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Services Set For Bergen Catholic Alum Cyrus Ashtyani Killed In Crash Services Set For Bergen Catholic Alum Cyrus Ashtyani Killed In Crash
Services Set For Bergen Catholic Alum Cyrus Ashtyani Killed In Crash A funeral was held Thursday, June 21 for Cyrus John Ashtyani of Montvale, who died on June 15 in a Woodcliff Lake motorcycle accident. He was 21 years old. Interment was at George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.  Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Born and raised in Montvale, Cyrus attended the Montvale elementary schools. He attended Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey and graduated from Bergen Catholic High Schoo…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Kills Montvale Motorcyclist, 21 GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Kills Montvale Motorcyclist, 21
GSP Crash In Woodcliff Lake Kills Montvale Motorcyclist, 21 A 21-year-old Fort Lee native who lived in Montvale and worked in Emerson was killed in a motorcycle crash Friday night on the southbound Garden State Parkway in Woodcliff Lake, State Police confirmed. Cyrus Ashtyani, a Bergen Catholic graduate who worked as an Internet sales consultant at Liberty Subaru, was heading south when he lost control of his Yamaha R6 at milepost 169.6, NJ State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. “It struck a guardrail, overturned and went into center median, ejecting him,” Goez said. Ashtyani was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where he was pronounced…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Ridgefield Ex-Con Admits 3-State Rampage That Ended In GWB Crash Ridgefield Ex-Con Admits 3-State Rampage That Ended In GWB Crash
Ridgefield Ex-Con Admits 3-State Rampage That Ended In GWB Crash FORT LEE, N.J. -- A career criminal on Thursday admitted going on a three-state rampage in which he kidnapped and raped his ex-girlfriend in Pennsylvania, torched a used car dealership in Paterson and crashed a stolen SUV at each end of the George Washington Bridge. Under the terms of a deal with the government, Luis Figueroa, 37, pleaded guilty on Thursday to several counts of a federal grand jury indictment in exchange for a 26-year prison sentence: kidnapping; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; assaulting an employee of the United States; arson. Figueroa – who had addresses i…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: Teaneck Man Who Shot Englewood Pair Aimed At 2 More, Gun Jammed Prosecutor: Teaneck Man Who Shot Englewood Pair Aimed At 2 More, Gun Jammed
Prosecutor: Teaneck Man Who Shot Englewood Pair Aimed At 2 More, Gun Jammed ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A Teaneck man who led police on a more than 15-mile chase after shooting a couple in Englewood tried to shoot two other people, but his handgun jammed, authorities said Friday. Odari Green, 37, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending further court action on charges of attempted murder, armed robbery, carjacking, child endangerment and weapons offenses. Green shot a man and woman at a home in the 200 block of West Palisade Ave. around 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Cent…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
FOUND! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found FOUND! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found
Found! Missing Ramsey Woman With Alzheimer's, 71, Found RAMSEY, N.J. -- A MISSING 71-year-old Ramsey woman with Alzheimer's who went missing from a local shopping center early Wednesday evening was found a couple of hours later, authorities said. An NJ State Police helicopter was en route when Selma Rowe was found in Finch Park. She'd been reported missing from the Interstate Shopping Center off southbound Route 17 and Franklin Turnpike -- which has a Shop-Rite, Bed Bath & Beyond and DSW, among other stores -- a couple of blocks from the park.

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by Jerry DeMarco