The Nutley Parks Department reported possible arson Oct. 19 in two bathrooms at Booth Park, off Harrison St., according to…
Category: Public Safety
KPD: Car was infested with roaches
At about 8 p.m. last Wednesday, Oct. 21, KPD Sgt. Charles Smith conducted a motor vehicle stop on Quincy Ave.,…
All fired up
Belleville Fire Department held its annual Fire Prevention Open House on the evening of Friday, Oct. 16, at Fire Headquarters…
3 nabbed in shooting outside club: ECPO
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed a published report that three individuals have been apprehended in connection with the fatal shooting…
KPD: In the wrong at ShopRite
A shoplifting suspect escalated the charge against him from theft to robbery last week when he allegedly assaulted two ShopRite employees…
N.A. man charged in hit-run
NORTH ARLINGTON – For nearly a week, law enforcement was hunting the hit-run driver who allegedly struck a 22-year-old woman…
Handgun recovered after disturbance on NJ Transit bus in Nutley
A disturbance on an NJ Transit bus on Washington Ave. led to the arrest of a Newark man on an…
2 drug suspects nabbed: LPD
LYNDHURST – Two men were arrested last week on drug charges after their car was stopped for a motor…
Kearny driver dead after GSP accident
A Kearny man was killed in the aftermath of a single car accident on the Garden State Parkway…
Inferno on the Turnpike
KEARNY – A tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed on the N.J. Turnpike in Kearny last week,…
Fatal shooting still mystery
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville Police Department’s Homicide/Major Crimes Unit and Essex County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating a fatal shooting in the…
KPD: From a beer to a drug bust
A man drinking a can of Budweiser on the street led last week to the arrest and subsequent incarceration of…
Don’t text yourself into a traffic stat
You’ve heard of distracted driving. How about distracted walking? We had our first encounter with the latter a couple of weeks…
It’s Chief Hearn from now on
NORTH ARLINGTON – A veteran of the North Arlington Police Department, John Hearn was sworn in Friday as the department’s…
Campos still unfit for trial, court rules
JERSEY CITY – A court has, once again, concluded that Carlos Campos, charged with the slaughter of three family members…
Video shows tanker truck that exploded yesterday trying to avoid mattress on NJ Turnpike
A stunning video taken by Kevin Hauer shows the tanker truck that exploded yesterday on the…
KFD welcomes all to Open House
TOP photo courtesy KFD, remaining photos by Karen Zautyk Scenes from the Kearny Fire Department’s…
KPD: In parking lot, a lot of drugs
Surveillance of a suspicious car in the Walmart parking lot paid off big time for the Kearny Vice Unit last…
Therapist indicted for Medicaid fraud
LYNDHURST – A Lyndhurst woman, employed as a professional counselor to children with autism was indicted last week on 43 criminal…
Kearny man found dead on RR tracks
A young Kearny man was found dead on the PATH tracks in Jersey City late Friday night, police said. Port…
Students celebrate 9/11 heroes
HARRISON – Most of the eighthgraders at Harrison’s Washington Middle School weren’t yet born when the 9/11 tragedy unfolded in New…
No indictments in fatal shooting
LYNDHURST – A state grand jury sitting in Trenton has refused to indict two Lyndhurst police officers, a Rutherford…
KPD blotter: The little Purple Pill
On Sunday, Sept. 20, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the proprietor of the CVS store at Schuyler and Bergen Aves. reportedly…
Man hurt trying to stop alleged shoplifter
NORTH ARLINGTON – A gallant customer tried to prevent a shoplifting at the Dollar General store on River Road…
Nutley PD arrest suspected laptop thief
A 48-year-old Clifton man has been arrested and charged with the theft of a laptop from a local liquor store,…
Cops grab accused serial burglars
KEARNY/LYNDHURST – Two men have been arrested in connection with at least 25 commercial burglaries across Bergen, Hudson and Passaic…
Armed robbery suspect captured: BPD
Within a less than half-hour interval on Aug. 21, a lone gunman discharged his weapon five times at two Belleville shops…
Devastating fire at Laurel Ave. home
A house that reportedly was due to be sold this week was left “no longer habitable” after fire ripped through…
Local motorist charged in death of cabbie
BELLEVILLE – A 23-year-old Belleville woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection with the death last week of…
Meet & greet with cops over coffee
KEARNY – In 2011, police in the city of Hawthorne, Calif., were looking for new ways to communicate, informally,…