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Palisades Park police
Police & Fire
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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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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Driver Killed In Fiery Leonia Crash
RECOGNIZE IT? (UPDATE) A driver who was killed in a fiery overnight crash in Leonia may have been trying to flee another motorist, authorities said. Leonia police released a video showing both cars racing down Jones Road moments before the first car crashed into a tree and burst into flames Ridgeland Terrace near the intersection of Nordhoff Drive at 4:47 a.m. Saturday. They were still trying to identify the victim – but also the driver of the other vehicle, as well, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny said. Occupants of the second car got out at the crash scene, then got back into the four…
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PalPark Burglar Cuts His Way Into Gas Station
A burglar took $500 from a Palisades Park gas station after breaking in overnight, authorities said. The bandit cut through a glass door to get into the office at the Delta station on Grand Avenue at West Palisade Boulevard shortly after 12:30 a.m. last Sunday, Detective Sgt. Alex Monteleone said. He snatched proceeds from a cigar box and fled on foot, the sergeant said. Surveillance video shows the burglar wearing a hat, face mask, blue hoodie, khaki pants and gloves, Monteleone said. Anyone with information that could help identify him is asked to contact Palisades Park police: (201) 94…
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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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Route 46 Stop Yields 500 Oxy Pills, Hudson Driver Jailed
A Palisades Park police officer nabbed a driver from Jersey City with nearly 500 Oxycontin pills before dawn Thursday, authorities said. Officer Hochan Choi stopped a 2016 BMW X5 driven by Christopher Nunez, 27, for several motor vehicle violations on eastbound Route 46 around 2:30 a.m., Detective Sgt. Alex Monteleone said. Nunez, who has a criminal history, told the officer he thought the Oxy he was carrying were "sex pills," Monteleone said. He was arrested, charged with various drug counts and sent to the Bergen County Jail to await an Aug. 9 first appearance in Central Judicial Process…
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Palpark PD: Motorcycle Thieves Claimed To Be Looking For Grandma’s House
A group of teenage thieves who stole a sporty motorcycle from outside its owner’s house before dawn were quickly caught by Palisades Park police. The Edsall Boulevard owner was headed to work early Thursday when he pulled the KTM 390 to the street before running back inside for a moment, Capt. Anthony Muccio said. “When he came out, it was gone, so he called police,” said Muccio, the department’s officer in charge. Two suspects were pushing the motorcycle down 3rd Street when Officers Michael DeBartolo, David Chun, Hochan Choi and Matthew Carley pulled up, the captain said. They ditched …
Police & Fire
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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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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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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Englewood Cliffs Driver, 75, Charged In Palisades Park Hit-Run That Injured North Bergen Woman
UPDATE: Palisades Park police tracked down an SUV driver who they said took off after hitting a 19-year-old North Bergen woman at a notorious intersection. The 75-year-old female Englewood Cliffs motorist received traffic summonses for leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and failing to yield to a pedestrian after officers “checked different combinations of the license plate and matched up surveillance video,” Capt. Anthony Muccio said Friday. The victim was heading south on Broad Avenue when she was struck by the woman’s Kia Soul in the crosswalk at East Columbia Avenue around 7:…
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Ridgefield PD: Racing Trio Nabbed After Palisades Park Crash
Three local men were arrested after they sped away from police and crashed at the Ridgefield/Palisades Park border, authorities said. Ridgefield Police Sgt. Edward Schaefer and Officer Ali Huda began chasing a 2015 Jeep GRC as it sped north up Broad Avenue, near Edgewater Avenue, around 1 a.m. Friday, Deputy Chief Robert Meurer said. Patrol units lost sight of the vehicle and continued northbound on Grand Avenue in an attempt to locate it, Meurer said. They found it crashed into a utility pole in front of a Japanese restaurant on Grand Avenue just north of the Route 46 overpass in Palisade…
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Leonia PD: PalPark Driver Stabs Passenger In Leg, Then Flags Down Ambulance
A Palisades Park driver stabbed his passenger in the leg and then flagged down an ambulance in Leonia, said police who arrested him. Haori Jin, 36, stopped the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center ambulance on Fort Lee Road just after midnight Sunday, police Capt. Scott Tamagny said. The passenger was hospitalized with a knife wound that wasn’t life-threatening, Tamagny said. Police, meanwhile, arrested Jin, who the captain said had stabbed his passenger in the leg during an argument on Highwood Avenue in Leonia. Jin remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail pending an appearance in…
Police & Fire
Heroes
: Palisades Park Police Deliver Baby
A 7-pound baby girl wasn't waiting for her mom to get to the hospital when Palisades Park Police Sgts. Dennis Pavlik and Christopher Sambogna, Officer Samuel Kim and Dispatcher Christopher Freitag stepped in. Arriving at the East Columbia Avenue apartment, officers found the mom in labor. Then here came the baby. While one rubbed the newborn's chest to assist her breathing, the others monitored her vital signs, secured the umbilical cord until EMS arrived and wrapped her in blankets to keep her warm. Both she and her mom were doing fine after both were brought to Englewood Hospital and Me…
Lifestyle
First ResPAWnders: Pal Park PD Lieutenant's Dalmatian Is Reminder Of Good In The World
Meet Sarge: A 6-year-old Dalmatian, who was adopted by Palisades Park Police Lt. Jimmy Rotundo when he was just 7 weeks old. Sarge's flight from Florida had to make an emergency landing on its way to Newark. Then, once the plane finally landed in New Jersey, Sarge was "misplaced" by flight crews, his owner said. "They kept asking me 'What does he look like?'And I kept saying 'I don’t know I never met him! White with spots,'" said Rotundo, who served with the borough's volunteer fire department for 11 years. Sarge's "dopiness" is what Rotundo said made him fall in love. "He doesn't naviga…
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