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North Williams Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

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Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope
Body Dumped Off Route 17? Nope A report of a body possibly dumped off Route 17 drew responders' attention around noontime Wednesday, but it turned out bogus, authorities said. A woman approached a Hasbrouck Heights police lieutenant on a traffic detail and said she'd seen what she thought was a suspicious incident near North Williams Avenue. Someone apparently had tossed a shopping bag near the train tracks off the highway. Social media being what it is, rumors grew of a possible body, so borough police summoned a Bergen County sheriff's K9. New Jersey Transit police also responded. It turned out to be "one of those pl…

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by Jerry DeMarco