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Harristown Road, Glen Rock, NJ
Police & Fire
Sprocket Scientists: Bicycle Thieves Chased Down, Caught By Glen Rock Police
Two adults and a juvenile from Paterson who’d just stolen a trio of bicycles from some Glen Rock teens were pursued through several backyards and over fences before a patrol officer and his sergeant nabbed all three. Friends of the victims flagged down Officer Andrew Magro on Harristown Road near Wilde Park and pointed him toward the three bandits, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The trio hopped off the stolen bikes and ran, with Magro close behind, the chief said. The officer and Sgt. Mike Trover took all three into custody at Iris Circle, he said. Arrested on theft charges were Romeo …
Police & Fire
DWI Fair Lawn Woman's SUV Pinballs Off Pole Into Tree Outside Glen Rock Jewish Center: Police
A Fair Lawn driver was intoxicated when her SUV rammed a utility pole in front of the Glen Rock Jewish Center, then slammed into a tree on the other side of the street, authorities said. The Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took Lyubov Korniyevska, 62, to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood following the crash on Harristown Road near Berkeley Place shortly after 6 p.m. Dec. 4, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Her injuries weren’t considered life-threatening, the chief said. The 2022 Toyota RAV had to be towed from the scene. Korniyevska was alone and headed south when the SUV v…
Police & Fire
DWI Suspected After Driver Clips Pole, Slams Into Tree In Glen Rock: Police
A driver was suspected of being under the influence when her SUV clipped a utility pole and slammed into a tree early Monday night in Glen Rock. The Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took her to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with a police escort following the 6:15 p.m. Dec. 4 crash in the 600 block of Harristown Road. Police were expected to obtain a warrant so blood can be drawn. The driver was alone in the Toyota RAV4 when it crashed. Boyd A. Loving A tow truck removed the heavily damaged vehicle. Harristown Road was temporarily closed between Berkeley Place and Ridge Road…
Police & Fire
Tractor-Trailer Rams Sedan Off Route 208
Two people were hospitalized Friday night after a tractor-trailer exiting Route 208 in Glen Rock struck a sedan. Witnesses claimed the driver of the rig ignored a stop sign exiting the southbound highway at Harristown Road and struck the Honda Civic around 6:45 p.m. Nov. 3. Glen Rock EMS reported three injuries at the scene, with two victims taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center. There was no immediate word on their conditions. The Civic was removed by a flatbed tow truck. Fair Lawn police assisted with traffic control. Glen Rock police are investigating the cause o…
Police & Fire
Morning Fire Clears Glen Rock Grammar School
Early arrival students were escorted from the Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock on Wednesday after a small fire ignited in a hallway light fixture. Everything went smoothly as the youngsters were temporarily brought from the K-5 school on Harristown Road to the nearby Academy of Our Lady shortly after 8:30 a.m. Oct. 18. Police officers who arrived first immediately doused the fire with extinguishers, Glen Rock Police Lt. Frank Riggio said. No injuries were reported, the lieutenant said. The cause is being investigated by fire officials and Glen Rock police detectives, he said. …
Police & Fire
Hawthorne Bicyclist, 48, Struck By Fair Lawn Driver, 81, Summons Issued: Glen Rock PD
An 81-year-old driver from Fair Lawn received a summons after he knocked down a 48-year-old bicyclist from Hawthorne in Glen Rock, authorities said. The victim, meanwhile, was taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said weren’t considered life-threatening. The motorist made a left from Pomona Avenue in Fair Lawn onto westbound Harristown Road on the Glen Rock side when his 2007 Volvo struck the bicyclist shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19, the chief said. The bicyclist was riding on the side of the road past the Herit…
Police & Fire
Driver Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash
A motorist was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when his sedan slammed head-on into a utility pole on Route 208. The airbags in his older-model Volkswagen Jetta deployed in the crash at Harristown Road off the northbound highway in Glen Rock shortly after 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31. Members of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson. Police, meanwhile, doused a small engine fire with an extinguisher. Glen Rock police doused a small engine fire with an extinguisher after the Route 208 crash at Harristown Road.Boyd A. L…
Police & Fire
Senior Hackensack Couple Rescued From Glen Rock Riverbank After Parking Lot Crash
An elderly Hackensack couple were rescued after a mid-morning parking lot crash left their vehicle perched over a stream in Glen Rock, authorities said. Borough police, firefighters and EMS converged on the parking lot at 85 Harristown Road and found the pair stranded in their vehicle on the banks of the Diamond Brook. The 81-year-old driver apparently hit the accelerator instead of the brake and struck a parked van and two signs before his vehicle came to rest, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The responders got him and his 71-year-old female passenger out safely, the chief sai…
Police & Fire
Heroes
: Firefighters Team Up To Extricate Trapped Driver In Glen Rock Utility Pole Crash
Firefighters freed a trapped young driver whose SUV slammed into a utility pole and landed on its side late Sunday in Glen Rock. Glen Rock firefighters were assisted by their colleagues from Hawthorne on Harristown Road, across from the Alexander Hamilton Elementary School near Maple Avenue and northbound Route 208, around 11 p.m. June 25. The heroes got the Chevy Trax stabilized, then carefully and safely freed the 22-year-old Wayne driver. She was alert and talking with them before being by the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps to Hackensack University Medical Center. The heroes …
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SUV Slams Into Pole Off Route 208
A driver and passenger were hospitalized following a late-night crash off Route 208. Their Nissan SUV slammed into a pole at Harristown Road just off the northbound highway in Glen Rock around 10 p.m. Saturday, March 26. The extent of their injuries couldn't immediately be determined, and there was no initial word on a possible cause. Glen Rock EMS took both to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. All Points Towing removed the SUV. Fair Lawn police assisted. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this article. All Points Towing removed the SUV folllowing the crash on northbo…
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Stranger In Hazmat Suit Who Sprayed Merch At Bergen Florist Identified As NY State Resident
UPDATE: One person's prank is another's vandalism, as a New York State man learned when police in Glen Rock identified him as the stranger in a hazmat suit who sprayed plants and flowers at a local shop with an unknown substance. Robert X. Houston, 22, of Middletown, claimed that he pulled the stunt at Perry’s Florist & Gardens on Harristown Road in January as part of an effort to establish himself as a YouTube personality, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Houston told police there were no chemicals or other substances in the hand-held sprayer, but Ackermann said more than $750 wo…
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Route 208 Closed More Than Hour After SUV Crash Downs Utility Line
Route 208 was closed for more than an hour after an SUV slammed into a utility pole, downing a wire across the highway around noontime Wednesday. The driver of the Honda emerged uninjured from the crash on Harristown Road in Glen Rock, across the highway from Fair Lawn Fire Company No. 2, shortly after 11 a.m. Jan. 4. Glen Rock police were joined by their police colleagues from Fair Lawn and Hawthorne and the Bergen County Sheriff's Office. The driver of the Honda emerged uninjured from the crash on Harristown Road in Glen Rock on Wednesday, Jan. 4.Boyd A. Loving There was no immediate…
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Encounter
: Armed Burglars Confront Boys In Glen Rock Home
SEE ANYTHING? Two Glen Rock teens were confronted in their home Wednesday afternoon by burglars -- one armed with a knife and the other a crowbar, authorities said. At least two and possibly three of them had forced their way in through the back door of the Glen Avenue home off Harristown Road home around 2 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The teens told police they were taking an afternoon nap when they heard a noise and were confronted by two Hispanic intruders. The burglars "appeared not to be aware that the boys were in the house," the chief said. They told the teens they would…
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Snapple Truck Rams Glen Rock Shopping Strip, Driver Cited After Fleeing, Police Say
Snapple helped police find a driver who they said took off after his truck struck a small shopping strip in Glen Rock. Sgt. Robert Wojtecki determined that the truck that hit the Maple Avenue building at Harristown Road off northbound Route 208 in the middle of the afternoon belonged to Snapple Distributors out of Avondale, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "With the assistance of the company the driver was located and directed to return to the scene," Ackermann said. Edwin H. Hernandez, 40, of Union received summonses for leaving the scene of an accident and failing to report an accident,…
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Again? Amazon Van Gets Wedged Under North Jersey Building
We need just one more to have a trend: For the second time in a couple of months, a delivery van got wedged beneath the same Glen Rock office building. Several sprinkler heads were destroyed and a piece of the ceiling was ripped off Thursday when the rental truck, begin used for Amazon Prime deliveries, got stuck under the Harristown Road building off Lincoln Avenue. A City Wide tower let the air out of the tires before driving the van out. Amazon workers then offloaded packages onto another van. Glen Rock police and firefighters also responded. Remember: One is a freak accident, t…
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Bergen Town Puzzled By Mysterious ‘Explosions’
They sounded like explosions and even knocked items off shelves, yet no one could pinpoint the source of a series of Memorial Day weekend booms that were heard – and felt – in a Glen Rock neighborhood. An officer responding to a report of “several loud bangs” that shook homes Saturday on Romary Court heard a series of explosions, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “However, they appeared to be coming from a distance away,” he said. Backup officers, firefighters and PSE&G crews converged on the neighborhood off Harristown Road. Surrounding towns were also notified. The utility workers “…
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NJ Exec Admits $91.5 Million Bank Fraud, Questions Remain
Now that an executive of a Glen Rock property management company has admitted his role in a $91.5 million loan fraud, questions remain about an "unnamed co-conspirator." Barton Schack, 65, of Ringwood, told a federal judge in Newark this week that he helped the other participant fraudulently secure a massive commercial mortgage loan by lying about how many tenants were in a network of medical office buildings used as collateral and how much rent they’d paid, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said. The pair then pocketed millions of dollars in rent from the properties -- which …
Police & Fire
SEE
Anything
? Police Seek Hit-Run Truck That Struck Bicyclist In Glen Rock
Glen Rock police were searching for a truck that struck a bicyclist and kept going Thursday afternoon. The victim flagged down a police officer after the truck's passenger-side mirror struck her on Harristown Road, near the intersection of Berkeley Place, and broke off just after 2 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She described the truck as a black utility-type vehicle commonly used for construction or landscaping. It was last seen headed east on Harristown Road towards Ackerman Avenue, the chief said. The bicyclist wasn't seriously injured, Ackermann said. Anyone who may hav…
Police & Fire
SUV Hits Parked Car, Slams Into Utility Pole In Glen Rock
An SUV hit an occupied parked car before slamming head-on into a utility pole Monday in Glen Rock. Neither the Honda Pilot nor the driver who was making a cellphone call in a sedan parked in the 500 block of Harristown Road was injured in the afternoon crash, responders said. A flatbed tow truck removed the wrecked SUV, while the sedan was driven from the scene. Borough police responded. The SUV hit a parked car and then the pole on Harristown Road in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account.
Police & Fire
Coronavirus Slows Probe Of Impostor Who Scammed Bergen Firm Out Of $100,000
The closing of banks in China because of the coronavirus has made it more difficult for authorities to investigate a wire fraud that cost a Glen Rock medical services company $100,000. An accountant with the Harristown Road company reported receiving what appeared to be several legitimate emails from its CEO directing a wire transfer to a bank in China for international business purposes, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. After realizing it was a fraud, company representatives contacted police. Unfortunately, the money had already been wired, Ackermann said. “Overseas wir…
Police & Fire
Police: DWI Motorist Who Thought She Was In Her Driveway Flees Crash After Parking On Route 208
A drunk hit-and-run driver from Hawthorne told police she thought she was in her driveway when she parked her car in the fast lane of northbound Route 208 in Glen Rock and it was rear-ended by another vehicle, authorities said. The driver of the second car, a 2019 Volkwagen Jetta, told Officer Sam Evans that he couldn’t stop in time after Tammi L. Calie, 35, suddenly stopped in the left lane of the highway near Harristown Road shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Calie’s unregistered, uninsured 2010 Mercedes C4A “then fled the scene after being struck,” the chie…
Police & Fire
Woman Struck By Train In Bergen
UPDATE: NJ Transit confirmed that a woman was struck and killed by a commuter train Wednesday morning in Glen Rock. The woman, who appeared to be in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck near the Harristown Road grade crossing shortly before 10:30 a.m., responders said. Borough and NJ Transit police responded and summoned an Advanced Life Support unit, which made the pronouncement. The Bergen County Line train No. 45 left Hoboken at 9:48 a.m. and was to arrive in Suffern at 10:51 a.m., said Nancy Snyder, NJ Transit's chief media relations and communications offi…
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