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3 Feet High And Flooding: Motorist Rescued From Partially Submerged Sedan In Glen Rock (PHOTOS) 3 Feet High And Flooding: Motorist Rescued From Partially Submerged Sedan In Glen Rock (PHOTOS)
3 Feet High And Flooding: Motorist Rescued From Partially Submerged Sedan In Glen Rock (Photos) A firefighter and two police officers helped a woman out of a sedan that got stuck in floodwaters beneath a Glen Rock train trestle. Firefighter Ryan Jennings and Special Police Officer James Harte were both driving down Maple Avenue when they spotted the vehicle with the driver still in it. The recent torrential downpours flooded the stretch beneath the NJ TRANSIT tracks on Maple Avenue near the borough train station around noontime Tuesday, June 27, leaving the vehicle stranded in three feet of water. Glen Rock Motor Unit Police Officer Adam Pyatak went in, as well, and together the tri…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Man Struck, Killed By Commuter Train In Clifton Man Struck, Killed By Commuter Train In Clifton
Man Struck, Killed By Commuter Train In Clifton A man was struck and killed in Clifton on Wednesday by a Rockland-bound commuter train, authorities confirmed. NJ TRANSIT Main Line Train #1113 had left Hoboken at 11:45 a.m. and was about to pass the Clifton station when the man was struck at 12:17 p.m. June 21, NJT Senior Public Information Officer Kyalo Mutumba said. Witnesses said the man was extricated and CPR was conducted, to no avail. There were no reported injuries to the 50 or so customers and crew onboard, Mutumba said. "Train traffic was temporarily stopped but has since resumed," he said shortly after 2 p.m. Transit police w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn
Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Two trespassers loitering on the railroad tracks in Fair Lawn forced a commuter train to stop during rush hour when it hit a backpack that one of them was carrying, authorities said. "They're lucky they only got away with summonses," an official source said following the incident at the Fair Lawn Avenue crossing near the Radburn station shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, June 16. No one was injured. However, 175 passengers and crew on the Suffern-bound 1167 train out of Hoboken were inconvenienced by the stop, which also blocked the railroad crossing to vehicular and pedestrian traffic while F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Killed By Hoboken-Bound Commuter Train From Port J, NJ Transit Confirms Pedestrian Killed By Hoboken-Bound Commuter Train From Port J, NJ Transit Confirms
Pedestrian Killed By Hoboken-Bound Commuter Train From Port J, NJ Transit Confirms A Hoboken-bound NJ Transit train from Port Jervis struck and killed a pedestrian near the Paterson train station late Tuesday morning, the agency confirmed. Train #58 left Port J at 9:21 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Hoboken at 11:38 a.m., an agency spokesperson said around noontime June 13. It struck the pedestrian at 11:13 a.m., he said. No injuries were reported to the crew or 90 customers on board, the agency said. Service was temporarily suspended between Clifton and Paterson while NJT police investigated. Further details were forthcoming. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Train At Jersey Shore Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Train At Jersey Shore
Pedestrian Fatally Struck By Train At Jersey Shore A male was fatally struck by a train over the weekend at the Jersey Shore, NJ Transit officials confirmed. The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was struck by a North Jersey Coast Line train just before stopping in Spring Lake around 3 a.m. Sunday, June 4, NJ Transit spokesman Kyalo Mulumba said. None of the eight people on board train No. 4795 were injured. The train had departed Long Branch at 2:42 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Bay Head at 3:22 a.m.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Gunman Shot By Police In Passaic Expected To Survive UPDATE: Gunman Shot By Police In Passaic Expected To Survive
Update: Gunman Shot By Police In Passaic Expected To Survive UPDATE: State authorities signaled their faith Thursday that the wounding of an armed man by a Passaic police officer on Wednesday was what everyone involved agrees was a clean shoot. A mandatory review of the incident that is required of New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has been left in the hands of Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes, the prosecutor herself said on Thursday, May 11. Officers responding to a call of a man shooting a gun in the area of Passaic Avenue and Lackawanna Place near the train station encountered the suspect shortly before 6:30 p.m. May 10, Pass…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock
Drunken, Bloodied Bus Passenger From Hawthorne Taken Into Custody In Glen Rock A blood-soaked drunken bus passenger from Hawthorne who’d been cutting herself was taken into protective custody by Glen Rock police, authorities said. Officers found the 29-year-old woman when they responded to the Harding Plaza station on a report of a disturbance onboard an NJ TRANSIT bus, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. She was “in a highly intoxicated state, covered with blood, with apparent self-inflicted knife wounds on her arms,” the chief said, adding that she “could not care for herself.” An ambulance took her to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center for detox and medical care, he s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Distraught Man Holds Officers At Bay For Hours In First Paterson Standoff Since State Takeover Distraught Man Holds Officers At Bay For Hours In First Paterson Standoff Since State Takeover
Distraught Man Holds Officers At Bay For Hours In First Paterson Standoff Since State Takeover The first standoff in Paterson since the state attorney general's office took control of the police department ended peacefully last weekend when a distraught man wielding a knife surrendered after 6 ½ hours, authorities said. Paterson and New Jersey State police worked together to resolve the confrontation with no injuries at NJ TRANSIT's Market Street garage, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said on Friday, April 14 No charges were filed, either, because the incident was considered a mental-health crisis that “involved police action as part of law enforcement’s community caret…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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11-Year-Old Who Died By Suicide In School Bathroom Recorded Chilling Voice Note Years Before 11-Year-Old Who Died By Suicide In School Bathroom Recorded Chilling Voice Note Years Before
11-Year-Old Who Died By Suicide In School Bathroom Recorded Chilling Voice Note Years Before An 11-year-old New Jersey middle school student who died by suicide in her school bathroom — just days after losing her dad, an NJ Transit police detective, to cancer — recorded a chilling voice note years before her death. "Unless you're me, well you're listening to this from the future," Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez can be heard saying in the 2021 voice note, shared by her mom Elaina LoAlbo, to Facebook.  "Say hello to future mom, future dad... future everyone. Never, never never be bad, never give up on your friends, never, ever... be a bully." Since her daughter's death, LoAlbo has been vo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident
Accused Serial Masturbator From Hudson Jailed In Bergen After Transit Bus Incident East Rutherford police snatched a 24-year-old serial masturbator from a commuter bus following another incident, authorities said. Marvin Vargas of Jersey City was taken from the NJ TRANSIT bus and booked on lewdness charges after police were called to a bus shelter on Paterson Plank Road around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30, Capt. Jeff Yannacone said. Vargas had masturbated in front of a female passenger, also 24, on the #163 bus, which runs between Ridgewood and the Port Authority bus station in Manhattan, the captain said. "Nothing was said to the female, but he was looking at her," Yann…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Shooting, Bus Crash End East Orange Police Pursuit Shooting, Bus Crash End East Orange Police Pursuit
Shooting, Bus Crash End East Orange Police Pursuit A law enforcement officer fired a shot and an NJ TRANSIT bus was involved in a crash during a pursuit in East Orange on Sunday, responders said. An SUV apparently was being pursued when it crashed and its three occupants bailed out at the intersection of Springdale and Arlington avenues near the Garden State Parkway overpass around noon on March 26. No serious injuries were immediately reported from the collision, which knocked the bus onto a resident's lawn. No one apparently was struck by gunfire. The trio vanished. Detectives work the scene of the crash and bailout following a purs…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian Killed By Train In Union County, Delays Reported Pedestrian Killed By Train In Union County, Delays Reported
Pedestrian Killed By Train In Union County, Delays Reported Delays were reported on NJ Transit's Raritan Valley Line Sunday morning, March 26 due to a pedestrian having been fatally struck. The RVL train 5515, which left Newark Penn Station just before 9:40 a.m., struck the pedestrian around 9:50 a.m. on Galloping Hill Road near the Roselle Park station, NJT officials said.  Service was suspended between Cranford and Newark Penn Station as of 11:40 a.m. Raritan Valley Line rail service remains suspended in both directions between Cranford and Newark Penn Station due to a pedestrian fatality near Roselle Park. Substitute bus service is being pro…

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by Cecilia Levine