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Quick-Thinking Attendant Avoids Armed Robbery: River Edge PD Quick-Thinking Attendant Avoids Armed Robbery: River Edge PD
Quick-Thinking Attendant Avoids Armed Robbery: River Edge PD A quick-thinking gas station attendant avoided an armed robbery, River Edge police said. The pump jockey at the Delta station next to the Dollar Deal shopping center on Kinderkamack Road told them he saw a dark-colored sedan back into the area of the tire pump shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, River Edge Police Chief Michael J. Walker said. It looked like three occupants were in it, he said. A customer who'd just gotten gas was pulling out of the station when a passenger in the sedan got out and began walking toward him, the attendant told police. The stranger wore all dark clothing, …

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SEE ANYTHING? Business Owner Reports Armed Robbery Attempt Outside His River Edge Home SEE ANYTHING? Business Owner Reports Armed Robbery Attempt Outside His River Edge Home
SEE Anything? Business Owner Reports Armed Robbery Attempt Outside His River Edge Home A business owner told River Edge police that he was returning home at the end of the day when a would-be robber approached and pointed a gun at him outside his house, authorities said. He'd just parked his car and was walking to his front door, the Howland Avenue resident told the responding officers, when the stranger cut across his lawn, pointed a weapon and mumbled something shortly before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18. "He only saw the barrel," Police Chief Michael Walker said, "but from the description it sounds like a revolver." The resident told police he ducked behind a parked…

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Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment
Knife-Wielding Man Charged After Hours-Long SWAT Standoff At River Edge Garden Apartment UPDATE: A man who was seized when a SWAT team stormed his mother's garden apartment in River Edge is facing a host of charges. A construction worker by trade, Christopher C. Gomez, 38, had been living in shelters in New York City before recently moving in with his mother at the Oxford Terrace Apartments, authorities said. He'd become violent, however, so she fled and called police at 7:43 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, River Edge Police Chief Michael Walker said. Responding officers “tried to contend with him,” but Gomez retreated into the kitchen of the garden apartment and began picking up knive…

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Driver Bails, Captured In Neighboring Town After River Edge Police Pursuit Driver Bails, Captured In Neighboring Town After River Edge Police Pursuit
Driver Bails, Captured In Neighboring Town After River Edge Police Pursuit An unlicensed motorist who crashed his friend's car while fleeing River Edge police was nabbed at the Burger King in New Milford after he took off on foot, authorities said. Officer Michael Varrechia was on patrol when he saw the driver of the Cadillac sedan cross the double-yellow line to pass another vehicle on Continental Avenue, Police Chief Michael Walker said. Varrechia pulled the Caddy over on Kinderkamack Road and was walking toward it when the driver hit the gas, the chief said. The driver -- identified as Lashawn Ray of North Bergen -- hastily made a quick right onto Carol Lane, …

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UPDATE: Stolen Car Trio Nabbed On FDU Campus After Pursuit UPDATE: Stolen Car Trio Nabbed On FDU Campus After Pursuit
Update: Stolen Car Trio Nabbed On FDU Campus After Pursuit UPDATE: A trio of Newark thieves were captured on the FDU campus in Teaneck after they led police on a stolen car chase out of Franklin Lakes. Paramus Police Officer Sean Casey began pursuing the white 2017 Audi 7 on eastbound Route 4 shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, Deputy Police Chief Robert M. Guidetti said. Teaneck police headed to the scene after the Audi collided with a civilian's vehicle four or so miles away on eastbound Route 4 at River Road in Teaneck. Paramus police remained with that vehicle as the suspects exited the highway onto southbound River Road with other units…

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Troubled Teen On Hackensack River Bridge Saved By Officer Whose Brother Recently Rescued Her Troubled Teen On Hackensack River Bridge Saved By Officer Whose Brother Recently Rescued Her
Troubled Teen On Hackensack River Bridge Saved By Officer Whose Brother Recently Rescued Her SIBLING HEROES: A suicidal teen who threatened to jump into the Hackensack River was rescued by a New Milford police officer whose brother saved the very same girl two months ago, authorities said. Responding Officer Sam Doran found the troubled 14-year-old sitting on the railing of the Old New Bridge Road bridge shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Brian Clancy said. It took a half-hour or so, but Doran established a rapport with the girl -- enough so that she was willing to fist-bump him, the chief said. As she did, the officer grabbed the youngster and pulled her from the rail…

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Police: Uber Driver Punches Bergen Customer In Head, Flees, Video Shows Police: Uber Driver Punches Bergen Customer In Head, Flees, Video Shows
Police: Uber Driver Punches Bergen Customer In Head, Flees, Video Shows An Uber driver punched a customer in the head after refusing him a ride from a Bergen County golf course, authorities said. Security video from the Soldier Hill Golf Course shows the driver dropping the victim with a closed-fist punch to the temple shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17, Emerson Police Chief Michael Mazzeo said. He got back into his car and drove off but was nabbed moments later by River Edge police thanks to a "stop and hold" issued by their Emerson colleagues, the chief said. The victim told police he got into the back seat for a ride home when the driver said he could…

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Pipe Bomb Found Near Bus Stop, Bergen Apartment Complex Evacuated Pipe Bomb Found Near Bus Stop, Bergen Apartment Complex Evacuated
Pipe Bomb Found Near Bus Stop, Bergen Apartment Complex Evacuated A River Edge garden apartment complex was partially evacuated Thursday afternoon after an inert pipe bomb was discovered behind a nearby bus stop, authorities said. Someone found the black metal pipe with copper pellets inside behind a retaining wall at the Kinderkamack Road bus stop outside the Continental Gardens complex off the corner of Howland Avenue, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton confirmed. "The incendiary device was placed in a containment vessel by members of the Bomb Squad," Cureton said. Responders also taped off one of the buildings in the complex. An elderly man taken …

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Sedan Impaled, Driver Injured In River Edge Crash Sedan Impaled, Driver Injured In River Edge Crash
Sedan Impaled, Driver Injured In River Edge Crash A driver was hospitalized with what responders said were compound leg and ankle fractures after a freakish crash Thursday afternoon in River Edge. The Honda Civic ended up atop a bollard in the parking lot of the CVS on Kinderkamack Road at Rutgers Place near the Hackensack border around 3 p.m. Firefighters doused a blaze in the engine compartment as police officers got the driver out safely. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. River Edge police got the driver out safely while firefighters doused a small engine blaze.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE Two Holy Name Medical Cen…

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New Milford Detective Nails Teaneck Man In Vehicle Burglary Spree New Milford Detective Nails Teaneck Man In Vehicle Burglary Spree
New Milford Detective Nails Teaneck Man In Vehicle Burglary Spree New Milford police cracked a string of vehicle burglaries with the arrest of a Teaneck man, authorities said. Four different vehicles were burglarized overnight in different parts of town, with victims reporting cash, credit cards, debit cards, personal ID and gift cards taken, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said Tuesday. One of the debit cards was used to make a purchase in River Edge shortly after the June 22 thefts, he said. Detective Przemyslaw Boinski identified a vehicle and then a suspect, 25-year-old Amari Estiverne, Van Saders said. The 6-foot-2-inch, 210-pound Estiverne has a cr…

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Two Injured In River Edge Rollover Two Injured In River Edge Rollover
Two Injured In River Edge Rollover Two victims in a Saturday rollover crash in River Edge were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, responders said.  Both got out of the sedan before firefighters arrived at the intersection of Continental and 7th avenues around 4:45 p.m. The River Edge Volunteer Ambulance Service and Hackensack University Medical Center BLS took them to HUMC. River Edge police also responded.

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PHOTOS: Speeding Mustang Driver In Fiery Truck Crash Was Drunk, New Milford PD Charges PHOTOS: Speeding Mustang Driver In Fiery Truck Crash Was Drunk, New Milford PD Charges
Photos: Speeding Mustang Driver In Fiery Truck Crash Was Drunk, New Milford PD Charges A drunk driver crashed a speeding Mustang into a box truck, which then burst into flames before dawn Sunday, authorities said. The Ford driver and the trucker were both taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor injuries by ambulances from HUMC and Holy Name Medical Center after the 3 a.m. crash at New Bridge and Old Bridge roads, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. Both had already gotten out of their vehicles when police found the donut delivery truck on its side engulfed in flames, Van Saders said. Juan Betancourth, 31, of Englewood lost control of the speeding Mustang on…

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Female Diversion Trio Swipes Cash From River Edge Liquor Store Female Diversion Trio Swipes Cash From River Edge Liquor Store
Female Diversion Trio Swipes Cash From River Edge Liquor Store RIVER EDGE, N.J. -- Three women in baseball caps fled with a "large amount" of cash from the register of a popular River Edge liquor store after distracting the cashier, the company said. The trio entered Total Wine & More at 7:35 p.m. on Dec. 29 and immediately got in a checkout line, the company's loss prevention department said. The first woman bought two packages of Gummy Bears with cash, distracted the cashier "by making small talk" and started "asking for change and exchanging bills back and forth," the department said in a company BOLO [Be On The Loo…

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