NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police
NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police A career criminal from Bergenfield who’s been busted well over a dozen times the past two decades was caught breaking into an alarm business, Maywood police said. Myles Gerard Shanahan, 61, has a long history of arrests in several towns – Bergenfield, Closter and Tenafly, among them -- mostly for burglary, theft and shoplifting but also for assault and DWI, records show. He'd been released a few weeks earlier following an arrest for a burglary in Bergenfield when officers in Maywood responded to a late-night alarm at Chief Security Systems on Spring Valley Road on March 29, Police Chief Ter…
House Fire Doused In Hackensack House Fire Doused In Hackensack
House Fire Doused In Hackensack Firefighters doused a heavy morning house blaze in Hackensack. Flames had spread from the second floor to the attic when firefighters responded to an 8:11 call at the 2½-story wood-frame home on Fair Street just off Lodi and East State streets on Sunday, April 3, Hackensack Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. They had the two-alarm fire knocked down within an hour and placed under control around 9:30 a.m., he said. The fire had spread from the second floor to the attic on Fair Street in Hackensack.Damien Danis for DAILY VOICE Both an occupant and a firefighter sustained minor injuries f…
Fire Ravages Maywood Home Fire Ravages Maywood Home
Fire Ravages Maywood Home What began as a basement fire severely damaged a Maywood two-family house. The two-alarm blaze broke out on East Hunter Avenue just off Maywood Avenue around 4 p.m. Friday, April 1. It grew so intense that traveled through walls and burned away the first floor in the rear of the building, responders said. 11 East Hunter Avenue, MaywoodJo Fehl for DAILY VOICE The fire was officially declared under control shortly before 5:30 p.m. No injuries were reported. Flames ran through the walls after igniting in the basement of the Maywood home on East Hunter Avenue.Tony Greco for DAILY VOIC…
Players Mourn Sudden Loss Of Beloved NJ Football Coach Brian Meeney, 46 Players Mourn Sudden Loss Of Beloved NJ Football Coach Brian Meeney, 46
Players Mourn Sudden Loss Of Beloved NJ Football Coach Brian Meeney, 46 Take a quick look at the posts from some of Brian Meeney's current and former players and students, and the impact he made becomes obvious. "I can never repay you for everything you taught me," one wrote. "Kept me out of trouble and made sure I stayed on the path of success, I wouldn’t be where I am today if you didn’t push me the way that you did." "You believed in me," said another, "and most importantly you never gave up on me. Coach Meeney I’ll always love you you were that second father-like figure in my life." The Maywood dad suffered a massive heart attack while on his way to work o…
Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer Reported On Route 17 Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer Reported On Route 17
Multi-Vehicle Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer Reported On Route 17 A multi-vehicle crash on Route 17 injured at least one driver. The left lane remained open immediately after the crash on the southbound highway at the Essex Street exit in Rochelle Park shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, March 13. Two cars and a tractor-trailer were involved, witnesses said. The injured driver climbed out before being taken to the hospital, they said. Rochelle Park and Maywood police, as well as medics and an ambulance, both from Hackensack University Medical Center, were among the first responders.
Repeat Offender Burglarized Businesses In Bunch Of Bergen County Towns, Police Charge Repeat Offender Burglarized Businesses In Bunch Of Bergen County Towns, Police Charge
Repeat Offender Burglarized Businesses In Bunch Of Bergen County Towns, Police Charge Detectives investigating a rash of business break-ins in several Bergen County towns didn't have far to look: The spree ended with the arrest of a career burglar from Passaic with a history of similar behavior. Ex-con Nicolas Torres, 39, has a criminal record stretching back more than 15 years, mostly for burglarizing businesses, records show. A few years ago, he was charged with breaking into several real estate and doctors’ office in Maywood, Fort Lee, Oradell, and Westwood, as well as in Middlesex County. SEE: Judge Frees Ex-Con In Four-Town Bergen Burglary Spree Investigators in…
ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens
ICE Seeks Hold On Maywood Resident Charged With Sexually Assaulting PalPark Pre-Teens A Guatemalan national living in Maywood was charged with sexually assaulting two Palisade Park pre-teens. Jaime Ottoniel Roca, 41, fondled one of the victims over the course of two years while committing more invasive acts on another, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. Both were under the age of 12 at the time and were sexually assaulted at least five times each, an investigation by borough detectives and investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Special Victims Unit. Roca told one of them that he touched the first victim's inner thigh and private area "in a …
BOOSTER BAGS: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving BOOSTER BAGS: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving
Booster Bags: Police Say Bergen Shoplifting Crew Did Some Serious Thieving GOTCHA! Three women and a teenager used motorized handicap shopping carts and "booster" bags to swipe hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from Bergen County-area stores, Rochelle Park police said. Security at the ShopRite on West Passaic Street grabbed one of them -- Jada McIntosh, 22, of Paterson -- and turned her over to Lt. Jim DePreta and Officer Joe Buono around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19. The others left her behind and fled in a black BMW sedan with bogus license plates. Maywood police helped Officer Zim Zenock and Sgt. Doug Arendacs capture the trio, who'd parked on a cul-de-s…
Peeping Tom, 22, Arrested In Hoboken: Police Peeping Tom, 22, Arrested In Hoboken: Police
Peeping Tom, 22, Arrested In Hoboken: Police A 22-year-old man was arrested after peering through a first-floor apartment in Hoboken Monday, authorities said. The resident of a ground floor apartment at 10th and Garden Street provided a description of the suspect, later identified as Adam Papenhausen, around 11:45 Jan. 24, Hoboken police said. Papenhausen was tracked down by officers and charged with Invasion of Privacy, Peering, and Hindering. His charges were placed on a summons with a superior court date of Feb. 8. Records show Papenhausen is a Stevens Institute of Technology student with roots in Maywood. It was not cl…
Pre-Dawn Blaze Destroys Fire Safety Business, Apartments In Garfield Pre-Dawn Blaze Destroys Fire Safety Business, Apartments In Garfield
Pre-Dawn Blaze Destroys Fire Safety Business, Apartments In Garfield Flames blew through the roof and upper-floor windows of a Garfield building that houses a fire safety business and apartments, authorities said. First-responding police officers got four tenants of apartments above Firematic Safety Equipment out before part of a roof and stairwell collapsed in the two-story River Drive building shortly after 4:30 a.m., Police Capt. Richard Uram said. Firefighters battling the intense blaze from the exterior needed about an hour and a half to get the bulk of it knocked down. They had it under control another hour and a half later. No serious injuries were …
Pedestrian, 24, Struck, Seriously Injured By Hit-Run Driver On Route 17 Overpass Pedestrian, 24, Struck, Seriously Injured By Hit-Run Driver On Route 17 Overpass
Pedestrian, 24, Struck, Seriously Injured By Hit-Run Driver On Route 17 Overpass A 24-year-old Maywood man was struck and seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver on a Route 17 overpass early Wednesday, authorities said.  Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office later located the driver, who faces charges, they said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being struck on the Lodi side of Essex Street around 6:45 a.m. Responding with Lodi police and the prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit were the Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence. Daily Voice will follow up wit…
Police Converge On Maywood Neighborhood After Burglars Lock Elderly Resident In Closet Police Converge On Maywood Neighborhood After Burglars Lock Elderly Resident In Closet
Police Converge On Maywood Neighborhood After Burglars Lock Elderly Resident In Closet A pair of burglars apparently were surprised to find an elderly Maywood resident home when they broke into her house on Tuesday, responders said. Borough police established a perimeter with help from neighboring departments following the break-in on East Spring Valley Avenue shortly after 11:30 a.m. The burglars had locked the woman in a closet before fleeing. What, if anything, they took couldn't immediately be determined because of a language barrier, investigators said. The victim wasn't injured and there was no threat to the neighborhood, Police Chief Terence R. Kenny said. CHECK BACK…