Wallington police identified and arrested an accused masked robber who they said viciously beat a gas station attendant with a huge hammer while taking $300.George Marcelino-Perez, 24, of Passaic was the bandit caught on surveillance video dressed all in black “like a ninja” and pacing up and down Main Avenue with a mask Tuesday morning before attacking the attendant in the Citgo ...

One person sustained what were characterized as minor injuries after a Hawthorne ambulance got knocked on its side by an SUV in a late Friday night crash.Three people inside the Hawthorne Volunteer Ambulance Corps rig had to be removed and taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center after the crash at Goffle Road and Lafayette Avenue.Another responder was behind the wheel of the SUV, ...

A drunk Allendale driver who registered nearly four times the legal blood-alcohol limit made it to work in Rochelle Park – after hitting four other vehicles in the parking lot of his building, authorities said.Officer Joseph Buono, a rookie officer on one of his first patrol tours behind the wheel, searched the West Passaic Avenue office building following Monday’s 9:40 a.m. call, Sgt. ...

Bergen County cyber crimes detectives arrested a jeweler from West New York who they said was trafficking child porn online.A judge ordered Sezcan Gonturk, a 32-year-old Turkish national, released under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law after a detention hearing last Friday, a day after his arrest.Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said his Cyber Crimes Unit found Gonturk with ...

UPDATE: A fire that began in a crawl space and eventually destroyed a Fort Lee apartment building Thursday night didn’t claim any lives, produced three minor injuries and didn’t appear suspicious, authorities announced. Several measures were being taken to assist the victims, they said.“The Red Cross, New Jersey State Police Office of Emergency Management and Fort Lee Office of ...

A tech consultant used a Hackensack company's money to buy $200,000 worth of cellphones that he then sold on eBay, authorities charged.Michael Acosta, 34, of North Bergen used his position in the company to buy more than 400 phones without authorization from its service provider between October 2015 and September 2018, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday.He “later ...

In one of the most frustrating of coincidences, Route 17 on Friday afternoon was closed in both directions again after a tractor-trailer got tangled in utility wires in Ramsey -- dangling them over the highway and requiring that poles be replaced like they were during a traffic nightmare two weeks ago.The UPS rig was pulling out of the northbound side's Quick Chek when it snagged ...

A burglar who fled a Rochelle Park couple's home after waking them became an easy grab for police when he mistook a police vehicle for a Lyft ride, authorities said.The sound of someone trying to open their rear porch door awoke the Catherine Street couple around 10 p.m. Thursday, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said.Moments later, they found 28-year-old Nicholas Maziot, who'd climbed ...

Englewood police on Friday released surveillance video of a man they believe is the "calm and composed" robber who fled with an undisclosed amount of cash from a local bank earlier this month.City detectives worked with the FBI were to review “a multitude of surveillance video sources,” to produce the one released Friday, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said.The robber, “possibly armed ...

Two schoolchildren and an adult were hospitalized after a crash in Mahwah Friday morning, authorities said.A Toyota Rav IV was making a left onto Ridge Road from Lydia Lane in Ramapo Ridge when it struck by a Lincoln sedan heading south around 8 a.m., Police Chief James A. Batelli said.The female Rav IV’s driver had her son and daughter in the back seat, Batelli said. All were wearing ...