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Paterson, NJ
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Body Recovered From Passaic River Near Spot Of Similar Call Days Earlier
Responders called to the Passaic River in Wayne for the second time in three days found a body this time. The report of "someone drowning or having drowned" in the river behind 271 Riverlawn Drive shortly before 7 p.m. Friday brought township police, firefighters and EMS, Chief Jack McNiff said. McNiff confirmed that a body was recovered nearly two hours later. The chief declined to provide further details, citing an investigation involving his department, detectives from the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, forensics investigators from the Passaic County Sheriff's Office and the state…
Paterson, NJ
News
Update
: Body Found In Passaic River Tentatively ID'd, Probe Begun, Following Police Chase
UPDATE: Authorities on Thursday tentatively identified a man whose body was recovered from the Passaic River following a police chase. They also officially acknowledged that the incident was being investigated. The announcement follows a story by Daily Voice exploring the circumstances that led to the death of Thadius Wilder, a 35-year-old father of five from Passaic whose body apparently was in the water for two days before it was discovered. Wilder’s body was removed from the river below Route 21 after kayakers spotted it around 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, City of Passaic Police Chief Luis Guz…
Paterson, NJ
News
Body Of Man Chased By Police Pulled From Passaic River Two Days Later
The death of a man whose body was recovered from the Passaic River following a police chase was being investigated by county and state authorities, a family member said she was told. Meanwhile, she and other loved ones wait in anguish for answers. Everyone agrees that the body retrieved from the river below Route 21 Monday evening was that of Thadius Wilder, a 35-year-old father of five from Passaic. Wilder, who had a history of drug arrests, was last seen running from police on that very same highway on Saturday, said his sister, Amber Wilder-Hunter. Wilder-Hunter filed a missing person…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Passerby Spots Body Floating In Passaic River
A body was recovered from the Passaic River Thursday, July 7, authorities said. A passerby flagged down a Newark police officer near the Jackson Street Bridge around 6:15 p.m., Interim Newark Public Safety Director Raul Malave said. Newark police and firefighters responded to the scene and worked to recover the body. The incident remains under investigation. No further information was available.
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
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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
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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 …
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