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Paterson, NJ
News
Civilians Rescue Man In Passaic River
Two civilians pulled a man from the Passaic River, responders said. How he wound up in the water off Route 23 in Wayne around 8:15 p.m. Thursday wasn't immediately clear. Responders said the man ended up clinging to his rescuers' row boat before they pulled him in. They brought him ashore in the backyard of a home on East Woodcliff Avenue on the Little Falls side of the river and emergency responders took it from there. The man was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson by hospital paramedics. Neither he nor the good Samaritans were immediately identified.
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
News
Pedestrian Struck In Fair Lawn Hospitalized With Severe Injuries, Teen Driver Charged
A Fair Lawn man was severely injured when he was struck by a car driven by a 17-year-old borough boy, authorities confirmed. The driver of the 2014 Nissan Altima apparently had turned to avoid one pedestrian when he hit the 33-year-old victim in the parking lot at Memorial Park along the Passaic River shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The victim was thrown in the air and suffered severe head trauma, witnesses said. Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance took him to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson. Police charged the driver with reckless and careles…
Paterson, NJ
News
Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
A suspect who nearly drowned after jumping into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thursday. Borou…
Paterson, NJ
News
Good Guys, Bad Guy Go For A Swim: Escaped Prisoner Pulled From Passaic River
GOTCHA! A suspect who nearly drowned after he jumped into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thurs…
Paterson, NJ
News
Wayne Mobile Home Heroin Bust Nets Four
A couple dealing heroin from a mobile home in Wayne and two buyers were all busted after neighbors complained, authorities said. Detectives watched Travis Evans and Savannah Lee Sommer sell from their unit in Finn’s Mobile Home Park in the shadow of westbound Route 80 near the Passaic River, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. After several hours of surveillance, the investigators busted alleged buyers after they left the area. On Wednesday, they grabbed Evans and Sommer, who Daly said were carrying heroin. Back at their mobile home police found more smack, as well as Xanax, the captain said T…
Saddle Brook-Elmwood Park, NJ
News
Gotcha
! Off-Duty Elmwood Park Firefighter Helps Nab Fugitive Following Passaic River Pursuit
A Paterson fugitive briefly eluded a police dragnet but was captured after he tried bumming a ride from what turned out to be an off-duty Elmwood Park firefighter, authorities said. Paterson police armed with a warrant were pursuing Stanley Edwards, 30, when he bailed out of a vehicle that had just crashed into a parked car on Sterling Place shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday, Elmwood Park Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He then ran down an embankment on River Drive and under the Broadway (Route 4) bridge over the Passaic River, responders said. Fair Lawn police, Bergen County sheriff's off…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Body Of Burglar Who Tried Swim-Escape Pulled From Passaic River
The body of a 33-year-old burglary suspect who tried to swim across the Passaic River as an escape was pulled from the water Thursday, May 26, authorities said. Hector L. Nieves was reported missing by his 24-year-old wife early this week, shortly after he burglarized a truck, Kearny police said. The truck driver began chasing Nieves, at which point he call his wife while running from the scene, police said. He told his wife he planned on swimming across the Passaic River and that she should pick him up near the Comfort Suites in Newark. He hadn't been heard from since. Nieves' body …
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Burglary Suspect Attempting Escape-Swim Across Passaic River Missing For Days
UPDATE: Hector L Nieves' body was recovered from the Passaic River Thursday, May 26, authorities said. Police have launched a massive search for a 33-year-old Belleville man who told his wife he planned on swimming across the Passaic River after burglarizing a truck, authorities said. Hector L. Nieves was reported missing to Kearny police by his 24-year-old wife, who dropped him at his car at 175 Passaic Ave., in Kearny (the LA Fitness parking lot) just after 1 a.m. She waited a short distance away, but Nieves later became the suspect in a truck burglary and was allegedly chased …
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Jersey City Woman Killed As Car Plunges Into Passaic River Behind Morris County Shopping Center
Police have released the identity of the driver who was killed after her vehicle plunged into the Passaic River behind a Morris County shopping center Tuesday morning. Lajoy Battle, 41, was found unconscious with no pulse as officers responded to the crash behind HomeGoods at the Valley Mall in Gillette around 10:30 a.m., Long Hill Township Police Chief Ahmed Naga said. According to witnesses, Battle, of Jersey City, was speeding through the parking lot in a blue 2021 Lexus IS300 when she veered off the roadway, hit a tree, and landed in a shallow part of the Passaic River behind the plaza,…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Driver Dead As Car Plunges Into Passaic River In Morris County (
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A driver was killed after their car plunged into the Passaic River in Morris County Tuesday morning, police confirmed. The vehicle veered off the roadway alongside Home Goods at 977 Valley Road in Gillette before striking a tree and landing in a low water level portion of the Passaic River around 10:30 a.m., Long Hill Township Police Chief Ahmed Naga told DailyVoice.com. The victim’s identity was withheld pending family notification, Naga said. Assisting agencies include the Morris County Sheriff's Department, Stirling Fire Department, Millington Fire Department, Berkeley Heights Fire…
Paterson, NJ
News
Female Sex Offender Among Upstate NY Group Seized In Hawthorne With 2,450 Heroin Folds: Police
Two upstate New York couples with drug-related arrest histories were nearly 275 miles from home when police in Hawthorne nabbed them with 2,450 heroin folds and more than an ounce of crack, authorities said. The quartet – one of them a former nurse convicted of raping a patient – apparently was headed back north after buying the drugs in Paterson, police said. They’d just crossed the Passaic River over the Lincoln Avenue bridge when Hawthorne police got a call of a suspicious vehicle parked for “an extended period of time” at the Sunoco station on Wagaraw Road, Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoe…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Body Found In Passaic River
A man's body has been recovered from the Passaic River, authorities in Hudson County said. The unidentified man was found floating in the river near Passaic Avenue and the Belleville Turnpike in Kearny around 6:20 p.m. Thursday, March 10, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The Kearny Police Department and the Kearny Fire Department recovered the body, and pronounced the man dead at the scene. The Cause and Manner of death of are pending the findings of the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Kearny P…
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