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Vincent Auteri

Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same Lyndhurst Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same Lyndhurst Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker
Fire Believed Started By Cigarette Damages Same Lyndhurst Home Where 2005 Blaze Killed Smoker A fire that authorities believe was ignited Thursday by an improperly discarded cigarette damaged the same Lyndhurst home where a blaze more than 17 years ago killed a smoker with an oxygen tank. A married couple got out safely after the fire started at 230 Post Avenue at 9:19 a.m. June 29, Lyndhurst Police Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Borough firefighters arrived to find flames shooting out of a second-floor side bedroom in the 2½-story house, responders said. The firefighters contained the blaze to that room and had it under control in well under a half-hour, Auteri said. They…
STALKER: Saddle Brook Man, 58, Charged With Secretly Tracking Ex From Lyndhurst, 33 STALKER: Saddle Brook Man, 58, Charged With Secretly Tracking Ex From Lyndhurst, 33
Stalker: Saddle Brook Man, 58, Charged With Secretly Tracking Ex From Lyndhurst, 33 A 58-year-old Saddle Brook resident who'd dated a Lyndhurst woman 25 years his junior hid a GPS tracking device on her SUV. Lyndhurst Police Detective Chris Cuneo obtained and reviewed surveillance video after the 33-year-old woman found the device on her Range Rover and called police earlier this month, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said on Wednesday, June 21. Cuneo identified Jesus Martinez as the culprit, the lieutenant said. Martinez was charged with stalking and released pending court action, he said.
Lyndhurst Police Chief Leads Christmastime Rescue Of Suicidal Man Lyndhurst Police Chief Leads Christmastime Rescue Of Suicidal Man
Lyndhurst Police Chief Leads Christmastime Rescue Of Suicidal Man A suicidal man was unconscious on the bathroom floor, a belt tied around his neck, when Lyndhurst Police Chief Richard Jarvis found him on Christmas Eve. Jarvis, who was closest to the home when the call came in around 3 p.m. Saturday, immediately removed the belt, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Officers Michael Carrino and James Colacci joined the chief and administered oxygen to the 26-year-old man, who eventually came to, the lieutenant said. He was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for psychological and physical evaluations, Auteri said. ****** The 988 Suicide …
Gang Of 5 Caught Trashing Lyndhurst School Gang Of 5 Caught Trashing Lyndhurst School
Gang Of 5 Caught Trashing Lyndhurst School Two adults and three juveniles broke in and trashed a former Lyndhurst school, then surrendered after police surrounded the building and threatened to send a dog in after them, authorities said. Only one member of the group, a 17-year-old boy, is from Lyndhurst, they said. The rest are from Passaic County. They climbed in through an unsecured window of the old Lincoln School on Ridge Road at Gutheil Place around midnight Sunday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. A passerby on Ridge Road heard the sound of breaking glass and called police, the lieutenant said. The group ignored orders to …
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say
Illegal 'Magic' Mushrooms Turn Up In Lyndhurst Police Stop, Authorities Say A Lyndhurst police officer busted a Passaic driver with psilocybin mushrooms, authorities said. Officer Michael D’Alesandro was on patrol in the area of Riverside Avenue and Copeland Avenue when he spotted an older model Honda Accord without any functioning brake lights, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Sgt. Philip Reina joined his colleague at the stop and spotted a bag with several caps and stems of the well-known psychedelic on the front floorboard, Auteri said. Grown wild or cultivated, so-called magic mushrooms the naturally-occurring psychoactive and hallucinogenic compo…
Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument
Lyndhurst PD: Vandal Damages 9/11 Monument A police lieutenant caught a vandal damaging a new 9/11 memorial in Lyndhurst, authorities said. Alfredo Acevedo, 27, was throwing decorative river stone from the newly erected monument at its decorative wall, the replica stone twin towers and a steel beam from Ground Zero when Lt. James Goral and a patron at Town Hall Park spotted him, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Goral arrested Acevedo, whose last known address was in Clifton. He was charged with criminal mischief, desecration of a monument and disorderly conduct before being released under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law. The va…
Police: Lyndhurst Tenant Whose Rifle Discharged Into Neighbor’s Home Had 13 Illegal Guns, Mags Police: Lyndhurst Tenant Whose Rifle Discharged Into Neighbor’s Home Had 13 Illegal Guns, Mags
Police: Lyndhurst Tenant Whose Rifle Discharged Into Neighbor’s Home Had 13 Illegal Guns, Mags A Lyndhurst man who told police he was cleaning his rifle when it accidentally fired a bullet through his door into another apartment had more than a dozen illegal weapons, as well as high-capacity magazines, authorities said. A family of three who live across the hall from Sean F. Sena, 26, at the Union apartment complex were home when the gun went off Sunday night, but no one was injured, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. Police responding to the shooting at the Wall Street West complex found Sena had eight rifles, three handguns and two shotguns, along with 13 large-capacity ammunition …