Thief Who Hopped CVS Counter, Pushed Clerk Authorities: Teaneck Police Capture Cough Syrup Thief Who Hopped CVS Counter, Pushed Clerk
Authorities: Teaneck Police Capture Cough Syrup Thief Who Hopped CVS Counter, Pushed Clerk Teaneck police tracked down an 18-year-old Bronx man who they said jumped the pharmacy counter at a local CVS, grabbed a couple of bottle of cough syrup and then pushed a clerk out of the way as he fled. Mamady Cisse committed similar crimes in New York and Connecticut, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn M. O’Reilly said Friday. Cisse tried getting into the pharmacy area through a locked door at the Cedar Lane store on Aug. 23, O’Reilly said. So he “jumped over the pharmacy counter, entered the secured area and removed two bottles” of promethazine/codeine from the shelf, the chief said. After “fo…
Pharmacy Manager Rescues 83-Year-Old Glen Rock Scam Victim Pharmacy Manager Rescues 83-Year-Old Glen Rock Scam Victim
Pharmacy Manager Rescues 83-Year-Old Glen Rock Scam Victim An alert pharmacy manager kept an 83-year-old Glen Rock resident from being further victimized by a phone scammer, police said. The victim had already bought a $500 Google Play gift card and given an online thief the numbers on it when she returned to the CVS on Rock Road to buy another, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The woman had been using her computer when a spam “security warning” popped onto the screen, telling her the machine had a virus and giving her a number to call for help, Ackermann said. Following an operator’s instructions, she bought the first gift card thinking it would…
Trying To Stay Fresh? Glen Rock PD Says Pair Stole Deodorant, Gum In Bulk Trying To Stay Fresh? Glen Rock PD Says Pair Stole Deodorant, Gum In Bulk
Trying To Stay Fresh? Glen Rock PD Says Pair Stole Deodorant, Gum In Bulk Two Glen Rock police officers chased down a shoplifting duo – one from Lyndhurst, the other from Hawthorne -- who swiped 63 containers of deodorant and nearly two dozen packs of gum from a local CVS, authorities said. Both had fled the Rock Road store, but Sgt. Bryan Scott grabbed one on Main Street near Bradford Street 208 after an employee described them to a 911 operator, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Sgt. Scott McGovern got the other trying to flee along the NJ Transit Main Line railroad tracks under Route 208, Ackermann said. Officers recovered $168 of $666 worth of items taken bu…
Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15
Elmwood Park Police Capture Lyndhurst Man, 44, In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 UPDATE: Elmwood Park police captured one of two men who they said robbed a 15-year-old boy of his cellphone Thursday night. Linden Browne-Jones, a 44-year-old Barbadian national living in Lyndhurst, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. Friday with help from Lyndhurst police, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was charged with first-degree robbery and possession of a weapon -- a folding knife that the chief said was used to rob the teen on Market Street around 8 p.m. The victim told police he was walking near the CVS when Browne-Jones and an accomplice got out of a red SUV …
Elmwood Park Police ID Suspect In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 Elmwood Park Police ID Suspect In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15
Elmwood Park Police ID Suspect In Street Robbery Of Boy, 15 A 15-year-old boy told Elmwood Park police that two robbers – one armed with a folding knife – took his cellphone Thursday night. The victim said he was walking on Market Street near the CVS when the robbers got out of a red SUV and approached him around 8 p.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. One of the robbers “brandished a black and silver folding knife and held it to the victim's chest and demanded everything he had,” while “threatening to stop him,” chief said. The victim only had a cell phone, which he handed over,” Foligno said. The robbers got back into the SUV and took off, he…