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Don't Invite Vehicle Thieves To Steal Your Ride, Local Police Warn Don't Invite Vehicle Thieves To Steal Your Ride, Local Police Warn
Don't Invite Vehicle Thieves To Steal Your Ride, Local Police Warn Englewood police this week joined the growing number of law enforcement authorities in North Jersey who've urged residents and merchants to lock their vehicles and take their key fobs. Police everywhere -- not just in Englewood -- have gone from frustrated to angry that more and more motorists are basically inviting thieves to steal their vehicles. In Englewood, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead warned that an uptick in the number of vehicles broken into and stolen should show owners that the concern is genuine. Most victims left the key fobs in the vehicle. "While we can understand a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Members Of Massive NY-Based Crew Caught Stealing Tens Of Thousands From NJ ATMs ID'd Members Of Massive NY-Based Crew Caught Stealing Tens Of Thousands From NJ ATMs ID'd
Members Of Massive Ny-based Crew Caught Stealing Tens Of Thousands From NJ ATMs ID'd They flooded New Jersey by the dozens, coming from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Westchester, armed with bogus debit cards. They nearly returned home with tens of thousands of dollars stolen from ATMs throughout the state. Police in several counties stopped them, though. Here’s a snapshot of one of several theft crews captured in New Jersey on Tuesday: Eight adults, three juveniles; 47 indictable charges, mostly for identity and credit card theft; 10 disorderly persons charges; $3,335 in stolen cash seized, along with various bogus cards. That group, busted Cliffside Park, was among severa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
10 Charged In NJ Mortgage Fraud Scheme That Swindled Low Income Buyers Out Of Thousands 10 Charged In NJ Mortgage Fraud Scheme That Swindled Low Income Buyers Out Of Thousands
10 Charged In NJ Mortgage Fraud Scheme That Swindled Low Income Buyers Out Of Thousands Ten people including two at large have been charged in a mortgage fraud scheme that included racketeering, theft, tampering with records and money laundering across Essex County, authorities said. Between 2016 and 2019, the individuals recruited unsuspecting buyers for investment properties in Newark, East Orange, and Irvington, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said Friday.  With little to no down payment and questionable financial stability, the buyers were led to entrust the entire mortgage application process to Darnell Alford, of Toms River, and Travis Glover…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Maywood Detectives Nab 15 In $40,000 Mailbox Checks Theft Maywood Detectives Nab 15 In $40,000 Mailbox Checks Theft
Maywood Detectives Nab 15 In $40,000 Mailbox Checks Theft Maywood police snared a whopping 15 people in the mailbox theft of what turned into more than $40,000 worth of checks. Police responding to a citizen’s call at 3:23 a.m. last Aug. 19 found a mailbox pried open, and its contents removed, at the intersection of West Pleasant and Wyoming avenues, Detective Sgt. William Phayre said Tuesday. “Over the course of the next several weeks, more than a dozen victims reported fraudulent activity involving checks that were placed in the mailbox during the days leading up to the theft,” Phayre said. “Many of the checks were altered and deposited into va…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical
Paterson Man Charged In Brutal Bronx Machete Attack That Left Ex-Girlfriend, 20, Critical A 20-year-old domestic violence victim who moved from Paterson to the Bronx with her young daughter to start a new life was attacked with a machete by her abusive ex-boyfriend, authorities said. Lisbeth Acosta was ambushed Saturday night in the lobby an apartment building on Grand Concourse near East 196th Street by Hector Delacruz, 27, who’d lived with her in Paterson, the NYPD said. Acosta had moved to the Fordham Manor apartment with her daughter just two months ago after getting an order of protection from a judge in Paterson, Bronx activist Anthony Beckford said Monday. She remained i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized UPDATE: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized
Update: Shooting On Route 80 In Lodi Leaves One Dead, Another Hospitalized UPDATE: Authorities captured and charged three Long Island men in connection with the shooting death of a driver on Route 80 in Lodi last weekend. "It was not a random shooting -- it was a targeted killing," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said during a news conference Thursday in Hackensack with Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella, BCPO Chief of Detectives Robert Anzilotti and New Jersey State Police Lt. Colonel Fritz Frage. Anzilotti identified the trio as: Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centereach, NY; Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, NY, the alleged shooter; Robert Plunkett, 2…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd The tour bus owned by Rockaway-based Z & D Tours in an early-morning crash that killed five people had no passenger seatbelts, federal officials said Monday. The bus' driver, Shuang Qing Feng, lost control and hitting a concrete median along the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Homendy said. The bus shot up an embankment, flipped on its side and then back into the barrier, at which point a FedEx truck slammed into the bus's undercarriage, she said. Feng, of Queens, N.Y., Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of The Br…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Paterson Police Again Raid Go-Go Bar For Prostitution, Close ‘Garage Door’ Afterhours Club Paterson Police Again Raid Go-Go Bar For Prostitution, Close ‘Garage Door’ Afterhours Club
Paterson Police Again Raid Go-Go Bar For Prostitution, Close ‘Garage Door’ Afterhours Club Paterson police again raided a go-go bar cited earlier this year for prostitution, as well as a pop-up after-hours club where they seized 138 bottles of booze, 20 hookah pipes and nearly $1,050 in cash. Both locations were targeted “based on an overwhelming amount of complaints,” city Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Police previously raided the Cabaret Lounge on Cianci Street eight months ago – arresting the manager, a 62-year-old stripper and six of her co-workers at the time – after they said dancers openly solicited undercover officers for sex. SEE: Prostitution Raid At Paters…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
New Jersey Residents Among 27 Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme New Jersey Residents Among 27 Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme
New Jersey Residents Among 27 Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Scheme Four New Jersey residents were among 27 people arrested for their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme to commit bribery and a no-fault insurance scam. The multi-state jurisdictional investigation that originated in Westchester County led to the arrests, 23 of whom were taken into custody in New York and New Jersey on Thursday, Nov. 7, with other suspects arrested in North Carolina, and Florida. Among those arrested were five 911 operators and an NYPD police officer. Those arrested in New Jersey were: Christina Garcia, 35, of Jersey City Tonja Lewis, 53, of Belleville Raymond Parke…

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by Zak Failla & Cecilia Levine
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Mechanic Charged With Sexually Assaulting Hackensack Pre-Teen Mechanic Charged With Sexually Assaulting Hackensack Pre-Teen
Mechanic Charged With Sexually Assaulting Hackensack Pre-Teen A 57-year-old mechanic from the Bronx was charged with sexually assaulting a pre-teen when he lived in Hackensack. Members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Victims Unit arrested Francisco Rosario after they and Hackensack police investigated a June complaint, the prosecutor said Monday. A judge ordered that Rosario, who the prosecutor said is married, remain held in the Bergen County Jail while awaiting a detention hearing following his arrest in Carlstadt on Friday. He's charged with criminal sexual contact and child endangerment. ****** ALSO SEE: A construction…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paramus PD: Route 4 Stop Turns Up Loaded Guns, 100 Heroin Bundles, $15,000 Cash Paramus PD: Route 4 Stop Turns Up Loaded Guns, 100 Heroin Bundles, $15,000 Cash
Paramus PD: Route 4 Stop Turns Up Loaded Guns, 100 Heroin Bundles, $15,000 Cash Paramus police found two New York City men with a pair of handguns, 100 bundles of heroin and $15,000 in drug cash during an overnight Route 4 traffic stop, authorities said. The driver was unable to maintain a single lane while driving a 2014 Acura sedan on the eastbound highway at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Officer William Stallone determined that the license plates didn’t match the vehicle and stopped it, he said. Stallone was joined by fellow Officers Donald Liu, Officer Tim Reed and Officer Michael Mordaga. While interviewing the two vehicle occupants, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Secaucus Police Save Woman Who Tried To Jump Off Rt. 3 Bridge Secaucus Police Save Woman Who Tried To Jump Off Rt. 3 Bridge
Secaucus Police Save Woman Who Tried To Jump Off Rt. 3 Bridge Two Secaucus police officers saved a woman as she was climbing over the railing of a bridge spanning Rt. 3 in a suicide attempt, Capt. Dennis Miller said in a statement.  A passerby called police around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning after spotting the woman peering over the edge of the Rt. 3 East bridge. Officer George Sikaffy arrived at the scene just as the woman had placed her leg over the railing, Miller said.  Sikaffy grabbed the woman's jacket and pulled her to safety.  The woman tried to break free of Sikaffy's grasp as she yelled about taking her own life, Miller also sai…

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by Paul Milo