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Man Submits False Documents To Rockland County Court: DA Says
A New Jersey man has been charged after presenting falsified bank statements in a Hudson Valley court and testifying they were real, authorities said. James Wolff, 50, of Teaneck, NJ, was arraigned on Monday, Sept. 30, Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh II announced on Thursday, Oct. 3. According to the district attorney, in June, an investigation found that Wolff knowingly possessed and submitted falsified bank statements to the Rockland County Surrogate’s Court and testified, under oath, to their validity. The documents filed by the Wolff with the Ro…
Sports
Coach On Top Of College Basketball World Spent 10 Years Guiding Team In Hudson Valley
The first-year Division I head coach who's now at the top of the men's college basketball world guides Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey. But 51-year-old Tobin Anderson has strong ties to both New York and Connecticut. Bracket-busting FDU became just the second No. 16 seed to defeat a top seed when the Knights stunned Purdue 63-58 Friday night, March 17 in Columbus, Ohio. FDU was a 23.5-point underdog. "We just made history, college basketball history tonight," Anderson told his team in the locker room after the game. "From four wins last year -- it's one of the most u…
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Westchester Money Launderer Had Thousands Stashed In No-Longer-Secret Car Box, Prosecutors Say
An accused money launderer from Westchester was busted in New Jersey with $11,691 in dirty cash stashed in a secret compartment of his car, authorities said. Yonkers resident Pascual Ciriaco, 49, who’s married and unemployed, was taken into custody following the stop in Teaneck, NJ by Narcotic Task Force detectives who’d been tipped off that he was “transporting bulk amounts of currency,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Ciriaco had stashed the cash in an “electronically operated aftermarket hidden compartment” in his vehicle, the prosecutor said. Detectives charged him with mon…
Police & Fire
Fiery Gasoline Tanker Crash Kills Driver On Route 287 Near Rockland Border, Police Say
UPDATE: A 59-year-old gasoline tanker truck driver from Paterson was killed in a massive fireball during a crash on Route 287 near the New York State border in Mahwah early Saturday, New Jersey State Police confirmed. A series of explosions were heard when the rig rolled and burst into flames on a notorious stretch of the southbound highway near Route 17 and the New York State Thruway at 6:47 a.m., NJSP Sgt. Alejandro Goez said. Firefighters used foam to douse the blaze while also extinguishing flames that extended into the woods along the mountain. Thick, black smoke could be seen for mil…
Police & Fire
Multi-Agency Probe Ties Quartet To 84 Burglaries In Eight NJ Counties, Rockland
A car crash in Hackensack and an alert officer in Cedar Grove produced key evidence in the takedown of a mixed-gender crew believed responsible for 84 home burglaries in eight New Jersey counties and Rockland, authorities said. Investigators armed with a search warrant found proceeds from one of the burglaries in a Mercedes-Benz GL 450 that Keith Perry, 38, of Teaneck crashed in March, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Perry was identified as a burglar who threatened an Englewood homeowner by "making a motion with his hand inside his sweatshirt as though he had a gun" and sayin…
Police & Fire
Authorities Smash International Sex-Trafficking Ring In NJ, NY, Rescue Dozens Of Victims
More than 50 women were forced into prostitution in North Jersey, Rockland County and New York City by male members of a large-scale international human trafficking ring run by three women from Teaneck and two men from Lodi, authorities said . A massive investigation into sex trafficking in both states culminated in a series of early-morning raids Wednesday at 19 homes and other locations in Bergen and Hudson counties – including Lodi, Teaneck, Englewood, Elmwood Park and Bergenfield. Detectives and uniformed police and sheriff's officers arrested 21 ring members. They also obtained a fug…
Lifestyle
Westchester Surgeon From Netflix Show Rids Grandmother Of Massive Tumor
A Westchester County neurosurgeon from popular Netflix docu-series "Lenox Hill," has saved yet another life. This one, an 89-year-old grandmother from Northern New Jersey, turned away by countless doctors refusing to operate on a football-sized tumor that took over her skull -- and her life. For 25 years, Lorenza De La Villa of Teaneck, in Bergen County, barely noticed the small tumor in the back of her head. She found it in 1995, when she was 64 years old. It was benign. It didn't hurt. It never grew. "She did what doctors told her to do," said one of De La Villa's 22 grandchi…
Police & Fire
Seven Charged In Hudson Valley Drug Trafficking Bust
A yearlong investigation into drug trafficking in the Hudson Valley led to the arrests of three alleged traffickers and four others who are facing a host of charges. In January last year, the Ulster County Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team, Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms launched an investigation into a cocaine trafficking ring in Saugerties. During “Operation Co-Co,” investigators identified Saugerties residents Russell Neglia, 25, and Roger Hummer II, 38, as the kingpins, who were receiving cocaine from Teaneck, N.J. reside…
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19 'Milestone': Respiratory Therapist Extubates First Patient In Two Weeks
A photojournalist at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey caught a respiratory therapist at just the right time. Jeff Rhode had minutes to spare while working his way from the 6th floor to the second, the ICU when he stumbled upon Brenda "taking a much-needed break" on Wednesday, March 25. The health care worker was on a phone call staring at the New York City skyline, Rhode said. "After a polite 'hello,' she told me: 'It's not a sunny day, but it is a great day,' with a smile," the photographer said. "The first patient since the craziness started two weeks ago had been extubat…
Obituaries
North Jersey Celebrity Chef Jessica Vogel Dies At 34
Well-known Executive Chef Jessica Vogel, made famous by the Food Network's "Hell's Kitchen" show with Gordon Ramsay, has died, friends and colleagues said Monday. She was 34. ****** TRIBUTE: As those who knew and loved her continued to mourn the death of North Jersey celebrity chef Jessica Vogel at only 34 years old, her family spoke of how determined the former contestant of the Food Network's "Hell's Kitchen" was, no matter the odds. https://hackensack.dailyvoice.com/obituaries/family-celebrity-chef-jessica-vogel-died-like-she-lived-a-fighter/740499/ ****** "Th…
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Photos
: Follow Bear On Backyard Bergen Tour
The latest great bear hunt left one up a Waldwick tree as police pursuers gathered below. Uniformed officers from Midland Park, Ridgewood and Waldwick chased the furry forager through area yards. The bear played in trash, sunbathed on the grass, then hustled his tuchus up a tree behind a home on Evergreen Street around lunchtime. Right behind was intrepid photographer Boyd Loving. Several bears have been spotted this month in other Bergen towns -- among them, Northvale, Mahwah, Teaneck and Englewood. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this story.
Sports
Hackensack Horse Didn't Win Derby But Trainer's Other Colt Made History
The same trainer who coached Hackensack's American Pharoah to the 2015 Kentucky Derby finish line just made history again. This time, it was trainer Bob Baffert's pre-race, undefeated favorite Justify (5-2) who went on to win the 144th Kentucky Derby Saturday reversing the Apollo Curse -- with only three races under his belt. Hall of Famer Baffert also trained racehorse Solomini, of Hackensack's Zayat Stables, LLC -- owned by a Teaneck family -- who finished 10th this year at Churchill Downs. Three-year-old Justify's win made him the first horse without a race as a 2-year-old to win the an…
Obituaries
Katie Ann Mele Of Wayne, 29, Was Studying To Become Paralegal
Katie Ann Mele of Wayne died on Jan. 28. She was 29 years old. Katie Ann was born in Teaneck and lived in Fairview before moving to Wayne. She was a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University and was studying to be a paralegal. She also lived in New Milford Katie Ann was employed by Michael Sprague, Attorney in Hackensack. She was a parishioner of Our Lady Of The Valley R.C. Church in Wayne. She is survived by her parents Angelo and Catherine (nee Cotrel) Mele of Wayne; brothers Michael and David Mele of Wayne; and grandmother Irene Horvath of Wayne. Services were private.
News
Family Of Bergen Rowing Coach Who Fell To Her Death Suing Port Authority
The family of a Teaneck rowing coach who fell to her death off the World Trade Center Oculus is suing the Port Authority, the New York Post reports. Jenny Santos, 29, was an assistant coach at the Teaneck-based Bergen County Rowing Academy (BCRA). She reportedly fell 30 feet to her death from a top-tier escalator after a night of partying with her twin sister, according to multiple reports. The legal claim filed in Manhattan Superior Court by Santos' mom, Maria Santos, says the 29-year-old fell from “an unprotected, unsecured, and dangerous and hazardous opening," the New York Post say…
Obituaries
Englewood Model Danielle Chaney, 20, Found Dead In Texas Apartment
The body of Englewood native Danielle Chaney was discovered last week in her Texas apartment by her boyfriend, ABC reports. Chaney, 20, was reportedly shot in the head in her Houston apartment on Feb. 2, the article says. "If you could think back to that moment during the day when it took place, please come forward and just say something. We have no closure unless we know what happened," her mom, Betty Harris, told ABC. "I'm not here to judge anybody. I'm not here to judge anybody. All I'm saying is that my baby is dead. We deserve to have that closure. Just do the right th…
Neighbors
Teaneck Brothers Find Lost $4M Rembrandt Painting Under Ping-Pong Table
TEANECK, N.J˘. — What three Teaneck brothers thought was just another inheritance painting under the ping-pong table in their basement turned out to be a lost Rembrandt recently auctioned off at nearly $4 million, Fox Business reports. The Landau brothers -- Ned, Roger (formerly of Cliffside Park) and Steven -- will tell their story on Fox Business Network's Strange Inheritance on Monday, Jan. 15, at 9 p.m. The three held an estate sale following their mother's death but held onto a few items they didn't want to give up, the article says. Among them was a painting that "creeped Ned ou…
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