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Gunman Admits Robbing Hotels In Ramapo, Nanuet, Elsewhere Gunman Admits Robbing Hotels In Ramapo, Nanuet, Elsewhere
Gunman Admits Robbing Hotels In Ramapo, Nanuet, Elsewhere A 46-year-old man admitted that he robbed employees at a Howard Johnson's in Airmont and a Hilton Garden Inn in Nanuet, along with those at a dozen other hotels in New Jersey. Tremone Burnett of Essex County told a federal judge in Newark that he tied the victims’ hands and feet in some of the holdups. SEE: Gunman Robs Cash From Paramus Hotel He also fired the gun during a hotel robbery at a Sheraton in Weehawken, federal prosecutors said. Burnett robbed the hotels during an eight-week crime spree that began in April 2014, authorities said. These included New Jersey hotels in Secaucus, N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Mahwah PD: EMS Worker Fired Over KKK Incident Nabbed With Loaded Gun Mahwah PD: EMS Worker Fired Over KKK Incident Nabbed With Loaded Gun
Mahwah PD: EMS Worker Fired Over KKK Incident Nabbed With Loaded Gun A security guard at a Route 17 truck stop was carrying a loaded handgun and wearing clothing that suggested he was a police officer, said Mahwah police who arrested him. The defendant, 58-year-old Timothy M. Prahm of Secaucus, was one of three UMDNJ paramedics fired in 2008 after photos surfaced of them dressed as members of the KKK and holding a large wooden cross. In the recent Mahwah incident, Detective Eric Larsen responded to a concerned citizen's call from a highway truck stop and found Prahm “wearing a Jersey City Police Department tee-shirt, navy blue tactical pants and black police…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Tree Falls On Tracks, Delaying Rockland, Orange Trains Tree Falls On Tracks, Delaying Rockland, Orange Trains
Tree Falls On Tracks, Delaying Rockland, Orange Trains RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- Rail service on the Bergen, Main and Port Jervis lines through Ridgewood was temporarily suspended Wednesday after a tree fell onto the southbound tracks. Ridgewood and NJ Transit police responded along with village firefighters and an NJT Rail Operations crew after the tree fell near 264 South Broad St. just after 11:30 a.m. Service resumed on the Main, Bergen and Port Jervis lines at 12:10 p.m. but with 45-minute delays, NJ Transit said. The lines run to and from Hoboken through Secaucus between Bergen and Rockland and Orange counties -- including stops in Sloatsburg, …

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by Jerry DeMarco