By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Security video from a Forest St. apartment building led to the…
Category: Public Safety
Notes from KPD Blotter
In a professional building on Midland Ave., near the Post Office, there used to be a business called the…
Ex-employee stole nearly 9G, cops say
A woman who had worked for a Nutley physician has been accused of stealing several thousands of dollars from…
House fire quelled
LYNDHURST – Residents of a one-family house on Fourth St. in Lyndhurst were safely evacuated during a fire that broke…
Report: 2 women arrested, charged with soliciting prostitution at Kearny clinic
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY — In a professional building on Midland Ave., near the…
Brand-new cars go up in flames
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last Thursday, for the second time in five days, township firefighters…
Bust alleged repeat drug offender
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A Kearny man, arrested in January on drug charges, was busted again…
Fire fatality under review
BELLEVILLE – The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the death of a Belleville resident found dead in his…
Death was ‘self-inflicted,’ police say
BELLEVILLE – The lifeless body of a Belleville man was found outside his house on Hill St. in the…
Cops break up narcotics operation
BLOOMFIELD – Armed with a battering ram, Essex County sheriff’s officers and Bloomfield police last week forced their way through…
Unneeded meds welcome 24/7 at HQ
Got any unneeded or out-of-date medications at home that you’ve been meaning to dispose of? Now you can do exactly that…
KPD: Axe & you shall be seized
At 4 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, KPD Officer Patrick Becker, responding to a report of a suspicious person lurking near…
ATM at bank compromised, police say
Something suspicious was going on at a local financial institution that prompted Nutley PD to visit on Feb. 2.…
Smoky blaze shuts Skyway
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – On Saturday afternoon, with temperatures well below freezing and the wind-chill well below…
ATMs in stores targeted
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – If you’re a store owner who has an ATM near…
9 displaced by Brown St. fire
NUTLEY – A fire at a multi-family residence at 12 Brown St. broke out in the early morning hours…
Serial robber gets 20-year prison term
A Newark man who robbed a Harrison pharmacy — and 10 other establishments in Hudson and Essex counties over an eight-month…
KPD Blotter
Jan. 24 Officer Patrick Becker, checking the registration on a double-parked vehicle at Kearny Ave. and Rose St. at…
Man charged in beating case & more: NPD blotter
A Clifton man accused of beating up a Nutley resident in the resident’s apartment last week has been arrested, according…
‘He knew he’d be caught’
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – On Christmas Eve, Kearny police reported, a Windsor St. home was burglarized…
Facing Sandy-recovery aid fraud charges
TRENTON – A Nutley woman is facing up to five years in prison and fines totalling $25,000 for allegedly…
Have you seen these suspects?
BELLEVILLE – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Belleville Police Chief Joseph Rotonda are seeking the public’s help in…
Guns, ammo & more: KPD blotter
Last Thursday evening, Kearny police responded to the report of a man with a gun in a home on…
Another suicide & more: NPD blotter
Nutley PD has labeled the death of a 49-yearold Washington Ave. man initially discovered unresponsive at his home as a suicide.…
Sought in fatal accident, she fled to Brazil, cops say
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent HARRISON – A Harrison woman has been indicted on two counts of…
3 arrested in Nutley robbery
NUTLEY — At 12:50 a.m., Jan. 18, a Nutley police officer noticed three young men fleeing…
3 displaced, 1 injured in Belleville fire
BELLEVILLE – Three township residents were displaced and one was injured by a fire that heavily…
Murder-suicide & more: NPD blotter
Details remained sketchy in the wake of what law enforcement agencies characterized as a murder-suicide on Hillside Ave. in Nutley last…
Drug suspects indicted
KEARNY – Three suspects — one from the Bronx and two from Kansas — arrested by N.J. State Police…
Township gets 3 new cops
LYNDHURST – The Lyndhurst Police Department has three new members. Officers Michael LeStrange, Steve Batista and John DeCamp were sworn in…