Driver In DWI Hit-And-Run That Severely Injured Closter Pedestrian, 75, Works Nearby: Sources Driver In DWI Hit-And-Run That Severely Injured Closter Pedestrian, 75, Works Nearby: Sources
Driver In DWI Hit-And-Run That Severely Injured Closter Pedestrian, 75, Works Nearby: Sources UPDATE: A 75-year-old retired bank vice president from Closter who was struck by a drunk hit-and-run driver on a local street has died. Charges have been upgraded against the driver, a 36-year-old Ecuadorian national and father of four living in Hackensack. SEE: Retired Bank Exec Struck In DWI Hit-And-Run In Closter Dies, Charges Against Driver Upgraded ****** UPDATE: An Ecuadorian national living in Hackensack who police said fled the scene after severely injuring a 75-year-old former bank vice president in Closter was drunk at the time, authorities said on Monday. Jesus T. Yunganaula Te…
100 Pounds Of Pot, 30 Pounds Of Hash Oil, ‘Shrooms, More Seized In Route 17 Stop: Mahwah PD 100 Pounds Of Pot, 30 Pounds Of Hash Oil, ‘Shrooms, More Seized In Route 17 Stop: Mahwah PD
100 Pounds Of Pot, 30 Pounds Of Hash Oil, ‘Shrooms, More Seized In Route 17 Stop: Mahwah PD An alert Mahwah police officer nabbed a driver from North Carolina on Route 17 with more than 100 pounds of pot, 30 pounds of cannabis oil and several pounds of “magic” mushrooms, authorities said. Officer Michael Silano stopped a Chrysler mini-van driven by Kobe P. Rockwell, 24, of Apex, NC, on the southbound highway for various motor vehicle violations, Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said on Tuesday, March 14. Silano requested a Bergen County Sheriff’s Office K-9, who indicated the presence of drugs in the vehicle following Monday’s stop, the chief said. A search turned up the marijuana, the…
Water Company Tech From Rutherford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen Water Company Tech From Rutherford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen
Water Company Tech From Rutherford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen A Rutherford man who recently began working for Veolia Water North Jersey was charged with sexually assaulting a pre-teen, authorities announced. Adrian Antonio Guzman, a 31-year-old system technician who joined the utility company five months ago, was arrested by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit after they were alerted to the alleged incident by Rutherford police, Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Friday, March 3. They charged Guzman on Thursday with aggravated sexual assault of a minor and child endangerment and sent him to the Bergen County Jail. Guzman remai…
Towering Burglar Breaks Into Same Edgewater Business A Second Time, Police Charge Towering Burglar Breaks Into Same Edgewater Business A Second Time, Police Charge
Towering Burglar Breaks Into Same Edgewater Business A Second Time, Police Charge A North Bergen ex-con gave new meaning to the term “repeat offender” when he burglarized a business in Edgewater that he’d been busted for breaking into just weeks earlier, authorities said. Richard C. Medina, 57, took an undisclosed amount of cash from the Edgewater Plaza business at 725 River Road after breaking the glass of a side door shortly before 1:30 a.m. Jan. 22, Police Chief Donald Martin said. Detectives who reviewed security video instantly recognized him, the chief said. They’d arrested the 6-foot-5-inch repeat offender for burglarizing the same business last Dec. 30, he said.…
CARRY THAT WEIGHT: Bergen Detectives Bust NYC Five With 1,100 Pounds Of Pot, 50 Lbs Of Edibles CARRY THAT WEIGHT: Bergen Detectives Bust NYC Five With 1,100 Pounds Of Pot, 50 Lbs Of Edibles
Carry That Weight: Bergen Detectives Bust NYC Five With 1,100 Pounds Of Pot, 50 Lbs Of Edibles More than a half-ton of pot and 50 pounds of edibles were seized by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives who charged five jobless men from Queens with moving large drug shipments in and around Fort Lee. Narcotic Task Force members raided two storage facilities – one near the George Washington Bridge and the other in Jersey City – and conducted warranted searches of four vehicles in Fort Lee during the Valentine’s Day cannabust, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Arrested were: Jingru Chen, 29; Fenglei Fan, 35; Lifan Feng, 21; XingXiang Gao, 27; Weiqi Wu, 25. All five remain…
Crazed Driver Repeatedly Rams Hackensack Officer's Car: Police Crazed Driver Repeatedly Rams Hackensack Officer's Car: Police
Crazed Driver Repeatedly Rams Hackensack Officer's Car: Police A crazed driver repeatedly rammed a Hackensack police vehicle before the officer inside hopped out and subdued him on Thursday, authorities confirmed. Officer Panagiotis Seretis was responding to assist another officer with his emergency lights and sirens activated near the corner of Main and Salem streets around 10:30 a.m. Feb. 16 when he signaled Yves Davilmar Jr. to pull his Ford Explorer over and let him by, Capt. Michael Antista said. Seretis had to repeatedly signal Davilmar before he finally moved, the captain said. Davilmar then got behind the police car, hit the gas and rear-ended…
Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor
Former Paterson HS Security Guard From New Milford Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor A 28-year-old New Milford man who had worked as a security guard at Paterson Eastside High School was charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student in the borough. Everald Palmer, 28, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, Feb. 17, following a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of sexual assault by a supervisory adult and child endangerment. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said members of his Special Victims Unit arrested Palmer on Monday after New Milford police alerted them to a single alleged incident that he sai…
Westwood Man, 76, Jailed On Disturbing Human Remains Charges After Sister, 70, Is Found Dead Westwood Man, 76, Jailed On Disturbing Human Remains Charges After Sister, 70, Is Found Dead
Westwood Man, 76, Jailed On Disturbing Human Remains Charges After Sister, 70, Is Found Dead UPDATE: The 76-year-old brother of a Westwood woman whose body was found at least a week after she died was arrested on related charges. Joan Winter, 70, formerly of Yonkers and Hartsdale, NY, and her brother Mark, 76, had lived together for several years in what had been their late mother's Kennedy Terrace home on a quiet cul-de-sac near Washington Avenue, those who knew them said. Two friends who’d gone to the house looking for Joan said Mark told them she’d gone, a source with direct knowledge of the discovery said. Westwood police went to the home to conduct a welfare check around 1 p.…
GRISLY FIND: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say GRISLY FIND: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say
Grisly Find: 70-Something Westwood Woman Was Dead At Least A Week, Responders Say UPDATE: The 76-year-old brother of a Westwood woman whose body was found at least a week after she died was arrested on related charges. Joan Winter, 70, formerly of Yonkers and Hartsdale, NY, and her brother Mark, 76, had lived together for several years in what had been their late mother's Kennedy Terrace home on a quiet cul-de-sac near Washington Avenue, those who knew them said. Two friends who’d gone to the house looking for Joan said Mark told them she’d gone, a source with direct knowledge of the discovery said. Westwood police went to the home to conduct a welfare check around 1 p…
GOTCHA! Driver, Dented SUV Seized In Hit-And-Run That Killed 83-Year-Old Woman In Glen Rock GOTCHA! Driver, Dented SUV Seized In Hit-And-Run That Killed 83-Year-Old Woman In Glen Rock
Gotcha! Driver, Dented SUV Seized In Hit-And-Run That Killed 83-Year-Old Woman In Glen Rock UPDATE: A 24-year-old factory worker from Paterson was charged Wednesday with the hit-and-run death of an 83-year-old Hawthorne woman as she crossed a Glen Rock street two days earlier. The 2007 Honda CRV that David Romero was driving when he was stopped by Glen Rock Police Sgt. Michael Trover around 6:45 a.m. Feb. 1, not only has a dented hood. Tape also remained on an apparently new replacement windshield and bits of clothing were found in the grill. Romero was pulled over on Lincoln Avenue near northbound Route 208 -- less than a block up and easily visible from the spot where Angelina …
UPDATE: Real Estate Agent Charged In Hit-And-Run Death Of Bergen Mother Of 5 UPDATE: Real Estate Agent Charged In Hit-And-Run Death Of Bergen Mother Of 5
Update: Real Estate Agent Charged In Hit-And-Run Death Of Bergen Mother Of 5 A 26-year-old real estate agent from Paterson was driving the hit-and-run sedan that struck and killed a Garfield mother of five outside her home, authorities confirmed. Victor E. Diaz Castenada was being held in the Bergen County Jail on Tuesday, Jan. 10, in connection with the death exactly a week earlier of Shazia Faazal, 51. Castenada was driving a 2010 Honda Civic that struck Faazal on Outwater Lane near Alaska Street at 8:51 p.m. Jan. 3 and kept going, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Witnesses said Faazal was dragged at least 50 feet. She was taken to Hackensack Univers…
Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police
Cliffside Ex-Con Caught Casing Stores In Fairview Had Pills, Knives, Message For Police A Cliffside Park ex-con with a lengthy drug-related criminal history who police in Fairview said they busted before dawn Thursday sported a distinctive message for them atop his balding head. Tattooed on his scalp: “F*ck The Police.” David Weber, 40, also had a knife hanging from a lanyard around his neck and another on his hip when borough police caught him peering into the windows of businesses on Anderson Avenue around 4 a.m. Dec. 15, Detective Capt. Michael Martic said. Weber is known to police. He has a criminal record stretching back more than 15 years for offenses that include thef…