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Wanted Route 17 Driver Had Air Pistol, Ski Mask, More: Rochelle Park PD Wanted Route 17 Driver Had Air Pistol, Ski Mask, More: Rochelle Park PD
Wanted Route 17 Driver Had Air Pistol, Ski Mask, More: Rochelle Park PD A driver from Staten Island was caught with an air pistol, a ski mask and an outstanding warrant when Rochelle Park police stopped him on Route 17, authorities said. Officer Chris Kiszka pulled over the BMW with Florida transporter plates for multiple equipment violations on the southbound highway around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. James M. DePreta said. The driver, 22-year-old Devonte Thomas, was unable to provide a valid registration or proof of insurance, he said. While Kiszka was dealing with him, backup Officer Jorge Orihuela spotted what looked like a handgun sticking out from beneath the…

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Three Captured After Stolen SUV Rams Vehicles In Paramus Pursuit Three Captured After Stolen SUV Rams Vehicles In Paramus Pursuit
Three Captured After Stolen SUV Rams Vehicles In Paramus Pursuit BREAKING: Three suspects in a stolen SUV rammed multiple vehicles, including a Paramus police car, before officers from neighboring departments helped nab them as they fled, responders said. A female occupant of one of the civilian vehicles had to be hospitalized in the wake of the pursuit and crashes early Monday evening, all of which happened in a matter of minutes. The 2022 Mercedes GLS reportedly was stolen out of Manalapan around 7 p.m. Sunday. It was being tracked via GPS and had apparently been circling Newark before it was identified on Franklin Turnpike in Ridgewood on Monday. Par…

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Driver Hospitalized After SUV Rollover Near Paramus Mall Driver Hospitalized After SUV Rollover Near Paramus Mall
Driver Hospitalized After SUV Rollover Near Paramus Mall An SUV driver was hospitalized after a rollover crash near the Garden State Plaza. Firefighters had to extricate the Mazda driver after the early-lunchtime crash Tuesday on West Passaic Street in Rochelle Park, up the street from the northbound Garden State Parkway. A Hackensack University Medical Center ambulance took the victim to the hospital with an ALS unit on board. A Hackensack University Medical Center ambulance took the victim to the hospital.Boyd A. Loving Her condition couldn't immediately be determined. Maywood firefighters assisted their Rochelle Park colleagues. Belf…

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Retired Teaneck Police Officer Critically Injured In Route 208 Crash Caused By Road Defect Retired Teaneck Police Officer Critically Injured In Route 208 Crash Caused By Road Defect
Retired Teaneck Police Officer Critically Injured In Route 208 Crash Caused By Road Defect UPDATE: A retired Teaneck police officer was critically injured when he was thrown from his motorcycle after it struck a defective piece of roadway on a Route 208 overpass, authorities said. The 59-year-old rider from Rochelle Park was headed north on the highway De Boer Drive when his motorcycle hit a defective expansion joint shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Officers closed the highway and rendered first aid before EMTs from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took over, transporting the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with sever…

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Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash
Motorcyclist Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash UPDATE: A retired Teaneck police officer was critically injured when he was thrown from his motorcycle after it struck a defective piece of roadway on Route 208, authorities said. The 59-year-old rider from Rochelle Park was headed north on the highway De Boer Drive when he rode over a defective expansion joint shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Officers closed the highway and rendered first aid before EMTs from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took over, transporting the victim to Hackensack University Medical Center with severe trauma, the chi…

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Fire Ravages Lodi Home Fire Ravages Lodi Home
Fire Ravages Lodi Home A fast-moving fire gutted a Lodi home. No injuries were reported in the fire, which broke out on Farnham Avenue just off Arnot Street near Harrison Avenue, shortly before 8 a.m. Firefighters were pulled out barely 20 minutes in as flames quickly spread through the 2½-story wood-frame home, compromising the interior of the structure. Firefighters were pulled from the home on Farnham Avenue in Lodi and had to go to an exterior attack.BT Fire Photos (Bill Tompkins) Firefighters had the blaze knocked down a little over an hour later and under control another hour after that. An official c…

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SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park SEE ANYTHING? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park
SEE Anything? Hackensack Driver Carjacked At Gunpoint In Rochelle Park A Hackensack driver escaped serious injury when he was carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night in Rochelle Park, authorities said. Two robbers wearing masks -- one of them carrying a gun -- accosted the driver and took his Audi at the D-Mart Indian-Asian Farmers Market on Rochelle Avenue around 8 p.m., Police Lt. James D. DePreta said. One was wearing a white hoodie with dark-colored pants and the other all black, witnesses said. They described both men as black. The robbers abandoned the vehicle a couple of blocks away and fled in a red Toyota Rav 4 that had been reported stolen out of Pater…

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UPDATE: Senior Homeowner, Daughter's Fiancé Killed In South Hackensack House Fire UPDATE: Senior Homeowner, Daughter's Fiancé Killed In South Hackensack House Fire
Update: Senior Homeowner, Daughter's Fiancé Killed In South Hackensack House Fire UPDATE: An elderly homeowner and her daughter's fiancé died in an overnight house fire in South Hackensack, authorities confirmed. The Agar Place fire broke out in the rear of the 1½-story home shortly after 3 a.m. and instantly spread, responders and neighbors said. An off-duty South Hackensack police sergeant who lives next door to the victims tried to extinguish the flames with a garden hose, but the blaze spread too quickly. Firefighters had to beat back heavy flames and extreme heat, in fact, before finding 80-year-old homeowner Teresa Savino and Anton Pechal (Merkulov), 29. The…

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Out-Of-State Passenger Not Wearing Seatbelt On Route 17 Found With Loaded Gun: Rochelle Park PD Out-Of-State Passenger Not Wearing Seatbelt On Route 17 Found With Loaded Gun: Rochelle Park PD
Out-Of-State Passenger Not Wearing Seatbelt On Route 17 Found With Loaded Gun: Rochelle Park PD A passenger not wearing a seatbelt acted suspiciously enough for a Rochelle Park police officer to begin asking questions -- and find a gun loaded with hollow-point bullets, authorities said. Hugh Warner, 29, of Daytona Beach, FL was in a Nissan Altima stopped by Officer Chris Kiszka on southbound Route 17. Backup officers arrived Kiszka found a 9mm Taurus handgun in the glove box, said Lt. James D. DePreta, who was one of them. Warner was charged with illegal possession of the gun, a high-capacity magazine and the hollow-point rounds. He was sent to the Bergen County Jail, where he remain…

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Dog Rescued In Lodi House Fire Dog Rescued In Lodi House Fire
Dog Rescued In Lodi House Fire A dog was rescued during an early Wednesday evening house fire in Lodi. No injuries were reported in the two-alarm Harrison Avenue blaze, which broke out in a second-floor room of the brick single-family home around 5:20 p.m. Firefighters had it doused within 15 minutes. Mutual aid was provided at the scene or in coverage by firefighters from Hasbrouck Heights, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook and Wallington. Damien Danis took the photos and contributed to this story. Everyone got out safely from the two-alarm Harrison Avenue blaze in Lodi.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE

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Prank Call Of Man Who Shot Cheating Wife Brings Police, SWAT To Maywood Neighborhood Prank Call Of Man Who Shot Cheating Wife Brings Police, SWAT To Maywood Neighborhood
Prank Call Of Man Who Shot Cheating Wife Brings Police, SWAT To Maywood Neighborhood The latest in a growing number of "swatting" incidents unnecessarily brought a squadron of police and tactical team members to an otherwise quiet Maywood neighborhood just off Route 17. A phony caller told police he had just shot his wife twice in the chest and was holding his neighbor at gunpoint after finding them having an affair shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday, Maywood Police Chief Terence R. Kenny said. Borough police converged on West Magnolia Avenue with their colleagues from Rochelle Park. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was summoned. Police got the shocked residents out unharmed, …

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PARAMUS MALL BRAWL: Targeted Victim Beaten By Just-Released Ex-Con, Juvenile, Police Say PARAMUS MALL BRAWL: Targeted Victim Beaten By Just-Released Ex-Con, Juvenile, Police Say
Paramus Mall Brawl: Targeted Victim Beaten By Just-Released Ex-Con, Juvenile, Police Say A man was beaten, stomped on and bashed in the head with a chair during a vicous brawl Friday night in the food court of the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, authorities said. The melee ignited a panic, with people running for the exits -- and some wrongly telling police they heard gunshots -- around 7 p.m.  It also sent the 26-year-old victim from Paterson to the hospital with serious injuries, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Ehrenberg's officers were joined by colleagues from Rochelle Park, Maywood and Fair Lawn who converged on the mall and restored order quickly, witnesses said…

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