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Late-Night Blaze Destroys West Milford Home
No one was home when a roaring fire consumed a West Milford home Monday night, displacing its three residents, responders said.
The blaze broke out in the 2½-story Cape Cod on Macopin Road, south of Bubbling Springs Park, just after 8:45 p.m., Police Detective Sgt. Eric Darnsteadt said.
The fire went to four alarms a little over an hour later and then a fifth 20 or so minutes after that.
All six West Milford fire companies and two units from West Milford First Aid Squad were joined by firefighters from Ringwood, Bloomingdale, Wanaque, Pompton Lakes, Kinnelon, and Highland Lakes, Darnstea…
Priority Males: Feds Charge North Jersey Pair With $6M Postage Scam
The owners of a North Jersey company altered hundreds of thousands of labels intended for envelopes and slapped them on large boxes, deliberately short-changing the government by more than $6 million in postage, federal authorities said following their arrests.
Jack Koch, 44, of Elmwood Park, and Steven Koch, 43, of Pompton Lakes, were scheduled for video-conferenced first appearances before a federal magistrate judge Tuesday afternoon in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
The elder Koch, who went by the name “Ismail Yilmaz,” and his brother, who used the alias “Selim Memis,” owned…
Passaic County Man, 30, Pleads Guilty To Sussex County Recycling Plant Burglaries
A Passaic County man who stole cash and a vehicle during separate burglaries at a Sussex County recycling plant pleaded guilty in virtual court Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Drew J. Canning, 30, admitted to breaking into Riverdale Environmental Recycling in Wantage numerous times between March 2019 and February 2020, Sussex County Prosecutor Francis A. Koch said.
Canning, of Pompton Lakes, took keys from the office and unlocked the facility's gate before driving a truck with a plow back to his home and keeping the plow, Koch said.
On another occasion, Canning scraped the signs off the truck…
Authorities: NJ Soccer Coach Showed Penis, Sexually Assaulted Player, 11, During Private Lesson
A Morris County youth soccer coach exposed himself and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old player during a private lesson, authorities said Thursday.
Alejandro Almazan, 33, of Pompton Lakes, had the female victim jog with him to a private area within Independence Field in Riverdale on Aug. 9, Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp said.
There, Almazan "touched her intimate body parts" over her clothing and then pulled up his shorts and showed her his penis, Knapp said in a release with local police.
Almazan -- who was the female victim's coach through the Ramapo Youth Soccer Association -…
