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'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash 'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash
'Relative In Trouble': 80-Something Glen Rock Victim Sends Scammers $12,000 Cash A Glen Rock woman in her 80s wrapped $12,000 in cash and sent it to phone scammers who convinced her that a relative in trouble needed it, authorities said. One of the scammers called the victim claiming to be the relative and then put an accomplice posing as an attorney on the phone, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said Monday. The “attorney” told the victim that the relative was in jail and needed the cash sent by UPS to an address in Memphis, TN, Ackermann said. Last Tuesday, the woman sent the package, which UPS tracking confirmed was delivered to the Memphis address shortly before 10 a.m.…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd The tour bus owned by Rockaway-based Z & D Tours in an early-morning crash that killed five people had no passenger seatbelts, federal officials said Monday. The bus' driver, Shuang Qing Feng, lost control and hitting a concrete median along the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Homendy said. The bus shot up an embankment, flipped on its side and then back into the barrier, at which point a FedEx truck slammed into the bus's undercarriage, she said. Feng, of Queens, N.Y., Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of The Br…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Teaneck PD: Drunk UPS Driver Crashes, Flees, Leaving Injured Woman Behind Teaneck PD: Drunk UPS Driver Crashes, Flees, Leaving Injured Woman Behind
Teaneck PD: Drunk UPS Driver Crashes, Flees, Leaving Injured Woman Behind A drunken UPS driver from Secaucus who crashed his truck in Teaneck jumped out and ran away, leaving his injured helper pinned inside, said police who captured him a short time later. A Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit tracked down Matthew Montgomery, 35, who was found hiding in a backyard on Park Avenue by Teaneck and Bogota police, Capt. Michael Ferrante said. Montgomery’s truck sideswiped two cars and slammed into a tree nearby just after 9 p.m. Monday, Ferrante said. Montgomery, who’d been driving with a suspended license, left behind not only packages but also his 24-year-old helper, …

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by Jerry DeMarco