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HEROES: Trees Fall On Englewood House With Heart Attack Victim Inside HEROES: Trees Fall On Englewood House With Heart Attack Victim Inside
Heroes: Trees Fall On Englewood House With Heart Attack Victim Inside Two trees fell on an Englewood home during Tuesday afternoon's storm, blocking responders' path to a resident who'd just suffered a heart attack, authorities said. Englewood Police Officer Matthew Depetro hopped a railing to get inside the East Linden Avenue carriage house, where he found the unconscious 50-year-old victim shortly before 2:30 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The officer immediately began manual rescue breaths, Halstead said. Following Depetro moments later were city firefighters, who used a chain saw to remove what branches they could from a tree that was l…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush UPDATE: A local ex-con recruited two unemployed Baltimore men who shot and killed a Newark man in an ambush at an Englewood house party last month, authorities said. Daily Voice broke the story Saturday that members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT team captured Jamal "Mally" Robinson, 44, in a rental car on Reade Street in Englewood on Friday in connection with the fatal June 20 shooting at the corner of 2nd and 4th streets. What was temporarily withheld was that authorities had also captured one of two accused hit men while they searched for the other. Dejuan Stokes, 23 (photo inset, abo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border SEE ANYTHING? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border
SEE Anything? Englewood Shooting Suspects In Pursuit Bail At Leonia Border Two guns came flying out the window of a car during a wild Englewood police pursuit following a shooting last month, said authorities who grabbed the occupant of one vehicle and were seeking the public’s help finding those in the other. Several officers heard gunfire at the One William Street apartment complex at West Englewood Avenue and William Street and saw two vehicles speed away just after midnight April 13, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Police pursed both vehicle along South Dean Street, where the two guns were tossed from a late model Jeep Grand Cherokee, he said. “Whe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10 Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10
Citizens Cheer: Hackensack Police, SWAT Team Raid Drug Den, Bust 10 Relieved residents of a Hackensack neighborhood praised police for smashing an open-air drug market on their street, arresting 10 people in the process and seizing an assortment of drugs, packaging materials – along with a 9mm handgun. Hackensack Narcotics Bureau detectives summoned the Bergen County Regional SWAT team to help hit the home at 181 Berdan Place, which had been the scene of previous shootings, assaults and other crimes. Detective Reuven Lyak initiated the investigation “after receiving numerous complaints from residents and tipsters regarding an open-air drug market and ongoin…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood Police: Neighbor, Children, Officers Rescue Woman Repeatedly Stabbed By Ex-Boyfriend Englewood Police: Neighbor, Children, Officers Rescue Woman Repeatedly Stabbed By Ex-Boyfriend
Englewood Police: Neighbor, Children, Officers Rescue Woman Repeatedly Stabbed By Ex-Boyfriend Thanks to a neighbor, a few young children and Englewood police, a city woman was expected to survive after being stabbed several times Monday night by her ex-boyfriend, authorities said. The Good Samaritan who witnessed the attack "jumped on [the assailant], picked up the knife and chased him off with the help of children who were present," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Two responding officers quickly administered first aid, while two colleagues found Ernesto Dominguez-Hortelano, 37, hiding in a shed attached to a garage on the block behind the victim's home. Dominguez-H…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned
Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned A Dwight Morrow High School student who was told to stay home from school Tuesday returned and instigated a brawl that’s expected to produce criminal charges, Englewood police said. “There are between five to 10 students involved [in Tuesday’s melee], most of them 18 years old,” Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Wednesday. “As we move forward, aggressors who have been positively identified will be charged in all likelihood with disorderly conduct,” he said. “We are looking at charging at least one with defiant trespass, as he was told the previous day not to return to the school fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco