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Newly Minted Millionaire! North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big Newly Minted Millionaire! North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big
Newly Minted Millionaire! North Jersey Lotto Player Wins Big The Powerball drawing on Wednesday, July 19 produced some big winners. While no one in the Garden State took home the $1 billion jackpot, a ticket sold in Bergen County matched all five of the white balls drawn, winning $1 million. The ticket was sold at Metro Liquor on Broadway in Elmwood Park. The winning numbers were 07, 10, 11, 13 and 24 and the red Powerball number was 24.

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
DEAD END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft DEAD END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft
Dead END: Elmwood Park Police Capture Fleeing Driver After 7-Eleven Car Theft A Bronx man was captured by Elmwood Park police moments after he swiped a sedan from outside a local 7-Eleven early Wednesday, authorities said. Officers responding to the victim’s call spotted the 2016 Chrysler 200 turning off Broadway onto Mola Boulevard shortly before 1 a.m. May 17, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Jeffrey Ciman, 48, initially refused to stop but eventually pulled over and was taken into custody on dead-ended Iozia Terrace, the chief said. The sedan was returned to the victim, Foligno said. Ciman, meanwhile, was brought to headquarters, where the chief s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
7-Eleven Selling These 18 New Jersey Locations 7-Eleven Selling These 18 New Jersey Locations
7-Eleven Selling These 18 New Jersey Locations 7-Eleven Inc. is looking to sell or lease 73 of its stores, 18 of which are in New Jersey. NRC Realty & Capital Advisors LLC is helping with the process, having posted a list of all of the sites along with a bid deadline of Tuesday, Nov. 1. Some of the stores are some of the 3,800 Speedway stores that 7-Eleven purchased in May 2021. The New Jersey stores touting for sale signs are: Colonia, Saint Georges Avenue Scotch Plains, Park Avenue Newark, Broad Street Newark, Market Street Newark, Ferry Street Butler, Route 23 Elmwood Park, Broadway Holmdel, Route 35 Hackettstown, Main Street…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Firefighters Extricate Driver In Three-SUV Elmwood Park Crash Firefighters Extricate Driver In Three-SUV Elmwood Park Crash
Firefighters Extricate Driver In Three-suv Elmwood Park Crash Elmwood Park firefighters extricated a driver from an SUV that landed on its side after hitting two parked vehicles. Her rescuers worked in tandem to cut open the Honda CR-V after the early-morning crash Saturday outside the Elmwood Village apartments on Mola Boulevard off Broadway. She was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center with undetermined injuries. Aftermath on Mola Boulevard outside the Elmwood Village apartments off Broadway (Route 4) in Elmwood Park.Boyd A. Loving Her vehicle and one of the two struck SUVs -- a Honda CX-5 -- had to be towed from the scene. A Toyot…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! Ex-Con's Facebook, Instagram Pages Lead To Arrest In Lodi, Elmwood Park Armed Robberies GOTCHA! Ex-Con's Facebook, Instagram Pages Lead To Arrest In Lodi, Elmwood Park Armed Robberies
Gotcha! Ex-Con's Facebook, Instagram Pages Lead To Arrest In Lodi, Elmwood Park Armed Robberies His social profiles helped investigators identify a convicted armed robber as the gunman who they said held up a convenience store in Lodi and pistol-whipped a Chinese restaurant worker during another robbery in Elmwood Park. Michael Stuart, 48, used a revolver to rob a 7-Eleven on Route 46 in Lodi shortly before 2:30 a.m. on April 26, authorities charged. Using the same gun, car and clothing, Stuart held up the Garden China Restaurant on Broadway in Elmwood Park on May 10, exactly two weeks later, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. Stuart, most recently of East Oran…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
GOTCHA! Elmwood Park Bank Robber, 66, Wrote Holdup Note On Car Owner's Manual, Police Say GOTCHA! Elmwood Park Bank Robber, 66, Wrote Holdup Note On Car Owner's Manual, Police Say
Gotcha! Elmwood Park Bank Robber, 66, Wrote Holdup Note On Car Owner's Manual, Police Say An Elmwood Park bank robber wrote a holdup note on a page ripped from the owner’s manual of a stolen car, said authorities who captured him. James A. Lassiter, 66, of Paterson entered the Chase Bank branch in the Elmwood Park Center on Broadway the morning of Sept. 3 dressed in an all-white hooded sweatsuit, white sneakers, gloves, a facemask and sunglasses, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He passed a note and “repeatedly threatened to shoot the teller if she didn't comply," the chief said. She gave him all the cash in the drawer, "which wasn't much," he said. Two weeks ago, the FBI n…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White SEEN HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White
Seen HIM? Elmwood Park Bank Robbed By Bandit Dressed In White An Elmwood Park bank robber threatened to kill a teller three times before fleeing with cash Thursday morning, police confirmed. The 5-foot-7-inch African-American robber was wearing dressed all in white, with gloves, a facemask and sunglasses, when he entered the Chase Bank branch in the Elmwood Park Center on Broadway around 10 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He passed a note demanding money and didn't show a weapon but repeatedly "threatened to shoot the teller if she didn't comply," Foligno said following the holdup at  She gave him all the cash in the drawer, "which wasn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Acme Stores In Woodcliff Lake, Elmwood Park To Shutter Acme Stores In Woodcliff Lake, Elmwood Park To Shutter
Acme Stores In Woodcliff Lake, Elmwood Park To Shutter A pair of Bergen County Acme markets will shutter this fall, a company spokesperson said. The Woodcliff Lake (Chestnut Ridge Road) and Elmwood Park (Broadway) stores will shutter by Oct. 2, a company spokesperson told NJ.com. Two other stores in Weehawken and Scarsdale, N.Y. will also be closing around the same time, Acme spokeswoman Dana Ward told the media outlet. Acme closed its Park Ridge location in 2018, just three years after renewing the lease from a shuttered A&P. Its Bergenfield store also went out of business in 2017. No word yet on the stores' replacements.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Elmwood Park Detective Nabs Female Bank Robber From Teaneck, 22 Elmwood Park Detective Nabs Female Bank Robber From Teaneck, 22
Elmwood Park Detective Nabs Female Bank Robber From Teaneck, 22 An Elmwood Park detective nabbed a bank robber from Teaneck minutes after she fled with $331 from a Valley National branch on Friday, authorities said. Detective Michael Goldyn grabbed Gianna A. Baskerville, 22, as she headed west on Broadway away from the Elmwood Park bank, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Baskerville "passed a note to a teller stating she had a gun demanding money but did not display a weapon," Foligno said. She fled west with the cash but didn't get very far. Goldyn arrested Baskerville without incident, the chief said. Baskerville has an arrest history for offense…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Elmwood Park Police Identify Pedestrian Killed Crossing Route 4 Elmwood Park Police Identify Pedestrian Killed Crossing Route 4
Elmwood Park Police Identify Pedestrian Killed Crossing Route 4 Elmwood Park police on Sunday identified a pedestrian struck and killed Friday night on Broadway (Route 4) as a 47-year-old Paterson man. A family member identified Edier Lopez at the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office on Sunday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. "Our hearts and prayers go out to the family during this difficult time," the chief said.  Edier was struck by an eastbound 2014 Ford Explorer near the 7-Eleven and Orange Avenue around 10 p.m. Friday, Foligno said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the chief said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident…

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by Jerry DeMarco