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: Paramus Residents Home As Brazen Bandit Enters, Takes Keys, Flees With Hi-End Sedan
A brazen thief entered a Paramus home at night while the owners were upstairs, took the keys to their BMW and drove off with it, authorities said. It was at least the third time in the past several months in Paramus that a brazen burglar has gone into someone's home to snatch keys to high-end vehicles, said Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg, who released home security video of the theft from various angles. An undetermined number of bandits pulled up to the Bruce Drive home off Oradell Avenue in a white SUV around 10:30 p.m. Monday, June 20, Ehrenberg said Wednesday. One of them got out, fou…
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: Missing Paramus Resident, 82, Reunited With Family
A Paramus man who'd gone missing was found safe, authorities said Saturday. Joseph Kelly Jr., 82, was reunited with his family. A police K-9 had joined the search for the missing Regis Court resident, who authorities said was last seen at 6:45 p.m. Friday.
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Fire Consumes Paramus Home
A furious fire consumed a Paramus home early Friday. The blaze apparently ignited on a rear deck and quickly spread through the 2½-story, wood-frame Village Circle West home around 5 a.m. A couple and their two daughters -- ages 4 and 8 -- all got out OK, neighbors said. Aftermath of the Village Circle West fire in Paramus.Jo Fehl for DAILY VOICE The family, who'd moved in about a year ago, watched in their pajamas as the flames destroyed their home, they said. Firefighters had the bulk of the blaze knocked down within an hour and a half. Little was left once it was declared under c…
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Former Paramus Student From Passaic Charged In Fake 911 Mall Shooter Call, Bogus School Threat
A recent graduate of a special needs high school in Paramus phoned in a pair of bogus reports -- one about an alleged threat at the school by a man with a knife and another that made it seem an active shooter was at the Garden State Plaza, authorities said. Alex Barrales, 18, of Passaic made both "swatting" calls on the same day -- May 13, Police Capt. Frank Scott said Monday. Barrales was arrested in Irvington late last week after Paramus Police Detective Joshua Capizzi identified him as the caller in both instances, the captain said. Barrales, who'd attended Windsor Preparatory High Sch…
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: Paramus Teen Safe, Sound
A 16-year-old Paramus boy whose loved ones reported him missing was found early Wednesday, police said. He had been the subject of a search that began before dawn.
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Paramus Dad Dubbed 'Superman' After Jersey Shore Lagoon Rescue (
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A 63-year-old dad from Paramus is being called "Superman" by his neighbors after he rescued a man from the lagoon outside their Jersey Shore summer home. Frank Rossini jumped into the muddy waters off Chadwick Beach in Lavallette, overlooking Barnegat Bay, to save the 80-something-year-old victim last Sunday, May 22, his daughter Christie Mendes tells Daily Voice. The victim then got himself tangled in rope near a dock at about 10:30 a.m. according to the hero's daughter, Christie Mendes. The rescue was captured on surveillance camera video, which shows Rossini at the dock at hi…
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: 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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Detectives Nab Bronx Pair In Violent Bergen County Carjackings
A pair of violent Bergen County carjackings – one that produced a 110 mph pursuit and another that left a driver wounded – both involved a Bronx man who’s now in custody, authorities said. Authorities have moved to extradite Dariel Perez-Grullon and an accused associate, Luis Guzman-Encarnacion, both 22, to New Jersey to face charges. The first incident literally began and ended in minutes after a 31-year-old livery driver had his Lexus E350 taken by gunpoint outside a home on Pascack Road in Washington Township shortly before 1 a.m. March 23. Paramus police spotted the vehicle soon after …
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These 70+ NJ Gas Stations Are Dropping Prices Friday
Ever wonder how cheap gas in New Jersey would be if it was self-serve? More than 70 New Jersey stations will be offering fuel at a discounted rate to show drivers just that on Friday, May 13. The initiative promoting self-serving fueling was launched by Fuel Your Way NJ, a coalition that advocates for self-serve gas stations that still offer full service. The coalition appropriately titled the day " Fuel Your Way NJ Self-Serve Day of Awareness." Self-service stations were proposed in a measure by lawmakers in March, however, it was halted by in the General Assembly by the Motoris…
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Jersey City Man Buys $10K In Wood Flooring With Bogus Credit Card In Paramus: Police
A Jersey City man turned himself in Monday, May 9 after police say he used a bogus credit card to purchase thousands of dollars worth of products in New Jersey and Nebraska. A three-month investigation led police to Kyle Halsey, 32, who they say used a stolen credit card and fake identification to buy $10,000 worth of wood flooring from Carpet World on Route 17 in Paramus on Feb. 10, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The flooring was delivered to a storage unit in Ho Ho Kus by a legitimate delivery service that was not involved in the fraud, according to the chief. The inve…
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Accused Police Imposters From Jersey Shore Charged In Botched Bergen County Kidnapping
It took over a year and a half, but relentless detective work aided by modern tech produced the arrests of two accused police imposters from the Jersey Shore who authorities said tried to abduct an East Rutherford man from outside his home. Anthony Naso of Seaside Heights, Nicholas Polimeni of Toms River and an unidentified accomplice were all wearing bogus police badges when they rushed the victim on Sept. 11, 2020, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The victim told police he'd just returned to his Lincoln Place home shortly before 10 p.m. when the trio “grabbed him on his stairca…
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Pursuits Are Back, And Paramus Police Are Already In The Plus Column
Paramus police -- no longer hamstrung by limits on pursuits -- captured a trio of teenage car thieves who crashed into a tree off Route 17 after they were caught prowling local neighborhoods, authorities said. Officer Kevin Grady was on patrol when he spotted the ski-masked bandits from Kearny scoping out vehicles around Polly Ann Terrace and Ivanhoe Drive in a Honda CRV shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Grady tried to stop the SUV, which had been reported stolen out of Livingston, the chief said. The driver, 19-year-old Jason Cathcart, hit the ga…
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