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Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe
Body Of Bergen Man Who Drowned 5 Weeks Ago Recovered From Deepest Part Of Lake Tahoe The body of a Closter man who went missing in Lake Tahoe five weeks ago was found more than 1,500 feet below the surface, authorities said. Ryan Normoyle, a talented 29-year-old woodworker, had recorded the final cellphone images of himself happily jumping off a rented boat that he’d rented on Aug. 10 during a three-week West Coast vacation last month. “It looks like he was playing around in the water didn’t know the boat was in gear,” South Lake Tahoe Police Lt. Travis Cabral said. The Dumont native "wasn’t able to make it back to the boat,” which washed up in Glenbrook, Nevada, Cabral sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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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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Help Sought For Family Of Bergen Man Believed Drowned In Lake Tahoe Help Sought For Family Of Bergen Man Believed Drowned In Lake Tahoe
Help Sought For Family Of Bergen Man Believed Drowned In Lake Tahoe Funds are being raised to help pay for an anguished Dumont family’s trip to Lake Tahoe, where a 29-year-old member was believed drowned. Ryan Normoyle of Closter had been vacationing when his rented boat was found drifting near shore on Aug. 10. What began as a search and rescue soon turned into a recovery mission that, as of Wednesday, was still continuing. The Coast Guard had gotten a call of the boat drifting near Glenbrook, Nevada, off the East Shore around 6 p.m. Monday, authorities said. Normoyle had rented it seven hours earlier and was to have brought it back by 1 p.m., they said.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Host Of Massive Bergen County Mansion Party Charged With Violating NJ Gathering Limit Host Of Massive Bergen County Mansion Party Charged With Violating NJ Gathering Limit
Host Of Massive Bergen County Mansion Party Charged With Violating NJ Gathering Limit The 45-year-old host of a Vegas-like party Bergen County mansion party was charged with violating New Jersey's limits on large gatherings, police said Monday. Tashay Knight, of Newark, was charged on Friday with recklessly creating risk of widespread injury and issued several summonses for the nearly 400-person party that brought a large police presence on Aug. 1, Alpine Police Chief Christopher Belcolle said. Police responding to to 7 Hemlock Dr. on noise complaints found people who'd purchased tickets online, lined up in the driveway with gates to the house closed, Belcolle said.  M…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver
Closter Police Officer Dragged By Paramus Driver A Closter police officer was hospitalized after being dragged by a fleeing motorist from Paramus on Thursday, authorities said. Sang Lee, 24, initially drove past several "road closed" signs on Closter Dock Road while ignoring three uniformed officers who tried to stop him, forcing a group of construction workers to flee to safety, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Two officers chased Lee a quarter mile before he stopped at an Exxon gas station at the corner of Closter Dock and Piermont roads, Aiello said. Lee "refused to provide his pedigree or exit the vehicle," the lieutenant said. "A…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fire Ravages Closter Home Fire Ravages Closter Home
Fire Ravages Closter Home Firefighters doused an early morning house blaze that ravaged a Closter home. A generator tentatively was the suspected cause. Fire blew through the roof of the 2½-story residence on Closter Dock Road near Anderson Avenue after breaking out shortly before 7 a.m. The three-alarm blaze caused significant damage.  No injuries were reported. Mutual aid responders at the scene or providing coverage included firefighters from Alpine, Cresskill, Demarest, Dumont, New Milford, Northvale, Norwood, Old Tappan, Teaneck and Tenafly. 766 Closter Dock Road, ClosterDAILY VOICE

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police 'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police
'Good Cars Here,' Captured Vehicle Thieves Tell Cresskill Police Two members of a vehicle theft ring out of Essex County told Cresskill police that they weren’t familiar with the area but “knew there were good cars here” after they were captured, authorities said. A resident flagged down a passing Cresskill officer around 3 a.m. Tuesday, saying that he’d seen the thieves in his car. Moments later, Sgt. Jeremy Luciano spotted a suspicious vehicle on a nearby side street, Detective John Birnie said. As the sergeant approached, he said, the driver hit the gas, nearly hitting a police cruiser driven by Officer Michael Polling as the vehicle sped off. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police
Closter PD: Bergenfield Ex-Con In Domestic Assault Threatens To Hunt Down, Kill Police A Bergenfield ex-con with a history of arrests in no fewer than a dozen Bergen County towns assaulted a woman, damaged a Closter police car and threatened to kill the arresting officers, authorities said Tuesday. David Fusco, 36, got out of his car and began yelling and cursing at officers responding to an assault call at the Closter Nature Center, calling them “pigs,” Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. As they checked on the victim and took Fusco into custody, he “threatened to take officers’ weapons from their holsters and kill them” and said that he’d remember their names and faces, then…

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Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds
Closter PD: Trio Who Tossed Trash Caught With Bogus Credit Cards, Pot, $17,000 Illegal Proceeds Two Brooklyn men and a juvenile who tossed trash from their car while parked at a Closter shopping center had bogus credit cards, pot and $17,000 in suspicious cash on them, authorities said. Police seized the cards, drugs and cash and took Sayquan Jackson and Ryan Westbook, both 18, and the 17-year-old minor into custody after being called to the Closter Plaza last Tuesday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Jackson and Westbrook were charged with money laundering, credit card fraud, possession of fraudulent documents and drug offenses, Aiello said. Delinquency complaints were filed agains…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say VIDEO: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say
Video: Hoarding Conditions Accelerate New Milford House Fire, Responders Say UPDATE: Flames ravaged what responders said was a cluttered New Milford home Thursday night. A firefighter sustained a relatively minor injury in the three alarm fire, which began in the basement of the 2½-story Henley Avenue home at the corner of Asbury Street around 9:30 p.m., responders said. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters initially had trouble pinpointing the seat of the blaze because of hoarding conditions -- commonly called "Collyers mansion syndrome" after two wealthy Harlem brothers who died in a 1947 fire amid stacks of newspapers, books, tin cans and rotting trash.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital
Fire At Closter Waste Management Company Sends Employee To Hospital A pre-dawn fire at a waste management facility in Closter sent an employee to the hospital for observation, responders said. The fire broke out in the Interstate Waste Services transfer station garbage bays on Railroad Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Two employees tried to extinguish the blaze with a fire hose before firefighters took over, he said. One of the employees was brought to Hackensack Meridian Health's Pascack Valley Medical Center in Westwood with smoke inhalation, Aiello said. Demarest firefighters joined their Closter colleagues at t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search
Missing Nonverbal Closter Boy, 4, Found After Intense Search An intense search for a nonverbal 4-year-old boy with autism who'd gone missing from his home ended when a Closter police lieutenant heard him crying in a house under construction. The boy’s parents told police that they “went outside to their vehicle for a moment and inadvertently left the garage door open” on Hickory Lane shortly before 5 p.m. last Thursday, Detective Lt. Vincent Aiello said. Lt. Matthew Thornhill was among a massive group of responders that included Detective Sgt. Keith Dombkowski and Officers Justin Krapels and Brian Kelly, as well as police from Alpine, Cresskill, Dema…

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by Jerry DeMarco