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5-Year-Old Child Found Shivering In PJs On Busy NJ Street Corner 5-Year-Old Child Found Shivering In PJs On Busy NJ Street Corner
5-Year-Old Child Found Shivering In PJs On Busy NJ Street Corner A child in her pajamas was found alone and shivering on a busy Hasbrouck Heights street corner Friday morning, authorities said. Officers responding to multiple calls on Jan. 27 found the unaccompanied 5-year-old at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Terrace Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights Police Lt. John A. Behr said. "She was cold but otherwise OK," he said. Neighbors emerged from their homes to point them to the child's home, the lieutenant said. Her father arrived at the home a short time later, he said. Detectives were dispatched to the home, collected information and forwarded it to the …

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LAST CALL: Hasbrouck Heights Liquor Store Burglar Caught Returning For More, Police Say LAST CALL: Hasbrouck Heights Liquor Store Burglar Caught Returning For More, Police Say
Last CALL: Hasbrouck Heights Liquor Store Burglar Caught Returning For More, Police Say A Hasbrouck Heights man who’d broken into a local liquor store went back hours later – only this time the owner was inside cleaning up from the previous break-in, authorities said. Frank Christie, 56, already had an overnight run-in with the law the day before. Witnesses told police he’d been throwing bottles off the roof of a Terrace Avenue apartment building and damaged a parked car. An intoxicated Christie was sent to Hackensack University Medical Center because of his condition and no charges were immediately filed. Then, shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday, a neighbor summoned police t…

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Police: Driver On Cell In Wrong-Way Crash That Wrecked SUVs, Toppled Pole In Hasbrouck Heights Police: Driver On Cell In Wrong-Way Crash That Wrecked SUVs, Toppled Pole In Hasbrouck Heights
Police: Driver On Cell In Wrong-Way Crash That Wrecked SUVs, Toppled Pole In Hasbrouck Heights A utility pole got knocked down outside a Hasbrouck Heights barber shop on Friday after a Jeep whose driver was on his cellphone drifted into oncoming traffic, authorities said. The 28-year-old Jeep driver from Garfield was distracted when the right front fender of his southbound Jeep struck the right front fender of a northbound SUV on Terrace Avenue just past Cleveland Avenue, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. The Jeep continued onto the opposite sidewalk, toppling the pole, he said. An ambulance responded, but neither the Garfield driver nor the other motorist, a 65-year-old boro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Hasbrouck Heights PD: Garfield Driver Who Crashed Twice Was 3X Over Legal Limit Hasbrouck Heights PD: Garfield Driver Who Crashed Twice Was 3X Over Legal Limit
Hasbrouck Heights PD: Garfield Driver Who Crashed Twice Was 3X Over Legal Limit A drunken Garfield driver registered more than three times the legal limit on a blood-alcohol test after crashing his car twice in the span of a couple of blocks in Hasbrouck Heights, authorities said. Edward Luna, 33, kept driving after his Jeep struck a retaining wall on Prospect Street shortly before 3 a.m. Wednesday, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. It then hit the tree on Williams Avenue near Terrace Avenue, stopping it, he said. After smelling alcohol on his breath, Officers Nicholas Brunetti and Joseph Olivo gave Lunda field sobriety tests and took him into custody, the lieu…

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Carlstadt Ambulance Patient Picked Up By Hasbrouck Heights EMTs After Crash Carlstadt Ambulance Patient Picked Up By Hasbrouck Heights EMTs After Crash
Carlstadt Ambulance Patient Picked Up By Hasbrouck Heights EMTs After Crash A Carlstadt ambulance transporting a patient struck the mirror of a pickup truck Wednesday afternoon in Hasbrouck Heights, requiring another rig. The 41-year-old Maywood driver of a Ford F-250 was headed north on Terrace Avenue near Kipp Avenue when the ambulance came up behind shortly before 4:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. The Ford, which has large mirrors, “didn’t pull over completely,” Colaneri said. The patient, who was being transported to the hospital for a shoulder injury, was OK, as was the 20-year-old ambulance driver, the lieutenant said. A 23-year-old EMT in…

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Hasbrouck Heights Police Officers Rescue Dog Who Jumped From Car Window Hasbrouck Heights Police Officers Rescue Dog Who Jumped From Car Window
Hasbrouck Heights Police Officers Rescue Dog Who Jumped From Car Window A pair of Hasbrouck Heights police officers rescued a dog who jumped out a car window. The Shihtzu mix chased an opossum and got stuck in brush behind the Hilton Hasbrouck Heights Meadowlands Hotel on Terrace Avenue off Route 17 just after 7 p.m. Sunday, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. Responding Officers Nicholas Brunetti and Michael Renna found the pooch, whose head was poking into a hole, Colaneri said. Using a dog noose, they freed the pup -- who was returned, unharmed, to the owner, the lieutenant said.

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by Jerry DeMarco