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Police & Fire
Police Were Justified Killing Fugitive Who Shot Woman In Elmwood Park, Grand Jury Finds
UPDATE: Police were justified in killing an armed ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park, a grand jury has found. James Allandale, 61, immediately opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook on Route 46 in Montville this past New Year's Eve. He was shot and killed in the exchange of gunfire. Allandale -- whose real name is James Allan -- became the target of an intense manhunt after he shot Cynthia Greco of New Milford at 113 Lincoln Avenue shortly before 5:30 p.m. Dec. 27, 2022. The home is owned by Allandale's girlfriend, Lisa Dolack, who …
Police & Fire
Two Hospitalized In Three-Vehicle Pileup In Fair Lawn
At least two people were hospitalized following a three-car pileup late Saturday in Fair Lawn. Broadway was temporarily closed in both directions just after 11 p.m. Nov. 4 so that members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps could tend to the wounded and the wreckage could be cleared from the intersection at Plaza Road. The extent of injuries couldn't immediately be determined. Serious damage was done to the late-1990s-era Honda CRV and two Toyotas -- a RAV4 and a Prius, which was broadsided on the driver's door -- all of which had to be towed from the scene. Fair Lawn firefighters…
Business
These 27 NJ Boston Market Stores Have Reopened After Failing To Pay 314 Workers
The 27 Boston Market stores in New Jersey that were issued stop work orders last month for failing to pay hundreds of employees have reopened. It gets better, the workers have been compensated. The chicken chain became the center of an investigation by the state's labor department when East Hanover employee Cathy Grimes reported that she and the dozen workers she managed hadn't been paid for two months, the DOL said. It wasn't long before more employees from across the state came forward, too. An investigation by the DOL found that 27 Boston Market stores in the Garden State had not been …
Police & Fire
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? 2nd Vehicle May Have Been Involved In Fair Lawn Rollover Crash That Injured Two
Fair Lawn police were investigating a report that a second vehicle may have been involved in a rollover crash Monday night. Two occupants were taken to the hospital with apparently moderate injuries after the Honda Accord overturned on eastbound Broadway (Route 4) at 26th Street around 7:30 p.m. Aug. 21. Fair Lawn police, firefighters, Heavy Rescue and EMS all responded. BDJ Towing of Paterson righted and removed the sedan. The crash occurred on eastbound Broadway (Route 4) at 26th Street in Fair Lawn around 7:30 p.m.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Broadway was temporarily closed betw…
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Video Shows Fatal Morris Motel Shootout With Fugitive Wanted For Wounding Bergen Woman
A soundless TV is on in his Route 46 motel room when a tactical team bursts in and an ex-con being sought for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park raises a silver revolver. Several shots are fired by shield-wielding members of Morris County's emergency response team, and James Allandale instantly falls to the floor. He's pronounced dead less than 10 minutes later. The scene at the Knights Inn in Pinebook this past New Year's Eve is captured in a pair of body-camera videos released by state authorities as part of a mandated review of all deaths involving police in New Jersey. All…
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Update
: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes
UPDATE: Law enforcement agencies in two states were sharing information in the search for a masked gunman who robbed two gas stations in Mahwah, another in Paramus and a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn of several thousand dollars in less than a half hour. The spree ended with back-to-back holdups of two gas stations on northbound Route 17 in Mahwah barely a couple of minutes from the Rockland County border. The robber entered the Valero station near Route 202 at 11:05 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, Mahwah Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. He “brandished a handgun at the staff at the register and demanded mone…
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Manhunt
Ends
: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …
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Girlfriend Of Fugitive Elmwood Park Shooter Didn't Originally Know His Violent Past: Neighbors
UPDATE: The death of fugitive James Allandale during an exchange of gunfire with police at a Route 46 motel came days after his girlfriend -- whose friend he'd shot -- made a public plea to “end this nightmare.” Lisa Dolack included the police wanted poster while asking folks on Facebook to help authorities track down and capture ex-con James Allandale. “I am pleading to all my friends, please post on your page this below. We need to end this nightmare! please copy and paste," she wrote on Thursday, Dec. 29. "Flood Facebook today with this please help me.” Allandale, 61, who police said s…
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: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …
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Newsbreak
: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …
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Manhunt
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: Fugitive Sought For Shooting Woman In Elmwood Park Killed In Gunfight With Police
UPDATE: An ex-con wanted for shooting a New Milford woman in Elmwood Park was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement officers at a Route 46 motel, state authorities confirmed. James Allandale, 61, opened fire on officers who found him at the Knights Inn Pinebook before midnight on New Year's, multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. He was in turn shot and killed, they said. The officers were members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, according to New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin's office. SERT is …
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Driver, 87, OK After Sedan Plows Into Fair Lawn Convenience Store (
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An 87-year-old driver from Glen Rock escaped injury when her sedan smashed through the front of a Fair Lawn convenience store. No other injuries were reported, either. The Toyota Avalon barreled into the Quick Mart in a mini-shopping center on Broadway when the driver accidentally hit the gas shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, Police Sgt. Sean Macys said. Fair Lawn police and firefighters responded to the crash at the Quick Mart on Broadway.Douglas Lee for DAILY VOICE Borough police and firefighters -- including members of the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad -- responded. A building inspector de…
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Flash
Flood
: Motorists Rescued, Vehicles Float, Roads Jammed Throughout Area
Some cars flipped while many floated, responders rescued dozens of motorists whose vehicles became submerged and traffic throughout Bergen and Passaic counties was paralyzed by the hard rain that fell Monday afternoon. Torrential thunderstorms stranded motorists rescued by emergency responders. Others watched their cars float away. Roadways of all widths and lengths were closed -- some of them in more than one spot. A flash-flooded southbound Route 208 was closed after a vehicle flipped. Broadway just west of Midland Avenue below the NJ Transit trestle on the Fair Lawn side.Boyd A. Lo…
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Neighbors Help Nab Burglars Who Broke Into Fair Lawn Home
Residents of a Fair Lawn neighborhood helped police nab two burglars moments after they broke into a home, authorities said. Uniformed officers who converged on the Plaza Road home near Broadway saw Gersson Hernandez Gomez, 30, and Saul Barrera, 39, both of Queens, emerge through a side door, Sgt. Sean Macys said. They apparently had used a pry bar to break into the house through the back -- then dropped a pair of backpacks as they fled. The officers were pursuing the pair when Hernandez Gomez fell and injured his ankle, the sergeant said. He resisted arrest before being s…
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Pizza Guy Charged With DWI, Reckless Driving In Fair Lawn Rollover Crash
A pizza delivery man was drunk when he rolled his SUV in Fair Lawn and had to be extricated by firefighters, authorities said. Fair Lawn Rescue Squad members cut out the windshield to free John Keegan, 59, of Ridgewood, after the vehicle hit a parked car and landed on its side on Broadway at 30th Street Monday evening, March 21, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps checked Keegan out, found him uninjured and turn him over to police, Metzler said. Officers arrested him after Keegan refused to submit to a roadside sobriety test, the sergeant said. T…
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Passenger Among Trio Passed Out In Stopped Vehicle Had Loaded Gun On His Lap: Fair Lawn PD
One of three men who were found nodded out in a car stopped in the middle of a Fair Lawn street had a loaded handgun on his lap, authorities said. Officers responding to the overnight call on Broadway at Fair Lawn Parkway arrested William Barba, 31, of Newark, along with the driver, Richard Scott, 30, of Ridgefield Park, and passenger Devin McConnell, 31, of Clifton, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Scott was released to a responsible adult after being charged with DWI, refusing to submit to a breath test and obstruction following the 3:30 a.m. incident on March 6, Metzler said. McConnell was rele…
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'Most Wanted' Fugitive From Westchester Captured By Fair Lawn Police
An ex-con was removed from Westchester County’s "Most Wanted Fugitives" list after Fair Lawn police found him strung out on heroin, authorities said. Officers responding to a March 8 call of a man going in and out of consciousness in parking lot next to a Broadway (Route 4) check cashing business found Jordan Seacor, 31, of Ossining, sitting in his car, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. “He was sweating profusely and having difficulty staying awake,” the sergeant said. As the officers watched, Seacor dug into his pockets, pulled out a bundle of heroin bags and stuffed them into a backpack, Metzler…
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Flatbed Mounts Divider, Concrete Goes Flying In Collision With Garbage Truck In Fair Lawn
The cab of a flatbed tower mounted a concrete divider after colliding with a garbage truck Thursday morning in Fair Lawn. The driver for City-Wide Towing of Hawthorne said he was headed west on Broadway just past the Route 4/208 split when a car cut him off, pushing his rig into the back of garbage truck owned by Interstate Waste Services of Teaneck shortly after 10:15 a.m. The tow truck got hooked onto the garbage truck’s rear push bar and was turned sideways before it slammed into the median, sending concrete flying, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. A chuck of it struck a 2006 Nissan headed eas…
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Hero
: Bergen Dealership GM Rescues Missing Wrong-Way Jersey Shore Driver, 78
Vehicles whizzed by as a disoriented 78-year-old driver more than 140 miles from home headed into oncoming traffic on a treacherous stretch of Route 4 in Fair Lawn. Don Chittum, the general manager at Jack Daniels Volkswagen, looked out Tuesday night to see the man’s Corolla stranded on the concrete divider between Broadway and the highway. What Chittum didn’t know was that the Jersey Shore driver had been reported missing earlier. He just knew that he was in serious trouble. The man apparently made a left instead of a right out of the furniture store lot next to the dealership and was h…
Police & Fire
Wild Chain-Reaction Crash Sends Sedan Through Fair Lawn Insurance Company Window
A sedan plowed through the front window of a Fair Lawn insurance agency during a wild, chain-reaction crash Tuesday that left an SUV overturned in the middle of the street. The Honda Accord collided with the Honda CRV on Broadway at 30th Street shortly before 3 p.m. The CRV rolled, hitting a parked car Infiniti Tuscon and a van, before it struck another vehicle making deliveries and came to rest in front of the Valley National Bank. The Accord, meanwhile, crashed through the front window of the Broadway Insurance Agency. Two people were taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Pa…
Police & Fire
Authorities: Accused FedEx Impersonator Found With Loaded Gun During Fair Lawn Traffic stop
A repeat offender charged with dressing up like a FedEx worker to snatch packages from porches was found carrying a loaded handgun during a traffic stop in Fair Lawn, authorities said. Officer Justin DiGuglielmo smelled pot after stopping a 2019 Nissan Rogue on Broadway at 26th Street just after 10:45 p.m. Monday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The officer then found a plastic bottle with marijuana residue and a 9mm Kel-Tec P-11 handgun loaded with five rounds hidden inside a sock in the center console. The driver, 24-year-old Raymond Severino of Paterson, was charged with weapons offenses …
Police & Fire
NJ State Police Chase Ends In Fair Lawn Crash, Foot Pursuit, Arrests
Two suspects were in custody after a State Police chase ended in a crash and foot pursuit Friday afternoon in Fair Lawn. A trooper began chasing the black Nissan Rogue with New York license plates on eastbound Route 80 a short time earlier, Sgt. Lawrence Peele said. Both suspects bailed out and went in opposite directions after the vehicle rear-ended a van at 30th and Broadway (Route 4) around 3 p.m., he said. State troopers caught one, while two Fair Lawn detectives and a patrol officer nabbed the other. A special program that began last fall providing full-time police protection in Fai…
Police & Fire
SUVs, Sedan Involved In Chain-Reaction Fair Lawn Crash After Driver Has Diabetic Emergency
Two SUVs and a sedan were involved in a chain-reaction crash Friday afternoon in Fair Lawn after one of the drivers apparently had a diabetic episode, police said. Both ALS and BLS units responded to the crash just after 4 p.m. in front of the iHop on westbound Broadway. The extent of injuries wasn't immediately known. The Fair Lawn Rescue Squad also responded to clean up a fuel spill. Traffic on Broadway was jammed after the crash, which occurred barely a half-hour after a hit-run on southbound Route 208. An SUV was severely damaged in the chain-reaction crash on Broadway in Fair Law…
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn PD: Driver Bolts After Hitting Two Buses
A man with an arrest history and a suspended driver’s license called police and then ran away early New Year's morning after his sedan hit two buses in Fair Lawn, said authorities who arrested him a short time later. Craig Tomlinson, 23, of Paterson was tracked down on Banta Place and Rosalie Street barely 20 minutes after the 8:46 a.m. crash on Broadway at 27th Street, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Tomlinson, who failed a roadside sobriety test, was charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene of a crash, driving while intoxicated and operating with a suspended license, Metzler said. He wa…
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn PD: 'Suspicious' Elmwood Park Man Had Heroin, Warrant
A 31-year-old man with an outstanding warrant was discovered with heroin hidden in a cigarette box while walking around Fair Lawn Monday evening, borough police said. After noticing a "suspicious" male on Broadway at West Amsterdam Avenue around 9 p.m., Fair Lawn Police Officer John Rovetto arrested John Schmitt of Elmwood Park, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Schmitt had a $1,000 arrest warrant out of Elmwood Park, police said. He was charged with drug-related offenses and handed over to Elmwood Park police, Metzler said.
Police & Fire
Rainstorm
: Fair Lawn, Elmwood Park Firefighters Rescue Stranded Car Occupants
Fair Lawn firefighters, with help from their Elmwood Park colleagues, rescued the occupants of a sedan stranded by Saturday's flash flooding. Fair Lawn police joined the responders under the NJ Transit trestle on eastbound Broadway around 5 p.m. No one required medical attention, responders said. A tow truck retrieved the soaked sedan. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this account. ****** (ALSO SEE) VIDEOS: A rushing torrent of muddy water during Saturday's rainstorm sent vehicles floating and crashing into one another at a Route 46 dealership in Little Falls. https://northpassaic.dailyvo…
Police & Fire
Mugshot
: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held
UPDATE: A judge ordered that a Paterson man arrested by Fair Lawn police for a $10,000 bank robbery last month remain held in the Bergen County Jail. "10K or You Die" read the note that 22-year-old Jose Cuevas of Paterson handed a teller at the Columbia Bank branch on Broadway on July 13, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Cuevas "grabbed his hip, making the teller believe that he was holding a weapon," Metzler said. Detectives Brian Rypkema and Anthony Lugo identified Cuevas, who was carrying a 27-inch machete when he was arrested Tuesday night, Aug. 1, the sergeant said. The p…
Police & Fire
Bicyclist Robs Fair Lawn Bank
A robber apparently rode off on a bicycle after holding up a Fair Lawn bank Friday afternoon. The robber in the black hooded sweatshirt made off with $10,000 in cash after passing a note at the Columbia Bank on Broadway just after 4:30 p.m., authorities said. K-9 units searched the area while the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS
Police & Fire
Mugshot
: Accused Fair Lawn Bank Robber Ordered Held
A judge ordered that a Paterson man arrested by Fair Lawn police for a $10,000 bank robbery last month remain held in the Bergen County Jail. "10K or You Die" read the note that 22-year-old Jose Cuevas of Paterson handed a teller at the Columbia Bank branch on Broadway on July 13, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Cuevas "grabbed his hip, making the teller believe that he was holding a weapon," Metzler said. Detectives Brian Rypkema and Anthony Lugo identified Cuevas, who was carrying a 27-inch machete when he was arrested Tuesday night, Aug. 1, the sergeant said. The proceeds…
Police & Fire
Substation Fire Cuts Power To Thousands In Elmwood Park, Fair Lawn
Nearly 6,000 customers in Fair Lawn and Elmwood Park were without power on Sunday after a fire at a sub-station. The electrical fire broke out in the electrical substation on Banta Place near Morlot Avenue in Fair Lawn around 11:15 a.m., knocking out power to various areas of both towns -- including the lights on Broadway in Fair Lawn. Firefighters had to rescue a Fair Lawn man who got stuck in his Ggrunauer Place garage after the power went out and he was unable to pull open the door. Several hundred customers had power back within two hours. Only 400 were left as of 1:45 p.m. ****** I…
Police & Fire
Elmwood Park Driver, 74, Hits Couple And Their Car In Freak Fair Lawn Crash
FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A 74-year-old driver from Elmwood Park sideswiped a couple's car and then hit both of them with her sedan as they crossed a Fair Lawn street Friday night, authorities said. The driver was headed south on 17th Street toward Broadway when her 2016 Nissan hit the couple's parked Toyota and then struck them as they were walking to a nearby residence, Sgt. Brian Metzler told Daily Voice. The woman, 25, who lives in Fair Lawn, suffered a significant leg injury, he said. Her male companion -- 27, from Washingtonville, NY -- had back and injuries, Metzler said. Both were taken …
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