Police & Fire

PARAMUS, N.J. — It was an ordinary Friday afternoon for two senior parole officers while cruising down Route 4 eastbound — until they took sight of a horrific scene.

While traveling on Spring Valley Road in Paramus this afternoon, officers Jalen Harper and Steven Purciello of the New Jersey State Parole Board noticed a Volkswagen SUV flipped over on its side in the street ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 56-year-old Hackensack man is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries after suffering head trauma when he was struck by a motorist in the city last night.

According to a press release from the Hackensack Police Department, Michael Columbo was on foot after 8:30 p.m. Thursday attempting to cross the four-lane roadway in the vicinity of South River Street ...

PARAMUS, N.J. — A booze-fueled altercation on the front lawn of a Paramus home between two men turned deadly this morning when one of the men pulled a knife out on the other and stabbed him.

Shortly after midnight today, three Paramus police officers rushed to an East Ridgewood Avenue home upon receipt of a 911 call to find 35-year-old Luis Cruz lying on the front lawn of his ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — A commercial building in the city’s business district was ravaged in a fire that occurred early Saturday night.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on May 16, the fire alarm from 227 Main Street, NJ Modern Kitchen and Bath, resounded as firefighters and mutual aid rushed to extinguish a four-alarm blaze that caused thick clouds of gray smoke that billowed from the ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 47-year-old laborer from Paterson is facing charges for vehicular homicide after he allegedly struck and killed a Hackensack man last night near the Bergen County Justice Center before driving off.

After 8 p.m. Friday, the Hackensack Police Department received word of a pedestrian who had been struck in front of 60 Court Street, an office building that neighbors the ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — City motorists are being asked to avoid the intersection at Central and Summit Avenues until mid-afternoon today after a red-light runner knocked over a traffic light causing it to malfunction.

Shortly before 9 a.m., a 50-year-old man who was operating a 2007 Nissan Pathfinder, was traveling south on Central Avenue and ran a red light, hitting both a vehicle ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Bergen County residents: Beware of phone scams. 

If you receive a phone call from someone purporting to be a member of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office asking for money, a wire transfer, or prepaid gift cards, or threatens you with arrest for failing to appear for an outstanding summons or jury duty, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A city man is facing charges for endangering the welfare of a child and criminal sexual contact after an investigation found he had been engaging in lascivious conversations with a juvenile.

Juan Arnoldo Tomas Juarez, a 28-year-old warehouse worker from Hackensack, was arrested Friday, April 24, a day after the Englewood Police Department was tipped off that he had been ...

HACKENSACK N.J. – Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton announced that healthcare workers at Hackensack Meridian Hospital can get their personal vehicles sanitized complements of the Bergen County Sheriff's Office, on Saturday, April 25, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Alfred N. Sanzari Building Parking Lot at 360 Essex Street in Hackensack.

The Bergen County Sheriff's Office ...