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Stolen Heirlooms Returned After Hackensack Restaurant Closes After 30+ Years Stolen Heirlooms Returned After Hackensack Restaurant Closes After 30+ Years
Stolen Heirlooms Returned After Hackensack Restaurant Closes After 30+ Years All's well that ends well at The Crow's Nest in Hackensack. The restaurant said family heirlooms that were taken from the restaurant on Saturday, Oct. 21, the night it closed its doors, have been returned. The restaurant was a staple on Route 17 for more than 30 years, owned by the Hajiyerou family. "Thank you all for helping us get the word out there," the restaurant said on Facebook. "This certainly would not have happened without your help. We are truly grateful." The items were a green wooden Crow's Nest sign that was under the TV in the bar area and a vintage milk canister that was k…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
HIGH LIFE: Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Spending $100G Treasury Check Stolen Out Of Teaneck HIGH LIFE: Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Spending $100G Treasury Check Stolen Out Of Teaneck
High Life: Ridgefield Park Man Charged With Spending $100G Treasury Check Stolen Out Of Teaneck A Ridgefield Park man intercepted a $100,000 U.S. Treasury check that was headed to a beneficiary in Teaneck, then spent the money on himself, authorities charged. Tyler N. Thomas, 27, “created a fictitious LLC and opened a bank account to deposit the check for his own benefit,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He then “withdrew funds and made several purchases prior to the detection of the fraud,” Musella said. Thomas (also known as Tyler D. Rodriguez) surrendered himself on Oct. 10 amid a joint investigation by members of Musella’s Financial Crime Unit and Teaneck police, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Underage Teen Sexually Assaulted In Rochelle Park, Hackensack, Arrest Made, Prosecutor Says Underage Teen Sexually Assaulted In Rochelle Park, Hackensack, Arrest Made, Prosecutor Says
Underage Teen Sexually Assaulted In Rochelle Park, Hackensack, Arrest Made, Prosecutor Says An unemployed man living in Rochelle Park remained jailed following his arrest on charges of sexually assaulting an underage teen multiple times. Luis Zumba Chablay, 42, raped and otherwise sexually assaulted the victim, who was no more than 16, both in Rochelle Park and Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Rochelle Park police subsequently alerted detectives from the prosecutor's Special Victims Unit, who arrested Chablay on Saturday, Oct. 21. They charged Chablay with five counts of aggravated sexual assault, two counts each of sexual assault and criminal sexual contac…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Firefighters Battle Vacant Building Blaze On Frequently Struck Paterson Street Firefighters Battle Vacant Building Blaze On Frequently Struck Paterson Street
Firefighters Battle Vacant Building Blaze On Frequently Struck Paterson Street A Paterson street that's had more than its share of late-night fires in multi-family houses had another last night. Flames began quickly spreading on the second floor of a vacant 2½-story building on Lafayette Street just off Rosa Parks Boulevard shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, responders said. It quickly extended to the third floor and forced firefighters into an exterior attic while threatening a twin home next door. Fire officials asked NJ TRANSIT to temporarily close the elevated railway above Lafayette Street. Firefighters doused hot spots past midnight. No one was found ins…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Philly Trio Busted With Two Guns, Hollow-Point Ammo: Bergen Prosecutor Philly Trio Busted With Two Guns, Hollow-Point Ammo: Bergen Prosecutor
Philly Trio Busted With Two Guns, Hollow-Point Ammo: Bergen Prosecutor Three 21-year-old unemployed men from Philadelphia were arrested after drug investigators found two guns – one of them in a passenger’s waistband -- during a traffic stop, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Victor Garcia-Morla, Chelvin Castillo-Paula, and Anthony L. Medina Suarez remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Sunday, Oct. 21, pending first appearances in Hackensack. Detectives from the prosecutor's Narcotic Task Force stopped their vehicle at an undisclosed location in the county. They found the handguns, took all three into custody and charged them equally with illeg…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Judge Imposes Requirements On Tenafly Council Prez, Son Released On Child Porn Charges UPDATE: Judge Imposes Requirements On Tenafly Council Prez, Son Released On Child Porn Charges
Update: Judge Imposes Requirements On Tenafly Council Prez, Son Released On Child Porn Charges UPDATE: A judge in Hackensack released Tenafly Council President Jeffrey D. Grossman and his son from jail on Wednesday, but both must remain under house arrest at the family's home while they await trial on charges of child porn possession. Superior Court Judge David Labib didn't require electronic monitoring on Grossman and his son, Steven, during separate first appearances for both on Oct. 18. Labib (above photo, right) did impose several requirements after a prosecutor said investigators found more than 1,000 images of sexually abused boys between 10 and 13 collected by Steven Grossman …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
CAUGHT! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman CAUGHT! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman
Caught! Ex-Con Charged With Hit-Run Death Of Woodland Park Woman A Woodland Park driver charged in the hit-and-run death of a 31-year-old borough woman is an ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet, including an assault arrest in Hackensack just the other day, Daily Voice has found. Abdullah Parker, 57, was charged with vehicular homicide in the Oct. 15 death of Lillian Zamlout as she walked in the area of McBride Avenue and Hughes Place in town. Zamlout was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center after Parker's black Honda Odyssey bounded onto the sidewalk and hit her, authorities said. She was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later, they sa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Hackensack Woman Stabbed, Arrest Quickly Made Hackensack Woman Stabbed, Arrest Quickly Made
Hackensack Woman Stabbed, Arrest Quickly Made A 27-year-old Hackensack woman survived a stabbing before dawn Saturday, said city police who quickly made an arrest. City police seized Jonathan Salazar Sigcha, 29, who also lives in Hackensack, at the scene on Polifly Road shortly after 2:30 a.m. Oct 14, Police Director Raymond Guidetti said. They sent Sigcha to the Bergen County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. The victim has since been released from the hospital, Guidetti said Saturday afternoon. Sigcha, who jail records list as an Ecuadorian national, is charged with aggravated assa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Englewood Burglar Who Raided Homeowner's Fridge, Changed Clothes Ends Up With Jail Food: Police Englewood Burglar Who Raided Homeowner's Fridge, Changed Clothes Ends Up With Jail Food: Police
Englewood Burglar Who Raided Homeowner's Fridge, Changed Clothes Ends Up With Jail Food: Police Chances are good an intruder who made himself comfortable while burglarizing an Englewood home – raiding the refrigerator and changing his clothes – isn’t finding the accommodations at the Bergen County Jail as cushy. Carlos Liriano, 36, of the Bronx snatched $1,000 or so in cash and $14,000 worth of jewelry from the Old Quarry Road home just off Route 4 sometime between lunch and dinner on Friday, Oct. 13, Englewood Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. Liriano "spent a significant amount of time" in the home, the lieutenant said. Then he got cocky. Detectives who diligently worked the case id…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Propane To Blame In NJ House Explosion That Injured 5, One Critically, Fire Marshal Says Propane To Blame In NJ House Explosion That Injured 5, One Critically, Fire Marshal Says
Propane To Blame In NJ House Explosion That Injured 5, One Critically, Fire Marshal Says UPDATE: A house explosion last month in West Milford that sent five people to the hospital – one of whom remains in critical condition – apparently was due to a propane leak, the township’s fire marshal said. The other four victims injured when the home in the Upper Greenwood Lake section exploded and collapsed on Sept. 22 have since been released from the hospital, Fire Marshal Michael Moscatello said on Friday, Oct. 13. The fifth remains in the burn unit at the Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, he said. Everyone feared the worst at the time. The first unit at the scene, …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
South Jersey Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Woman At Route 46 Motel South Jersey Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Woman At Route 46 Motel
South Jersey Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Woman At Route 46 Motel A parking lot attendant from South Jersey was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a South Hackensack motel. Austin Walker, 22, of Pennsville, was taken into custody last week, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, Oct. 9. The prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit began investigating with township police following a complaint from a woman who said that Walker sexually assaulted her at the Horizon Inn on Route 46 on Aug. 1. Walker was booked into the Bergen County Jail on three counts of sexual assault through force or coercion on Oct. 5. Records show he was ordered rele…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Accused Sex Abuser Of Englewood Child Re-Arrested After 2nd Victim Comes Forward: Prosecutor Accused Sex Abuser Of Englewood Child Re-Arrested After 2nd Victim Comes Forward: Prosecutor
Accused Sex Abuser Of Englewood Child Re-Arrested After 2nd Victim Comes Forward: Prosecutor A carpenter from Clifton who was released after being arrested on child sex assault charges out of Englewood has been charged with victimizing a second youngster. Esmond Nimblett, 49, was taken into custody on Aug. 3 for two alleged sex assaults in Englewood on a victim between 13 and 16 years old on July 22, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella Nimblett spent 11 days in the Bergen County Jail before a judge in Hackensack released him, with conditions, on Aug. 14, records show. Detectives from Musella’s Special Victims Unit continued their investigation, however, and discovered that Nimbl…

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by Jerry DeMarco