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Hackensack PD: Pedestrian, 76, Struck, Killed By Pickup, Landscaping Trailer
A 76-year-old Hackensack pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday night.
Carol Ventura, a North Bergen native who lived on Prospect Avenue, was in the crosswalk when she was struck by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck that was turning from southbound Summit Avenue onto eastbound Passaic Street shortly after 8:30 p.m., police Capt. Nicole Foley said.
"After being hit, she was subsequently run over by a westbound landscaping truck’s trailer," Foley said.
Ventura was pronounced dead a short time later at Hackensack University Medical Center.
The pickup truck driver, 42, of Rochelle Park, told…
Hackensack Pedestrian, 76, Struck, Killed
A 76-year-old Hackensack pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday night.
Carol Ventura, a North Bergen native who lived on Prospect Avenue, was in the crosswalk when she was struck by a 2021 Dodge Ram pickup truck that was turning from southbound Summit Avenue onto eastbound Passaic Street shortly after 8:30 p.m., police Capt. Nicole Foley said.
"After being hit, she was subsequently run over by a westbound landscaping truck’s trailer," Foley said.
Ventura was pronounced dead a short time later at Hackensack University Medical Center.
The pickup truck driver, 42, of Rochelle Park, told…
Hackensack PD Raids Apartment, Seizes 461 Heroin Folds, Oxy, Cash, Ex-Con
Hackensack police raided an ex-con’s apartment Friday and seized 461 heroin folds, 82 Oxycodone pills, pot and $1,170 in drug proceeds, authorities said.
Cyrus Maurice Hammond, 27, had been dealing in the neighborhood of mid-rise and garden apartment buildings near Hackensack High School and Carver Park, Capt. Darrin DeWitt said.
Records show that the unemployed Hammond already had a history of drug-related arrests and convictions in Hackensack and Englewood.
Thanks to the work of Narcotics Detective Nart Marza, police raided the Quail Heights apartment on Prospect Avenue, turned up …
Hackensack PD: Police Flood Neighborhood, Capture Fleeing NYC Parolees
Hackensack police grabbed two Brooklyn parolees who tried to flee a Monday afternoon traffic stop, authorities said.
Narcotics detectives smelled raw pot after stopping their vehicle at the corner of Prospect and Poplar avenues shortly after 2:30 p.m., Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said.
The driver, Marquis Fleming, 24, at first complied with investigators and got out of the car, DeWitt said.
Suddenly, his passenger – identified as 27-year-old Gerald Russell – took off on foot, the captain said.
As he did, Fleming got back in the car, put it in drive and tried to flee, as well, DeWitt sa…
