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Bergen, Hudson Bail Reform Car Burglar Arrested Yet Again -- 500 Feet From Edgewater Police HQ Bergen, Hudson Bail Reform Car Burglar Arrested Yet Again -- 500 Feet From Edgewater Police HQ
Bergen, Hudson Bail Reform Car Burglar Arrested Yet Again -- 500 Feet From Edgewater Police HQ Police have nearly lost count of the number of times serial car burglar Isaiah Jones has been released only to strike again in community after community in Bergen and Hudson counties. It happened again Friday night when Edgewater police said they caught Jones entering unlocked vehicles in the parking lot of a River Road shopping center barely 500 feet from their headquarters. The 29-year-old Bayonne resident has become a local bail reform poster boy of sorts. Two weeks ago, Edgewater police arrested Jones for breaking into vehicles at the Viva Margarita Restaurant on Old River Road, across…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Police: Fugitive DWI Health Aide Crashes Sedan Into Bus In Cliffside Park, Injures Patient, 80 Police: Fugitive DWI Health Aide Crashes Sedan Into Bus In Cliffside Park, Injures Patient, 80
Police: Fugitive DWI Health Aide Crashes Sedan Into Bus In Cliffside Park, Injures Patient, 80 UPDATE: A home health aide who's wanted out of Florida was drunk when her sedan slammed into a commuter bus in Cliffside Park early Wednesday evening, injuring her 80-year-old patient, police said. Police charged Mary Ellen Digiacomo, 63, of Ridgefield, with DWI and endangering an elderly person following the 5:30 p.m. crash on Walker Street, Detective Capt. Vincent Capano said. They also issued several summonses, he said. Digiacomo's patient was taken to Palisades General Hospital in North Bergen with a hip injury, among other ailments, Capano told Daily Voice. The NJ Trans…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Police: Edgewater Crash Turns Up $13,385 In Fishy Cash Police: Edgewater Crash Turns Up $13,385 In Fishy Cash
Police: Edgewater Crash Turns Up $13,385 In Fishy Cash It looked like a routine crash – until Edgewater police found $13,385 in one of the vehicles. No one was injured in the crash in front of The River Palm Terrace on River Road, police said. Then things got interesting. The driver of a 2020 Range Rover – identified as 36-year-old Anthony Slater of Hagerstown, MD – gave Sgt. James Dalton conflicting statements about the Jan. 11 afternoon crash and where he was headed, Detective Sgt. Tim Farrell said. While speaking with Slater, Dalton “detected the odor of raw marijuana emanating from the passenger compartment of the vehicle,” Farrell said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Edgewater Restaurant Dishes Up Best Ramen In America Edgewater Restaurant Dishes Up Best Ramen In America
Edgewater Restaurant Dishes Up Best Ramen In America Spoiler alert: You don't have to travel across the world to get good ramen.  You don't even have to travel across the country -- the best is right here in Edgewater, according to Thrillist.  The travel and entertainment website released a list of best ramen restaurants in America, and among them is Santouka. The eatery, located inside of Japanese grocer Mitsuwa Marketplace, but has locations in California, Chicago, Seattle, Honolulu, Boston and Dallas. The locale was chosen by Chef Mutsuko Soma, a noodle chef in Seattle who was named one of Food & Wine’s Best New C…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught
Edgewater PD: Hit-Run Driver Who Toppled New River Road Crosswalk Signs Caught Edgewater detectives tracked down an SUV driver from Harrington Park who they said fled more than 10 miles on a flat tire after knocking down two poles with signs that were installed to make a dangerous intersection safer. Surveillance footage helped investigators find the black 2012 Mazda CX-9 that Carmela Stewart, 53, abandoned with a flat tire and heavy front-end damage on Route 9W in Alpine last Thursday night, Detective Sgt. Tim Farrell said Monday. Pieces of the SUV remained at the scene as the SUV fled north on River Road after knocking down the poles at the Garden Place intersectio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cliffside Park Man, Other Good Samaritans Rush To Help Driver Trapped In Edgewater Crash Cliffside Park Man, Other Good Samaritans Rush To Help Driver Trapped In Edgewater Crash
Cliffside Park Man, Other Good Samaritans Rush To Help Driver Trapped In Edgewater Crash A Cliffside Park man and a few other good Samaritans rushed to help a driver who was trapped when her car landed on its side in a Wednesday morning crash in Edgewater. “I was in front of her around 8 a.m. when I heard a loud bang and looked in the rearview mirror to see a car turned on its side,” Russell Otero told Daily Voice. The front driver's side tire of the victim's Accord hit a Tesla's rear passenger side tire on River Road near Glenwood Avenue, "and that was enough to turn it onto its side," Edgewater Police Chief Donald Martin said. "They did not seem to be going at a high rate of…

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by Jerry DeMarco