PATERSON, N.J. – Two plainclothes police officers were legally justified in shooting a Paterson armed robber who died of his injuries, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office found after an investigation.Ismael Miranda conspired with another man, Cesar Rosario, to rob an alleged drug dealer by pretending to buy from him on June 23, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. – A Sussex County IT worker assumed a Bergen County man’s online identity to contact and ask adult strangers for nude photos of themselves, authorities said Wednesday.Michael F. Grennille, 33, of Newton, “contacted strangers portraying the victim” for eight months before he discovered it and contacted authorities, Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said.Grennille ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. – A Hackensack housekeeper was charged with child abuse after a young girl came to school with an injured leg, authorities said.Maria Lema, 26, was arrested after Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal’s Special Victims Unit received a complaint from the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency, the prosecutor said Wednesday.Lema, a divorced Ecuadoran ...

MOONACHIE, N.J. – Moonachie police chased down a Paterson man moments after they said he was caught on surveillance video cutting security tags from video game controllers in the Teterboro Walmart that he then stuffed into his backpack.Responding to a call just before 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Jeffrey Napolitano spotted 22-year-old Donte Gaskin leaving the store, Police Chief Richard Behrens ...

PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – A Prospect Park man led a ring of conspirators – two of them Mexican nationals – caught trying to traffic more than 33 pounds of cocaine to New Jersey from California, federal authorities said.Luis Tomas Alba Urena, 53, who was arrested with the others in California, was ordered detained without bail by a federal judge in Newark on Wednesday, Acting U.S. Attorney ...

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Both drivers -- one from Fair Lawn, the other from Leonia -- and a 4-year-old boy survived a serious crash on northbound Route 208 Wednesday morning, Franklin Lakes police told Daily Voice.Jackie Nam of Leonia swerved her 2007 Honda Odyssey to avoid crashing with an unknown vehicle that she told police came into her lane just after 8:30 a.m., Capt. John Bakelaar ...

PATERSON, N.J. -- Drug detectives who zeroed in on a pair of Paterson heroin dealers ended up making six arrests and seizing 3,240 envelopes of heroin, a .38 Special and more than $1,600 in drug proceeds, authorities said Wednesday. City Narcotics Unit investigators set up outside The Oak low-rise apartment building at 484 E. 24th Street, then followed a car involved in a drug deal, ...

LYNDHURST, N.J. – If any of a group of public servants from Lyndhurst ever feels down, they can recall the night they saved the life of a popular local deejay whose heart stopped, his grateful wife told them during a special awards presentation.Borough officials had already held their own ceremony, but Theresa and Dick Italiano wanted to do something special of their own for Nicholas ...

PATERSON, N.J. -- Surveillance video that showed a burglar fruitlessly trying to crack open a safe in a Paterson mosque during Ramadan preparations helped produce charges against a local man, authorities said.Detectives Benny Ramos and Jason English developed a "person of interest" in the failed June 6 attempt at the Mevlana Camii mosque that was forwarded to patrol officers, ...

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- Both drivers and a 4-year-old boy survived a serious crash on northbound Route 208 Wednesday morning, Franklin Lakes police told Daily Voice.Jackie Nam of Leonia swerved her 2007 Honda Odyssey to avoid crashing with an unknown vehicle that she told police came into her lane just after 8:30 a.m., Capt. John Bakelaar said. Her vehicle then struck a 2005 Dodge ...