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28-Year-Old Killed After BMW Crashes In Highlands 28-Year-Old Killed After BMW Crashes In Highlands
28-Year-Old Killed After BMW Crashes In Highlands A 28-year-old was killed after passing a dump truck on the shoulder of a roadway and then hitting a Cadillac Silverado in the Hudson Valley. Rockland County resident Dillon Ortiz, was killed in Orange County around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 5 on Route 293 in the town of Highlands. An investigation by New York State Police found that a 2019 BMW 335i, driven by Ortiz, a  Haverstraw resident, was traveling northbound passed a dump truck on the eastern shoulder that was also traveling north, said Trooper Steven Nevel. Nevel said after passing the truck, Ortiz reentered the roadway and cro…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Bergenfield Man, 57, Drowns At Ramapo Reservation In Mahwah Bergenfield Man, 57, Drowns At Ramapo Reservation In Mahwah
Bergenfield Man, 57, Drowns At Ramapo Reservation In Mahwah A rescue mission turned into a recovery after a Bergenfield man drowned early Saturday night in the upper lake at the Ramapo Valley Reservation in Mahwah. The victim was reported missing about an hour after he was last seen, responders said. A Mahwah police drone located the body, as various police, firefighters and dive teams converged on the scene. Mahwah and Parsippany divers retrieved his body just offshore. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Unit was notified.  Authorities also summoned the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Orange County Driver Busted With THC Dessert Assortment, Police Say Orange County Driver Busted With THC Dessert Assortment, Police Say
Orange County Driver Busted With THC Dessert Assortment, Police Say A New York State driver had an illegal assortment of THC-infused desserts – cookies, muffins, brownies, chocolate bars and lollipops, among them – when Lyndhurst police said they arrested him. Hovadis Maracallo, 39, Middletown, was behind the wheel of a Honda SUV parked on a dimly lit stretch of Lafayette Avenue when Officer Mark Rivera rolled up around 10 p.m. Saturday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Seeing the officer, Maracallo drove off, then turned without signaling, Auteri said. Rivera pulled Maracallo over and immediately smelled marijuana, the lieutenant said. According to Au…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Body Of Missing Postal Worker Found In Passaic River Body Of Missing Postal Worker Found In Passaic River
Body Of Missing Postal Worker Found In Passaic River LYNDHURST, N.J. – The body of a postal worker from Lyndhurst who went missing more than three weeks ago was pulled Friday from the Passaic River in South Kearny. "We're pending positive identification [from the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office]," Police Chief James O'Connor told Daily Voice, adding that foul play wasn't suspected. Co-workers of 51-year-old Vitorino Cirne at the U.S. Postal Service facility in Kearny sobbed Friday after receiving the news. "I got to dance with him at the last retirement party they had," the wife of one of them told Daily Voice. &q…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Body Of Postal Worker From Lyndhurst, 51, Pulled From Passaic River Body Of Postal Worker From Lyndhurst, 51, Pulled From Passaic River
Body Of Postal Worker From Lyndhurst, 51, Pulled From Passaic River LYNDHURST, N.J. – (UPDATE) The body of a postal worker from Lyndhurst who went missing more than three weeks ago was pulled Friday from the Passaic River in South Kearny. https://lyndhurst.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/body-of-missing-postal-worker-from-lyndhurst-found-in-passaic-river/736660/ ****** PREVIOUS STORY: Divers searched the Passaic River for 51-year-old Vitorino Cirne, with no results, after his car was found nearby (SEE: Passaic River Search For Missing Lyndhurst Man Called Off). Cirne is 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds, with brown eyes, brown and gray hair and a fair complexion, Lyndh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Stop & Shop Clerk Collected Child Porn, Bergen Authorities Charge Stop & Shop Clerk Collected Child Porn, Bergen Authorities Charge
Stop & Shop Clerk Collected Child Porn, Bergen Authorities Charge DUMONT, N.J. – A supermarket clerk from Dumont collected child porn, said authorities who arrested him Friday. Christian Winner, 49, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing on possession of child pornography charges following a raid on his Larch Avenue home. Winner -- who'd worked at the Stop & Shop in Emerson and the K-Mart in Westwood -- “used the Internet to view and possess digital files depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. The prosecutor thanked Dumont police, as well…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NYC Man Waiting 'Too Close To Tracks' Struck By Port Jervis-Bound Train NYC Man Waiting 'Too Close To Tracks' Struck By Port Jervis-Bound Train
NYC Man Waiting 'Too Close To Tracks' Struck By Port Jervis-Bound Train PORT JERVIS, N.Y. -- A 38-year-old man who apparently stood too close to the tracks was struck by a Port Jervis-bound express train at a New Jersey station and critically injured injured Friday night, authorities said. "Initial reports are that he was standing too close to the edge of the platform with his back to the tracks" when the victim was struck around 5:30 p.m. at the Kingsland Station in Lyndhurst, NJ Transit's Jim Smith said. The Woodside, Queens man was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center in critical condition, Smith said. "His back was facing the way t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
Standout Goshen, OCC Athlete Brett Verdicchio Dies At 39 Standout Goshen, OCC Athlete Brett Verdicchio Dies At 39
Standout Goshen, OCC Athlete Brett Verdicchio Dies At 39 Standout Orange County athlete Brett Anthony Verdicchio died on Jan. 7 in Del Ray Beach, Fla. He was 39 years old. Brett was born in Hackensack, N.J., and raised in Campbell Hall, N.Y. He shined on the Goshen High School football team and was a star pitcher for the Goshen baseball team.  Brett graduated from Goshen High School in 1997. After graduating from Orange County Community College and attended St. Francis University on a Division 1 baseball scholarship. He lived in Del Ray Beach for the past 10 years. He is survived by his parents, Annette Krevolt Glover and Joseph Verdicchio; sis…

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by Cecilia Levine