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COLD CASE CRACKED: DNA From Soda Can Helps Solve Bergen Business Break-Ins COLD CASE CRACKED: DNA From Soda Can Helps Solve Bergen Business Break-Ins
Cold CASE Cracked: DNA From Soda Can Helps Solve Bergen Business Break-Ins Palisades Park police cracked a pair of cold-case burglaries after the results of a DNA test on a soda can led them to a familiar face from a neighboring town. Officers responding to a break-in at what was then the Happy Diner on Broad Avenue in 2018 found a damaged and emptied cash register outside the Honey Pig Bossam next door, Detective Sgt. Alex Monteleone said. They contacted the owners of both businesses, one of whom reported finding an iPad and $100 missing – along with a soda can that had been left on a counter, he said. Sgt. Sean Cotrrell secured the can, which was sent to t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PalPark Detectives Charge Local Resident With Masturbating In Public PalPark Detectives Charge Local Resident With Masturbating In Public
PalPark Detectives Charge Local Resident With Masturbating In Public Palisades Park detectives arrested a borough man after a pedestrian said she found him masturbating on the main drag. The 35-year-old borough victim came to police headquarters and said she'd seen the man in the act as she walked on Broad Avenue near Washington Place the night of Nov. 9, Capt. Anthony Muccio said. A sketch artist produced a composite based on her description that detectives used to identify Hugo Lopez, 33, said Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. Lopez was arrested on Friday and released on a disorderly persons summons, answerable in Municipal Court, charging …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood Cliffs Driver, 75, Charged In Palisades Park Hit-Run That Injured North Bergen Woman Englewood Cliffs Driver, 75, Charged In Palisades Park Hit-Run That Injured North Bergen Woman
Englewood Cliffs Driver, 75, Charged In Palisades Park Hit-Run That Injured North Bergen Woman UPDATE: Palisades Park police tracked down an SUV driver who they said took off after hitting a 19-year-old North Bergen woman at a notorious intersection. The 75-year-old female Englewood Cliffs motorist received traffic summonses for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and failing to yield to a pedestrian after officers “checked different combinations of the license plate and matched up surveillance video,” Capt. Anthony Muccio said Friday. The victim was heading south on Broad Avenue when she was struck by the woman’s Kia Soul in the crosswalk at East Columbia Avenue around 7:…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? North Bergen Pedestrian, 19, Struck By Hit-Run Driver In Palisades Park SEE ANYTHING? North Bergen Pedestrian, 19, Struck By Hit-Run Driver In Palisades Park
SEE Anything? North Bergen Pedestrian, 19, Struck By Hit-Run Driver In Palisades Park Police asked the public for help finding the hit-run driver who struck and injured a 19-year-old North Bergen woman with his SUV as she crossed a notorious Palisades Park intersection. The victim was heading south on Broad Avenue and was in the crosswalk at East Columbia Avenue when she was struck around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Anthony Muccio said. The driver continued going east on East Columbia, said Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. The victim was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with minor head and leg injuries, he said. Police were looking for a newer …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Survivors Of Stabbing That Killed 2 Friends Warn Students About Violence Survivors Of Stabbing That Killed 2 Friends Warn Students About Violence
Survivors Of Stabbing That Killed 2 Friends Warn Students About Violence “I don’t want to die,” a mortally wounded Tommy Johnston told his friend Yang Chung after they and two other Palisades Park High School football players were stabbed on Broad Avenue the night before Labor Day 1992. Johnston, 17, had just been stabbed twice in the chest during a fight with two boys from Ridgefield Park. He died at the hospital. Their friend, Philip Raymondo, 16, died on the steps of police headquarters. He’d been stabbed in the heart. Chung and Gino Zilocchi, now both 43, described the horrific murders of their friends to two groups Thursday during assemblies at Palisades …

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by Jerry DeMarco