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Video Shows Route 17 Procession Escorting Body Of NJ Officer Steven Fernandez Home Video Shows Route 17 Procession Escorting Body Of NJ Officer Steven Fernandez Home
Video Shows Route 17 Procession Escorting Body Of NJ Officer Steven Fernandez Home The body of Ridgefield Park Police Officer Steven Fernandez was escorted back to New Jersey on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in a major procession along Route 17. Video captured by Boyd A. Loving shows Ridgefield Park Officer Steve Fernandez's body being escorted home Wednesday, Feb. 4. Boyd A. Loving Video of the procession was captured at the Route 17 Park & Ride in Ridgewood by Boyd A. Loving. The clip shows dozens of law enforcement vehicles traveling in the southbound lanes. The procession traveled along Route 17 through New York into New Jersey ending at approximately 4 p.m. Fer…

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by Cecilia Levine
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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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by Jerry DeMarco
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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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by Jerry DeMarco
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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