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…

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…

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…

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,…

KPD blotter: Enough’s enough

At 3:30 a.m., Sept. 14, Officers Jay Ward and Dean Gasser responded to a report of a fight in progress…

Ripped awnings, cars damaged & more: NPD

  Three incidents involving property damage were reported by owners in different areas of Nutley during…

Man arrested in aftermath of attack

HARRISON – A Harrison man has been arrested for allegedly driving away a suspect wanted in an armed attack…

KPD: No holiday for Walmart suspect

The man in the mugshot accompanying this week’s KPD blotter began his Labor Day with a visit to Walmart and…

Suspected car burglars nabbed: NPD

NUTLEY –  Nutley police have arrested and charged two — a 22-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy — after catching…

2 charged in car burglaries: LPD

Two Lyndhurst teens allegedly targeting parked automobiles were collared in the early morning hours on Sept. 4. Police said they…

Driver nabbed in highway hit-run

A Belleville man was being held in the Bergen County Jail on $100,000 bail following his arrest last week on…

KPD: Truck was weapon, fuel was vodka

Shortly before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, Officer Jay Ward was directing traffic in a work zone at Schuyler…

3 robbery suspects collared

KEARNY –  A Saturday night party in a Quincy Ave. backyard morphed into a crime scene Aug. 29 when…

The evidence is in … lots of it

On the evening of Aug. 24, the Kearny Police Department received multiple calls from residents concerned about a plane that was…

Displaced flag poles & more: NPD

A Washington Ave. resident told police he found two, 7-foot metal poles with American flags attached to them on his lawn…

KPD: Temper, temper . . .

A local man was arrested last week and charged with criminal mischief after he was allegedly involved in an assault…

Cadets get upclose lesson on 9/11

KEARNY –  Last week, we wrote about the Kearny Police Department’s Junior Police Academy and the 50 dedicated cadets who…

Library shooting to grand jury

HACKENSACK – A little more than two months after a township man was fatally shot in the Lyndhurst Public Library…

Burglaries top KPD blotter news

Kearny police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly burglarized two Kearny Ave. businesses in the overnight hours…

Bras, other undergarments taken from resident’s laundry: NPD

An Adams Court resident in Nutley lost several bras, gym pants, socks and other undergarments on Aug. 16 and…