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Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Driver In Stolen Pickup Arrested At Bergen County Red Light: Police Driver In Stolen Pickup Arrested At Bergen County Red Light: Police
Driver In Stolen Pickup Arrested At Bergen County Red Light: Police A 66-year-old North Jersey man was arrested after police tracked a stolen pickup truck and surrounded it at a red light, authorities said. The arrest happened on Saturday, April 18 at approximately 12:23 p.m., when a fixed automated license plate reader alerted officers to a stolen 2007 Toyota Tundra traveling south on Stuyvesant Avenue from Rutherford Avenue in Lyndhurst, Lyndhurst PD Deputy Chief Paul Haggerty said. Officer Salvatore Wartel responded to the area and spotted the vehicle stopped at a red light at the intersection of Valley Brook Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue. Wartel con…

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by Cecilia Levine
Greenwich, CT
Obituaries
Beloved Former Greenwich PD Officer Dies At Age 76 Beloved Former Greenwich PD Officer Dies At Age 76
Beloved Former Greenwich PD Officer Dies At Age 76 The Greenwich Police Department is mourning the loss of one its retired longtime beloved officers. Sergeant Richard Daly Jr., age 76, died on Friday, Aug. 23, the department said. Daly was born on Sept. 11, 1947, and raised in Stamford. Prior to becoming a Greenwich Police officer, he served in the US Army from 1967 to 1971.   During his career as a police officer, he served in the Patrol and Detective Divisions before being promoted to Sergeant in 1998. Daly’s file contains numerous citations and commendations for exceptional police work, including many thank you letters from …

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by Kathy Reakes
Darien, CT
Police & Fire
New Chief To Head Darien Police Department New Chief To Head Darien Police Department
New Chief To Head Darien Police Department A new chief will soon take over the reins of a Fairfield County police department, but he's no stranger to the area with 28 years of police work under his belt. The Darien Police Commission announced on Tuesday, Feb. 27 the appointment of Capt. Jeremiah P. Marron, Jr. as the department's 12th Chief of Police.  Marron, a 28-year veteran of the department, will assume command of the department on Friday, April 1, following the retirement of the current Chief, Donald B. Anderson, said Kim Hiffard, chairman of the Police Commission.  The soon-to-be next chief became a Darien patrol o…

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by Kathy Reakes
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Police & Fire
'Alarming' Surge In Homicides Prompts Atlantic City Police Union's Request For More Officers 'Alarming' Surge In Homicides Prompts Atlantic City Police Union's Request For More Officers
'Alarming' Surge In Homicides Prompts Atlantic City Police Union's Request For More Officers After four homicides in Atlantic City in the first week of 2024, the city's police union is calling for more officers to handle the "recent surge" in violence. Atlantic City Police Benevolent Association Local 24 posted a statement about the wave of killings on its Facebook page on Monday, Jan. 8.  The union said it's "deeply concerned" about the dramatic rise in the city's homicide rate compared to last year. "In the first seven days of 2024, there have been four homicides," said union president Jules Schwenger. "In all of 2023, we had a total of seven. This alarming trend …

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by Chris Spiker
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police
Plainclothes Officer Shot Sitting In Car Near Boston School Playground: Police A Boston police officer somehow escaped injury after officials said a man shot him multiple times over the weekend while he sat in his car near an elementary school.  Alberto Polanco, 20, of Roxbury, is charged in the alleged attack just after 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, the Boston Police Department said.  The officer was in his unmarked patrol car at 43 Waumbeck Street near Trotter Elementary School when police say Polanco walked over and started firing. He then ran away, authorities said. The officer wasn't injured in the shooting, and he did not return fire, officials said…

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by Josh Lanier
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
HEROES: Newark Officers Save Suicidal Man From Route 78 Overpass (VIDEO) HEROES: Newark Officers Save Suicidal Man From Route 78 Overpass (VIDEO)
Heroes: Newark Officers Save Suicidal Man From Route 78 Overpass (Video) Three Newark officers are being commended for saving a suicidal man from the Route 78 overpass Monday morning, authorities said. Officers Darrell Fields, Abdul Aziz Yasin, and Miguel Silva responded to the Route 78 overpass at West Runyon Street and Irvine Turner Boulevard where they quickly exited their car to rescue the distraught man, just after 10 a.m., according to Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara. A man and woman who witnessed the suicide attempt also helped police in encouraging the man to not jump, O'Hara said. In less than 10 minutes, the man was brought back ove…

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by Nicole Acosta
Ridgewood, NJ
News
Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do?
Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Young Michael Lindenberg just wanted to do the right thing when he showed up with his dad at Ridgewood police headquarters holding a $10 bill. Michael told Sgt. Kyle Finch that he’d found it on the ground, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He and his father thought the right thing to do was to bring it to police to see whether anyone had reported losing it, the chief said. Finch told Michael that late July day that he would log it in as found property in the hopes that the owner came forward. If no one did after six months, the sergeant said, Michael could have it. Time passed an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
NY-Bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say NY-Bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say
Ny-bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say A routine traffic stop led by a keen-eyed Bedminster Township patrol officer seized nearly $4 million worth of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl from a couple "passing through" during a cross-country drug trafficking operation, authorities said. Christian Ochoa, 28, of Laredo, Texas, was driving the drugs across the country and likely headed to New York, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said at a news conference on Thursday. He was likely just "passing through" Bucks County when he was stopped, Weintraub said.  Ochoa's passenger, Edith Tomasa Rodriguez Cardenas, 27, of Huntington Park,…

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by Nicole Acosta