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UPDATE: Crow's Nest Reopens After Minor Fire UPDATE: Crow's Nest Reopens After Minor Fire
Update: Crow's Nest Reopens After Minor Fire Hours after patrons celebrated St. Patrick's Day, a fire closed the Crow's Nest in Hackensack. And just like that, they reopened. "We are excited to share that we will be reopening today with normal business hours," the restaurant posted on social media on Sunday, March 19. "We worked tirelessly through the night so that we can be ready to serve our customers!" The noontime blaze on Saturday apparently broke out in an area on the roof above the kitchen and spread to an adjacent second-story office door at the popular restaurant just off Routes 17 and 80. Roofers apparently were working at…

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Convicted Pedophile Delivery Driver Charged With Trafficking Child Porn In Bergen (Again) Convicted Pedophile Delivery Driver Charged With Trafficking Child Porn In Bergen (Again)
Convicted Pedophile Delivery Driver Charged With Trafficking Child Porn In Bergen (Again) A convicted sex offender from Hackensack who works as a delivery driver was arrested after authorities said he returned to trafficking child porn. Jonah Llull, 27, served three years in state prison following convictions for forcing an underage teen into sex in 2013 and possessing child pornography in 2016, records show. He was released from custody in June 2019. Detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit seized Llull following a warranted search of his apartment in the Quail Heights development on Prospect Avenue in Hackensack on Thursday, March 16. Llull,…

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Mastermind Of 84 Brazen Burglaries In Nine NJ Counties, Rockland Gets Plea-Bargained 14 Years Mastermind Of 84 Brazen Burglaries In Nine NJ Counties, Rockland Gets Plea-Bargained 14 Years
Mastermind Of 84 Brazen Burglaries In Nine NJ Counties, Rockland Gets Plea-Bargained 14 Years UPDATE: A Teaneck ex-con was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for leading a band of brazen burglars who authorities said committed no fewer than 84 broad-daylight home break-ins throughout New Jersey and Rockland County. Keith Perry, 39, took a deal from prosecutors rather than risk the consequences of a trial, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said on Tuesday, March 14. Perry was among several people arrested in April 2021 for dozens of burglaries committed over the previous six months in nine New Jersey counties — Morris, Bergen, Essex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Union, Passai…

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Police: Englewood Girl Has Smarts To Take Photo Of Lewd Driver's Distinctive Truck Police: Englewood Girl Has Smarts To Take Photo Of Lewd Driver's Distinctive Truck
Police: Englewood Girl Has Smarts To Take Photo Of Lewd Driver's Distinctive Truck A driver behind the wheel of a pickup truck older than him was arrested after authorities said he masturbated while asking an Englewood schoolgirl for directions. Now they're wondering whether there may have been other incidents. The 16-year-old victim told police she was walking to school on Knickerbocker Road on Friday, March 10 when the driver pulled up in a 1996 Dodge Ram pickup, Lt. Fred Pulice said. As she approached the truck to respond to his request for directions, she saw him masturbating, the lieutenant said. The girl fled -- but not before taking a cell phone photo of the dist…

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Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase
Bergen Drug Detectives Nab Albany Driver Near GWB After Stolen Car Chase A driver from Albany tried to outrun detectives in a stolen car but was seized near the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Narcotic Task Force detectives got wind on Tuesday, March 7 that a BMW 550 that had just been stolen during a burglary in Maplewood was headed their way. They tried stopping the driver, John Leroy Johnson, 38, in Englewood, the prosecutor said, but he kept going, apparently bound for the bridge. He “eventually pulled over and surrendered in Fort Lee,” Musella said. Johnson remained held Wednesday in t…

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Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC
Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC Keb' Mo' is peaking once more. Playing with a stellar backing trio -- a nimble-fingered keyboardist and a rhythm section tighter than a clam -- he's shredding again, picking deftly again, melding sexy blues, bounce, swing and just-plain-funky licks with that sweet-sweet roots music that hits that warm spot where your heart lives. And he's bringing it all back to BergenPAC in Englewood on June 16. It's always a party with Kevin Roosevelt Moore, but his latest tour is much more. The setlist sequencing is superb (even when he goes rogue) and his soulful combo is equally effective in adding a…

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Ecuadorian National Pleads Guilty To Brutal Stabbing Death Of Popular Bergen County Chef Ecuadorian National Pleads Guilty To Brutal Stabbing Death Of Popular Bergen County Chef
Ecuadorian National Pleads Guilty To Brutal Stabbing Death Of Popular Bergen County Chef A Jersey City man who brutally stabbed a well-known chef to death during a party at the victim’s Little Ferry home cut a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter in exchange for a lesser sentence. Ray Edwardo Arcentales Sanchez, 24, could still get a minimum sentence of 10 years in state prison for the plea, entered in Superior Court in Hackensack earlier this week. Then there’s the matter of his citizenship. Police at the time said the Ecuadorian national was sitting on a curb, spattered with blood, when officers responding to a 911 call found a mortally wounded …

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Teen Carjacker Pistol-Whips Driver In Englewood, Caught Returning To Vehicle Teen Carjacker Pistol-Whips Driver In Englewood, Caught Returning To Vehicle
Teen Carjacker Pistol-Whips Driver In Englewood, Caught Returning To Vehicle A juvenile pistol-whipped a car service driver, took his keys and was about to make off with his vehicle when Englewood police grabbed him. The 17-year-old robber tried carjacking the driver at gunpoint on 3rd Street but ended up taking the keys and running, Lt. Fred Pulice said. The driver, afraid that he'd return, immediately called police, the lieutenant said. Officers were interviewing him when the teen came around the corner, apparently to collect the car, Pulice said. They chased him on foot before catching the youth in Mackay Park. He apparently was carrying the keys to the car tha…

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Hackensack Ex-Con With Notorious History Going Away For A Long Time This Time Hackensack Ex-Con With Notorious History Going Away For A Long Time This Time
Hackensack Ex-Con With Notorious History Going Away For A Long Time This Time A notorious ex-con paroled just last year is already headed back to prison following a drug raid at his Hackensack apartment. Eleven months of freedom ended for Courry Rice, 40, when a Bergen County Regional SWAT team joined police from Hackensack and Maywood in hitting his Prospect Avenue home early Tuesday, Feb. 21. Seized were varying amounts of crack and Ecstasy, along with packaging materials and scales, Maywood Police Chief Terence Kenny said. Rice has a criminal history that includes a host of convictions involving drug dealing and violence, to go with multiple front-page news accou…

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Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens
Mexican National Living In Englewood Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Pre-Teens A Mexican national who lives in Englewood sexually assaulted two different pre-teens on more than one occasion, authorities charged. Robert Martinez-Guzman, a 41-year-old married laborer, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, Feb. 21, following his arrest late last week, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Special Victims Unit was alerted by Englewood police the day after Christmas last year. A joint investigation that followed produced four counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault against Martinez-Guzman, which records show stem from alleged …

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ICE Looks To Deport Colombian National Nabbed On Child Sex Charges In Englewood ICE Looks To Deport Colombian National Nabbed On Child Sex Charges In Englewood
ICE Looks To Deport Colombian National Nabbed On Child Sex Charges In Englewood A Colombian national living in Englewood who was jailed over the weekend on child sex charges will have to face a federal immigration judge in Newark first. Jeisson Murillo-Beltran, 30, had just been booked into the Bergen County Jail on Sunday, Feb. 19, when ICE officials issued a detainer aimed at preventing his release. Murillo-Beltran was charged with separate instances of child endangerment through sexual conduct and one count each of criminal sexual contact, lewdness and harassment through touching out of Englewood. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately issued the deta…

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Motel Guest Covered In Lotion Rescued From Knife-Wielding Woman At Little Ferry Motel: Police Motel Guest Covered In Lotion Rescued From Knife-Wielding Woman At Little Ferry Motel: Police
Motel Guest Covered In Lotion Rescued From Knife-Wielding Woman At Little Ferry Motel: Police Little Ferry police rescued a motel guest from Hackensack from a knife-wielding Englewood woman who covered him in lotion and held him against his will, authorities said. Responding officers two people arguing loudly on the other side of the room door when they arrived at the Capri Inn, Police Chief James Walters said. Desarey Victoria Hutchison, 31, who records show has a history of stalking arrests, initially refused to open the door, the chief said. She finally relented but was “extremely irate and screaming," he said. The officers found the 35-year-old victim covered head-to-toe in lo…

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