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Bergen County Condo Owner Taking Out Trash Startled By 10-Foot Snake
A Bergen County condo owner taking out the trash recently got a frightful scare: On top of the garbage bin was a 10-foot-long snake. The live but lethargic python had a fresh wound on its head. Its eyes were red and bloody. Police quickly found Derek McGuire, a former star track and field star turned bodybuilder who lives in the Mahwah complex. McGuire, 36, owns and operates an online business called “D-Rassic Park.” Run from his basement, it breeds and sells pythons, according to a police report. The entire episode was a sad and unfortunate situation, McGuire said. He clearly didn't mea…
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: Startled Resident Finds 10-Foot Python Atop Mahwah Condo Trash Bin
A Bergen County condo owner taking out the trash recently got a frightful scare: On top of the garbage bin was a 10-foot-long snake. The live but lethargic python had a fresh wound on its head. Its eyes were red and bloody. Police quickly found Derek McGuire, a former star track and field star turned bodybuilder who lives in the Mahwah complex. McGuire, 36, owns and operates an online business called “D-Rassic Park.” Run from his basement, it breeds and sells pythons, according to a police report. The entire episode was a sad and unfortunate situation, McGuire said. He clearly didn't mean…
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PD: Passaic Woman Who Crashed SUV Into Convenience Store Goes On Rampage At Hawthorne 7-Eleven
A Passaic woman who made headlines when her SUV plowed into the front of a Bronx gas station convenience store went on a rampage at a Hawthorne 7-Eleven that continued at police headquarters, authorities said Wednesday. Police were called after Santa Moya, 23, stole cigarettes from the Goffle Road store and a clerk tried to stop her, Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. Moya was tangling with the employee in the parking lot when officers pulled up, he said. The clerk's head was bleeding after some of her hair had been ripped out, a witness said. Moya then “became irate and hostile towards…
Police & Fire
Police: Bichon Frisé Breaks Loose, Killed By Pit Bull On Glen Rock Street
A pit bull killed a Bichon Frisé who’d broken loose while being walked on a Glen Rock street, authorities said. The plume-tailed toy dog slipped his harness while being walked by a young boy on Dean Street, Police Chief Dean Ackermann. As the boy ran home to get his help, a pit bull being walked by a 69-year-old man coming from the opposite direction grabbed hold of the other dog, the chief said. Responding officers found the Bichon Frisé dead, Ackermann said. The man, who’d been bitten on his hand as he tried to pull the dogs apart, refused medical attention, he added. TYCO Animal Cont…
Police & Fire
Deer With Plastic Pumpkin Stuck To Head Rescued In Upper Saddle River
Recent reports of a deer roaming Upper Saddle River with a plastic pumpkin stuck to its head turned out to be true, said authorities who rescued the crippled creature on Tuesday. TYCO Animal Control officers based in Ho-Ho-Kus came to town and coordinated efforts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the New Jersey Division of Fish & and Wildlife to rescue the young deer, Police Chief Patrick Rotella said. "We'd been receiving calls from residents since the end of November reporting sightings of the deer," Rotella said. "Unfortunately we were unable to locate the animal. "We don…
Police & Fire
Animal Control Forced To Euthanize New Milford Raccoons Who Were Stabbed, Burned
UPDATE: Two raccoons who police said a New Milford man stabbed and poured bleach on had to be euthanized, animal control authorities said Thursday. "It was horrible," said Carol Tyler, the owner/operator of Tyco Animal Control, which serves 25 Bergen County municipalities. "It's pretty disturbing." Tyler didn't describe the raccoons' condition. However, responders said they had hair burned off their faces and paws, as well as blistered skin and stab wounds. Officers responding to a cruelty report on Canterbury Lane were met by Patrick Biondo, 54, who brought them to a cage on his deck wh…
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Police Urge Precautions After Coyote Kills 96-Year-Old Wyckoff Grandma's Chihuahua
A coyote killed a 96-year-old Wyckoff grandmother's chihuahua, prompting area alerts. Hartman was snatched Tuesday night from just outside Doris Heitman's back door in a wooded Spring Meadow retirement community Tuesday night. Her Heitman's grandson went into the woods with a kitchen knife and retrieved the dog’s body a short time later. "He was my best friend. He was my helper," said Heitman, whose husband, George, died two years ago "We were growing old together," she told News12 New Jersey. "I'm gonna miss him terribly." “Wyckoff Police responded and documented the incident and i…
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Coyote Kills 96-Year-Old Wyckoff Grandma's Chihuahua, Police Urge Precautions
A coyote killed a 96-year-old Wyckoff grandmother's chihuahua, prompting area alerts. Hartman was snatched Tuesday night from just outside Doris Heitman's back door in a wooded Spring Meadow retirement community Tuesday night. Her Heitman's grandson went into the woods with a kitchen knife and retrieved the dog’s body a short time later. "He was my best friend. He was my helper," said Heitman, whose husband, George, died two years ago "We were growing old together," she told News12 New Jersey. "I'm gonna miss him terribly." “Wyckoff Police responded and documented the incident and immedi…
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Mahwah Mom Fights Off Attacking Coyote
Sensing something was wrong, Doreen Latargia Entrup of Mahwah tried calling a neighbor to tell her she needed to come in off the street. That’s when a coyote attacked her, she said. The coyote was several hundred yards behind her, Entrup said, when she spotted four small deer standing like statues and “a big mama deer running across” Grenadier Drive, near the Rockland County border, around 6:15 p.m. Friday. “I just stopped,” she said. “I knew something wasn’t right. “I picked up my phone to tell my neighbor that I was coming to her house," Entrup told Daily Voice. "As I turned to look behi…
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: Two Adults, Two Dogs Freed In GSP Crash In Washington Township
Washington Township firefighters extricated two occupants and two dogs from a sedan that slammed through a metal guardrail on a Garden State Parkway exit Friday afternoon. The car came to rest in a grassy ditch between the Exit 168 ramp and the northbound Parkway. The adults were taken by ambulance to the hospital. Tyco Animal Control responded to care for the pets, one of whom sustained apparently minor injuries in the crash. New Jersey State Police were investigating the cause. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account. The car came to rest in a grassy ditch be…
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