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Police: Trio Shopped With Stolen Card Numbers At Hackensack Bloomingdales Police: Trio Shopped With Stolen Card Numbers At Hackensack Bloomingdales
Police: Trio Shopped With Stolen Card Numbers At Hackensack Bloomingdales A trio of men shopping with stolen credit card numbers were arrested by Hackensack police, said authorities who charged them. On Monday at approximately 8:20 p.m., Hackensack police officers were dispatched to Bloomingdales at The Shops at Riverside for a fraud in progress, Captain Frank Aquila said. The three suspects -- Andrew Parkes, 31 of Jamaica, New York; Demetri Stewart, 26 of Jamaica, New York; and Lernard Lawley, 31 of Brooklyn, New York -- were at the register of Bloomingdales at The Shops at Riverside paying at the register when police arrived, Aquila said. Officer Panagiotis Se…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NEW PHOTOS: Police Seek Help Finding Hackensack $10,000 Bank Robber NEW PHOTOS: Police Seek Help Finding Hackensack $10,000 Bank Robber
NEW Photos: Police Seek Help Finding Hackensack $10,000 Bank Robber Hackensack police released new images of a man who they said robbed a Valley National Bank of $10,000 last month. They also released photos of his getaway car. The robber approached a teller at the Valley National Bank on Hackensack Avenue just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday wearing a black watch cap, green jacket, and black gloves, with his face partially concealed by a gray cloth, authorities said at the time. "He demanded money from the teller and displayed an unknown object wrapped in black duct tape," Capt. Nicole Foley said. "The teller complied and placed approximately $10,000 cash in a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Owners Of Burned-Out Little Ferry Pizzeria Vow To Rebuild, Community Offers To Help Owners Of Burned-Out Little Ferry Pizzeria Vow To Rebuild, Community Offers To Help
Owners Of Burned-Out Little Ferry Pizzeria Vow To Rebuild, Community Offers To Help Nick and Joann Fytros had only recently bought Zio’s Pizza in Little Ferry, but their family restaurant quickly built a large and devoted customer base – many of whom were offering prayers and donations Thursday to help the couple recover from a crippling fire the night before. “We are beyond devasted,” Joann Fytros wrote in a Facebook morning post, “but as most of you know Nick is a fighter and will come back from this.” Fytros, an EMT with Moonachie First Aid & Rescue Squad, also asked for prayers for a family – a husband, wife, 17-year-old daughter and dog -- who were displaced after…

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by Jerry DeMarco