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Intruders Force Evacuation Of Northern Valley High School Intruders Force Evacuation Of Northern Valley High School
Intruders Force Evacuation Of Northern Valley High School Two 19-year-old French foreign exchange students forced the evacuation of Northern Valley High School at Old Tappan on Monday, authorities said. Both men were detained by a school security officer after they were found walking the hallways while school was in session the afternoon of March 25, Old Tappan Police Chief Joseph Tracy said. Students they knew had let the pair into the building through a side door, the chief said. The school went into a shelter-in-place as a precaution, with students and staff brought to the football field while Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 Units scoured the buil…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! Police From Neighboring Towns, Sheriff's K9 Help Hillsdale PD Nab Career Criminal GOTCHA! Police From Neighboring Towns, Sheriff's K9 Help Hillsdale PD Nab Career Criminal
Gotcha! Police From Neighboring Towns, Sheriff's K9 Help Hillsdale PD Nab Career Criminal Teamwork with their colleagues in neighboring Pascack Valley towns helped Hillsdale police capture a drug-addicted repeat offender as he fled yet another crime, authorities said. Ex-con Daniel Margulies, 32, of Teaneck bolted from the Walgreens at the Plaza at Hillsdale with several items late Sunday afternoon, Feb. 18, Officer Jordan Bruce reported. He made it to the train station when Bruce and Officer Sean Marro him moments later.The officers chased him down Broadway before Margulies began ducking through backyards, he said. To call Margulies “known to police” overstates the obviou…

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Practice Grenade Found In WWII Vet's Assisted Living Unit Brings Bergen Bomb Squad Practice Grenade Found In WWII Vet's Assisted Living Unit Brings Bergen Bomb Squad
Practice Grenade Found In WWII Vet's Assisted Living Unit Brings Bergen Bomb Squad A practice grenade found in the room of a retired World War II veteran at an assisted living facility in Cresskill on Thursday brought the Bergen County Bomb Squad. Staff at Sunrise Assisted Living alerted responders to the discovery among the third-floor resident’s possessions in Building 4 on Tenakill Park Drive East shortly before 3 p.m. July 13, Police Capt. Jason Lanzilotti said. Cresskill police, firefighters and EMS “coordinated and conducted precautionary evacuations of the 3rd floor while others further away were sheltered in place,” as were any non-ambulatory residents, the captai…

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GOTCHA! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After NJSP Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows GOTCHA! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After NJSP Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows
Gotcha! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After Njsp Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows UPDATE: A gun-carrying ex-con chased by State Police from the American Dream mall into the meadows off the New Jersey Turnpike on Labor Day was captured with help on the ground and in the air. A Lyndhurst police drone was in the air when a Bergen County sheriff's canine tracked down Sequan Watts, 25, of Brooklyn near the banks of the Hackensack River in East Rutherford around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 5, authorities said. NJSP trooper responding to an 8:04 p.m. report of a patron using counterfeit cash at a retail store in the mall spotted Watts, who took off on foot, Trooper II Charles March…

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SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ
Serial Caller: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Ramsey Police HQ A Midwest woman who once set fire to garbage bins outside a middle school -- and then contacted authorities to confess -- was charged this week with threatening to blow up Ramsey police headquarters. The threat by Amber Schadewald, 24, "led to a search of the building, parking lot and departmental and personal vehicles by Bergen County sheriff's bomb dogs" back in January, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. The subsequent investigation led to Schandewald, who "was believed to be in a group home in Minnesota at the time she made the threat," Lyman said Thursday. Schadewald has a history…

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'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police 'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police
'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police Two members of a vehicle theft ring out of Essex County told Cresskill police that they weren’t familiar with the area but “knew there were good cars here” after they were captured, authorities said. A resident flagged down a passing Cresskill officer around 3 a.m. Tuesday, saying that he’d seen the thieves in his car. Moments later, Sgt. Jeremy Luciano spotted a suspicious vehicle on a nearby side street, Detective John Birnie said. As the sergeant approached, he said, the driver hit the gas, nearly hitting a police cruiser driven by Officer Michael Polling as the vehicle sped off. The …

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Cross-County Stolen Car Chase From Mahwah Through Paramus Ends With Haworth Crash, Arrest Cross-County Stolen Car Chase From Mahwah Through Paramus Ends With Haworth Crash, Arrest
Cross-County Stolen Car Chase From Mahwah Through Paramus Ends With Haworth Crash, Arrest A pre-dawn cross-county pursuit Monday through nearly a dozen towns began in Mahwah, continued through Paramus and ended on a Haworth dead end street when the driver bailed out while the stolen car was moving. The 2014 Honda Accord slammed into a fire hydrant after grazing a cruiser driven by a Haworth police sergeant, who seized the passenger – a self-proclaimed gang member from Newark. The driver fled. It began when a Mahwah police officer began chasing the Honda -- reported stolen out of Linden -- shortly before 1:30 a.m. Monday on Route 287. Paramus Police Officer Michael Mordaga pick…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Masked ‘Ninja' Robber Attacks Wallington Gas Station Attendant With Huge Hammer Masked ‘Ninja' Robber Attacks Wallington Gas Station Attendant With Huge Hammer
Masked ‘Ninja' Robber Attacks Wallington Gas Station Attendant With Huge Hammer A masked robber dressed all in black “like a ninja” attacked a Wallington gas station attendant Tuesday morning with a huge hammer, injuring him and fleeing with what was believed to be a few hundred dollars, authorities said. Area surveillance cameras show the 20-something robber “pacing up and down Main Avenue with the mask on, carrying a hammer the size of an ax” around 7:40 a.m., Detective Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. “Either nobody saw anything or nobody said anything,” Kudlacik said. Eventually, the 6-foot-tall robber went into the Citgo station office, yanked the attendant from his ch…

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Wyckoff PD: Stoned Driver Bolts Across Rt 208, Found In Girlfriend's Trunk Wyckoff PD: Stoned Driver Bolts Across Rt 208, Found In Girlfriend's Trunk
Wyckoff PD: Stoned Driver Bolts Across Rt 208, Found In Girlfriend's Trunk A stoned driver stopped for driving erratically suddenly dashed across both lanes of Route 208 and was later picked up by his girlfriend, said Wyckoff police who found him hiding in her trunk. Officer Michael Flim stopped a black Trailblazer with New York license plates on the southbound side of the highway after the driver “appeared to have difficulty keeping the vehicle within its lane of travel,” Lt. Joseph Soto. The driver, 34-year-old Gibran Freytes Bautista of Philadelphia, admitted smoking pot before getting behind the wheel, prompting a search of the SUV, Soto said. As Flim looked …

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Teaneck PD: Holiday-Detail Officer Finds THC, Pot, Oxy In Speeding Stop Teaneck PD: Holiday-Detail Officer Finds THC, Pot, Oxy In Speeding Stop
Teaneck PD: Holiday-Detail Officer Finds THC, Pot, Oxy In Speeding Stop TEANECK, N.J. – Teaneck police who stopped a car doing nearly 75 miles an hour on eastbound Route 4 found 13 THC vape cartridges, five ounces of pot, 30 Oxycodone pills and several THC gummies, authorities said. Ex-con Ohmarie Z. Chambers, 38, of Haledon and Anthony C. Adams, 32, of Englewood were arrested just after 2 a.m. Saturday by Officer James Lynch, who was assigned to the 2017 year-end “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” holiday crackdown, Police Chief Glenn M. O’Reilly said. The drugs were seized, along with $6,000 in suspected proceeds that the chief said was found on Chambers -- who…

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