Bergen Prosecutor: 5 Chinese Nationals, 2 Others Nabbed With 81 Pounds Of Pot, 6,000 THC Vapes Bergen Prosecutor: 5 Chinese Nationals, 2 Others Nabbed With 81 Pounds Of Pot, 6,000 THC Vapes
Bergen Prosecutor: 5 Chinese Nationals, 2 Others Nabbed With 81 Pounds Of Pot, 6,000 THC Vapes Bergen County prosecutors detectives seized 81 pounds of marijuana and 6,000 THC oil vape cartridges worth a combined $500,000 on the street while arresting seven suspects from New York in Fort Lee. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Narcotic Task Force “received information that several individuals were involved in the distribution of large quantities of marijuana and THC hash oil vaporizer cartridges in New York City and Bergen County.” They arrested seven of them, all from New York, with help from Fort Lee police and a Bergen County Regional SWAT team, the prosecutor said. F…
Rochelle Park PD: NYC Party-Goer Caught Burglarizing Home Next Door Says He Sought Car Keys Rochelle Park PD: NYC Party-Goer Caught Burglarizing Home Next Door Says He Sought Car Keys
Rochelle Park PD: NYC Party-Goer Caught Burglarizing Home Next Door Says He Sought Car Keys A New York man attending a party in Rochelle Park tore a screen from a neighbor's window, climbed into her house and stole a watch and cash, then told police who caught him that he was trying to find his car keys, authorities said. Detectives reviewing surveillance video from a nearby house saw Carlos Allaico, 18, break into the Colling Avenue home on Saturday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. Allaico claimed he "wanted to leave to go back to NYC and was searching for car keys," DePreta said. Allaico was charged with burglary, theft, criminal mischief, and possession of marijuana and rel…
Paramus Police Pursuit: Car Thieves Left Ski-Masked Partner Behind Paramus Police Pursuit: Car Thieves Left Ski-Masked Partner Behind
Paramus Police Pursuit: Car Thieves Left Ski-Masked Partner Behind Two masked car thieves approached by police in a Paramus neighborhood in the middle of the night left behind their partner, who was arrested while they eluded pursuing officers, authorities said. Police began searching for a black Range Rover after a Route 17 Exxon station attendant said they stole gas just after 3 a.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. They got another call just before 4 a.m. of two occupants from a similar vehicle walking through residents’ driveways on Highland Avenue, he said. Officer William Stallone found the parked Range Rover – which had been reported …
Police: Oakland Dad Arrested After Bringing Son, 4, To Court While High Police: Oakland Dad Arrested After Bringing Son, 4, To Court While High
Police: Oakland Dad Arrested After Bringing Son, 4, To Court While High Oakland police arrested a local dad who they said brought his 4-year-old son to court with him to answer drug-related charges while he was high. Jared Spingler, 37, was "heavily under the influence" of some type of narcotic when Officers Jonathan Coleman and Bryan Rowin found him sitting in Municipal Court with his son last Thursday, Lt. Christian Eldridge said. They arrested Spingler on charges of child endangerment and driving while under the influence of drugs, he said. Spingler, his now-ex-wife and their son were featured in news stories after the boy beat cancer in 2015, just before h…
Haworth PD: Out-Of-State Uber Driver Had Illegal BB Gun Stashed Under Seat Haworth PD: Out-Of-State Uber Driver Had Illegal BB Gun Stashed Under Seat
Haworth PD: Out-Of-State Uber Driver Had Illegal BB Gun Stashed Under Seat Haworth police charged an Uber driver with weapons offenses after finding a BB gun that resembled the real thing in her car, authorities said Friday. Officer Kevin McKeary stopped a car driven by 23-year-old Karleen C. Rodriguez of Yonkers on Schraalenburgh Road for several motor vehicle violations, Detective Sgt. Justin Fox said. Smelling the odor of burning marijuana, he searched the vehicle, where he found the weapon stashed under the passenger seat, Fox said. Rodriguez couldn't explain why she had the weapon, which New Jersey requires a gun permit to purchase, the sergeant said. She w…
New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More
New Milford PD: Essex Car Thieves Busted With Ski Masks, Counterfeit Cash, More A trio of Essex County 18-year-olds suspected in local car thefts were grabbed by New Milford police with ski masks, mechanics’ gloves, stolen bank checks and counterfeit money in their car before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Officer Samuel Gerais smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle after he stopped it on New Bridge Road a minute after midnight, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The three apparently had been cruising the area, looking for cars to steal, he said. Backup Officers Mark O’Brien, Vincent Siekierski and Andrew Lignos found pot along with the other items in the car, …
Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released
Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released Fighting the recent rash of nationwide postal box thefts, Rochelle Park detectives said they nabbed a man who deposited a check swiped from a burglarized postal box. As with nearly all of the recent area arrests in these types of cases, the defendant is from Paterson. It began In late November 2018, when two boxes outside the borough post office on Rochelle Avenue were broken into and several pieces of mail stolen – particularly checks, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. Last month, a resident told police a check sent to her credit card company never arrived, DePreta said. Investigators w…
Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again
Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again Only a month after he was busted with more than $650 in counterfeit $10 and $20 bills in Haworth, a Fairview man was caught by an Oakland detective with what authorities said was nearly $1,000 in bogus bills -- along with recent purchase receipts from several area stores.Andrew Lochard, 29, has a criminal record that also includes arrests in 2017 on forgery and money laundering charges in Hillsdale and falsely claiming to have a bomb in Paramus. JB Pet Supply summoned Oakland police Monday after Lochard tried passing a phony $20 bill, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. Soon after, Eldri…
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation A suicide call led New Milford police to a pot-growing operation in the basement of a local home. Officers were originally called to do a welfare check on a woman at a River Road home, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The woman answered the door -- not telling police that she was the one who made the call -- then directed them to the basement. There they found her brother, 48-year-old Victor A. Collado, and “detected an odor of raw marijuana,” Van Saders said. On a table in plain view was pot, the lieutenant said. Collado admitted growing the weed, then showed the officers “a climate…
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest A Polish national had roughly $3,000 worth of cocaine for sale in his Wallington home, said authorities who arrested him. Arkadiusz Krupinski, 30, “became a target after detectives received a tip that he was selling cocaine from his Anderson Avenue home,” Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Besides the cocaine, detectives seized nearly $1,700 in drug proceeds during a warranted raid on Saturday involving a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team and a county sheriff’s K-9 unit, Kudlacik said. A judge ordered Krupinski’s release on Tuesday, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, after two days in the Ber…
Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In
Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In One burglar claimed he’d been carjacked while another fought furiously with police who chased him down after the pair broke into a Wayne home and stole a TV, jewelry and watches, authorities said. Area schools were locked down after a neighbor reported the Sherwood Street burglary just before noon Friday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Off-duty Detective Mike Polifrone was leaving an extra-duty assignment when he spotted the burglars’ fleeing car and pulled it over on Alps Road at McDonald Drive, Martin said. In the back seat of the beige Honda Accord he saw a Vizio TV. The lone oc…
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Fort Lee police cracked a rash of vehicle burglaries and thefts by seizing seven Hudson County teens – three of them 16 and one 15, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 17 break-ins and four outright thefts of automobiles were reported over a 10-day span in August in Fort Lee alone, Capt. Matthew Hintze said, adding that others were reported in neighboring Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Leonia. Blame key fobs, he said. “Although this technology has added a level of convenience, it has also created opportunities for criminals to burglarize and steal vehicles without hav…