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Police & Fire
Juvenile Stabbed At North Jersey Kosher Grocery Store
UPDATE: A 14-year-old boy was stabbed and slashed by a fellow Teaneck High School student in a Halloween clown mask, authorities confirmed. The 16-year-old assailant was still carrying the bloody knife when two Bogota police officers nabbed him following the apparently random Halloween night attack on Cedar Lane shortly before 9 p.m., Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. The victim was stabbed in the buttocks and also suffered a deep cut on his face in the attack on Garrison Avenue, around the corner from the Seasons Express kosher grocery on Cedar Lane, the chief said early Wednesday,…
Police & Fire
Anti-Hamas Message On Electronic Billboard Over Route 80 Prompts Hundreds Of Calls To Police
An anti-Hamas message on a billboard overlooking Route 80 triggered hundreds of phone calls to a local police department due to a social media suggestion. "Oh, don't be naive," the electronic message on a hot pink background read. "Hamas would chop your head off too." It was signed "jewbelong." Bogota police fielded more than 100 complaints from callers, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said late Tuesday, Oct. 17. Some were from people who felt threatened by the message, while others expressed fears over possible violence -- not to mention general outrage from those who felt targeted, t…
Police & Fire
Front Loader Tips, Lands On Driver In Bogota
A construction worker escaped serious injury when a front loader tipped and landed on top of him in Bogota. The worker was clearing property on the former site of the Bogota Golf Center on Cross Street when the machine fell down an embankment shortly after 3 p.m. Friday, May 5, Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Police, firefighters and members of the Bogota Rescue Squad responded along with BLS and ALS units from Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, the sergeant said. The victim, who'd climbed out, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor leg and arm injuries, Cole said.
Police & Fire
Man Jumps Out Third-Story Window In Bogota SWAT Standoff After Violent Pursuit: Police
A New York man who led a wild police pursuit dragging and almost hitting officers barricaded himself in a Bogota apartment bringing the Bergen County SWAT team to the scene before jumping out a third floor window, authorities said. Trouble started for 36-year-old Christopher A. Batista last week when management from The Atwater apartment complex reported a suspicious incident involving his rent pay, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. Officers stopped Batista later that day, but he gave police a fake name and license, Cole said. He then fled in his 2020 BMW 740. The offi…
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Authorities: Fleeing Thief Crashes Vehicle Into Bus In Teaneck, Captured By Bogota PD
A thief who crashed his car into a bus while fleeing Teaneck police was captured by their colleagues from Bogota, authorities said. Jamaal Bertrand had just walked past officers responding to a fraud attempt at a township T-Mobile store late Wednesday afternoon when an employee pointed him out, Deputy Police Chief John Faggello said. Bertrand, 34, of Williamstown, bolted as they approached -- but was later spotted Officer Melissa Terpstra as she drove by on Cedar Lane, Faggello said. Bertrand, who’d removed his sweatshirt in an attempt to elude police, “ducked behind a bush after seeing Of…
Police & Fire
Police: Bergen Driver Shouted Obscenities, Masturbated In Front Of Women
A Teaneck motorist shouted obscenities at women while masturbating in his car, Bogota police charged. Juan D. Hernandez-Morales, 19, was charged with lewdness and making harassing comments by borough detectives following victims' complaints, authorities said. "Hernandez-Morales habitually harassed and made lewd acts to females within the borough while driving by them on the roadway," a post by the department says. He was released pending a court hearing.
Police & Fire
Body Of Missing Bogota Man, 48, Recovered From Hackensack River
UPDATE: A body recovered Thursday afternoon from the Hackensack River was that of a Bogota man who went missing last week, responders said. He'd been in the water for several days, they said. Felix Enrique Martinez, 48, left his home and headed toward Palisades Avenue last Thursday morning (Aug. 20), borough police said at the time. He appeared in need of medical attention, they said. Responders from Hackensack and Ridgefield Park searched the river soon after Martinez was reported missing without success. Responding this Thursday were Hackensack firefighters, the Bogota and Ridgefield…
Police & Fire
Fire Partially Collapses Atrium In Bogota Home
A firefighter was treated for a hand injury during a roaring Wednesday night blaze that partially collapsed an enclosed atrium attached to a Bogota home, officials said. Firefighters kept the flames from spreading to the main area of the 2½-story River Road home, Fire Chief Alex Breuss said. Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the two-alarm fire, which broke out in the rear yard around 8:15 p.m. and ravaged the atrium, partially collapsing the second floor, the chief said. Firefighters had it knocked within an hour. "Great job by all and everyone went home safe," Breuss sa…
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