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‘Stalker’s Christmas’: Accused Restraining Order Violator Spends Valentine's Day In Bergen Jail ‘Stalker’s Christmas’: Accused Restraining Order Violator Spends Valentine's Day In Bergen Jail
‘Stalker’s Christmas’: Accused Restraining Order Violator Spends Valentine's Day In Bergen Jail The approach of Valentine’s Day this year brought a repeat stalker all the way from Queens to Franklin Lakes – and then to jail, authorities reported. Chiawei Chuang, 41, of Flushing had previously been charged with stalking the same person when she allegedly showed up again late Monday, Feb. 13, on a small street in the northwest Bergen County town where the victim lives. Police were called shortly before 10 p.m. and arrested Chuang, who criminal records list as a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia. She remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday while awaiting a first a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel
Carlstadt PD Rescues Kidnapped Woman Forced Into Prostitution At Meadowlands-Area Motel A missing woman who’d been held against her will and forced into prostitution at a local motel was rescued by Carlstadt police who arrested her combative captor, authorities said. Officer Matthew Bartlett responded to the Super 8 on Washington Avenue just north of Route 120 after the woman’s cell phone was traced there, Acting Police Chief Thomas Cox said on Monday, Feb. 13. Bartlett spoke with employees, then was joined at the motel by backup Officers James Winand and Anthony Rivezzi, the acting chief said. They found the woman with Kevin Williams, 32, of Newark, he said. Williams initia…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Sports
Knicks Radio Analyst From NJ Brendan Brown Fired Over Harassment Claims: Reports Knicks Radio Analyst From NJ Brendan Brown Fired Over Harassment Claims: Reports
Knicks Radio Analyst From NJ Brendan Brown Fired Over Harassment Claims: Reports New Jersey native Brendan Brown, who has been the voice of the New York Knicks for years has signed off the air for the last time after being fired by the MSG Network amid alleged harassment allegations, according to reports. A spokesperson for MSG Networks announced Summit resident Brendan Brown’s ousting in a statement on Monday, Jan. 23, along with plans for the rest of the Knicks’ regular season broadcasts. “MSG Networks and Brendan Brown have decided to part company,” officials stated. “For the remainder of the season, various personalities including former Knick John Wallace, will ser…

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by Zak Failla
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Repeat Offender Grabs, Gropes Elderly Woman In Broad Daylight: Ridgefield Park PD Repeat Offender Grabs, Gropes Elderly Woman In Broad Daylight: Ridgefield Park PD
Repeat Offender Grabs, Gropes Elderly Woman In Broad Daylight: Ridgefield Park PD An elderly woman became the latest target of a repeat offender who was previously arrested – and quickly released – for groping strangers, Ridgefield Park police said. Michael Hernandez, 23, rushed the victim from behind in broad daylight as she walked on Roosevelt Avenue between Hazelton Street and Highland Place around 3 p.m. Dec. 29, Police Lt. Art Jensen said. Hernandez, who lives in the village, then “put his arm over her shoulder and across her chest while thrusting his body into her [and] making sexually-motivated comments” before fleeing, the lieutenant said. The description gave p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Woman Stabbed, Man Slashed, Repeat Offender Seized On Hackensack Street Woman Stabbed, Man Slashed, Repeat Offender Seized On Hackensack Street
Woman Stabbed, Man Slashed, Repeat Offender Seized On Hackensack Street An unemployed Hackensack man with a history of harassing and threatening people stabbed a woman and slashed a man with a box cutter during an argument in the middle of a city street Monday afternoon, authorities said. The 32-year-old woman and 61-year-old man were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening following the incident near the corner of Hudson Street and Broadway shortly before 2 p.m. Jan. 2, Police Capt. Michael Antista said. The man “sustained a laceration to his one of his extremities, while the female suffered a punctu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Repeat Offender Released Under Bail Reform Beats Disabled Lyndhurst Dunkin Donuts Worker Repeat Offender Released Under Bail Reform Beats Disabled Lyndhurst Dunkin Donuts Worker
Repeat Offender Released Under Bail Reform Beats Disabled Lyndhurst Dunkin Donuts Worker It's really serious now. A homeless man with a long history of harassment, vandalism and other lesser crimes savagely attacked a disabled Dunkin Donuts worker in Lyndhurst, authorities said. Alfredo Javier Acevedo Rodriguez, 28, made headlines last year when he vandalized a 9/11 memorial in town. SEE: Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument Since then, he's repeatedly been picked up for harassing customers outside various businesses, authorities said.  Police have brought him to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center for psychological evaluation and treatment, but he just as quickly si…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says
Alpine Country Club Worker Harassed For Months By Manager, Lawsuit Says A former Alpine Country Club says she was forced to resign after the Human Resources department failed to protect her from one of the managers harassing her, she says in a newly-filed lawsuit. The lawsuit filed in Bergen County Superior Court claims that Makayla Spruill, 20, of Paramus, was groped multiple times by the country club's food and drink manager, Hannibal Campa. It also alleges that Campa joked about Spruill's body type and weight, and joked about her race, saying he would fire her if he wasn't afraid she'd "use the Black card' against him. The suit goes on to say that the count…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Peeping Tom Breaks Into Rider Student's Dorm Hoping For Glimpse: Police Peeping Tom Breaks Into Rider Student's Dorm Hoping For Glimpse: Police
Peeping Tom Breaks Into Rider Student's Dorm Hoping For Glimpse: Police A Ewing man was arrested and charged with burglary after he broke into a Rider University dormitory and tried to look into a female room, authorities said. Officers responding to a report of a suspicious male at the campus around 12:35 Monday heard from two female students that the male in question had entered behind them and followed them into their residence hall. Once inside, the male allegedly stayed in the hallways and approached their room door before standing directly in front, bending over, and trying to look under the door and inside the room. Students then contacted Rider Univers…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF
Former Pennsylvania Officer Charged With Stalking And Harassing Ex-GF A former Bethlehem police officer has been charged with stalking and harassing another police department employee — someone he used to be in a relationship with, authorities announced. Noah Klingborg, 27, is expected to turn himself into the Bethlehem City Police Department on Tuesday afternoon, Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck said in a press release. Klingborg, of Bethlehem, is accused of stalking and harassing a civilian employee of the Bethlehem City Police Department that he had a relationship with between December 2021 and ended in June 2022, the release said. Af…

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by Valerie Musson
Schools
Native NJ Dad Of 3 Charged For Yelling Profanities At School Children In Pennsylvania: Police Native NJ Dad Of 3 Charged For Yelling Profanities At School Children In Pennsylvania: Police
Native NJ Dad Of 3 Charged For Yelling Profanities At School Children In Pennsylvania: Police A 43-year-old father of three yelled profanities at school children, authorities say. Nolan Bronner, currently living in Columbia Borough, but originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, yelled at the school children in a crosswalk on Oct. 17 at approximately 8:46pm, according to the release and his social media. An Officer with the Columbia Borough Police department heard Bronner yelling the profanities, the release details. "The Officer approached the male, known to him as Nolan J. Bronner...and told him he would be receiving a citation in the mail for disorderly conduct due to scaring near…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again
Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again A convicted stalker from Paramus was jailed after going after the same Teaneck victim again, authorities said. John F. Connors, 44, "placed fictitious calls to 911 on different dates," bringing police to the victim's home each time, Teaneck Deputy Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. These weren't only illegal actions on their own, the deputy chief said: They also violated not one but two permanent restraining orders against him. ****** ATTENTION: The defendant has a twin brother, U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. James P. Connors, a highly-decorated and respected military veteran and Teaneck fir…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Dual Threat: Wayne Twins Sexually Harass Same Woman, Tangle With Police, Authorities Report Dual Threat: Wayne Twins Sexually Harass Same Woman, Tangle With Police, Authorities Report
Dual Threat: Wayne Twins Sexually Harass Same Woman, Tangle With Police, Authorities Report Twin brothers from Wayne sexually harassed a local mom repeatedly, then tangled with police who arrested them both, authorities said. The woman told police that she was walking in her neighborhood with her young child on Aug. 29 when Ryan Kayal, 33, rode up on a bicycle and “threatened to force himself on her sexually,” Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Kayal was “evasive and uncooperative,” then walked away and refused to stop when they found him on the bicycle a short time later, the captain said. They’d taken Kayal into custody when his twin, Daniel, emerged from their home and tried to fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco