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Lyndhurst Police Officer Shot At By Enraged Resident Receives Bergen 200 Club's Highest Honor Lyndhurst Police Officer Shot At By Enraged Resident Receives Bergen 200 Club's Highest Honor
Lyndhurst Police Officer Shot At By Enraged Resident Receives Bergen 200 Club's Highest Honor Lyndhurst Police Officer Michael Clifford had a split-second to react when an enraged resident standing outside his home took a shot at the veteran lawman during what was supposed to be a welfare check. Clifford fired back and took cover. The sound of another gunshot followed. Clifford, discovering that the 36-year-old resident had shot himself, tried to resuscitate him to no avail. For his heroism that fall morning in 2021, Clifford has received the Valor Award from the 200 Club of Bergen County, one of the nation's largest groups of its kind. He's richly deserving of the honor, the Lyn…

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HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car Flames are rapidly spreading as Ridgefield Park police officers furiously try to pull a trapped Fort Lee driver from his burning sedan, dramatic bodycam video shows. An electrical malfunction ignited the front of 55-year-old Christopher Vagnone’s Honda Accord outside Mavis Discount Tire on Route 46 (Winant Avenue) shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Unable to open the car doors, Sgt. Nicholas Triano retrieved a Halligan bar and smashed the driver’s side window, the chief said. Bodycam footage shows Ridgefield Park police officers pulling a Fort Lee driver f…

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HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Talk Suicidal Teaneck Man Off Bridge HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Talk Suicidal Teaneck Man Off Bridge
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Officers Talk Suicidal Teaneck Man Off Bridge Ridgefield Park police talked a distraught Teaneck man off a bridge over the Hackensack River on Saturday. A concerned passerby called police, who found the 33-year-old man "acting irrationally and apparently having a mental health episode" on the Ridgefield Park side of the Winant Avenue (Route 46) bridge shortly after 9 a.m., Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Officer Camryn Garcia was joined by Officers Corey Buljeta and Joseph Avila and Sgt. Will Morton, the chief said. The man told them that they'd "ruined his plan of jumping off the bridge," Rella said. However, he "was calm and coopera…

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Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Police Revive Two OD Victims At Once Ridgefield Park police revived two overdose victims with Narcan at the same time. A frantic, screaming companion led responding Sgt. William Morton and Officers Brian Ooms and Chris Beirne into the Park Street apartment shortly before 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. In the bedroom they found a limp 32-year-old woman face down and turning blue, the chief said. As two of the officers administered Narcan, the other looked for any drugs or paraphernalia that would help assess her condition. That's when he found an unconscious 30-year-old male victim, also f…

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SEE ANYTHING? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought SEE ANYTHING? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought
SEE Anything? Ridgefield Park Police Memorial Vandalized, Tips Sought Authorities sought the public's help finding the coward or cowards who vandalized a memorial to a Ridgefield Park police officer killed in the line of duty 100 years ago. The monument to village Officer John Ritter was spray-painted in red sometime between 8 and 10:45 a.m. this past Friday, July 17, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Police are hoping someone either passed by, saw something suspicious -- or, better yet, has a surveillance camera in the area of the island at Euclid Avenue and Poplar Street that may have captures useful images. ****** ANYONE WHO HAS ANY photos or information …

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UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body UPDATE: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body
Update: Lodi Man Charged With Murdering Cresskill Mom, Daughter Charged With Helping Dump Body A 19-year-old Lodi man was charged Monday with killing a Cresskill woman whose 14-year-old daughter assisted in a bungled attempt to dispose of the body, authorities said. Nicolas Coirazza killed Divna Rosasco, 51, at her home in Cresskill and then got the girl to help him try to dump the body in Overpeck Creek in Teaneck, authorities said. The girl's father had reported the woman missing around 12:20 p.m. Monday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A Bergen County sheriff's officer on patrol in Overpeck Park off Fort Lee Road later found Rosasco's SUV (see photo below) parked nea…

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by Jerry DeMarco