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Luxury NYC High-Rise Manager Stabbed By 2 Robbers Outside PalPark Home Luxury NYC High-Rise Manager Stabbed By 2 Robbers Outside PalPark Home
Luxury NYC High-Rise Manager Stabbed By 2 Robbers Outside PalPark Home A manager at a luxurious midtown-Manhattan highrise was stabbed in the leg while fighting off two robbers who'd jumped him outside his Palisades Park home Friday night. The victim was losing a lot of blood from a deep gash when borough police arrived shortly after 9 p.m. Nov. 3. The officers applied a tourniquet to the left leg that slowed the bleeding, authorities said. The victim told police he’d just gotten back after celebrating a work milestone in the city when he was attacked from behind while walking from his car to the front door of his East Palisades Boulevard home. The robbers o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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ICE Puts Hold On MS-13 Member Captured After Escaping NJ Police Station In Handcuffs ICE Puts Hold On MS-13 Member Captured After Escaping NJ Police Station In Handcuffs
ICE Puts Hold On MS-13 Member Captured After Escaping NJ Police Station In Handcuffs Many figured New Jersey's bail reform law would free a purported MS-13 gang member who escaped from a local police station before being captured in Rhode Island. Before that could happen, however, federal immigration authorities issued a detainer on Adilson Estrada-Garcia, a 24-year-old Guatemalan national living in Cliffside Park. Estrada-Garcia was brought to the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack on Thursday. Before he even saw a judge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the detainer. Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton has honored detainer requests for defendants who've be…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark
Police: DWI Driver From PA Demolishes Utility Pole Off Route 46 In PalPark A drunk driver from Pennsylvania escaped serious injury when his sedan slammed into a utility pole off Route 46 in Bergen County, authorities said. Austin Palmer, 21, was behind the wheel of a 2010 Nissan Altima that toppled the pole on Grand Avenue near West Columbia Avenue shortly before 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Palisades Park Police Sgt. Alex Monteleone said. Palmer, of Fallsington, PA was brought to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck -- where Monteleone said a blood sample was taken -- following the crash near an industrial building that once housed the Soap Factory disco just off westbound …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PalPark Pals Charged With Sexually Abusing Young Girl PalPark Pals Charged With Sexually Abusing Young Girl
PalPark Pals Charged With Sexually Abusing Young Girl A Palisades Park laborer was charged with statutory rape and a local barber with child endangerment for sexually abusing an underage girl, authorities said Thursday. Warehouse laborer Pedro “Dhany” Chiroy Camaja, 18, had sex with the girl, who is more than four years younger than him, while Abelino “Elias” Tista Mejia, 23, “attempted to coerce the juvenile into engaging in sexual activity,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Musella’s detectives began investigating after Palisades Park police received a tip that the girl was being pressured into having sex with Mejia, the prosecuto…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects
Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects A Bergen County sheriff’s officer helped Palisades Park police capture a pair of burglars who authorities said have been breaking into vehicles in East Bergen overnight. Sheriff’s Officer Michael Griffin was on patrol around 3 a.m. Saturday when he heard an alert and spotted borough resident Christopher Bueno, 22, and Dakota Cirelli, 19, of Elmwood Park on 10th Street. Griffin grabbed the two, who were arrested by borough police, said Capt. Anthony Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. Each was charged with four counts of attempted vehicle burglary and turned over to Cliffside P…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash
Leonia Police Captain Nabs Queens Driver Trying To Catch Lyft After Pursuit, Crash A Queens driver who crashed a brand-new Mercedes while trying to elude police Wednesday morning in Leonia was nabbed by a borough captain as he tried getting into a Lyft. It began when Officer Nolan Stendor tried pulling over the sedan after it illegally passed another vehicle on Broad Avenue shortly after 9:30 a.m. The driver, identified as Osvaldo Leader-George stopped on Westview Avenue as Stendor pulled up, Capt. Scott Tamagny said. He then quickly got back into the Mercedes and sped away, Tamagny said. The sedan hit a parked car as Leader-George turned onto Glenwood Avenue, but he k…

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by Jerry DeMarco