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Police & Fire
Residents Home When Back-Door Burglars Steal Wallets, Fobs, New BMWs: Glen Rock PD
Residents were home when burglars broke in through a back window, snatched their key fobs and wallets and sped off with two new SUVs, police in Glen Rock said. The fobs were hanging on hooks near the front door and the wallets were found nearby, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said of the 6 a.m. break-in on Greenway Road. The burglars drove the 2024 BMW X5 and 2023 BMW X1 taken from the driveway towards Lincoln Avenue and were tracked on southbound Route 20 into Newark, the chief said. Moments later, they tried to use the resident’s credit card at a gas station on McCarter Boulevard, he said. …
Police & Fire
Police Were Justified Killing Fugitive Who Shot Woman In Elmwood Park, Grand Jury Finds
UPDATE: Police were justified in killing an armed ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park, a grand jury has found. James Allandale, 61, immediately opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook on Route 46 in Montville this past New Year's Eve. He was shot and killed in the exchange of gunfire. Allandale -- whose real name is James Allan -- became the target of an intense manhunt after he shot Cynthia Greco of New Milford at 113 Lincoln Avenue shortly before 5:30 p.m. Dec. 27, 2022. The home is owned by Allandale's girlfriend, Lisa Dolack, who …
Police & Fire
Teen Driver, Passenger Switch Seats In Moving Vehicle During Clifton Pursuit
Two teenage drivers switched seats in a stolen vehicle while it was moving in a Clifton police pursuit, authorities said. Officer Mohammed Rayyan was on patrol on northbound Route 21 when he began following the 2018 Hyundai occupied by three juveniles shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 14, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The vehicle had been reported stolen out of Passaic days earlier, he said. The teens made it to Paterson, where "the driver and front seat passenger switched positions while the vehicle was continuing in motion," Bracken said. The driver then sped off and a pursuit b…
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Girlfriend Of Fugitive Elmwood Park Shooter Didn't Originally Know His Violent Past: Neighbors
UPDATE: The death of fugitive James Allandale during an exchange of gunfire with police at a Route 46 motel came days after his girlfriend -- whose friend he'd shot -- made a public plea to “end this nightmare.” Lisa Dolack included the police wanted poster while asking folks on Facebook to help authorities track down and capture ex-con James Allandale. “I am pleading to all my friends, please post on your page this below. We need to end this nightmare! please copy and paste," she wrote on Thursday, Dec. 29. "Flood Facebook today with this please help me.” Allandale, 61, who police said s…
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: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …
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Heart
Stopper
: Suicidal Girl, 15, Loses Footing Atop North Jersey Bridge, Caught By Responders
HEROES: Traffic whizzed below as a troubled 15-year-old lost her footing and appeared about to fall from a bridge between Elmwood Park and Paterson. The distraught girl had somehow wiggled past a chain-link fence, leaving nothing between her and Route 20 nearly 40 feet below, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. What followed next around 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, was “extremely nerve-racking,” the chief said. “We thought we were going to lose her.” (story continues below) ****** UPDATE: Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno is asking the state DOT to block access to the led…
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Fleeing Driver Crashes At Route 208 Entrance: Passaic County Sheriff
A reckless driver led Passaic County sheriff's officers on a pursuit that ended in a crash at a Route 208 on-ramp. Officers spotted the Audi sedan with New York plates being driven recklessly "without regard to any other vehicles or pedestrian on or near the road" in the area of Route 20 and Maple Avenue in Paterson shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said. Officers pursued the sedan less than a mile to the entrance to northbound Route 208 in Fair Lawn, where it crashed, the sheriff said. The seized the driver, Tylee Leon Blunt, 22, of the Bronx, he said.…
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Clifton Officer Struck On Highway, Fleeing DWI Motorist Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon
A driver was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he hit a Clifton police officer with his car on the shoulder of a highway and then led a pursuit that ended in a crash, authorities said. Officer George Balkjy had stopped a motorcycle on northbound Route 21 near Route 46 around 7 a.m. Tuesday when Luis Villalba, 21, of Paterson tried to pass bottlenecked traffic on the shoulder, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Balkjy stopped the vehicle and was approaching the driver's side when Villalba hit the gas and swerved toward the officer, hitting him in the arm and leg, Bra…
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Motorcyclist Killed In Route 20 Crash
A motorcyclist was ejected and killed overnight in a crash with at least one other vehicle on a stretch of Route 20 in Paterson, authorities said. Initial details were sparse other than that the crash occurred outside the Lowe's on the northbound side of McLean Boulevard shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday, April 16, and that the victim was pronounced dead at the scene soon after. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes was expected to provide further details. CHECK BACK WITH US
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Road
Rage
: NYC Man Charged With Shooting NJ Driver Off Route 80 Captured By State Police, Feds
GOTCHA! A broad-daylight road-rage shooting on Route 80 led to the capture of a Manhattan man by federal marshals and New Jersey State Police, authorities said. Lamont Griffin, 22, opened fire and struck the 39-year-old driver from Newark twice in the area of Route 20 off the eastbound highway around 3:30 p.m. March 2, they said. The wounded victim was taken in a private vehicle to the A+ Urgent Care treatment center in Clifton before being transferred to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick…
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Wayne Mechanic, 23, Indicted In Crash Death Of Paterson Motorist
A 23-year-old mechanic from Wayne was indicted on death by auto and vehicular homicide charges for a crash last summer that killed a Paterson man, authorities announced. Asante Cugliari was drunk and under the influence of pot when he sped through a stop sign and his Hyundai Genesis T-boned a Dodge Charger near the 10th Avenue circle at Route 20 shortly before 10 p.m. Aug. 9, the indictment returned in Paterson alleges. The Charger driver, Gustavo Marte, 58, was killed instantly, it says. Surveillance footage showed Cugliari racing down East 26th Street before his sedan slammed into the Ch…
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: Driver Tosses Pistol During Police Pursuit That Ends In Paterson Crash
The fleeing driver of a vehicle that crashed into two others in Paterson during a pre-dawn New Jersey State Police chase Sunday tossed a gun out the window, authorities said. The occupant of one of the struck vehicles was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening following the crash at 10th Avenue and East 24th Street around 2 a.m., responders said. The other vehicle that was hit was parked, they said. Along the way, the driver tossed a bag on northbound Route 20, police said. Inside the bag was a 9mm Ruger that troopers recovered, they said. The driver was tak…
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Driver, 20, Charged In Wrong-Way Route 20 Paterson Crash That Killed Passenger, 22
UPDATE: A 20-year-old wrong-way driver was charged in a head-on predawn crash on Route 20 in Paterson that killed his 22-year-old passenger. City resident Dwayne Smalls was driving a 2019 Kia Forte north in the southbound lanes of the highway when it collided with a 2016 Honda Accord driven by a 63-year-old Fair Lawn man at 17th Avenue shortly before 5 a.m. Feb. 24, authorities said. The Accord was then struck by a 2010 Ford Escape driven by a Hawthorne woman, they said. Critically injured in the crash was Marquise Samuels, also of Paterson, who died three days later at St. Joseph’s Region…
Police & Fire
Armed Robbers Nabbed After Stolen Car Chase From Paterson To Newark Ends In Crash, Police Say
A police chase from Paterson to Newark ended with the arrests of three armed robbers after they crashed a stolen SUV on Route 21, authorities said. Detectives Yamil Pimienta and Mohammad Bashir stopped the Mazda CX5 – reported stolen out of Jersey City – near the corner of 10th Avenue and East 24th Street shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. They’d gotten out and were approaching the vehicle when the driver first backed up a bit and then hit the gas and sped away, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. The detectives chased the SUV through Clifton and Passaic on southbound Route 20, then …
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Four Victims Wounded By Gunfire In Paterson During First Hours Of 2021
It didn't take long: Paterson's first shootings of the new year left four people injured. Three victims in a gas station shooting all arrived at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center via private vehicle around 2 a.m., authorities said. The three men – one 28 and another 25, from Paterson, and a 26-year-old Orange resident – were wounded at an Exxon station across from the Lowe's on southbound Route 20, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Deputy Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. All were in stable condition, they said. They weren’t Paterso…
Police & Fire
Motorcyclist Killed After Collision With Car On Route 20 In Paterson
A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a sedan on southbound Route 20 in Paterson early Saturday evening, authorities said. Miguel Soto, 30, of Paterson was pronounced dead a half hour after his 2008 Honda CBR made contact with a 2008 Acura MDX driven by a 70-year-old Wayne man and spun out near Park Avenue, authorities said Sunday. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes asked that anyone who might have seen the incident contact her office’s tips line at 1-877-370-PCPO or tips@passaiccountynj.org. Or contact the Paterson Police Department Traffic Division at (973) 321-1112.
Police & Fire
Death Of Paterson Man, 39, In Crash Shakes Loved Ones, Friends
Loved ones and friends remained stunned and shaken Thursday as news continued to spread of a Paterson man’s death in a crash on Route 20. Dane Johnson, 39, was alone when his Dodge Caravan left the road and hit a utility pole near East 33rd Street just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said. “Dane was a class act both on and off of the field,” wrote Pepe Aragon, Johnson’s soccer coach at Herkimer Community College in upstate New York. “He was a true friend who always asked how family was doing.” “Great times we shared will always be etched in my heart,” added author Garold Gee Hamilto…
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SEE
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? Shots Fired From One Car At Another On Route 46 In Clifton, Witnesses Sought
Several shots were fired from one car at another on Route 46 in Clifton, said authorities who sought the public’s help Wednesday identifying the vehicle. The shooter unloaded sometime between noon and 2 p.m. Monday in the westbound stretch between Routes 20 and 21, authorities said. No injuries were reported, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Mark Centurione said in a joint release. They asked that anyone who saw something or has information that could help investigators use the prosecutor’s tips line at 1-877-370-PCPO or tips@passaiccountynj.org or call …
Police & Fire
Authorities ID Victim Of Single-Car Crash In Paterson
The driver of a BMW killed when he was ejected in an overnight Route 20 crash Thursday was identified Friday as 25-year-old Naje Mack of Passaic. Mack was pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:30 a.m. crash on the southbound highway near Park and 17th avenue after the Beamer hit the divider, flipped over and ejected him, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release. Anyone who might have witnessed the crash is asked to contact the prosecutor's office at 1-877-370-PCPO or tips@passaiccountynj.org or the Paterson Police Traffic Divi…
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