LODI, N.J. -- A 16-year-old Lodi girl who was the subject of a missing-persons search also vanished briefly a little over a year ago.Jakira Jeffrey -- also known as Jakira Waddell -- was supposedly headed to the Rainbow Clothing Store on Washington Street in Lodi when she was last seen at 7:30 p.m. last Saturday, authorities said.She was wearing a black tank top, white and black shorts, ...

RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- A car that was knocked onto a divider on Route 3 in Rutherford early Thursday was then struck by a truck, police said.A 30-year-old West New York man was in the middle eastbound lane when his Nissan Maxima clipped the front of a tractor-trailer he was trying to pass between Route 17 North and South around 8:15 a.m., Capt. Patrick Feliciano told Daily Voice.The impact ...

CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton police chase that was caught on video Thursday ended with a crash and arrest in Montclair.The driver struck both a police car and a civilian's vehicle with his black SUV, said Mark Rosetti (Demonracer2 Fire Photography).Rosetti captured the images during part of the chase through Bloomfield into Montclair, where the SUV crashed on Gordonhurst Avenue between ...

RIDGEFIELD, N.J. – A Rockland man and New York City woman were accused of money laundering after a Ridgefield traffic stop turned up $24,000.Narcotics detectives investigating drug dealing found the “suspiciously packaged” cash after stopping the 2006 grey Honda Accord and obtaining consent from the driver for a search of the vehicle, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said ...

MONSEY, N.Y. -- A registered sex offender from Monsey was sentenced Thursday to 13 months in federal prison for repeatedly fondling a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark.Yoel Oberlander, 36, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark in March to assault with the intent to stalk.He must serve out the entire sentence: There's no parole in the federal prison system.Oberlander was ...

FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- A drunken Fairview motorist threatened to kill Fair Lawn police and their families, authorities said Thursday.An off-duty New Jersey State Police trooper alerted police to the erratically driven car, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.Responding Officers Nicholas Snyder, Michael Van Ness, Thomas Spear and Anthony Ferreira responded stopped 26-year-old Ali Sawaed on Arcadia Road ...

LODI, N.J. -- Authorities turned to the public for help Thursday in finding a 16-year-old Lodi girl who'd gone missing for the second time in a little over a year.Jakira Jeffrey -- also known as Jakira Waddell -- was supposedly headed to the Rainbow Clothing Store on Washington Street in Lodi when she was last seen at 7:30 p.m. last Saturday, authorities said.She was wearing a black ...

TENAFLY, N.J. – Moments after Tenafly police released a man caught driving a stolen car, they found him breaking into cars, authorities said.Soon after, a judge freed again.It began at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, when Officer Louis Smaragdakis followed a maroon Kia whose driver “made an abrupt left turn into the parking lot of Montammy Country Club [on Route 9W] without signaling his turn,” ...

PATERSON, N.J. -- Cars came and went at all hours, bringing police to a Paterson neighborhood where they seized more than two pounds of pot, a couple of ounces of cocaine and more than $10,000 in suspected drug money.Narcotics detectives responding to citizen complaints in the 100 block of East 25th Street arrested three people.Two of them, Jonathan Mejia, 29, and Camilo Mejia, 35, were ...

WEST MILFORD, N.J. – West Milford police were seeking witnesses to a single-car crash that injured two Highland Lakes residents.Responding officers found the severely damaged two-door 2017 Toyota off northbound Route 23 just north of the High Crest bridge at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday, Police Chief Timothy C. Storbeck said.The passenger, Miranda L. Bohmer, 21, was flown by Hackensack University ...