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…

Help keep kids safe

The Kearny Police Department Traffic Bureau is reminding residents that Kearny public schools will reopen Thursday, Sept. 10. The KPD…

Nutley police arrest man suspected of breaking into Romano St. home

The Nutley Police Department has arrested a man they say is responsible for an Aug. 4…

Saluting Junior Police

KEARNY – Last Thursday evening, 50 youngsters — ages 11-13 — received their diplomas as proud graduates of the Kearny…

On Kearny Ave., unwanted attention

KEARNY –  A 32-year-old man was arrested last week after he allegedly accosted a 14-year-old girl on Kearny Ave. and…

Harrison police seek bank robbery suspect

HARRISON –  Police are seeking a man who pulled off a bank robbery in Harrison last Wednesday. Harrison…

Notes from the KPD blotter

A man wanted on a child-neglect warrant ended up in the Hudson County Jail last week after arresting officers found a…

KPD: Nothing you’d want to see

A walk in the park turned out to be anything but for a woman and her 4-year-old daughter on Friday,…

Another Nutley resident falls victim to ID theft

Yet another town resident has fallen victim to identity theft, the Nutley Police Department said. The victim came to…

Bizarre behavior leads to 2 arrests: KPD

KEARNY –  Maybe it was the heat. Last week, which saw Kearny sweltering in torrid temperatures, found local cops with their…

Killer of Kearny teen gets life in prison

KEARNY – The Pennsylvania man who murdered 16-yearold Alishia Colon in her Belgrove Drive home in 2013 was sentenced Friday…

Burglar surprises sleeping teen: cops

KEARNY –  A Newark man was arrested in the early-morning hours of July 18 after allegedly burglarizing a ground-floor…

4 new officers join township’s Finest

BELLEVILLE –  One is following in the footsteps of three family members. Three have prior law enforcement experience. But…