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HERO: Firefighter Seriously Injured Rescuing Guest Through Window In Elmwood Park Motel Blaze HERO: Firefighter Seriously Injured Rescuing Guest Through Window In Elmwood Park Motel Blaze
Hero: Firefighter Seriously Injured Rescuing Guest Through Window In Elmwood Park Motel Blaze 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: An Elmwood Park firefighter was seriously injured rescuing a trapped guest through a second-floor window during an intense motel-room fire Wednesday. The firefighter and her colleagues had smashed the window to get to the victim during the late-morning June 12 blaze at the Townhouse Inn and Suites on eastbound Route 46, Elmwood Park Borough Administrator Michael Foligno said. In doing so, she sustained a serious cut to her arm, Foligno said. Piero Fasolo The guest was helped out the window and down a ladder, he said. Both were taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Cente…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HIGHWAY ROBBERIES: Masked Trio Terrorizes NJ Gas Station Attendants In Three Counties HIGHWAY ROBBERIES: Masked Trio Terrorizes NJ Gas Station Attendants In Three Counties
Highway Robberies: Masked Trio Terrorizes NJ Gas Station Attendants In Three Counties A trio of armed robbers terrorized gas station attendants in several North Jersey towns overnight Tuesday, taking cash and valuables at gunpoint, authorities confirmed. Information was still coming in as this story was being written. At this point, however, the same three masked bandits are believed responsible for armed robberies in Montclair, at an Exxon station on Route 46 in Elmwood Park and at an Exxon/Tiger Mart on 21st Avenue in Paterson before dawn June 13. They were also tied to a failed holdup at a Wawa in Garfield. Authorities believe the three black suspects dressed all in blac…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ICE Looks To Deport Stolen Car Passenger, 22, After Montvale Pursuit, Elmwood Park Crash ICE Looks To Deport Stolen Car Passenger, 22, After Montvale Pursuit, Elmwood Park Crash
ICE Looks To Deport Stolen Car Passenger, 22, After Montvale Pursuit, Elmwood Park Crash A stolen vehicle pursuit that began in Montvale ended in a crash and the arrests of two occupants at a Garden State Parkway exit ramp in Elmwood Park. Police began pursuing the Range Rover, which had been reported stolen out of Saddle River, on Chestnut Ridge Road around 5 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, Montvale Police Chief Doug McDowell said. The vehicle crashed at Exit 157 onto Route 46 off the southbound Parkway 15 or so minutes later. The driver, Raidis A. Santos Tejada, 19, of Newark was trapped in the car and taken at gunpoint, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. The passen…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Another Arrest Made In String Of Bergen County Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies Another Arrest Made In String Of Bergen County Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies
Another Arrest Made In String Of Bergen County Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies Bergen County detectives have nabbed another Bronx man who they said is responsible for a string of gas station and convenience store robberies -- thanks once again, in part, to social media. Genaro Collado, 19, is charged with robbing Exxon stations in Englewood and Ridgefield Park and 7-Elevens in Elmwood Park and Rochelle Park earlier this year. Collado was with co-defendant Daniel Perez, 20, when Perez put a gun to the head of a clerk at the Exxon gas station on eastbound Route 4 in Englewood and ordered him to open the cash register shortly after 3:30 a.m. Jan. 6, authorities said. Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! Prosecutor's Detectives Charge NYC Man, 20, With Three Bergen County Holdups GOTCHA! Prosecutor's Detectives Charge NYC Man, 20, With Three Bergen County Holdups
Gotcha! Prosecutor's Detectives Charge NYC Man, 20, With Three Bergen County Holdups Social media helped cinch charges against a Bronx man who authorities said robbed a Route 4 gas station attendant in Englewood and was among a gang of four that held up 7-Elevens in Elmwood Park and Rochelle Park earlier this year. Daniel Perez, 20, and another robber who put a gun to the head of a clerk at the Exxon station on eastbound Route 4 near the George Washington Bridge made off with $300 in cash shortly after 3:30 a.m. Jan. 6, Bergen County prosecutor's investigators said. Peres was seen in social media posts wearing the same jacket, boots and distinctive black-framed glasses as o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Broken Leg Suffered By Route 46 Pedestrian Struck By Pickup Broken Leg Suffered By Route 46 Pedestrian Struck By Pickup
Broken Leg Suffered By Route 46 Pedestrian Struck By Pickup A pedestrian suffered a broken leg when he was struck by a pickup truck before dawn Monday on Route 46 in Elmwood Park, authorities said. The 51-year-old victim from Paterson was crossing the highway at Mola Boulevard when he was hit by a 2008 Dodge Ram shortly after 5:30 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was taken to St. Joseph's with the broken femur and a cut lip, the chief said. Any summonses or charges against the 60-year-old driver from Riverdale were pending the results of an investigation, he said. 

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store
Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store UPDATE: Once considered one of the top high school football prospects in the country, a now-34-year-old Paterson man was charged with Friday's strong-armed robbery of cellphones from an Elmwood Park Verizon store. Chenry Lewis was arrested Saturday after he returned to the Route 46 store, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Then he smiled for his mugshot. The night before, Lewis used force to flee with the phones, turning what began as a snatch-and-run into a robbery, the chief said. Authorities have "no idea" why Lewis went back, Foligno said. He remained held Sunday in the Bergen C…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Elmwood Park Gas Station Sells $50,000 Lottery Ticket Elmwood Park Gas Station Sells $50,000 Lottery Ticket
Elmwood Park Gas Station Sells $50,000 Lottery Ticket A winning New Jersey Lottery ticket worth $50,000 was sold at a Bergen County gas station. The ticket from Saturday's drawing was purchased at the BP on Route 46 in Elmwood Park. If that ticket had been purchased with Power Play, it would have multiplied the prize to $100,000. The winning numbers were: 01, 21, 31, 45 and 49. The Red Power Ball number was 21. The Multiplier number was 02. The Powerball jackpot rolls to $60,000,000 for the next drawing to be held Wednesday, May 30 at 10:59 p.m.

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by Cecilia Levine