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HEARTLESS: Resident, 92, Victimized By 'Gypsy' Scammers, Lyndhurst Police Nab Two HEARTLESS: Resident, 92, Victimized By 'Gypsy' Scammers, Lyndhurst Police Nab Two
Heartless: Resident, 92, Victimized By 'Gypsy' Scammers, Lyndhurst Police Nab Two A 92-year-old Lyndhurst man fell victim to a familiar "gypsy" scam, losing $4,000 to a pair of thieves who claimed that they'd repaired his driveway, authorities said. Two Massachusetts men, David Standish of Haverhill and Thomas Stanley of Danvers, were arrested by Lyndhurst police with help from their colleagues in North Arlington, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said Saturday. Known also as “travelers,” gypsy con artists move around the East Coast using scams and diversions to get into people’s pocketbooks. Earlier this month, an elderly Glen Rock couple who came thisclose to losing $18,0…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Postal Carrier Admits Dumping Election Ballots NJ Postal Carrier Admits Dumping Election Ballots
NJ Postal Carrier Admits Dumping Election Ballots A postal carrier from Hudson County admitted Thursday in federal court that he dumped 1,875 pieces of mail -- including general election ballots and campaign flyers – instead of delivering them. Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny was nabbed by special agents of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General after a Saddle Brook man reported finding dumped bundles of mail in a dumpster behind a North Arlington bank last fall. The mail tossed by Beauchene included 99 general election ballots destined for residents in West Orange and 276 campaign flyers from local candidates for West Or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport
Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport A Bergen County pilot caught in heavy crosswinds lost control of his aircraft and crashed in the woods while attempting to land at the Lincoln Park airport Sunday night, police said. North Arlington pilot Henry Rosas-Linares was attempting to land a 1973 Piper PA-28 when the aircraft ran off the western side of the runway and ended up in a wooded area near the Lincoln Park airport around 6:30 p.m., police said. Rosas-Linares stated that a “heavy crosswind” contributed to the crash, police said. Rosas-Linares and his passenger were uninjured and refused medical treatment, police said. The …

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by Valerie Musson
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Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport
Bergen County Pilot Says Crosswind Caused Crash In Woods Near Lincoln Park Airport A Bergen County pilot caught in heavy crosswinds lost control of his aircraft and crashed in the woods while attempting to land at the Lincoln Park airport Sunday night, police said. North Arlington pilot Henry Rosas-Linares was attempting to land a 1973 Piper PA-28 when the aircraft ran off the western side of the runway and ended up in a wooded area near the Lincoln Park airport around 6:30 p.m., police said. Rosas-Linares stated that a “heavy crosswind” contributed to the crash, police said. Rosas-Linares and his passenger were uninjured and refused medical treatment, police said. The …

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by Valerie Musson
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Friends, Loved Ones Care For Bergen Orphan, 3, Whose Parents Were Stabbed Dead Friends, Loved Ones Care For Bergen Orphan, 3, Whose Parents Were Stabbed Dead
Friends, Loved Ones Care For Bergen Orphan, 3, Whose Parents Were Stabbed Dead UPDATE: Orphaned at only 3½ years old, a North Arlington girl faces an uncertain and heartbreakingly difficult future. Close family friends are working with the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency to help her grandparents in India get custody of little Viha Rudrawar. They’ve also mounted a fundraising drive that continues to grow. “In this immensely unfortunate moment, while we all get together to pray to the almighty to rest their souls in peace, we are also starting an effort to think for the future of the small child,” organizer Gobindsingh Nihalani wrote. Nihalani said h…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: North Arlington Couple Found Dead Identified UPDATE: North Arlington Couple Found Dead Identified
Update: North Arlington Couple Found Dead Identified UPDATE: A North Arlington couple from India were both found dead in what was believed to be a murder-suicide after a neighbor heard their 3½-year-old daughter crying, the husband’s father said. "My daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant," Bharat Rudrawar told the news agency Press Trust of India in Mumbai. "We had been to their house and were planning another trip to the US to be with them again.” Balaji Bharat Rudrawar, 32, and Arati Balaji Rudrawar, 30, were going to have a boy, sources with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. She was in the third trimester, they said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Search Ends When Passaic River 'Jumper' Shows Up Onshore Search Ends When Passaic River 'Jumper' Shows Up Onshore
Search Ends When Passaic River 'Jumper' Shows Up Onshore It was a case of all’s well that ends well – except for the amount of resources that were needed – when a report that a man had jumped into the Passaic River proved unfounded Thursday. Passaic police said they found the city man whom responders initially thought had jumped from the Union Avenue Bridge in Rutherford. By that point, requests had gone out for rescue boats and dive teams from Oradell, East Rutherford and North Arlington to converge on the southwest corner of the bridge. An ambulance also was sent to the nearby boat ramp. Responders would never think not to bring every resourc…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: North Arlington Mom Slain In Suspected Murder-Suicide Was Pregnant UPDATE: North Arlington Mom Slain In Suspected Murder-Suicide Was Pregnant
Update: North Arlington Mom Slain In Suspected Murder-Suicide Was Pregnant UPDATE: A North Arlington couple from India were both found dead in what was believed to be a murder-suicide after a neighbor heard their 3½-year-old daughter crying, the husband’s father said. "My daughter-in-law was seven months pregnant," Bharat Rudrawar told the news agency Press Trust of India in Mumbai. "We had been to their house and were planning another trip to the US to be with them again.” Balaji Bharat Rudrawar, 33, and Arati Balaji Rudrawar, 31, were going to have a boy, sources with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. She was in the third trimester, they said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Couple Stabbed Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide, Bergen's Second In Days Couple Stabbed Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide, Bergen's Second In Days
Couple Stabbed Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide, Bergen's Second In Days UPDATE: Balaji and Arati Rudrawar and their 3½-year-old daughter "were a happy family and had lovely neighbors," his father said. "I am not aware of any possible motive." SEE: North Arlington Couple Found Dead Identified ****** ORIGINAL STORY: A North Arlington couple was found stabbed dead and a 3½-year-old child was in law enforcement protection following what was believed to be Bergen County's second murder-suicide in days, both involving a child. The dead woman was pregnant, authorities confirmed Thursday. The child was found in the Garden Terrace apartment after a neighbor called p…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Two For One: Lyndhurst Fires Doused At Multi-Family Home, Senior Building Blocks Apart Two For One: Lyndhurst Fires Doused At Multi-Family Home, Senior Building Blocks Apart
Two For One: Lyndhurst Fires Doused At Multi-Family Home, Senior Building Blocks Apart UPDATE: Firefighters doused a pair of Lyndhurst blazes less than two hours and barely a half-mile apart Wednesday morning, one of them in a public housing building filled mostly with seniors. Two minor injuries were reported, said responders who credited a rapid response by police and firefighters who essentially ran from one two-alarm blaze to the next. Police Sgt. Steve Passamano and Officer Nicolette Villani, responding to a 7:51 a.m. call, forced their way into an unoccupied third-floor unit of the five-story Joseph A. Carucci Apartments on Stuyvesant Avenue, Detective Lt. Vincent Aute…

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BRUSH FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands BRUSH FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands
Brush FIRES: GS Parkway Closed Near Shore, NJ Turnpike Threatened Near Meadowlands UPDATE: A forest fire jumped the entire width of the Garden State Parkway from Lakewood into Brick Township while a Meadowlands brush fire stopped short of the New Jersey Turnpike amid Sunday's fierce winds.  They were among no fewer than a half-dozen large brush fires -- and nearly just as many smaller blazes -- that raged at once throughout the Garden State on Sunday, whipped by winds reported at up to 40 miles an hour and low humidity that barely cracked 20%. Several New Jersey State Police troopers gathered on the Turnpike's western awaiting word whether to close the roadway as firefig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Burned Body Of North Arlington Woman, 83, Found Days After She Died Burned Body Of North Arlington Woman, 83, Found Days After She Died
Burned Body Of North Arlington Woman, 83, Found Days After She Died A Bergen County medical examiner will officially determine how an 83-year-old North Arlington woman whose body was found in her home Tuesday died. Her unattended death, as such passings are known, wasn't considered suspicious, authorities said. The Jauncey Avenue victim apparently had been using the stove either to cook or for heat when her clothing caught fire sometime over the weekend, they said. The small blaze eventually died out "without us every knowing that it happened," North Arlington Police Chief Scott Hedenberg said. Police found the body while conducting a welfare check for a …

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by Jerry DeMarco