A motorist got more than he bargained for on Sept. 28 after he went to his car on Whitford…
Category: Public Safety
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,…
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…
3-alarm fire tears through home at 199 Laurel Ave., Kearny [Video]
A 3-alarm fire tore through a home at 199 Laurel Ave., Kearny, early Tuesday morning. No…