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Teen Released After Stealing Running Vehicles Does It Again -- And Again, Clifton Police Charge Teen Released After Stealing Running Vehicles Does It Again -- And Again, Clifton Police Charge
Teen Released After Stealing Running Vehicles Does It Again -- And Again, Clifton Police Charge A Clifton teen who stole vehicles that their owners left running was busted by police – then went right back to it after he was released, authorities said. Several vehicles had been taken from the Botany Village area of the city, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. All were recovered within a three-to-four-block radius of Center Street “usually within 24 hours from the time of each theft,” Bracken said. Police were paying particular attention to the area when Officer Garrell Middleton stopped a stolen 2018 Honda CRV on Main Avenue and arrested Jeffrey Luzon, 19, the lieutenant said. Luzon …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SHOOTOUT: Belleville Man Wounded In Clifton Gunfight SHOOTOUT: Belleville Man Wounded In Clifton Gunfight
Shootout: Belleville Man Wounded In Clifton Gunfight SEE ANYTHING? Authorities were searching for a gunman who wounded a Belleville man during a shootout on a Clifton street. Several shots were fired outside a Mahar Avenue home near Fleischer Place in the Botany Village neighborhood shortly before 10:30 p.m. Monday, police reported. A small-caliber bullet struck the 34-year-old victim, who was conscious when placed into an ambulance, responders said. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he remained Tuesday in stable condition, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern
Clifton Buildings Evacuated After Partial Collapse At Former Longtime Tavern A wall buckled Monday in a Clifton building that until last summer had been a tavern for 72 years -- raising concerns that a complete collapse could follow. No injuries were reported after the 40-foot load-bearing wall buckled on the left side of the Dayton Avenue building that once housed Rossi's Tavern shortly before noon, responders told Daily Voice. The gutted building was being completely renovated. Although it didn't collapse, surrounding buildings in the Botany Village section were temporarily evacuated as a precaution. City firefighters, police and the DPW and Building Department …

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by Jerry DeMarco