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Watch Officer Recognized By MADD Expertly Arrest Driver Suspected Of DUI In New Jersey Watch Officer Recognized By MADD Expertly Arrest Driver Suspected Of DUI In New Jersey
Watch Officer Recognized By MADD Expertly Arrest Driver Suspected Of DUI In New Jersey Footage of a New Jersey police officer once recognized by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is going viral as she arrests a motorist suspected of driving under the influence. The 1-hour and 5-minute video shared by Transparency Bodycam shows Red Bank Officer Grace Maggiulli responding to a crash at Maple Avenue near the intersection with E Bergen Boulevard on June 3, 2024. At the scene, one driver explains to Maggiulli he'd been rear-ended while at a red light by a 2023 Chevrolet, which she'd later learn was being operated by New York resident Gustavo Gonzalez, 24, of Monr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Irate Smoke Shop Customer Impersonates Detective, Had Airsoft Guns, Crystal Meth: Mahwah PD Irate Smoke Shop Customer Impersonates Detective, Had Airsoft Guns, Crystal Meth: Mahwah PD
Irate Smoke Shop Customer Impersonates Detective, Had Airsoft Guns, Crystal Meth: Mahwah PD A Mahwah smoke shop customer had two airsoft guns in his car, a holster in his waistband and some crystal meth on him when he claimed to be a police detective during a dispute with the owner, authorities said. Officers who responded to the Hypnotic Smoke Shop on Franklin Turnpike around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6, spoke with the owner and the irate customer, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. Gustavo Gonzalez Jr., 24, of Monroe, NY, apparently had tried to pay for merchandise with credit card numbers and not an actual card, the captain said. The owner said he told Gonzalez that wasn’t allowed, aft…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Route 17 N/B Reopened After Overhead Sign In Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Is Replaced UPDATE: Route 17 N/B Reopened After Overhead Sign In Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Is Replaced
Update: Route 17 N/B Reopened After Overhead Sign In Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Is Replaced UPDATE: Northbound Route 17 in Mahwah was reopened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday following a wild tractor-trailer crash earlier in the day. Only one lane of the southbound highway was open during the evening rush. There miraculously were no serious injuries in the crash, which left the rig scattered across both sides of the highway near the New York State border around 10 a.m. Aug. 2, Mahwah Mayor Jim Wysocki said. The rig had split into pieces, with a huge container landing on a passing SUV on the other side of the divider and thousands of lemons spilling onto the highway. An overhead signp…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Traffic
UPDATE: Northbound Route 17 Reopened After Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Damages Overhead Sign UPDATE: Northbound Route 17 Reopened After Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Damages Overhead Sign
Update: Northbound Route 17 Reopened After Wild Tractor-Trailer Crash Damages Overhead Sign UPDATE: Northbound Route 17 in Mahwah as reopened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday following a wild tractor-trailer crash earlier in the day. Only one lane of the southbound highway was open during the evening rush. There miraculously were no serious injuries in the crash, which left the rig scattered across both sides of the highway near the New York State border around 10 a.m. Aug. 2, Mahwah Mayor Jim Wysocki said. The rig had split into pieces, with a huge container landing on a passing SUV on the other side of the divider and thousands of lemons spilling onto the highway. An overhead signpo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
WILD CRASH: Tractor-Trailer Splits In Pieces, Lands On Car On Route 17 WILD CRASH: Tractor-Trailer Splits In Pieces, Lands On Car On Route 17
Wild Crash: Tractor-Trailer Splits In Pieces, Lands On Car On Route 17 UPDATE: Northbound Route 17 in Mahwah was reopened around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday following a wild tractor-trailer crash earlier in the day. Only one lane of the southbound highway was open during the evening rush. There miraculously were no serious injuries in the crash, which left the rig scattered across both sides of the highway near the New York State border around 10 a.m. Aug. 2, Mahwah Mayor Jim Wysocki said. The rig had split into pieces, with a huge container landing on a passing SUV on the other side of the divider and thousands of lemons spilling onto the highway. An overhead sign …

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Teen Rape Defendant Also Stalked Ramapo College Student, Authorities Charge Teen Rape Defendant Also Stalked Ramapo College Student, Authorities Charge
Teen Rape Defendant Also Stalked Ramapo College Student, Authorities Charge UPDATE: A 19-year-old man already accused of repeatedly raping a minor at the Jersey Shore and in New York State also stalked a female Ramapo College student, authorities charged. Jon Pelcin, of Monroe, NY, followed the sophomore around the Mahwah campus "on multiple occasions," Township Detective Lt. Kevin Hebert wrote. Pelcin "showed up at sporting events where the victim [was] in attendance" and followed her in his vehicle, putting her "in fear of death or bodily injury," Hebert added. One time Pelcin followed the victim from the school gym to the student center and then to the library…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Teen Accused Of Jersey Shore, NY Child Rape Charged With Stalking Ramapo College Student Teen Accused Of Jersey Shore, NY Child Rape Charged With Stalking Ramapo College Student
Teen Accused Of Jersey Shore, NY Child Rape Charged With Stalking Ramapo College Student UPDATE (Dec. 9, 2022): A 19-year-old man already accused of repeatedly raping a minor at the Jersey Shore and in New York State also stalked a female Ramapo College student, authorities charged. Jon Pelcin, of Monroe, NY, followed the sophomore around the Mahwah campus "on multiple occasions," Township Detective Lt. Kevin Hebert wrote. Pelcin "showed up at sporting events where the victim [was] in attendance" and followed her in his vehicle, putting her "in fear of death or bodily injury," Hebert added. One time Pelcin followed the victim from the school gym to the student center and then…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
TIRE IRON BEATDOWN: Armed NY Man Follows Victim To Rt. 46 Exxon Lot In Vicious Road Rage Attack TIRE IRON BEATDOWN: Armed NY Man Follows Victim To Rt. 46 Exxon Lot In Vicious Road Rage Attack
Tire Iron Beatdown: Armed NY Man Follows Victim To Rt. 46 Exxon Lot In Vicious Road Rage Attack An armed New York man was motivated by road rage when he followed a victim into the parking lot of an Exxon gas station on Route 46 in Mount Olive and initiated a vicious beatdown using a tire iron, authorities charged. The fight occurred on Route 46 West in front of the Exxon gas station on Wednesday, Nov. 23, Mount Olive Police said. Investigators found that Joseph H. Melillo, 55, of Monroe, NY, had allegedly followed the victim into the parking lot after a road rage incident prior to entering the township. Melillo and the victim then became involved in a physical fight, where Melillo st…

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by Valerie Musson
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Hudson Driver Caught After Crashing Car Stolen From NY Into Backyard Off GS Parkway: Paramus PD Hudson Driver Caught After Crashing Car Stolen From NY Into Backyard Off GS Parkway: Paramus PD
Hudson Driver Caught After Crashing Car Stolen From NY Into Backyard Off GS Parkway: Paramus PD Paramus police captured a Jersey City ex-con who crashed a car stolen out of Orange County into the backyard of a home off the Garden State Parkway and then took off on foot, authorities said. The 2018 Nissan Maxima -- which had just been reported stolen out of Monroe, NY -- barreled off the southbound Parkway exit ramp and into private property on Highland Avenue around 7 p.m. Monday, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Officers Nicholas Perna and Clario Sampson found Javon Reaves, 29, who'd bailed out and was walking on Alden Road a short time later, the chief said. He at first …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Father's Day Fatal: Popular Route 9W Deli Owner Killed When PIP Tree Falls On Pickup Father's Day Fatal: Popular Route 9W Deli Owner Killed When PIP Tree Falls On Pickup
Father's Day Fatal: Popular Route 9W Deli Owner Killed When PIP Tree Falls On Pickup UPDATE: A father of four who owned and operated a popular Italian grocery on Route 9W was killed in a freak accident on the Palisades Interstate Parkway that seriously injured two of his children late Sunday afternoon. Anthony Apostolico, the 48-year-old owner of The Italian Food Center in West Haverstraw, was a passenger in a pickup truck that was smashed by a falling tree on the northbound parkway near Exit 16 in Stony Point, authorities said. The driver of the 2018 Ford F-150, Vincent A. Apostolico, 20, and his sister, Elizabeth, 17, had to be extricated by firefighters. Both were take…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Young Pennsylvania Dad Killed In Wrong-Way NY State Crash Young Pennsylvania Dad Killed In Wrong-Way NY State Crash
Young Pennsylvania Dad Killed In Wrong-Way NY State Crash Profound grief replaced shock as word spread that a Pennsylvania man had been killed in a head-on crash in New York State this past weekend. Brendan Seabrook, who'd just turned 27 and had a young daughter in grade school, was driving north on the Palisades Interstate Parkway about 10 miles north of New Jersey, authorities said, when an oncoming SUV slammed into his 2016 Toyota Avalon at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 6. Seabrook, who was a member of Local 60 of the Laborers' International Union of North America and recently lived in Monroe, NY, was extricated by Nanuet firefighters and taken to Mo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Salesman Who Suffered Brain Injury Gets $9M Settlement In NJ Turnpike Tire Blowout Crash Salesman Who Suffered Brain Injury Gets $9M Settlement In NJ Turnpike Tire Blowout Crash
Salesman Who Suffered Brain Injury Gets $9M Settlement In NJ Turnpike Tire Blowout Crash The law firm representing a salesman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a New Jersey Turnpike crash said it has obtained a $9 million settlement. Ernest Damiani of Monroe, NY, was on his way to a sales call when he pulled onto the Turnpike shoulder in Middlesex County on Aug. 2, 2018, authorities said. A Ford Excursion then blew a rear tire and spun across several lanes of traffic and into Damiani's vehicle, according to police reports. Damiani, now 62, was hospitalized for two months. He spent the next nine months at rehab facilities, leaving him unable to return to his job while re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Bookkeeper From NY Gets Two Years In Fed Pen For Inflating His Payroll By $500,000 NJ Bookkeeper From NY Gets Two Years In Fed Pen For Inflating His Payroll By $500,000
NJ Bookkeeper From NY Gets Two Years In Fed Pen For Inflating His Payroll By $500,000 A New York man who worked as an office manager and bookkeeper for a Union County company is headed to federal prison for two years for inflating his payroll information by nearly $500,000, authorities said. Over the course of about three years, Patrick Snoop, 35, of Monroe in Orange County, NY, “used his position to fraudulently inflate his salary on several occasions by providing falsified information to a payroll company used by his employer,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The unauthorized changes cost his company $494,373, Carpenito said. Snoop pleaded guilty to wire fraud before …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Mahwah Driver, 32, Killed In NY Crash Mahwah Driver, 32, Killed In NY Crash
Mahwah Driver, 32, Killed In NY Crash A 32-year-old Mahwah man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Orange County, NY early Tuesday, authorities said. Joseph R. Farina was headed east on School Road in Monroe when his 1996 Toyota Avalon collided with a westbound 2013 Acura TL driven by 67-year-old Patrick J. Early of Warwick around 7:20 a.m., New York State Police Trooper Steven Nevel said. Farina was pronounced dead at the scene, the trooper said.  An investigation was continuing, he said. 

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop
Police: Pregnant Passenger Busted Shooting Heroin In Route 17 Stop A pregnant passenger who was shooting heroin when she and her fiancé were stopped by Upper Saddle River police before dawn Saturday pulled the needle out so fast that she bled on her clothes, authorities said. Officer Kevin McWilliams stopped their car for various violations as the couple headed north on the highway toward their home in Monroe, NY, around 1:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Williams immediately spotted a needle and empty heroin bag on the center console, Kane said. Both the driver, Erik Shepard, 27, and his fiancée, Jacqueline Completo, 20, were apparently under the…

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by Jerry DeMarco