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Police & Fire
Secaucus Burglary Suspects Caught In North Bergen Following Miles-Long Chase
An interrupted burglary in Secaucus Wednesday afternoon launched a chase through part of Hudson County before two suspects were caught in North Bergen, authorities said. A woman called police around 1:40 p.m. and said two men were trying to break into her Moller Street house, Secaucus Police Capt. Dennis Miller said. When they realized the woman was home, the men left the house and fled south on County Avenue in a vehicle reported stolen out of Paterson, Miller said. Secaucus Lt. Martin Moreda tried to stop the vehicle as it headed towards Exit 15X on the New Jersey Turnpike, Miller…
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Fleeing Drug User Dragged Newark Officers With His Car: Police
Two Newark police officers called to aid a sick man inside a car early Saturday morning were injured when he fled the scene as they approached, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said. Police spotted the car at Charleston and Spruce streets around 2:13 a.m. and found Jacob Wolski, 30, inside. Wolski appeared to be using drugs, police said. Officers recorded Wolski's plate and determined the car was registered to him. As police leaned in to question Wolski, he quickly drove off, briefly dragging the two officers, Ambrose said. One officer suffered an injured hand and the othe…
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Paterson PD: Ex-Con Drug Dealer Tosses Gun, Caught Scaling Fence
An ex-con drug dealer tossed a stolen handgun during a foot chase and was nabbed trying to scale a backyard fence, Paterson police said. Responding to the 2:50 p.m. gun call at Rosa Parks Boulevard and Hamilton Avenue were Officer Ernest Lemay, Detective Michael Quinones and county prosecutor’s Detective Ricardo Ferreira of the Special Investigations Division Ceasefire Unit. Standing near the intersection, a gun in his hand, was 36-year-old Anthony Moore of Amity Street, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Seeing Lemay get out of his police cruiser, Moore bolted in the detectives’ directi…
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South Hackensack Police Nab Fugitive Teen After Hasbrouck Heights Stop Near Felician In Lodi
South Hackensack police nabbed a fugitive teen from Passaic who took off after a Hasbrouck Heights traffic stop in Lodi, ending a search involving officers from several towns. It began when Hasbrouck Heights Police Officer Nicholas Brunetti stopped a silver Honda Accord near the Felician University campus with three occupants and a strong smell of marijuana coming from inside, Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said. The 17-year-old, wanted for escaping a juvenile facility in Trenton, took off on foot, Colaneri said. Several agencies responded to search for him while Hasbrouck Heights poli…
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Morris County Jurors Convict Wayne Cigarette Thief In High-Speed DWI Chase, Crash
Jurors in Morristown convicted a 37-year-old Wayne man who authorities said was drunk during a high-speed Morris County chase that ended in a crash. Pequannock police tried pulling over Derek Schor on Route 23 after he stole cigarettes from an Exxon station in Wayne in August 2017, authorities said. Schor -- who had a suspended driver's license -- kept going, leading a pursuit involving several police units that ended when his Ford F-150 rolled over three times on the I-287 entrance ramp in Riverdale, they said. Schor bolted, but a K-9 unit found him hiding in waist-deep water i…
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Police Chase: Rochelle Park Officers Nab Postal Box 'Fishing' Thieves, Feds Interested
A pre-dawn police chase ended Friday when a trio Rochelle Park officers caught a group of thieves from Queens believed to be members of a large metropolitan-area ring that fishes checks and cash from postal boxes, authorities said. Officer Brian Gallina spotted the three tampering with a group of boxes on Rochelle Avenue just after 5 a.m., Police Chief Robert Flannelly said. “They were using a Snapple bottle with a ribbon tied around it wrapped in a sticky pad,” the chief said. Seeing the officer, they immediately took off in a car parked nearby, leading a chase down Route 17 that end…
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Woman With Wig Disguise Drags Clifton Officer, Crashes After High-Speed Multi-County Chase
A Clifton police officer escaped serious injury when he was dragged by a car driven by a fleeing woman involved in a chase that ended with a head-on collision in Kearny – and included a police-cruiser crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. It began when two men and two women pulled a dine-and-dash at the Applebee’s restaurant on Route 3 Wednesday night, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Two of the women were wearing wigs at the time, Bracken said. Employees grabbed one of the men as the crew ran from the restaurant. The other three fled, the lieutenant said. Soon after, police spotted a Toyot…
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Elmwood Park PD: Fleeing Tenafly Driver Who Nearly Dragged Officer Caught
Elmwood Park police tracked down and arrested a Tenafly motorist who they said sped off, nearly dragging a uniformed officer with him, following a Friday morning traffic stop. William Ennis, 27, was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, eluding and obstruction of justice. Officers Joseph Pride and Keith Hartmann stopped the vehicle on River Drive near Slater Drive around 11:30 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ennis “quickly became uncooperative… and refused to comply with specific instructions,” he said. “As the situation escalated, [Pride] ordered [Ennis] out of th…
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Elmwood Park PD: Fleeing Tenafly Driver Who Nearly Dragged Officer Caught
UPDATE: Elmwood Park police tracked down and arrested a Tenafly motorist who they said sped off, nearly dragging a uniformed officer with him, following a Friday morning traffic stop. William Ennis, 27, was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, eluding and obstruction of justice. Officers Joseph Pride and Keith Hartmann stopped the vehicle on River Drive near Slater Drive around 11:30 a.m., Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Ennis “quickly became uncooperative… and refused to comply with specific instructions,” he said. “As the situation escalated, [Pride] ordered [Ennis] o…
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Paterson Shooting Suspect Crashes, Nabbed By Pursuing Police
A shooting suspect tried to elude Paterson police but crashed his car while fleeing, bailed out and was corralled less than a block away, authorities said. Joshua Washington, 25, had been identified as having shot a 22-year-old Prospect Park victim on Sept. 1 in the area of Highland and Sparrow Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement. Police spotted Washington behind the wheel of a vehicle in the area of Lafayette and Summer Street and tried to stop him on Wednesday, authorities said. He “initially pulled over, …
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Port Authority PD Chase Ends When Woman In Window Points Officers To Hiding Suspect
Port Authority police were searching for a suspect who’d just bailed out of a stolen car near the Holland Tunnel when an elderly apartment building resident pointed from her window to a couch in the alleyway below. There, they said, they found the driver who tried to elude them covered in a blanket. Officer Joshua Oliveri first stopped 46-year-old Ismael Hernandez on Hoboken Avenue Thursday night because the vehicle he was driving didn’t have a license plate, Port Authority spokesman Lenis Rodrigues said. Hernandez immediately hopped out and took off, she said. Oliveri chased him, joined …
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Clifton Police Officer Dragged On Route 21, Climbs Into Fleeing Car
A Clifton police officer being dragged by a wanted Garfield driver he’d just pulled over on Route 21 climbed in through the passenger window and finally got him to stop about a quarter-mile later, authorities said. The 2015 Chevy Cruze was “riding the shoulder of the highway and passing other vehicles in bumper-to-bumper traffic” on the northbound highway when Officers Matthew Phillips and Christopher O'Brien pulled it over near Ackerman Avenue, Sgt. Robert Anderson said. After speaking with the driver, 30-year-old Israel Colon Jr., the officers ran a computer check and discovered outstandi…
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