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Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured
Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured UPDATE: Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring an Orange County driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg, NJ was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separating the exit and e…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Drifting Montgomery Driver Nabbed With Heroin, Needle, Police Say Drifting Montgomery Driver Nabbed With Heroin, Needle, Police Say
Drifting Montgomery Driver Nabbed With Heroin, Needle, Police Say A Montgomery driver was caught carrying heroin and a hypodermic syringe by police who stopped him for drifting across a New Jersey highway in the middle of the afternoon, authorities there said. William Rueckert, 27, of was nearly 50 miles from home when police in Wyckoff said they pulled him over. Rueckert “appeared to have a difficult time maintaining his lane of travel” in his Volkswagen Jetta, Lt. Joseph Soto explained. He was taken into custody on drug-related charges after police found the drugs and needle, Soto said. Rueckert also received summonses for failing to maintain a lane o…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bail Jumpers From Walden, Port Jervis Had Heroin, Fake Gun Bail Jumpers From Walden, Port Jervis Had Heroin, Fake Gun
Bail Jumpers From Walden, Port Jervis Had Heroin, Fake Gun MONTGOMERY, N.J. – A man and woman from Orange County wanted for skipping court in different states were carrying 360 bags of heroin and a phony handgun when police in New Jersey stopped them, authorities said. Officer Robert Schlossberg stopped the car on the northbound highway near Russell Avenue for several violations, including defective lights, and found the heroin and prop gun along with three digital scales and five cellphones, Wyckoff (NJ) Police Chief David Murphy said. He arrested the driver, 45-year-old Scott C. Sweeney of Walden, NY, on various drug charges. Sweeney also receive…

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by Jerry DeMarco