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BRAVO! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran BRAVO! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran
Bravo! Fifth-Generation Police Officer From Mahwah Revives Stricken Opera Veteran LOCAL HERO: Veteran Metropolitan Opera singer Richard Bernstein was having chest pains when a fifth-generation police officer who’d only just hit the street in Mahwah responded to a call at his home. Then Bernstein stopped breathing. Turns out Officer Joseph Powderley got there just in time. The tenor of the situation became grave as the Grammy-winning father of three went into cardiac arrest, his face turning blue, in his master bedroom. Powderley placed Bernstein on the floor and began chest compressions, Mahwah Police Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. The officer then shocked him with a de…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Busted On Gun Charges After Bergen Nightclub Shooting Rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Busted On Gun Charges After Bergen Nightclub Shooting
Rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Busted On Gun Charges After Bergen Nightclub Shooting Popular rapper A Boogie wit da Hoodie, his manager and a bodyguard were busted after Bergen County prosecutor's detectives investigating a shooting outside a Teaneck nightclub reported finding four guns at the artist's Demarest home. The Bronx-born rapper, whose given name is Julius Dubose, wasn't involved in the shooting that sent an 18-year-old member of his entourage to the hospital as he was celebrating his 25th birthday at RAIN in Teaneck around midnight Monday, authorities said. Detectives were investigating the shooting when they went to Dubose's Pine Terrace home with NYPD investig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen Sheriff's Task Force Rounds Up 8 Defendants Who Skipped Court Bergen Sheriff's Task Force Rounds Up 8 Defendants Who Skipped Court
Bergen Sheriff's Task Force Rounds Up 8 Defendants Who Skipped Court A Fugitive Task Force assembled by Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton snatched up eight people wanted on warrants in one morning. Tuesday morning’s operation “included participation from 18 different agencies and resulted in multiple leads,” Cureton said Wednesday. All eight defendants taken into custody had skipped court appearances, he said. Adrian Gierek, 24, Oakland: burglary; Luz Lozada, 24, Lodi: accomplice liability; Joseph Crawford, 32, Hawthorne: burglary; Whelan Rapaikari, 26, Fort Lee: trespassing; Darrell Davis,36, Hackensack: drug dealing; Kristian Salmeron, 37, Garfield: …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hackensack Man Charged With Threatening To 'Murder' Police In 19+ Towns Hackensack Man Charged With Threatening To 'Murder' Police In 19+ Towns
Hackensack Man Charged With Threatening To 'Murder' Police In 19+ Towns HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A private building custodian from Hackensack called no fewer than 19 municipal police departments threatening to "murder" officers, said authorities who arrested him. Angel Sariol, 45, was being held in the Bergen County Jail, charged with making terroristic threats and causing a false public alarm. The calls were made this past Monday through Wednesday, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. "During many of these calls, the unknown caller stated that police officers from those towns would be murdered," Calo said, adding that Sariol "…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Nick Of Time: Demarest Officers Deliver Healthy Baby Girl In Home Nick Of Time: Demarest Officers Deliver Healthy Baby Girl In Home
Nick Of Time: Demarest Officers Deliver Healthy Baby Girl In Home DEMAREST, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Newly-born Gwen Hesketh and her parents had visitors Wednesday afternoon at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center: Two of the Demarest police officers who delivered her. Officers Michael Krynicky and Michael Bartellucci were reunited with Gwen and her parents, Nicholas and Kathryn Hesketh, hours after they helped bring the healthy newborn into the world at the family's Palisade Boulevard home. Lt. Liam Foley and the officers found the 31-year-old mother-to-be lying in pain on her side near a second-floor bathroom at 12:35 a.m. Wednesday, Police Chief James Powderl…

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by Jerry DeMarco