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Aggravated Assault: Edgewater Officers Injured In Scuffle With Target Shoplifter Aggravated Assault: Edgewater Officers Injured In Scuffle With Target Shoplifter
Aggravated Assault: Edgewater Officers Injured In Scuffle With Target Shoplifter What began as shoplifting put a man behind bars after he assaulted two Edgewater police officers, authorities said. Joseph Holman, 36, had been going in and out of the Target on River Road, changing his shirt each time and stuffing electronics into his backpack, Detective Sgt. Timothy Farrell said. Summoned by security, Sgt. Brian VanWettering and Officer Daniel Massuda said they confronted Holman in the electronics section, found him carrying stolen goods and began to take him into custody. Holman resisted, however, Farrell said. Both officers sustained cuts and bruises in a struggle to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target
Sleeping Teen Gets Locked Inside Union Target A 17-year-old Irvington girl was reunited with her mother Wednesday after she was accidentally locked inside the Target store on Rt. 22 E in Union, police said.  The girl had fallen asleep between two clothing aisles and woke up around 3 a.m., said Lt. Victor Correia. When she realized the doors had been locked, she called police.  The Target store in Union closes at 11 p.m., according to its website.  The girl had been reported missing by her mother in Irvington. She was returned to her mother by Union police.  The store's loss prevention unit told police nothing had …

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by Paul Milo
Lifestyle
Justin Bieber Spotted At Clifton Smashburger Justin Bieber Spotted At Clifton Smashburger
Justin Bieber Spotted At Clifton Smashburger Biebs is back. Pop sensation Justin Bieber was spotted at Clifton's Smashburger Saturday with his wife, Hailey Rhode Bieber, whose father is Stephen Baldwin. Instagram user lexc74 posted a photo of the 24-year-old singer exiting the Route 3 eatery. This wasn't Bieber's first trip to the area -- he was spotted at Clifton's Target in May 2017. SEE HIM? Send photos to clevine@dailyvoice.com

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Edgewater Police: Drunken Restaurant Patron Hits Pedestrian, 65, Tries To Flee Edgewater Police: Drunken Restaurant Patron Hits Pedestrian, 65, Tries To Flee
Edgewater Police: Drunken Restaurant Patron Hits Pedestrian, 65, Tries To Flee Edgewater police were headed to the call of a drunken patron at a Hudson River restaurant when the woman hit a 65-year-old man with her car, seriously injuring him, said authorities who arrested her. Responding to Thursday night's call from the Outback Steakhouse, Officers Ricardo Hernandez stopped Leila Miller, a 37-year-old local Realtor, as she drove through the shopping center parking lot in her 2019 Toyota Corolla, Detective Sgt. Tim Farrell said. As they were taking Miller into custody, another call came of a pedestrian being struck moments earlier in front of the Target store in the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo
Nostalgic Shopper Spots Herself In Archived Bergen Town Center Photo The last thing Denise Hamilton was expecting to see hanging on the wall at Bergen Town Center was a photo of herself. The Hackensack native was on a routine errand run to Whole Foods Wednesday when she saw the black and white image hanging in the Marshall's corridor, her younger self standing tall in the middle.  "I looked at it and I was like, 'That's me!'" said Hamilton, 69, who has a newspaper clipping of the photo from when it ran in the Bergen Record. "I couldn't believe it. I'm a part of this mall." A mall that for decades has been Hamilton's stomping grounds. "When I first got ma…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Hackensack PD Releases Photos Of Valley National Bank Robber Hackensack PD Releases Photos Of Valley National Bank Robber
Hackensack PD Releases Photos Of Valley National Bank Robber Hackensack police released new images of a man who they said robbed a Valley National Bank of $10,000 last month. They also released photos of the getaway car. The robber approached a teller at the Valley National Bank on Hackensack Avenue just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday wearing a black watch cap, green jacket, and black gloves, with his face partially concealed by a gray cloth, authorities said at the time. "He demanded money from the teller and displayed an unknown object wrapped in black duct tape," Capt. Nicole Foley said. "The teller complied and placed approximately $10,000 cash in a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident A Bergenfield man charged with grabbing a woman's butt at a Marshalls in Paramus did the same in Dumont two years ago and more recently followed a woman and her granddaughter around a Closter shopping center, authorities said. The mother of the 19-year-old woman in the Marshalls incident in Paramus chased down Edward Evans, 53, and recorded him with her cellphone, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said Thursday. Detective Lt. Robert Olive and Detective Jeff Lattanzi, in turn, identified Evans as the man in the video after checking with Closter police. They arrested him at his home on Wed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident 3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident
3rd One: Bergenfield Man Accused Of Grabbing Woman's Butt In Paramus Charged In Dumont Incident A Bergenfield man charged with grabbing a woman's butt at a Marshalls in Paramus did the same in Dumont two years ago and more recently followed a woman and her granddaughter around a Closter shopping center, authorities said. The mother of the 19-year-old woman in the Marshalls incident in Paramus chased down Edward Evans, 53, and recorded him with her cellphone, Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti said Thursday. Detective Lt. Robert Olive and Detective Jeff Lattanzi, in turn, identified Evans as the man in the video after checking with Closter police. They arrested him at his home on Wed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEEN THEM? Closter Police Hunt Suspected Shopping Center Stalker, Upskirter SEEN THEM? Closter Police Hunt Suspected Shopping Center Stalker, Upskirter
Seen Them? Closter Police Hunt Suspected Shopping Center Stalker, Upskirter Closter police released surveillance photos Wednesday in the hopes of identifying two men in separate incidents – one of whom they said followed a woman and her 11-year-old granddaughter around the borough’s new shopping center and another suspected of taking upskirt photos of a woman in a dressing room there. RECENT INCIDENT Surveillance video shows one of the men following the grandmother and girl, 11, into HomeGoods and then “from aisle to aisle for 15 minutes” without buying anything between 8-9 p.m. Aug. 1, Detective Sgt. Vincent Aiello told Daily Voice. After noticing him, the mother…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SEEN THEM? Police Say Maywood/Hackensack Locker Thieves Stole Cards Used In Paramus SEEN THEM? Police Say Maywood/Hackensack Locker Thieves Stole Cards Used In Paramus
Seen Them? Police Say Maywood/Hackensack Locker Thieves Stole Cards Used In Paramus Maywood and Hackensack police turned to the public for help finding a pair of locker room thieves who they said stole credit cards from two area health clubs, then used them at the Target store in Paramus. The actual thief struck at the HackensackUMC Fitness and Wellness Center on northbound Route 17 in Maywood and Retro Fitness on Commerce Way in Hackensack, both on July 3, Detective Matthew Parodi said. Both times, he handed the stolen credit cards off to a second man, who used them at target. If you see or know either or both of the men in the photos, contact Parodi at (201) 845-8800 or…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring
Edgewater Defendant Indicted In $12M Go-Go Bar Theft Ring An Edgewater man conspired with the owner of a shuttered go-go bar to use stolen credit card information – and illegally acquired gift cards – to steal more than $12 million, authorities said. Kevin Bae, 30, shared a bank account with the Morris County bar owner “into which millions of dollars were transferred” through the scheme, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday. They generated the money through a variety of scams, including scaring elderly people over the phone into buying gift cards by pretending to be a grandchild who was in jail and needed bail money, Grewal said. The own…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
Hackensack Friends Are Thrilled To See Familiar Face In Target Hackensack Friends Are Thrilled To See Familiar Face In Target
Hackensack Friends Are Thrilled To See Familiar Face In Target If you thought that was Hackensack's Barbie Ferreira you saw in the beauty section of Target, you would be correct. The 22-year-old is in yet another Target ad campaign, and you can find her smiling face in the beauty section of the store's Hackensack Avenue location -- and many more. Friends and fans are thrilled to see Ferreira's familiar face. "I saw your face in my local target and I yelled ‘Yay Barbie is in the beauty section!!’ And I got a couple of weird looks," one said. "I swear every time I see you pictures at store all that goes through my head is 'Yaaaassss quee…

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by Cecilia Levine