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Hawthorne PD: 70-Year-Old Homeless Heroin User Leaves Works On Bench Outside Dunkin' Donuts Hawthorne PD: 70-Year-Old Homeless Heroin User Leaves Works On Bench Outside Dunkin' Donuts
Hawthorne PD: 70-Year-Old Homeless Heroin User Leaves Works On Bench Outside Dunkin' Donuts A 70-year-old homeless heroin user left his works on a bench outside a Hawthorne Dunkin' Donuts, said police who found him sleeping inside the shop. Police called to the Goffle Road shop near the Paterson border just after 7 a.m. Sunday found a syringe, rubber bands, and other drug paraphernalia on a bench outside, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. They found Peter Vanderweit inside the shop, sleeping, he said. Vanderweit at first refused to cooperate then admitted that the items found outside were his, Hoogmoed said. He was taken into custody, processed and released pending a Municip…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon
Police: Serial Masturbator Does It Again Outside Edgewater Hair Salon It wasn’t difficult for police to identify a man whom employees of an Edgewater hair salon said they saw masturbating outside their shop: He’d been caught doing the same thing twice before, authorities said. Ernesto G. Martinez of West New York was charged with masturbating in his car in Edgewater in 2016 and in Cliffside Park in 2017, records show. This time, Edgewater Detective Dale Price issued a summons to Martinez to appear in Municipal Court on Feb. 7 to answer lewdness charges after salon employees got the car’s license plate number, Detective Sgt. Tim Farell said Saturday. ****** …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: WWII Memorial Plaques Weren't Stolen From Hackensack's Flooded USS Ling, After All Police: WWII Memorial Plaques Weren't Stolen From Hackensack's Flooded USS Ling, After All
Police: WWII Memorial Plaques Weren't Stolen From Hackensack's Flooded USS Ling, After All Four memorial plaques that vanished from the flooded USS Ling submarine on the Hackensack River weren't stolen by thieves, as originally suspected: A member of the once-floating museum took them home for safekeeping, police said Thursday. Police began investigating after a caretaker reported the plaques dedicated to Navy seamen killed in World War II gone from the River Street museum last month. As it turned out, "they were in possession of a member of the association," Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. When that person learned of the investigation, "he reached out to the museum a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Glen Rock PD: DWI Motorist From Ridgewood Squeezes Between Police Cruiser, Car On Route 208 Glen Rock PD: DWI Motorist From Ridgewood Squeezes Between Police Cruiser, Car On Route 208
Glen Rock PD: DWI Motorist From Ridgewood Squeezes Between Police Cruiser, Car On Route 208 A Glen Rock police officer was driving his cruiser beside another car on northbound Route 208 when a third vehicle – with a drunk driver behind the wheel -- squeezed between both, forcing them out of their lanes, authorities said. It was just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday when Officer John Tarantino stopped 23-year-old Felix A. Mercado on the northbound highway near Utter Avenue, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Mercado was charged with DWI and received summonses for reckless driving, tailgating, improper passing, making an unsafe lane change and failing to have proof or insurance or inspection, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Herd Of German Shepherds Removed From Franklin Lakes Couple's Home Herd Of German Shepherds Removed From Franklin Lakes Couple's Home
Herd Of German Shepherds Removed From Franklin Lakes Couple's Home UPDATE: A 55-year-old Franklin Lakes woman with a history of similar trouble was served with a host of animal cruelty complaints after more than a dozen German Shepherds were removed from her home, authorities said. The 14 dog were in varying health and living conditions, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said, when animal control officers removed them from the Haddon Place home-turned-dog kennel of Danielle Weitz and her husband, Robert. Borough officials also deemed the house uninhabitable. "I'm not interested in this call," Robert Weitz said Tuesday night before hang…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine