Fair 92°
Tag:

Valley Brook Avenue, Lyndhurst, NJ

News
Convicted NJ Pyro Calls In Car Fire, Waits For Responders, Lands In Jail Convicted NJ Pyro Calls In Car Fire, Waits For Responders, Lands In Jail
Convicted NJ Pyro Calls In Car Fire, Waits For Responders, Lands In Jail A paroled arsonist was waiting when firefighters in Lyndhurst responded to his call of an SUV fire. It didn’t take long for investigators to charge him with setting it. Christopher Baulch, 43, has an extensive criminal history that includes prison time served for torching two occupied Lyndhurst apartment buildings in 2000 – one on Christmas Eve, the other on New Year’s Eve – and then trying to play hero, records show. “In both cases, he went to help the people,” the sentencing judge in Hackensack said at the time. Baulch -- formerly of Lyndhurst and currently of Wayne – also has a chi…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
GOTCHA! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked GOTCHA! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked
Gotcha! Hit-Run Driver Who Seriously Injured Lyndhurst Woman Claims He Was Carjacked A cocaine-carrying driver who fled after his sedan struck and seriously injured a Lyndhurst pedestrian claimed he’d been carjacked moments earlier and wasn’t behind the wheel, authorities said. It was all a lie, they said. Samuel Torres, 38, of Nutley was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, hindering his arrest and drug-related offenses, records show. Torres was driving a 2017 Toyota Camry when it struck Joy Dempsey, 56, at the corner of Grant and Valley Brook avenues near her home shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark M…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
News
BRUSH FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands BRUSH FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands
Brush FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands UPDATE: A forest fire jumped the entire width of the Garden State Parkway from Lakewood into Brick Township while a Meadowlands brush fire stopped short of the New Jersey Turnpike amid Sunday's fierce winds.  They were among no fewer than a half-dozen large brush fires -- and nearly just as many smaller blazes -- that raged at once throughout the Garden State on Sunday, whipped by winds reported at up to 40 miles an hour and low humidity that barely cracked 20%. Several New Jersey State Police troopers gathered on the Turnpike's western awaiting word whether to close the roadway as firefig…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
MANHUNT: Police Flush Out Fleeing Ex-Con Stuck In Swamps Of Lyndhurst MANHUNT: Police Flush Out Fleeing Ex-Con Stuck In Swamps Of Lyndhurst
Manhunt: Police Flush Out Fleeing Ex-Con Stuck In Swamps Of Lyndhurst A Newark ex-con driving a stolen car tried to elude Lyndhurst police by dashing into the Meadowlands marshes during an overnight pursuit, but their colleagues from other towns helped capture him, authorities said. Elliot Taylor, 26, floored it after Lyndhurst Police Officer Brian Kapp pulled up behind the already-speeding 2005 Hyundai Elantra on Ridge Road around 3 a.m. Sunday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Taylor made a quick right onto Valley Brook Avenue and raced down Disposal Road toward DeKorte Park, but the Hyundai bottomed out and began smoking, Auteri said. Taylor quickly pul…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say
Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say Teamwork helped Lyndhurst police nab a shoplifting Essex County couple who tried to flee in an Uber, authorities said. Chrisann Shaffer, 40, Bloomfield and Jeffrey Uhrig, 45, Newark, took a different Uber to the Walgreens on Valley Brook Avenue and ran off with a bundle of stolen merchandise after an employee caught them on Wednesday, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Both ran past the waiting Uber and temporarily vanished, Auteri said. Detective William Kapp radioed ahead after learning that they apparently grabbed another Uber, the lieutenant said. Sgt. Phil Reina spotted and stopped …

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18 Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18
Lyndhurst Pedestrian, 80, Struck By SUV Driven By Township Resident, 18 An 80-year-old Lyndhurst pedestrian was hospitalized with what was believed to be a broken left wrist after she was struck by an SUV Monday morning. The 18-year-old Toyota Sienna driver, also from town, was making a left turn from westbound Valley Brook Avenue onto Stuyvesant Avenue when her vehicle bumped the woman shortly before 9:30 a.m., Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. She was injured in the fall and taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, he said. No summonses were immediately issued, Auteri said, adding that an investigation was continuing.

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco