NORTH ARLINGTON – A veteran of the North Arlington Police Department, John Hearn was sworn in Friday as the department’s…
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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…