Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe
Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe The arrest of a Ridgewood man who sought nude photos and videos from kids he had online sex chats with led investigators to a child in Georgia who was being victimized by a female sex trafficker, authorities said. James A. Razin, 36, “used the Internet to view, download, possess, and distribute files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Wednesday, May 25. Razin, who lives in the Mayflower Apartments complex on East Ridgewood Avenue, also “engaged[d] in live, one-on-one online chats with children and requested nude ima…
SWAT Team Storms Mahwah Condo, Seizes Barricaded Fair Lawn Man Who Threatened To Shoot Them SWAT Team Storms Mahwah Condo, Seizes Barricaded Fair Lawn Man Who Threatened To Shoot Them
SWAT Team Storms Mahwah Condo, Seizes Barricaded Fair Lawn Man Who Threatened To Shoot Them UPDATE: A SWAT team stormed a Mahwah condo and seized a suicidal man following an hours-long Easter Sunday standoff. Mahwah officers sent to Juniper Way in the Society Hill condominium complex on a welfare check of a suicidal 64-year-old Fair Lawn man Sunday morning found his car parked nearby. They’d requested a Bergen County Sheriff’s K-9 unit and were standing near the vehicle when the man emerged on a nearby balcony around 10:30 a.m., witnesses told Daily Voice. “He began yelling at the officers and threatened to shoot them several times,” one said. Then he locked himself inside and p…
UPDATE: 'Jilted Boyfriend' Bomb Threats Plague NJ High Schools UPDATE: 'Jilted Boyfriend' Bomb Threats Plague NJ High Schools
Update: 'Jilted Boyfriend' Bomb Threats Plague NJ High Schools It's becoming too familiar: A male caller tells police he's a jilted boyfriend who intends to shoot or blow up a school. Streets are closed, students are locked down or sheltered in place and bomb-sniffing dogs are brought in. Sometimes parents become fearful and converge on the school. It happened three times in Bergen County this past week. Hackensack High School was targeted twice, once prompting a brief evacuation and another time a shelter-in-place. It happened again on Friday, April 1 at Ridgewood High School. "A male caller called the main police number spoke with central dispatch…
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine
NJ's Maksim Chmerkovskiy Of 'DWTS' Stranded In Ukraine Maksim Chmerkovskiy flipped his camera on and in seconds, a siren went off. The New Jersey native and "Dancing with the Stars" personality is stuck in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion. As he spoke to his Instagram followers early Friday, an airstrike happened. "This is real," said Chmerkovskiy, 42, of Fort Lee. "There is major life suffering going on. I’m talking to my friends that are here now with kids getting sick because they're staying in basements with no heat. This needs to come to an end." The professional dancer's father owned a dance studio in Ridgewood that later moved…
Assailant Stabs Woman In Ramsey, Turns Knife On Himself, Drives To Rockland Hospital: Police Assailant Stabs Woman In Ramsey, Turns Knife On Himself, Drives To Rockland Hospital: Police
Assailant Stabs Woman In Ramsey, Turns Knife On Himself, Drives To Rockland Hospital: Police A manhunt ended when a man who'd stabbed a woman at a home in Ramsey turned the knife on himself before driving to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern for treatment, authorities said. The victim was taken to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood before being transferred to the trauma unit at Hackensack University Medical Center following the assault on Swan Street, just off southbound Route 17, around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. The suspect, Jason Hinton 27, of Liberty Street in Little Ferry, was later located at Good Sam, where he'd sought medical attention f…
Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest
Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest A man charged in a stabbing during a dispute over a parking spot outside his Clifton home operates a Paterson outreach program that's received more than $300,000 in grants this month and boasts partnerships with New Jersey State Police, among others. The ”lead-up to the incident” last weekend involving Roger Lester, 42, “is still unclear and has become a legal matter,” a publicist for his organization said Thursday. Brennan Jenkins of Ruthleess Marketing contended that Lester -- the founder and CEO of NJ PAAIN (Preparing Adolescent & Adult Ideologies Now) -- had been “caught […
Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice
Sedan From NYC Driving School Not Ridgewood Car Thief's Wisest Choice He could've just as well honked his horn. A would-be car thief behind the wheel of a sedan stolen from a driving school in Queens was casing neighborhoods in Ridgewood for targets when he was spotted early Wednesday, Feb. 9, authorities said. The suspect drove off after abandoning an attempt to steal a vehicle on Gilbert Street but was caught soon after. It's not like he could give anyone the slip: The Toyota Corolla was marked with large lettering from the Ferrari Driving School in Queens and had a battered front New York State license plate dangling vertically from a single screw. The…
TONIGHT: Don't Miss North Jersey Native, Princeton Student On 'Jeopardy!' TONIGHT: Don't Miss North Jersey Native, Princeton Student On 'Jeopardy!'
Tonight: Don't Miss North Jersey Native, Princeton Student On 'Jeopardy!' A North Jersey native and Princeton University student is participating in Tuesday night’s round of the Jeopardy National College Championship on ABC. The lucky and talented contestant is Ella Feiner, a chemical engineering major from Ridgewood, according to an Instagram post from Princeton wishing her well. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Princeton University (@princeton) Feiner, a senior, says she first bonded over the trivia show and yearned to become a contestant while watching with her friends during her freshman year, acco…
CRIME WAVE: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey CRIME WAVE: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey
Crime Wave: Unprecedented Epidemic Of Vehicle Thefts, Burglaries Grows Alarming In North Jersey Thieves are prowling North Jersey streets in unprecedented numbers, stealing unlocked vehicles or items left inside of them, authorities say. And police alone can't stem the tide. Local and county law enforcement are devoting more resources to stopping the bandits, who are often from out of the area. But they can’t be everywhere at once.  More owners need to lock their vehicles and take their key fobs, they say, or things will only get worse. Think of it this way: Imagine your unlocked vehicle is stolen, is involved in a pursuit and slams into another car. Imagine someone is killed in the…
Police: NJ Teens With Learner's Permits Driving Without Adults Face Serious Consequences Police: NJ Teens With Learner's Permits Driving Without Adults Face Serious Consequences
Police: NJ Teens With Learner's Permits Driving Without Adults Face Serious Consequences As if packs of out-of-area juveniles stealing cars in the middle of the night didn’t keep them busy enough, police in North Jersey say they’re also dealing with local high schoolers driving around with only permits and no adults with them. Ridgewood Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said her officers have made several unsafe driving stops recently involving village and local-area teens with only learner's permits driving illegally. “These students have been driving to and from school as well as driving around after school, without being accompanied by an adult supervising driver, as required …
Meet NJ's First Babies Born In 2022 Meet NJ's First Babies Born In 2022
Meet NJ's First Babies Born In 2022 Oh, baby, they're here! New Jersey welcomed its first babies born in 2022. The first in the state was delivered at 12:02 a.m., at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth. Keyla was born to Maria and Jose Duchi of Irvington and weighed 6 pounds and 15 ounces. Dr. Hannah Seltzer delivered her. Keyla with parents Maria and Joseduchi, of Irvington.Trinitas Medical Center At 12:07 a.m., Gabriel David DeCurtis-Springsteen was born at Hackensack University Medical Center, at 6 pounds and 5 ounces. His parents are Katlynn DeCurtis and Thomas Springsteen, of Belleville. Gabriel David D…
Repeat Offender From Teaneck Crashes Stolen Car In Ridgewood Fleeing Route 17 Stop In Paramus Repeat Offender From Teaneck Crashes Stolen Car In Ridgewood Fleeing Route 17 Stop In Paramus
Repeat Offender From Teaneck Crashes Stolen Car In Ridgewood Fleeing Route 17 Stop In Paramus A 20-year-old Teaneck man who'd already been arrested and released twice in the past three months got banged up when he crashed a stolen car into a tree in Ridgewood after fleeing a Paramus police stop on Route 17, authorities said. Officer Michael Cleary was responding to an attempted car burglary call on Midland Avenue when he spotted the 2020 Honda Accord with three occupants shortly after 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Paramus Police Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The license plate came back to a 2006 Infiniti, the chief said, so Cleary pulled the sedan over at Route 17. As he walked up to the vehicle,…