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Loaded Guns, Pot, Mushrooms Lead To Arrests Of North Bergen Men Following Fairview PD Stop Loaded Guns, Pot, Mushrooms Lead To Arrests Of North Bergen Men Following Fairview PD Stop
Loaded Guns, Pot, Mushrooms Lead To Arrests Of North Bergen Men Following Fairview PD Stop A Fairview police officer found a North Bergen ex-con and a companion with 22 pounds of pot, six pounds of psilocybin mushrooms, two loaded guns and more during a traffic stop, authorities said. Officer Sebastian Castano immediately caught a whiff of both raw and burnt marijuana from inside the 2019 Mercedes Benz with New York plates that he stopped on Bergen Boulevard at Cliff Street, Capt. Michael Martic said. Several large zip-locking bags of pot were scattered in plain view on the floor of the rear seat, the captain said. The driver, Andres Restrepo, 31, of North Bergen gave Castano c…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard WILD RIDE: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard
Wild Ride: Bergen Jitney Driver, 71, Speeds From Police With Passengers Aboard Nearly a dozen jitney passengers survived a wild ride after their 71-year-old driver first pulled over for police in Fairview, then hit the gas and sped from the stop. Adrian Marin was driving erratically when Fairview Police Officer Diego Porras stopped the bus on Bergen Boulevard and Harding Place back on the morning of June 30. Two officers doing jitney bus inspections at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Church on Anderson Avenue headed over as backup as Porras asked Marin for his paperwork, Detective Lt. Michael Martic said. "He started to get his documents, then took off with the 10 passe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer
NJ Police Chief Angry At Having To Free Hudson Fugitive Wanted In Shooting Death Of NYC Officer A Guttenberg man wanted for shooting and killing a school safety officer outside a Queens nightclub was in the hands of police in Fairview less than a half-hour later -- but had to be let go, authorities said. Now he’s at large and a local police chief is incensed. Mye Johnson and her twin sister were celebrating their 27th birthdays with a group of people before dawn Thursday when her ex-lover from Hudson County showed up, authorities said. Security guards at Solletto on Steinway Street near Astoria Boulevard turned away the as-yet unidentified man after finding him carrying a gun, law en…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Pedestrian, 79, Struck, Killed By Food Delivery Vehicle In Fairview Pedestrian, 79, Struck, Killed By Food Delivery Vehicle In Fairview
Pedestrian, 79, Struck, Killed By Food Delivery Vehicle In Fairview A 79-year-old Fairview resident was struck and killed by a food delivery driver's vehicle as she crossed a busy street Friday night. The victim was crossing Bergen Boulevard at Kamena Street when she was struck by the southbound vehicle shortly after 7:30 p.m., Police Chief Martin Kahn said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit joined Fairview police, the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office and the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence. The driver was brought to police headquarters, where he was interviewed by d…

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by Jerry DeMarco