A judge in Hackensack on Wednesday ordered the release of a teacher who police said threatened to shoot up the Elmwood Park pre-school where she works.Gina Schroeder of Nutley was booked into the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday after police said she “made the threatening statements towards" the Goddard School. A judge released her, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, following a ...

A Teaneck attorney continued to practice law after being disbarred, using client funds for himself, said authorities who arrested him.With his previous attorney trust account seized by the state Supreme Court, 57-year-old Barry D. Friedman deposited money from new clients into a business and personal account that he used “for his own purposes,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis ...

Tenafly officers had to break a window to get an argumentative – and suspended -- drunk driver out of his car after it swerved toward oncoming traffic, authorities said Wednesday.Officer Maxwell Werner was following the Toyota sedan when it swerved into the opposite lane on East Clinton Avenue near Buckingham Road just after 1 a.m. Saturday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said.The driver, ...

SEE ANYTHING? Home surveillance video shows a BMW just stolen from a Mahwah resident’s driveway before dawn Wednesday speeding away with another vehicle, authorities said.The key fob apparently had been left in the 2016 X6 BMW, which was stolen from a Swan Road home around 4 a.m. – apparently by an organized group responsible for the theft of high-end vehicles in the area, Police Chief ...

A driver was under the influence of drugs when her Jeep bounced off the shoulder guardrail and smashed into the center median of Route 208 in Franklin Lakes Tuesday night, authorities said.Aimee Dumont-Peppel, 59, of Chester, NJ (Morris County) was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center following the 9 p.m. southbound crash, Capt. John Bakelaar said Wednesday.The Jeep had just ...

UPDATE: Two repeat offenders were each charged with aggravated assault in connection with a brawl between two groups outside a Bogota bar last month that ended with a Hackensack man shot dead, authorities announced Wednesday.Zachary C. Anderson, 26, of Englewood and Corey A. McKay Jr., 22, of Hackensack, both unemployed, each assaulted another victim who was hospitalized for his ...

Saying she had “nothing to hide,” a Paterson woman invited Passaic County sheriff’s detectives into what turned out to be a drug packaging and distribution center, where they found 3,761 heroin folds, three-quarters of a pound of cocaine and a pound of pot, authorities said.Seized along with the $32,500 worth of drugs were a loaded Glock 23 handgun reported stolen from Pennsylvania -- ...

A retired Lodi police chief who served in the U.S. Navy and the Secret Service will join three former members of the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office who will be sworn to posts with the county sheriff this coming Monday.Former Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone will be sworn as an undersheriff along with David Borzotta and Jin Sung Kim during a 2 p.m. ceremony at the Bergen County ...

A driver had an Amazon delivery vest and several packages stolen from Fair Lawn in his car, said Paramus police who arrested him after he presented a bogus driver’s license as identification, authorities said.It was another in an increasing series of package thefts in North Jersey, through which thieves steal residents' identities, then use the information to order merchandise such as ...

An identity thief ordered $15,000 in gift cards using an innocent victim's credit card – then was nabbed by Oakland police as he picked them up, authorities said.Sgt. Michael O’Neill and Officers Gary Fiore and Gary Gusterson were waiting when Gregory Gordon, 27, showed up at the local Walgreens to pick up the cards, which were shipped there via FedEx, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge ...