Saturday, March 23, 2013
Here are the top headlines from around Bergen County, brought to you by the Patch editors who know those towns best.
A chain mail message is "spreading like wildfire" amongst 5th graders at Somerville Elementary School, prompting the principal to ask parents to talk to their children about social media. Prosecutors plan to fly two Israeli boys to the United States to testify in the trial of a Teaneck rabbi who allegedly molested the teens while they stayed with him during a scholarship program, northjersey.com reported. An 81-year-old Fair Lawn man, who is already serving a multi-year prison sentence for endangering the welfare of two minors, faces a mandatory minimum of five more years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to receiving images and videos of child sexual abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said in a statement. Gov. …
Friday, March 8, 2013
Here are the top headlines from around Bergen County, brought to you by the Patch editors who know those towns best.
Mother, son and friends have sold a “significant” amount of marijuana to township minors, police say. Police became concerned about the mental status of a man parked near a middle school Monday afternoon in Ridgewood. A Fair Lawn High School graduate who now lives in Garfield was arrested Wednesday on charges he impersonated a police officer to force sex on a woman in a Fairfield hotel, police said. A neighbor aided a mother and her young children after a house fire injured five people. County officials will hold a gun buybacks in April funded by seized assets at locations across Bergen County, the sheriff's office announced Thursday.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
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A Glen Rock resident and business owner molested a toddler in his home over the course of a year, prosecutors alleged Friday. A Glen Rock hedge fund manager pleaded guilty to charges he defrauded investors — including a disabled, elderly woman — out of more than $4 million while he took lavish vacations, dropped thousands at chic nightclubs and purchased luxury cars. Anthony Graziano, of Lodi, and Aakash Dalal, of New Brunswick, remain in Bergen County Jail since they were first charged in connection with a series of arson and bias attacks at a number of Bergen County synagogues. Robert Schroeder would have to forfeit his seat in the New Jersey State Assembly and pay back nearly $5 million as a condition of the deal. In a televised battle …
Saturday, February 16, 2013
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Saturday, February 16
Fair Lawn resident and rap mogul Jim Jones was arrested Wednesday after he "got out of line" with an officer who was handling a parking complaint in front of the Dipset founder's Ward Street home, police said. Three members of a Bergen County burglary ring known as the “James Bond Gang” were arrested after they broke into and ransacked a Sparta residence Wednesday, Township Police Sgt. John-Paul Beebe said. The alleged gang is believed to be responsible for dozens of burglaries of high-end homes in Morris and Somerset counties, as well as other parts of the tri-state area. Police from across Bergen County rushed to the Chase Bank in Fair Lawn Thursday amid reports of a robbery in progress. Upon investigation, however, the robbery suspect …
Saturday, February 2, 2013
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Saturday, February 2
The Teaneck man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and smothering her 5-year-old daughter after the child witnessed her mother's murder pleaded not guilty at a packed state Superior Court hearing in Hackensack Thursday. Michael C. Brady said nothing during a first appearance on charges he killed 40-year-old Tam Marie “Tammy” Pitts-Gaddy and her daughter, Natasia, early Monday in Englewood. Although he showed no emotion during the hearing, Brady let out loud sobs as he was escorted to a cell by sheriff's officers. An Indiana man drove more than 10 hours to Mahwah to have sexual relations with a 15-year-old township girl he met online, Police Chief Jim Batelli said Wednesday afternoon. Joshua Elkins, 28, of Fort Wayne, is …
Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Saturday, January 26
A former teacher at a Paramus Yeshiva who worked with youth in Teaneck has pleaded guilty to child pornography and exploitation charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The ex-Yeshivat Noam teacher, 27-year-old Evan Zauder, used the Internet to entice a 14 to 15-year old in New Jersey to engage in sexual activity two times between April and November of 2011, prosecutors said. Between December 2010 and May 2011, he also amassed a collection of hundreds of videos and pictures showing child pornography stored on four devices seized during an FBI search of his Manhattan apartment in May. An ex-employee of former Los Angeles Dodgers player and current coach, Garett Teel, was arrested Tuesday on charges thatthe 22-year-old Hawthorne man …
Saturday, January 19, 2013
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Saturday, January 19
A reputed local mobster known as "Papa Smurf" is facing nearly 200 years in prison after being charged Wednesday in a widespread federal sweep targeting a mob-run conspiracy to control the trash-hauling industry in New York and New Jersey. Ramsey resident Carmine Franco, a 77-year-old Genovese Crime Family associate who had two prior convictions in connection with organized crime in the trash removal industry, was allegedly the ring leader of a scheme to control crooked waste management companies, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Franco and a brother formerly owned the Sal Car transfer station in Hillsdale, which they later sold to Waste Management. Franklin Lakes Police think an unidentified man seen in surveillance footage …
Saturday, December 22, 2012
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Ridgewood police claim a Westwood man high on heroin failed to navigate a turn and violently slammed his car into a tree on Lincoln Avenue. One high schooler's online talk of the Mayan end of days caused police and school officials to initiate a serious investigation in an effort to publicly dispel rumors that there would be violence at Ridgewood High School. Wyckoff cops cuffed a 23-year-old New Yorker who tried to illegally obtain two often-abused prescription drugs from a local pharmacy, according to local police. A Paramus man was critically injured when he was struck by a drunk driver while helping another drunk driver who had crashed her car into a pole, authorities said. A pair of men from Bergen County were charged in a scheme to …
Saturday, November 17, 2012
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Four people were treated for minor injuries and a 22-year-old woman was charged four with counts of assault by auto, driving while intoxicated and other charges after Route 4 crash late Sunday, according to county police. A drunk driver turned herself in to county police hours after she fled the scene of an accident on Route 4 near Queen Anne Road that left four people injured late Sunday, authorities said. Westwood Regional Superintendent Geoffrey Zoeller had been criticized for using a district-owned truck and generator at his home for Hurricane Sandy, and leaving them there while away on vacation. Business Manager Richard "Buzzy" Dressel and President John DeBouter of IBEW Local 164 are facing embezzlement and defrauding charges. A …
Saturday, October 20, 2012
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
A man with a claw hammer robbed the Chase Bank on Saddle River Road just before 6 p.m. Thursday, according to an FBI statement. The man, described as a 5-foot-7-inch black male with a thin-to-medium build and a thin goatee, entered the bank wielding a claw hammer, grabbed a bank employee and demanded another employee fill an envelope with cash, according to the FBI. Two associates of the Latin Kings street gang were arrested after investigators nabbed them with a kilogram of cocaine bound for Englewood, according to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. In an attempt to discover the identity of a man they believe tried to lure children into his car, Westwood Police set up roadblocks Thursday afternoon and Friday morning on Lafayette…
Antonio
3:07 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2013
What in the hell gives with Wyckoff?? These breakins are rampant. What a great areas in the 60's & 70's, Oakland, Franklin lakes & Wyckoff. more ›