Saturday, June 15, 2013
Here are the top headlines from around Bergen County, brought to you by the Patch editors who know those towns best.
State officials announced Friday that a body found in a Passaic County reservoir Wednesday had been identified as Cathy Ann Debono, an Oakland woman missing since 2008. An 18-year-old Glen Rock High School senior was arrested Tuesday at the school on charges of heroin distribution, according to borough police. Wyckoff detectives participating in a Bergen County task force investigating "known burglars" have linked a Teaneck man to a February burglary in the township, police said Thursday. A dentist from Mahwah who pleaded guilty earlier this year to running a $2 million dental scam was sentenced to 21 months in prison, US Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced in a release Wednesday. Stephen A Beukas, 47, owned three dental practices in the …
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 23, 2013
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Saturday, February 23
A traffic stop on the Palisades Interstate Parkway Thursday led police to the arrest of a gang member with 100 bags of heroin concealed in his anus, authorities said. A former Fairleigh Dickinson University professor linked to a neo-Nazi group has filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging he and his wife were victims of police brutality during a 2011 raid of his Ridgewood apartment. Mason DiGiulio, who was born last month at only 25 weeks old, died last week. He was one month old. Valley Hospital is expected to return to the Ridgewood Planning Board with a new expansion proposal in March after the settlement of a lawsuit a neighborhood opposition group filed against the board and hospital. A man who was arrested by a team of police from four…
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, 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 …
Concerned Citizen
2:45 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
"Drugs in Butt." "...Bags in His Anus." REALLY?! These are the worst headlines in history. Where's the imagination? A bit of creative writing might have helped. I'm sure the NY Post would have had some fun with this story. "Mule has Pain in the Ass." "Gang Member Makes Deliveries in the Rear." more ›