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Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds
Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds Two Brooklyn men and a juvenile who tossed trash from their car while parked at a Closter shopping center had bogus credit cards, pot and $17,000 in suspicious cash on them, authorities said. Police seized the cards, drugs and cash and took Sayquan Jackson and Ryan Westbook, both 18, and the 17-year-old minor into custody after being called to the Closter Plaza last Tuesday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Jackson and Westbrook were charged with money laundering, credit card fraud, possession of fraudulent documents and drug offenses, Aiello said. Delinquency complaints were filed agains…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say
Video: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say UPDATE: Flames ravaged what responders said was a cluttered New Milford home Thursday night. A firefighter sustained a relatively minor injury in the three alarm fire, which began in the basement of the 2½-story Henley Avenue home at the corner of Asbury Street around 9:30 p.m., responders said. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters initially had trouble pinpointing the seat of the blaze because of hoarding conditions -- commonly called "Collyers mansion syndrome" after two wealthy Harlem brothers who died in a 1947 fire amid stacks of newspapers, books, tin cans and rotting trash.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital
Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital A pre-dawn fire at a waste management facility in Closter sent an employee to the hospital for observation, responders said. The fire broke out in the Interstate Waste Services transfer station garbage bays on Railroad Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Two employees tried to extinguish the blaze with a fire hose before firefighters took over, he said. One of the employees was brought to Hackensack Meridian Health's Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood with smoke inhalation, Aiello said. Demarest firefighters joined their Closter colleagues at t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search
Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search An intense search for a nonverbal 4-year-old boy with autism who'd gone missing from his home ended when a Closter police lieutenant heard him crying in a house under construction. The boy’s parents told police that they “went outside to their vehicle for a moment and inadvertently left the garage door open” on Hickory Lane shortly before 5 p.m. last Thursday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Lt. Matthew Thornhill was among a massive group of responders that included Detective Sgt. Keith Dombkowski and Officers Justin Krapels and Brian Kelly, as well as police from Alpine, Cresskill, Dema…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland
Fugitive Wanted For Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend In Newark Captured In Maryland A Newark man stabbed his ex-girlfriend when she wouldn't take him back, then fled to Maryland, where he was captured the same day, authorities said. Carlos Hernandez Bonilla-Pabon, 47, stabbed the victim several times after she refused to resume their relationship when he stopped her on Nichols Street as she headed to work on June 9, authorities said. An Essex County sheriff’s officer forwarded an arrest warrant and a possible location in the town of Fort Washington, MD -- roughly 230 miles from the scene of the assault -- to their colleagues in Prince Georges County that same day. Deputie…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids AUTHORITIES: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids
Authorities: Dumont Girlfriend Murderer Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying 2 Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids
Update: Boyfriend Of Slain Dumont Woman Captured Without Pants, Shoes, Carrying Two Young Kids UPDATE: A man who authorities said brutally stabbed his girlfriend dead in her Dumont apartment before dawn Tuesday was captured by Closter police after he knocked on a local resident's door in the middle of the night not wearing pants or shoes and carrying their two young children in his arms. Jeffrey Daniels, 36, was charged with murder, child endangerment and illegal weapons possession in the slaying of Michelle Boccellari Burns hours earlier in the garden apartment they shared on Knickerbocker Road. Burns, a 36-year-old mother of three girls, had been stabbed several times in the head …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Construction Manager At Bergen Retirement Community, 72, Charged With Pulling Gun In Dispute Construction Manager At Bergen Retirement Community, 72, Charged With Pulling Gun In Dispute
Construction Manager At Bergen Retirement Community, 72, Charged With Pulling Gun In Dispute A 72-year-old construction manager pulled a gun during an argument with another man at a Northvale retirement community, said police who arrested him. The alleged victim told police he’d gotten into an argument with Anthony Prestifilipo of Cedar Grove at Paris Square on Paris Avenue over his “employment and residential status,” Police Chief Howard Ostrow said. Officers responding to a 10 p.m. call at the 55-and-over condo development found Prestifilipo carrying a .380-caliber Kimber handgun that the victim said he assaulted him with, the chief said. They charged Prestifilipo with aggravat…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
CMX Cinemas Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy CMX Cinemas Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
CMX Cinemas Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Cinemex Holdings USA, Inc. and Cinemex USA Real Estate Holdings, Inc. (CMX) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CMX -- the dine-in, luxury movie theater chain -- has a location in Closter and another planned for the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford. "We are in a state of complete uncertainty as to when we can re-open our theaters and when our customers will feel safe and secure in returning to them given that there is presently no vaccine against the virus," according to a news release. "We cannot forecast when — if ever — customer numbers will retu…

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by Cecilia Levine