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Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver
Woman Hit, Thrown By Car During Argument, Hackensack Police Seek Help Finding Fleeing Driver SEE ANYTHING? Authorities sought the public’s help finding a driver who deliberately hit a woman with his car during an argument in Hackensack. A call of a person seen on the hood of a moving sedan brought police to the intersection of Anderson Street and Vanderbeck Place shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 20, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. Officers found the 39-year-old victim, who told them a man whom she identified only as “Jazz” drove directly at her and hit her with his car during an argument, DeWitt said. She landed on the hood, she said, then rolled off and landed in the street near the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Mechanic Living Across From Hackensack HS Collected 5,155 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge Mechanic Living Across From Hackensack HS Collected 5,155 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge
Mechanic Living Across From Hackensack HS Collected 5,155 Child Porn Files, Authorities Charge A divorced mechanic who lives across the street from Hackensack High School was charged with trafficking child porn after detectives found 5,515 illegal images during a raid on his apartment, authorities said. Juan C. Rodriguez, 41, “used the Internet to view, download, and possess” the files of “nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Friday, Feb. 18. He also shared files online, the prosecutor said. Rodriguez was arrested Thursday and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography following a raid on his Dawn Mano…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fugitive Wanted For Setting HUMC Co-Worker On Fire Found Dead Of Suicide Fugitive Wanted For Setting HUMC Co-Worker On Fire Found Dead Of Suicide
Fugitive Wanted For Setting Humc Co-Worker On Fire Found Dead Of Suicide UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of suicide in South Jersey, authorities said. The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said. HUMC employees were n…

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Three New Officers Sworn In River Vale, Veteran Promoted To Sergeant Three New Officers Sworn In River Vale, Veteran Promoted To Sergeant
Three New Officers Sworn In River Vale, Veteran Promoted To Sergeant A robust recruiting process by a dedicated police lieutenant produced the hiring of three new highly qualified officers in River Vale. Lt. Josh Wisse spent six months finding a large number of highly qualified applicants, Police Chief Sean Schiedle said. Following what the chief called an “exhaustive” interview and selection process, the department hired three probationary police officers – all of whom have names who were sworn in by Municipal Judge Michael Garrett: Born and raised in Ramsey, Officer Kyle Fanning played football and baseball at Ramsey High School before going on to play f…

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Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested
Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested UPDATE: A man who was seized following a SWAT standoff at his Hackensack home had gone after another man with a handgun and a machete earlier in the day in Teaneck, prompting a lockdown of FDU and a local high school, authorities said Thursday. Andrew Deininger, 48, chased the other man through part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus following a dispute near the corner of Beverly and River roads around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. "Although no specific threat to the campus community was known at the time, the FDU campus was placed into a lockdown fo…

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FDU Sheltered In Place Following Incident FDU Sheltered In Place Following Incident
FDU Sheltered In Place Following Incident UPDATE: A man who was seized following a SWAT standoff at his Hackensack home had gone after another man with a handgun and a machete earlier in the day in Teaneck, prompting a lockdown of FDU and a local high school, authorities said Thursday. Andrew Deininger, 48, chased the other man through part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus following a dispute near the corner of Beverly and River roads around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. "Although no specific threat to the campus community was known at the time, the FDU campus was placed into a lockdown fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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North Jersey Cook Charged With Raping Child: Prosecutor North Jersey Cook Charged With Raping Child: Prosecutor
North Jersey Cook Charged With Raping Child: Prosecutor A 46-year-old cook from Essex County was arrested for raping a child in Bergen County, authorities announced. Terrell Williams, of Irvington, was arrested Dec. 8 -- three days after the Hackensack Police Department contact the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit regarding the alleged incident, Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Jason Love and the Hackensack Police Department under the direction of Officer in Charge Darrin DeWitt. Williams was …

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Hackensack Rooming House Resident Slashed In Face With Box Cutter, Arrest Made Hackensack Rooming House Resident Slashed In Face With Box Cutter, Arrest Made
Hackensack Rooming House Resident Slashed In Face With Box Cutter, Arrest Made A man was jailed after slashing a fellow resident’s face with a box cutter during an argument at a Hackensack rooming house, authorities said. Arlando T. McCoy, a 51-year-old manager of a local Walgreens, fled the Euclid Avenue home early Sunday evening but was nabbed by police a few block away, said Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the department. “He still had the box cutter,” DeWitt said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center for treatment of a large gash on the left side of his ace. McCoy, meanwhile, was charged with aggravated assault and weapons o…

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Shaken Victims, Residents Help Nab Teen Who Groped Hackensack Women At Night Shaken Victims, Residents Help Nab Teen Who Groped Hackensack Women At Night
Shaken Victims, Residents Help Nab Teen Who Groped Hackensack Women At Night UPDATE: A Hackensack woman groped by a 16-year-old boy on the street Wednesday night was initially reluctant to report it. "I was too ashamed," she said. Calling police turned out to be the right thing, she said Friday.  Barely 24 hours later, another woman who was walking her dog in the same area of the Esplanade in the north end of town near Maywood was attacked more severely. It was the same teen: He was carrying the same backpack as the night before, sources said. Having been warned of the previous incident, the woman called police right away. "They located the possible suspect …

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GOTCHA! Hackensack PD Nabs Teen Groper Who Grabbed Women At Night GOTCHA! Hackensack PD Nabs Teen Groper Who Grabbed Women At Night
Gotcha! Hackensack PD Nabs Teen Groper Who Grabbed Women At Night UPDATE: A Hackensack woman groped by a 16-year-old boy while walking her dog at night was initially reluctant to report it. "I was too ashamed," she said. Calling police turned out to be the right thing, she said Friday. Barely 24 hours later, another woman who was walking her dog in the same area of the Esplanade in the north end of town near Maywood was attacked more severely. It was the same teen: He was carrying the same backpack as the night before, sources said. Having been warned of the previous incident, the second woman called police right away. "They located the possible suspec…

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DEATH THREATS: Troubling Images Sent To Hackensack School Board Members NOT Up For Re-Election DEATH THREATS: Troubling Images Sent To Hackensack School Board Members NOT Up For Re-Election
Death Threats: Troubling Images Sent To Hackensack School Board Members NOT Up For Re-Election Hackensack police are investigating threatening letters sent to two school board members that include photos of their faces in the crosshairs of a gun with blood dripping from bullet holes in their foreheads. Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the department's officer in charge, said city detectives are tracing the source of the letters sent to neighbors Michael Oates and Scott James-Vickery. They have assistance from their Bergen County law enforcement partners. "You will be taken out by vote or by force," the mailing says. Neither Oates nor James-Vickery are up for re-election, nor have they recently …

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Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her
Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her A Hackensack auto mechanic assaulted a juvenile who tried to rescue a woman he was choking, authorities charged. Jorge E. Reina, a 40-year-old Colombian national, was charged with assaulting the same boy in 2016, records show. The woman told officers who responded to the 911 call shortly before 8 a.m. this past Friday that Reina “became enraged during an argument and strangled her with his hand,”  Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the Hackensack Police Department, said Monday. The boy, 15, intervened and a struggle continued outside, where Reina allegedly “slammed the juve…

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