Detectives have tracked, identified and charged a 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn who placed a 911 call…
Category: Public Safety
Three men with crowbar burgle Exxon, get away in stolen car with ATM machine, $1K in cash: KPD
Three brazen burglars drove away with an ATM machine with about $1,000 in cash in it…
Drive sober, or Harrison (and other) cops will pull you over
Law enforcement from the Harrison Police Department and other departments statewide will crack down on drivers…
KPD: Pee-appreciating ex returns, denies restraining order, threatens suit, gets arrested (again)
On Nov. 9 at 6:51 a.m., Officers Nicole Cain and Harold Azurdia responded to a private…
KPD: 2 masked thieves rob man at gunpoint at Davis Avenue ATM and run away with absolutely nothing
A 49-year-old Kearny man looking to withdraw cash from the Schuyler Savings Bank ATM machine at…
KPD: Woman goes from being victim of death threat to threatening to kill others in less than 7 hours
On Nov. 8 at 7:44 p.m., Officer Bryan San Martin was dispatched to meet a 56-year-old…
KPD: With 1-year-old baby nearby, trio fights with knife over a Cash App card
On Nov. 2 at 4:57 p.m., Officer Andre Fernandes responded with other officers to 425 Elm…
Kearny native named chief of Minneapolis Police Department
One of the most embattled police departments in America has a new police chief and…
KPD: Brother officers, both former college rugby players, team up to tackle and arrest fleeing shoplifter
On Oct. 27 at 3:14 p.m., Officers Mathew Lopez and Alan Stickno were dispatched to Walmart…
KPD: After stabbing a man outside Kearny Avenue saloon, 1 of 2 suspects is released — WITHOUT BAIL!
On Oct. 20 at 2:08 a.m., Officer Anthony Oliveira and several back-up officers were dispatched to…
VIDEO: New Jersey funeral procession for slain Raleigh, N.C., Police Officer Gabriel Torres
Kearny funeral procession for slain Raleigh-Durham, N.C., PO Gabriel Torres. on Oct. 28, 2022. Torres was…
(RAW VIDEO) Fire today at Elm St. & Seeley Ave.
A fire broke out late this morning — just shortly before noon — at the southeast…
KFD & History
Among Kearny’s little-known treasures is the Exempt Firehouse. The two-story brick structure at 72-74 Halstead St.,…
Wagner: KPD & NYPD arrest suspected Brooklyn attempted murderer at Kearny Walmart
On Oct. 13 at 12:13 p.m., Dets. Michael Andrews and Michael Farinola went to Walmart to…
KPD: Man we were driving to Harrison (as a courtesy) was wearing gloves & drinking Red Bull he stole from Walgreens
On Oct. 4 at 8:55 a.m., Officers Sean Podolski and Nicole Cain were dispatched to a…
Threat of bomb at Lyndhurst High School unfounded, chief says
Chief vows to do all it takes to find who made the malicious, false call to…
Hudson Sheriff: Woman wanted to work for us, but instead, we had to arrest her on 11 outstanding warrants
She wanted to become a security guard with the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office. Instead, she wound…
Kearny PD: Human waste returns, but this time, it’s in golden liquid form
On Sept. 21 at 10:51 p.m., a 23-year-old town resident walked in to police headquarters to…
Dean at St. Benedict’s Prep arrested for attempting to lure minor, not a student, to Harrison for sex: HCPO
A dean at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark has been arrested and charged with attempted…
Coffee with Lyndhurst Cops set for Oct. 5
The Lyndhurst Police Department hosts its first of several planned Coffee With A Cop events Wednesday,…
Police: Brother of woman arrested & noted in last week’s blotter is arrested himself this time, marking the 18th KPD visit to that home since Sept. 11
On Sept. 18 at 7:53 p.m., a 31-year-old Kearny woman, whose story was anonymously chronicled in…
Second arrest made in Kearny homicide, HCPO says
A second arrest has been made in the Sept. 20 Kearny homicide that took the life…
Police called to same ‘foul-odored’ home 9 times between Sept. 11-14, resulting in woman being arrested twice
On Sept. 11 at 3:22 p.m., Officers Harold Azurdia and Sean Podolski and Sgt. Angelo Palagano…
KPD: No loose bowels this week, but someone did excrete from another orifice onto an officer
On Sept. 1 at 6:29 p.m., Officers Angel Martinez and Ruben Rivera and Sgt. Ben Wuelfing…
Lyndhurst PD: Cop flying drone for training spots disabled vehicle, driver was drunk
A police officer who was undergoing ongoing training to pilot a drone wound up coming…
KPD: Shoplifting woman who crapped her own pants ordered to get fingerprinted — after she cleaned up
What a crappy situation to be in ...
Nutley man arrested in suspected burglary: Lyndhurst PD
The Lyndhurst Police Department collared a Nutley man they believe was responsible for the burglary of…
Lyndhurst PD: He used cell phone cam to take pics up woman’s dress
Well, we can add this one to the “What the hell was he thinking” club. A…
KPD: It was his house, but the car he slept in wasn’t
On Aug 15 at 8:07 a.m., a citizen called police reporting a man exited a car…