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14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home 14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home
14,000 Heroin Folds, Crack, $7,500 Cash Seized In Raid On Paterson Couple's Home A drug-dealing Paterson couple ran a sizable street operation from their home, said police who seized 14,226 heroin folds, 190 vials of crack and $7,541 in proceeds during a raid. Ex-con Joaquin Bennett, 34, already had a criminal history, including involvement in what authorities said was a plot to kidnap a woman, keep her captive in a Paterson home and beat and rob her boyfriend at a Wayne motel. Bennett became a recent target of city detectives who’d received a tip about drug dealing from a single-family home on 19th Avenue, in a quiet East Side neighborhood off 34th Street, Public Safet…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NYPD: Hannukah Machete Attack Suspect Captured In Harlem NYPD: Hannukah Machete Attack Suspect Captured In Harlem
Nypd: Hannukah Machete Attack Suspect Captured In Harlem The NYPD identified the man accused of attacking five people with a machete during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home in Rockland County late Saturday night as a Greenwood Lake resident. City police said they arrested Thomas Grafton, 37, after identifying the license plate on his Nissan Sentra as it crossed the George Washington Bridge around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Officers David Radziwon and Giovanni Mattera stopped and arrested the Orange County resident on 144th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard (7th Avenue) in Harlem a short time later and held him for Ramapo police. Grafto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Authorities: Rabbi Father Of 7 Drowns Trying To Save Kids In Greenwood Lake Authorities: Rabbi Father Of 7 Drowns Trying To Save Kids In Greenwood Lake
Authorities: Rabbi Father Of 7 Drowns Trying To Save Kids In Greenwood Lake UPDATE: The body of a Ramapo rabbi who drowned trying to help two of his seven children into a boat on Greenwood Lake was recovered Monday, authorities said. Two children wearing life vests "were having difficulty getting into" a pontoon boat, so David Z. Traub jumped in just north of the Sportsmen's Marina at Lakeside Avenue in Hewitt on the New Jersey side, Greenwood Lake Police Chief John Hansen said. Traub, a 38-year-old Chestnut Ridge resident who led the school and synagogue at Bais Medrosh Elyon in Monsey, " got them into the boat safely with the assistance of another person...then w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Hawthorne PD: OD’d Driver Of Truck Parked On Sidewalk Claimed Toilet Water Was Urine Sample Hawthorne PD: OD’d Driver Of Truck Parked On Sidewalk Claimed Toilet Water Was Urine Sample
Hawthorne PD: OD’d Driver Of Truck Parked On Sidewalk Claimed Toilet Water Was Urine Sample A passed-out Greenwood Lake driver whose truck partially blocked a gas station entrance later scooped water from a toilet and claimed it was his urine sample, Hawthorne police charged. Officers responding to a call of an erratic driver found Patrick DiCola, 50, out cold behind the wheel of a 1987 Chevy Blazer parked on the sidewalk and partially in the station entrance, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. The motor was still running, he said. “It took several attempts for officers to awake the driver,” who, Hoogmoed said, “kept falling asleep mid-conversation.” DiCola said he’d taken he…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
West Milford PD: Detectives ID, Seize Supermarket Parking Lot Purse Snatcher West Milford PD: Detectives ID, Seize Supermarket Parking Lot Purse Snatcher
West Milford PD: Detectives ID, Seize Supermarket Parking Lot Purse Snatcher A West Milford detective tracked down and charged a 59-year-old Greenwood Lake man with knocking down a woman in the parking lot of a local supermarket when he tried to snatch her purse, authorities said. Detective Michael Malfetti got a huge assist from Greenwood Lake Detective Leanne Gayler in busting Robert Owens Jr. on attempted robbery charges. The victim was walking to the ShopRite off Marshall Hill Road after just parking when Owens pulled up alongside her the morning of Feb. 25 and asked where he could find Frank’s Pizza, Police Chief Timothy Storbeck said Thursday. As she turned t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Sports
Captain's Castle: Derek Jeter Lists Hudson Valley Estate For $14.75M Captain's Castle: Derek Jeter Lists Hudson Valley Estate For $14.75M
Captain's Castle: Derek Jeter Lists Hudson Valley Estate For $14.75M Yankees legend Derek Jeter is "all in" with his new position in baseball. As owner of the Miami Marlins, the former all-star shortstop has little time to be in the New York area these days. So the former Yankees' captain has put his lakefront Hudson Valley estate on the market, listed at $14,750,000. The six-bedroom, 12-bathroom gem is located in the Orange County village of Greenwood Lake, near the NY/NJ Appalachian Trail border, and a very manageable 40 miles from Yankee Stadium. But wait, there's more. It's anchored by a stunning castle and nestled on four acres of property,…

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by Joe Lombardi
Obituaries
Wayne Woman Outlived Doctors' Predictions By Nearly Two Decades Wayne Woman Outlived Doctors' Predictions By Nearly Two Decades
Wayne Woman Outlived Doctors' Predictions By Nearly Two Decades Emily Elizabeth Mulraney of Wayne died on Saturday, June 9. She was 21 years old. Emily was born with a congenital heart defect and as an infant doctors predicted she wouldn’t live beyond the age of two.  Alhough her condition had her in and out of hospitals over the years, she proved everyone wrong with her strong will and determination.  Whenever she was sick she always said, “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine, I always am." As such, she wanted to spend her life as a child life specialist to assist children in similar circumstances. Emily was artistically gifted and enjoyed doing voice-ov…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
SWEPT UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged SWEPT UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged
Swept UP: Paterson Heroin Gang, Bergen, Rockland, Orange Buyers Charged The ringleader and a crew of 16 members of a Paterson-based heroin ring tied to the Bloods street gang – along with 16 accused buyers from Bergen, Rockland and Orange counties -- were named in a sweeping indictment produced by a massive multi-agency investigation, New Jersey authorities said Thursday. The investigation targeted open-air drug dealing and gun violence controlled by a multi-layered ring in a section of the 4th Ward of Paterson known as the four corners -- or “4K” area – where Mercer, Putnam and Warren streets meet Rosa Parks Boulevard. Leading the “4K Bloods” – also known as t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
This West Milford Bar Owner Just Bought A Pirate Ship 'Because, Why Not?' This West Milford Bar Owner Just Bought A Pirate Ship 'Because, Why Not?'
This West Milford Bar Owner Just Bought A Pirate Ship 'Because, Why Not?' West Milford's Mark Palmieri knew just what his Greenwood Lake, N.Y. bar and restaurant needed. No, not more beer or pretty ladies -- but a pirate ship. Currently sitting on the water right outside of The Helm on Jersey Avenue. "Cause why not!" Palmier said on Facebook. Palmieri told NorthJersey.com a man from Thailand offered him $100,000 for the 55-foot boat he first saw on social media, but he suspects it's going to be worth much more than that one day. He is currently working on transforming the space into a "Martini-ville" -- bringing customers completely out of t…

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by Cecilia Levine