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Fire Rages At Fort Lee Apartment Building Fire Rages At Fort Lee Apartment Building
Fire Rages At Fort Lee Apartment Building UPDATE: No serious injuries were reported in a raging fire that destroyed an apartment building near the George Washington Bridge. Two volunteer firefighters were hospitalized with relatively minor injuries from the six-alarm fire on Hudson Terrace in Fort Lee, which ignited Saturday afternoon, continued through the night and collapsed portions of the five-story brick building. Authorities initially feared the worst when a resident was unaccounted for, Mayor Mark Sokolich said, but that tenant apparently is out of the country. The Red Cross had put up about a dozen families at local hotel…

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NY Waterway Rolls Out Free Shuttle Bus Services From Edgewater, Fort Lee To Port Imperial NY Waterway Rolls Out Free Shuttle Bus Services From Edgewater, Fort Lee To Port Imperial
NY Waterway Rolls Out Free Shuttle Bus Services From Edgewater, Fort Lee To Port Imperial NY Waterway has rolled out a free weekday shuttle bus service. The bus will run between Edgewater and the Port Imperial Ferry Terminal in Weehawken, where ferry customers can connect with direct ferries to Midtown and Downtown Manhattan, the NY Waterway announced. The bus service is a temporary measure prior to relaunching ferry service from Edgewater. Buses run once an hour between Edgewater Ferry Landing and Port Imperial Ferry Terminal between 6:20 a.m. and 9:20 a.m.  Buses leave Port Imperial for Edgewater every 20 minutes between 4:20 p.m. and 8 p.m. Click here for the service …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Edgewater PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 42 Arrests Tasered After Fighting, Spitting On Police Edgewater PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 42 Arrests Tasered After Fighting, Spitting On Police
Edgewater PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 42 Arrests Tasered After Fighting, Spitting On Police A Hudson County ex-con with a rap sheet more than three decades long was Tasered after he kicked, elbowed and spit on Edgewater police officers who were trying to arrest him for a multi-store shoplifting spree, authorities said. Gregory Calvo, 50, of Union City had just stolen hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from the Marshalls, Old Navy and TJ Maxx stores at Edgewater Commons when two officers found him in the Acme Supermarket on Saturday, Police Chief Donald Martin said. “I’m not going to be arrested today,” Calvo announced as he “got into a fighting stance,” the chief said. Calv…

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Prosecutor: Clifton Man Tried To Get Kidnap Victim To Drop Charges Against Instagram Influencer Prosecutor: Clifton Man Tried To Get Kidnap Victim To Drop Charges Against Instagram Influencer
Prosecutor: Clifton Man Tried To Get Kidnap Victim To Drop Charges Against Instagram Influencer A Clifton businessman tried to bribe a kidnapping victim into dropping charges against Bergen County-based Instagram influencer “Jay Mazini,” authorities charged. Bassam Patrick Aljanadi, 56, “contacted the victim and his family on numerous occasions,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday afternoon. Aljanadi, who owns a heating and air conditioning company, offered the victim cash in exchange for dropping kidnapping charges filed against Jebara Igbara, the prosecutor said. He did this to “try and obstruct and/or impede the investigation and prosecution of Igbara,” Musella sa…

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PHOTOS: Firefighters Douse Fairview Commercial Blaze PHOTOS: Firefighters Douse Fairview Commercial Blaze
Photos: Firefighters Douse Fairview Commercial Blaze Firefighters doused a Wednesday night blaze in a Fairview commercial printing building. The two-alarm fire broke out on Broad Avenue across from Sedore Avenue around 7 p.m. Borough firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames. Providing mutual aid were their colleagues from Cliffside Park, Edgewater, Fort Lee, Leonia and Palisades Park and Ridgefield. Borough firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported.Werner Ennesser for DAILY VOICE No injuries were reported. PHOTOS by Werner R. Ennesser AND Damien Danis. At th…

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Trio Charged With Helping Bergen Instagram Celeb Kidnap, Terrorize Man Who Trashed Him Online Trio Charged With Helping Bergen Instagram Celeb Kidnap, Terrorize Man Who Trashed Him Online
Trio Charged With Helping Bergen Instagram Celeb Kidnap, Terrorize Man Who Trashed Him Online Authorities on Friday captured a third accused accomplice of an Instagram influencer who they said kidnapped a man in Bergen County, stripped him naked and held a machete to his neck while threatening to kill him if he didn’t remove negative social media posts. Alaziz Dalmida, 21, was the last piece of a puzzle involving “Jay Mazini” – real name Jebara J. Igbara – authorities said. Igbara, 25, of Edgewater had claimed a net worth of $33 million while cultivating a reputation for distributing stacks of cash to random people in New York. That was before federal authorities in Brooklyn charge…

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Police: Rapper Fivio Foreign Busted With Loaded Gun During Struggle Near GWB Police: Rapper Fivio Foreign Busted With Loaded Gun During Struggle Near GWB
Police: Rapper Fivio Foreign Busted With Loaded Gun During Struggle Near GWB A loaded handgun fell from his jacket as rapper Fivio Foreign fought Fort Lee police who nabbed him during a foot chase near the George Washington Bridge, authorities said. Maxie Ryles III had left his 2018 Mercedes Benz running in a no-parking zone on Lemoine Avenue at Bruce Reynolds Boulevard as he went into the nearby Citibank around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Capt. Ricky Mirkovic said. Sgt. Howard Ginsburg requested Ryles's driver’s license as he approached the vehicle and asked whether he was getting a ticket, Mirkovic said. Instead of complying, Ryles simply walked away, he said.  T…

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Prosecutor: Repeat Fort Lee Offender Busted With $60,000 Worth Of Pot, More In Edgewater Stop Prosecutor: Repeat Fort Lee Offender Busted With $60,000 Worth Of Pot, More In Edgewater Stop
Prosecutor: Repeat Fort Lee Offender Busted With $60,000 Worth Of Pot, More In Edgewater Stop A drug court violator from Fort Lee was caught with 23 pounds of pot, edibles and THC vape cartridges following a stop at a shopping plaza along the Hudson River, authorities said. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Narcotics Task Force stopped Marc A. Helewa, 22, at the Edgewater Commons off River Road off identifying him as an area dealer. They then executed search warrants of the car, Helewa’s Park Avenue home and a garage in the 300 block of Undercliff Avenue in Edgewater, the prosecutor said Tuesday. In addition to the drugs, detectives seized $7,021 in sus…

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PHOTOS: Sight-Seeing Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Edgewater PHOTOS: Sight-Seeing Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Edgewater
Photos: Sight-Seeing Helicopter Makes Emergency Landing In Edgewater It wasn't exactly a "Sully" moment, but it turned out OK, just the same, when a sight-seeing helicopter made a safe emergency landing Friday afternoon in Edgewater. The HeliNY pilot "found a safe spot to land" after an emergency light went on during the area's high winds shortly before 2 p.m., police said. He brought the 13-year-old Rotorcraft down softly behind the Mitsuwa Marketplace on River Road, one responder said, adding: "Now we just have to figure how to get it out of there." The chopper touched down on a clear, flat spot of land on one of the largest vacant pieces of property a s…

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Sex Offender Caught Giving Himself A Hand In Front Of Edgewater Staples, Police Say Sex Offender Caught Giving Himself A Hand In Front Of Edgewater Staples, Police Say
Sex Offender Caught Giving Himself A Hand In Front Of Edgewater Staples, Police Say A convicted sex offender from Virginia was caught masturbating with his pants down in front of the entrance to the Staples in Edgewater, authorities said. Clarence Fleming, 60, covered himself up when he saw officers responding to a complaint pulled up at the busy Edgewater Commons shopping center on River Road store around 7 p.m. Monday, Detective Sgt. Teddy Wetklow said. Fleming told Officers Mike Monroe, Sergio Cervantes and Victor Lopez “that he was in a private area and asked to be left alone, even though he was sitting in front of the store” in a mall “where many families with childre…

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Edgewater Man Was DWI In Wrong-Way Weekend Hoboken Crash, Police Say Edgewater Man Was DWI In Wrong-Way Weekend Hoboken Crash, Police Say
Edgewater Man Was DWI In Wrong-Way Weekend Hoboken Crash, Police Say An Edgewater man was driving drunk in a wrong-way Hoboken crash that injured another driver, and toppled a fence and street sign, authorities said. Off-duty Hoboken police officer Marin DeJesus came upon a two-car crash at 15th Street and Park Avenue around 12:15 a.m. on March 21, Det. Lt. Danilo Cabrera said. The victim was heading northbound through a green light at the intersection when the other driver -- later identified as James Kittredge, 30 -- was heading the wrong way on 15th Street and struck him on the driver's side, police said. Kittredge’s vehicle ended up crashing into a…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Units Damaged In Fort Lee Condo Fire Units Damaged In Fort Lee Condo Fire
Units Damaged In Fort Lee Condo Fire Firefighters doused a Thursday afternoon blaze that damaged units on two floors of a Fort Lee condominium. Flames blew through two first-floor windows after breaking out in a crawlspace in the five-story brick Central Court Condominiums on Central Road shortly before 2 p.m. Firefighters had the two-alarm blaze knocked down in about an hour and under control before 3:30 p.m. It was later ruled accidental. No injuries were reported. Firefighters from Edgewater, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Fairview, Leonia, Palisades Park and Ridgefield were among the mutual aid responders. Tony Greco took…

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