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Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs
Palisades Parkway PD: Fleeing Newark Car Thieves Captured After Calling Uber To Cliffs Palisades Interstate Parkway police waited out a pair of teenage thieves from Newark who bailed from a stolen vehicle, hid in the woods along the cliffs above the Hudson River, then called an Uber to pick them up. An officer tried stopping the Audi A5, reported stolen out of Livingston, on the northbound parkway in Alpine early Monday afternoon, Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The same vehicle had been chased by police in Madison before dawn that same day, he noted. The parkway driver hit the gas before quickly exiting onto Henry Hudson Drive and heading down the hill into the Alpine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Missing Edison Man Found Dead On Staten Island Beach Missing Edison Man Found Dead On Staten Island Beach
Missing Edison Man Found Dead On Staten Island Beach An Edison man whose roommate said he disappeared was found dead 12 hours later on a  State Island beach, authorities said. A passerby saw Jagadeesh Koppanati's body on the shoreline of Cedar Grove Beach in the New Dorp area of Staten Island’s East Shore around 6 a.m., Saturday, a spokesperson for the NYPD said. The 27-year-old didn't specify where he was going when he left their house wearing a mask and gloves Friday night, his roommate told The Advance/SILive.com, speculating he may have been going to a party. The roommate -- whose name was not published -- asked Koppanati …

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Paterson Has COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says Paterson Has COVID-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says
Paterson Has Covid-19 Contact Tracing Model U.S. Can Follow, Report Says Paterson has something the U.S. can emulate: Its coronavirus contact tracing system. The city has been able to successfully trace approximately 90 percent of its more than 5,900 coronaviruses cases, Paterson health official Dr. Paul Persaud said in a recent New York Times article. "Twenty miles to the west of New York City, Paterson, a poor, largely nonwhite city of about 150,000, has been tracing the virus at a level that could be the envy of larger cities," the report says. Two dozen workers who had been trained last year by the Board of Health in communicable disease investigations…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say
Thieving Essex Couple Who Came, Fled In Uber Caught By Lyndhurst Police, Authorities Say Teamwork helped Lyndhurst police nab a shoplifting Essex County couple who tried to flee in an Uber, authorities said. Chrisann Shaffer, 40, Bloomfield and Jeffrey Uhrig, 45, Newark, took a different Uber to the Walgreens on Valley Brook Avenue and ran off with a bundle of stolen merchandise after an employee caught them on Wednesday, Detective Sgt. Vincent Auteri said. Both ran past the waiting Uber and temporarily vanished, Auteri said. Detective William Kapp radioed ahead after learning that they apparently grabbed another Uber, the lieutenant said. Sgt. Phil Reina spotted and stopped …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
These Are The Most Bizarre, Common Items Left Behind By New Jersey Uber Riders These Are The Most Bizarre, Common Items Left Behind By New Jersey Uber Riders
These Are The Most Bizarre, Common Items Left Behind By New Jersey Uber Riders A box of yams. A curtain rod. A pair of pom-poms. What do these items have in common? They all made this year’s list of the most interesting items forgotten in an Uber by passengers in New Jersey, according to the rideshare company’s annual Lost & Found Index. The report ranks the items that are most commonly forgotten in Uber vehicles as well as the “most forgetful” cities across the U.S. and even the most popular times to lose items. Like last year’s report, the most commonly lost items include everyday essentials like keys, phones, wallets, ID cards and purses. However, the odds a…

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by Valerie Musson
Lifestyle
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service
Jersey City Dad Launches Kid-Friendly Ride Share Service Toward the end of the 2019 school year, Jersey City father Norbert Sygdziak got a phone call from his son’s school district about an “unnerving event” that would require new bus arrangements. The call prompted Sygdziak to think seriously about school bus safety. He ultimately left his 19-year career in the legal industry to launch and take on a CEO role at RideAlong -- a child-oriented ride-share service with Jersey City native, Fateen Reid. "Despite all the advantages we have as a society, most parents are still forced to place their children on yellow school buses with little to no info…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Paterson PD: Uber Rider Nabbed After Demanding Oral Sex At Gunpoint From Female Driver Paterson PD: Uber Rider Nabbed After Demanding Oral Sex At Gunpoint From Female Driver
Paterson PD: Uber Rider Nabbed After Demanding Oral Sex At Gunpoint From Female Driver A Fort Lee Uber rider with a gun threatened to kill a driver if she didn’t give him oral sex, said Paterson police who caught him after she tricked him into waiting in the car. The driver told city police she’d picked up the fare in Palisades Park shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday for what was to be a ride to Pearl Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard. During the ride, she said, he “racked” the slide of a black handgun, telling her that it was for his protection once he got to Paterson, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Once they arrived at their destination behind Paterson Eastside High S…

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by Jerry DeMarco