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Palisade Avenue, Cliffside Park, NJ
Police & Fire
Tenant Accused Of Letting Cliffside Apartment Fire Burn Is Identified (
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UPDATE: Authorities have identified an emotionally troubled tenant who they said deliberately left a fire burning in his Cliffside Park apartment. Authorities arrested Christopher J. Perez, 40, at his sister's home after the two-alarm blaze was doused in a top-floor unit in the three-story brick building on Palisade Avenue shortly after 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 28, sources told Daily Voice. He was charged with endangering the lives of others and failing to put out or control a fire, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday. Perez also was charged with possession of crack t…
Police & Fire
Troubled Resident With Crack Leaves Fire Burning In Cliffside Apartment: Prosecutor
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Authorities have identified an emotionally troubled tenant who they said deliberately left a fire burning in his Cliffside Park apartment. Authorities arrested Christopher J. Perez, 40, at his sister's home after the two-alarm blaze was doused in a top-floor unit in the three-story brick building on Palisade Avenue shortly after 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 28, sources told Daily Voice. He was charged with endangering the lives of others and failing to put out or control a fire, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday. Perez also was charged with possession of crack that t…
Police & Fire
'Drugmobile' Stopped By Cliffside Officer, Driver Slammed With Host Of Offenses: Police
He had no driver's license, no legitimate registration and no insurance -- but that was far from the worst of it. An out-of-state driver was carrying Ketamine and cocaine, among various drugs, when a Cliffside Park police officer stopped him for a pair of traffic violations, authorities said. Officer Julio Perez-Tabera stopped the 2016 Audi RS7 as it pulled into the lot at the Palisadium in the Winston Towers off Palisade Avenue, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Owen E. Meyer, 32, had failed to come to a complete stop at the light and then failed to signal a turn, the deputy chief …
News
Teacher's Aide Rescues Choking Child In Cliffside Park
Young Kayla Lopez was having lunch at Cliffside Park’s No. 3 school when a piece of meat suddenly got stuck. The choking 7-year-old was in distress and terribly frightened. Seeing what was happening, teacher’s aide Jessica Foster rushed over and dislodged the food with the Heimlich maneuver, said Kayla’s mom, Natasha Madrid. That wasn’t all, however. Foster held tight to Kayla, who was still “in shock and trembling” when Madrid’s husband arrived at the Palisade Avenue school to pick her up, her mom said. “She hugged Kayla, making her feel safe until one of us could get there,” Madrid sa…
News
Cliffside Park PD: Fleeing Hudson Motorcyclist Nabbed After Pursuit Into Fort Lee
Fort Lee police helped their Cliffside Park colleagues nab a reckless motorcyclist from Hudson County following a high-speed chase, authorities said Wednesday. Angelo Vargas, 21, and two other cyclists had just sped into town on separate 150cc street bikes when an officer in an unmarked car tried to stop them on Palisade Avenue at Walker Street shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. A marked patrol unit also tried to intercept the trio at Oakdene Avenue before they split up, Capano said. Two turned left onto Columbia Avenue while Vargas kept going straight o…
News
Instagram Celeb Held In Bergen Jail For Kidnapping, Terrorizing Man Who Trashed Him Online
An Instagram influencer and two associates kidnapped a man in Bergen County, then stripped him naked and held a machete to his neck while threatening to kill him if he didn’t remove negative social media posts, authorities charged. Jebara J. Igbara, 25, told the victim that a video of the kidnapping would be released to social media if he didn’t do what he was told, they said. Earlier this week, federal authorities in Brooklyn charged Ibarra with scamming four of his nearly 1 million followers out of Bitcoin virtual currency by sending them worthless wire transfers in exchange for more than…
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Homeless Man Found Frozen To Death In Vacant Cliffside Park Building Identified
UPDATE: The family of a homeless Guatemalan immigrant found frozen to death in a vacant apartment in Cliffside Park won’t be able to bring his body home, friends say. A concerned friend who hadn’t seen him went to check the Palisade Avenue building near the Fairview border where Jorge Adalberto Roca had been staying with nearly a dozen other squatters, authorities said. Like him, Roca’s wife had suffered from severe alcoholism Roca’s wife, Virginia, died from alcoholism three months ago. Their children were placed with a caretaker in Fairview. That left Roca – an undocumented immigrant fro…
News
Distraught Widower, 86, Jumps To Death From High-Rise Over Hudson
A distraught widower jumped to his death from a Cliffside Park high-rise on New Year's Day, authorities confirmed. The 86-year-old man, who'd lost a daughter to suicide, left a check for another daughter from the recent sale of a home, they said. He then went out onto the deck and over the side of his 12th floor condo in the rear of Winston Towers 200 off Palisade Avenue just after 5 p.m. Friday, they said. Borough police were joined by the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence, and the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office. ****** The Nat…
Police & Fire
Black Bear Visits Cliffside Park Neighborhood Overlooking NYC
PHOTOS/VIDEO: A young black bear became a local sensation while toddling through a Cliffside Park neighborhood atop the Palisades. “Could you believe it?” Inga Bondarenko wrote Tuesday in tandem with a couple of photos. “A black bear on our front lawn! I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Reports came in from a stretch of several blocks, including near the corner of Palisade and Lafayette avenues. Neighbors in the area of Esplanade Place atop Oxen Hill posted photos and videos as alerts went out to residents. Someone said she later saw the bear on Franklin Avenue headed toward Fort Lee. The yo…
Police & Fire
Cliffside Park Man Turns Himself In For Hit-Run Crash That Injured Girl, 16
Cliffside Park detectives were closing in when a borough man surrendered Friday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that sent a 16-year-old girl to the hospital earlier in the week. Scott McLearie, who turned 64 on Thursday, was accompanied by his lawyer when Detective William Crapara served him at headquarters Friday with complaints charging him with assault by auto and endangering an injured victim by leaving the scene of a crash. Crapara, Sgt. Paul Hroncich and Detective Daniel Murtagh had been working the area after the girl was struck shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday at the corner of Co…
Police & Fire
SEE
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? Teen Struck By Hit-Run Driver In Cliffside Park
UPDATE: Cliffside Park detectives were closing in when a borough man surrendered Friday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that sent a 16-year-old girl to the hospital earlier in the week. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cliffsidepark/police-fire/cliffside-park-man-turns-himself-in-for-hit-run-crash-that-injured-girl-16/782071/ ORIGINAL STORY: Police were searching for a sedan that struck a Cliffside Park teenager Tuesday morning. The 16-year-old girl was taken to Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen with hip and leg injuries after being struck at the corner of Columbia and Palis…
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