A Lexus SUV went airborne before crashing into a boulder off Route 17 in Mahwah after the driver fell asleep Wednesday, authorities said.The 69-year-old driver from Monroe refused medical treatment after the crash between the Pilot Truck Stop and the Comfort Inn on the highway’s southbound side around 10:15 a.m., Police Chief James Batelli said.He was checked out by Mahwah Emergency ...

A Westwood gas station attendant fondled a customer, then offered the victim money for sex, said police who arrested him. Now police are searching for any other potential victims.Ravi Kumel, 27, was working at the Irvington Street service station when he “forcibly and inappropriately touched the 30-year-old victim” this past Sunday, Police Chief Michael Pontillo said.Kumel, who lives on ...

A day after three people were killed by an overdosing driver in a crash at a Route 23 gas station, the driver of a school bus carrying children with special needs had to be revived with Narcan after a crash in Newark.The dozen or so students weren’t injured in the 1 p.m. crash at 14th Avenue and Jones Street.Responders used Narcan to revive the woman, who police said apparently had ...

UPDATE: A Paterson ex-con surrendered to police Wednesday in connection with the shooting of an innocent bystander from Clifton at a city bodega.Keith Hill, 26, is charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.He remained held in the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing.Authorities apparently were ...

Paterson police continued an ongoing campaign against drug dealing with a raid that turned up 237 folds of heroin, 15 small bags of crack and more than two and a half pounds of PCP, authorities said.Of the six people arrested during Tuesday’s raid, four live in the Rosa Parks Boulevard multi-family building where Police Director Jerry Speziale said drugs were being sold from a ...

A Hackensack ex-con with a previous sex charge on his decade-long criminal record sexually assaulted a pre-teen, said authorities who arrested him.A judge ordered that Justis A. Oliver, 27 remain held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment following a detention hearing last week, records show.Newark police passed along a tip that Oliver, ...

UPDATE: Authorities late Tuesday identified the drugged driver in a morning crash that killed a father and son and a gas station attendant as a 29-year-old Sussex County resident.Jason Vanderee, of the Glenwood section of Vernon Township, was charged with three counts each of aggravated manslaughter and death by auto, among other offenses.Jon Warbeck, a former Carlstadt firefighter -- ...

A driver who told police who found him parked in an empty Paterson lot that he was just “smoking weed” had 4,700 folds of heroin, along with other drugs, authorities said.The 2½ pounds of heroin was bundled into 94 bricks stuffed into an open gift bag, Police Director Jerry Speziale said.There was also a large plastic bag and nearly a dozen clear vials of pot, four bags of crack and ...

Authorities teamed up to bust a Hawthorne electrician who was trafficking child porn, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Tuesday.Working with the FBI and county prosecutor’s office, sheriff’s detectives and officers seized John O’Hagan, 48, during a raid Tuesday at his Maitland Avenue home, Berdnik said.The joint investigation began after the FBI got a tip that O’Hagan was ...

UPDATE: Authorities late Tuesday identified the drugged driver in a morning crash that killed a father and son and a gas station attendant as a 29-year-old Sussex County resident.Jason Vanderee, of the Glenwood section of Vernon Township, was charged with three counts each of aggravated manslaughter and death by auto, among other offenses.Jon Warbeck, a former Carlstadt firefighter -- ...