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HERO: North Jersey Girl Scout Saves Mom's Life HERO: North Jersey Girl Scout Saves Mom's Life
Hero: North Jersey Girl Scout Saves Mom's Life A Girl Scout from North Jersey is receiving national recognition for saving the life of her mother and troop leader. Marley Madureia, 13, was granted the Medal of Honor -- a lifesaving award by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America -- for springing into action when her mom, Peggy Madureia, began choking at their family's home in Nutley last January. A pill that Peggy was taking for a sinus infection became lodged in her throat. Unable to breathe or communicate, she began banging the kitchen sink for help. "Being a Girl Scout, Marley remained calm and immediately began the Heimli…

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by Cecilia Levine
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CAPTURED: Bergen Prosecutor’s Detectives Nab Escaped 'James Bond Gang' Fugitive In Hudson CAPTURED: Bergen Prosecutor’s Detectives Nab Escaped 'James Bond Gang' Fugitive In Hudson
Captured: Bergen Prosecutor’s Detectives Nab Escaped 'James Bond Gang' Fugitive In Hudson A James Bond Gang associate who escaped from a halfway house in March was captured Friday in North Bergen by detectives from the Bergen County prosecutor’s office. Hakeem Chance, 28, of Hackensack had an original parole eligibility date of July 13, 2022 when he escaped from the East Jersey State Harbor Halfway House, records show. He remained a fugitive for six months before members of Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella’s Special Investigations Squad tracked down and nabbed Chance near the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and 89th Street. They brought him to the Bergen County Jail on an esca…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Feds: Essex OSHA Inspector, Brother Caught On Wire Shaking Down Hudson Job Site Contractor Feds: Essex OSHA Inspector, Brother Caught On Wire Shaking Down Hudson Job Site Contractor
Feds: Essex Osha Inspector, Brother Caught On Wire Shaking Down Hudson Job Site Contractor An OSHA officer from Bloomfield and his brother conspired to extort a general contractor at a North Bergen work site, said federal authorities who tapped one of their meetings. Assigned to investigate the alleged misuse of an extension ladder, Alvaro Idrovo, 44, told the contractor he was violating OSHA regulations for not having the necessary safety training certificates for his workers to be on ladders, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Idrovo told the owner he’d be “subject to exorbitant fines and possible arrest” if he didn’t obtain the certificates, which he said were available throu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Pair In Stolen Car Linked To String Of Armed NJ Robberies Police: Pair In Stolen Car Linked To String Of Armed NJ Robberies
Police: Pair In Stolen Car Linked To String Of Armed NJ Robberies Handguns and proceeds from items believed to be proceeds from armed robberies across New Jersey were recovered from suspects stopped last week in a stolen vehicle in Essex County, local authorities said. Anthony Carbley, 19, of Belleville, and Keith Mcnie, 18, of Nutley, were in a car stolen out of Belleville when police stopped them around 1 a.m. Friday, Belleville police said. Evidence linked Carbley and Mcnie to an armed gas station robbery in Belleville on Aug. 25, and others in Newark, Paterson, East Windsor, Sayreville, and Old Bridge, police said. 

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by Cecilia Levine
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Rubbing People The Wrong Way: More Massage Therapists Lose Licenses In NJ Rubbing People The Wrong Way: More Massage Therapists Lose Licenses In NJ
Rubbing People The Wrong Way: More Massage Therapists Lose Licenses In NJ New Jersey authorities this week revoked the license of the ninth massage therapist in the past year for “inappropriate and unwanted sexual contact” with a client who literally put her trust in his hands. John R. Popper, 48, of Little Egg Harbor was convicted earlier this year of harassment by offensive touching for placing his hand on a client’s vagina during a massage at Hand and Stone spa in Somers Point. In turn, the state Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy permanently barred him from working as a massage therapist in New Jersey ever again because he “engaged in professional miscond…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR
Palisades Park PD: Detective Nabs FedEx Imposter Stealing Cellphones From Porches To Ship To DR A Palisades Park detective captured a porch pirate from Paterson who posed as a FedEx worker to collect iPhones illegally shipped to residents throughout New Jersey and then send them to a storeowner in the Dominican Republic, authorities said. TMobile authorities alerted borough police to a package scheduled for delivery at a 4th Street address late last week, said Capt. Anthony Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. In the box were six iPhone 11s valued at $699 each, he said. Authorities suspected a bogus delivery because they were prepaid for with an American Express card on a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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RAMPAGE: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash RAMPAGE: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash
Rampage: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash UPDATE: An East Orange man who punched several women in the face during a mad rampage through Clifton and Nutley was captured after he crashed a stolen car in Belleville during a police chase, authorities said. Quinn Mayweather, 22, had been free awaiting trial for groping a woman whose car he was trying to steal in Westfield last fall, they said. He remained held Wednesday in the Essex County Correctional Facility on charges from various police departments – including aggravated assault, assault and robbery. The victims in Monday's rampage ranged in age from 31 to 60, authorities said. I…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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RAMPAGE: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash RAMPAGE: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash
Rampage: Women Assaulted In Clifton, Nutley, Suspect Nabbed In Belleville After Chase, Crash UPDATE: An East Orange man who punched several women in the face during a mad rampage through Clifton and Nutley was captured after he crashed a stolen car in Belleville during a police chase, authorities said. Quinn Mayweather, 22, had been free awaiting trial for groping a woman whose car he was trying to steal in Westfield last fall, they said. He remained held Wednesday in the Essex County Correctional Facility on charges from various police departments – including aggravated assault, assault and robbery. It began around 4:30 p.m. Monday on Emerson Street near Albion Park in Clifton, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street
Authorities: Released Porch Pirates Rob Bicyclist On Hackensack Street Two men charged with stealing dozens of packages from residents' porches in several Bergen County towns robbed a bicyclist on a Hackensack street the same day they were released from custody, authorities said Wednesday. Rochelle Park police last Friday captured Kelvin Hernandez Brioso and Francisco Castillo Rodriguez, both 22 of Hackensack, following a string of package thefts. They sent both to the Bergen County Jail, only to have a judge release them following a detention hearing, authorities said. Just after 8:40 p.m. that same day, Brioso and Rodriguez grabbed an adult bicyclist near …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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IT'S OVER: Rochelle Park Detectives Nab Accused Porch Pirates, Recover 32 Packages From Pickup IT'S OVER: Rochelle Park Detectives Nab Accused Porch Pirates, Recover 32 Packages From Pickup
IT'S Over: Rochelle Park Detectives Nab Accused Porch Pirates, Recover 32 Packages From Pickup Spotting what had become a notorious white pickup truck, a Hackensack special police officer helped Rochelle Park detectives nab three accused porch pirates who they said snatched packages from residents in several Bergen County towns. They also found 32 stolen packages in the bed and cab of the 2015 Ford F-150. Rochelle Park Dispatcher Mike Columbini, who is also a Special Police Officer 2 in Hackensack, alerted Detective Sgt. James DePreta to the vehicle, which parked on a Hackensack street. He noticed its distinct window vent guards, tinted windows and a sticker on the front A-pillar t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ON THE LOOKOUT: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns ON THE LOOKOUT: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns
ON THE Lookout: Porch Pirates Swipe Packages In Several Bergen County Towns Police in several Bergen County towns were looking for a white pickup truck that victims in at least six towns say was involved in pirating packages from their porches. A Hasbrouck Heights resident said a thief stole a large box containing a chair that she and her husband bought for their children (see photos below). “It’s not even about the chair but more of a violation,” she said. Residents say the same new, white Ford F-150 was at the scene of similar thefts in Hackensack, Lyndhurst, Maywood and Rochelle Park, as well as in Nutley (the truck can be seen in the video above). The packag…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine
Police: Nodding Lyndhurst Driver Crosses Bridge From Nutley With Heroin, Xanax, Urine A Lyndhurst driver had several heroin folds, Xanax – and two small bottles of urine apparently intended to beat a  drug test -- when he was stopped after crossing the bridge back into town from Nutley, authorities said. David Moran, 52, drew the attention of witnesses who told police he was passed out behind the wheel of a car on Park Avenue by the Burger King, Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Moran pulled away and headed north on Park Avenue before Officer Nick Abruscato spotted him pulling onto Route 3 in Rutherford and issued an alert. Soon after, Nutley police stopped Moran after he drove…

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by Jerry DeMarco