Monday, June 17, 2013
Teen charged with abusing 3-year-old boy at Leonia firehouse.
An 18-year-old developmentally disabled student at a Teaneck school is accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old boy at the Leonia firehouse, according to authorities and published reports. In a statement released Sunday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Darius E. Levine, of Leonia, was arrested Friday after the boy told his father about the abuse. Levine “engaged in inappropriate sexual activity with a three year old male acquaintance,” Molinelli said, but did not release additional details. Leonia police were alerted and called in investigators from the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit, the statement said. Levine, a student at Community High School in Teaneck, was charged with one count of second-degree sexual assault …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The 2010 killings of two women, in Teaneck and Palisades Park, remain unsolved. Authorities have not said the two deaths are connected.
The family of a 69-year-old Palisades Park woman found stabbed to death in her burning home has offered a $25,000 reward to help solve the more than three year old slaying, authorities said this week. Emergency crews found Dolores Alliotts dead after they responded to a fire at her home early April 28, 2010, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Investigators determined the house was set ablaze to cover up the killing. "Detectives believe, based on available statistics and evidence, that the killer may have had some prior interaction with Alliotts," Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement. "This may have been a brief interaction that would not normally raise suspicion, such as a deliveryman, maintenance personnel, …
Monday, April 1, 2013
More than 160 schools across Bergen County slated for security reviews, prosecutor says.
Officials are set to inspect more than 160 Bergen County schools in an expanded security initiative formed after the Newtown elementary school massacre, the county prosecutor announced Monday. Under a newly formed county task force, police chiefs in towns that requested the safety reviews will designate a police liaison to receive training from the prosecutor’s office and work with school officials to develop a security plan, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. “This task force system will create a permanent security environment whereby local schools will have a greater access to information and assistance in their efforts to keep our schools safe,” Molinelli said in a statement. The security inspections have been going on …
Friday, March 1, 2013
Anthony Graziano, of Lodi, and Aakash Dalal, of New Brunswick, remain in Bergen County Jail since they were first charged in connection with a series of arson and bias attacks at a number of Bergen County synagogues.
Two men charged last year in series of arson and bias attacks on Bergen County synagogues have been indicted in connection with the firebombings, authorities said Friday. The 30-count indictment charges Anthony M. Graziano of Lodi, a 2010 graduate of Hasbrouck Heights High School, and Aakash A. Dalal of New Brunswick, formerly of Lodi, with fire bombings, arson and bias related incidents which occured between Dec. 11, 2011 and Jan. 11, 2012 in Paramus, Rutherford, Maywood and Hackensack. The indictment includes nine counts for the attempted murder of Rabbi Neil Schumann and his family, and the associated fire bombing of the Temple Beth El Synagogue in Rutherford. It also charges the pair with the Jan. 3, 2012 firebombing of Temple K'Hal …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The video depicts two armed shooters breaking into a local school, and aims to teach school officials and emergency workers how to respond, report says
A new 20-minute video that depicts how police agencies, fire departments, emergency responders and school personnel should react to “active shooter” situations in schools is now available to districts across Bergen County, NJ.com reported Tuesday. “Lockdown,” which was produced by the County Prosecutor’s Office and filmed at New Milford's David E. Owens Middle School over a year ago, simulates a two armed attackers breaking into the school with rifles and a homemade bomb, the report says. According to NJ.com, the video shows how two teachers react to the situation differently, and points out which reaction is better, and why. "There have been so many [school shootings], and no two are ever identical," said Bergen County Police Sgt. John …
Friday, January 25, 2013
Fort Lee man arrested and held on $1 million bond for allegedly assaulting a four-month-old.
The Fort Lee Police Department arrested Jishi Yu, 39, of Fort Lee Thursday for the alleged physical assault of a four-month-old child and charged him with endangering the welfare of a child, Police Chief Keith Bendul reported. According to Bendul, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Special Victim's Unit contacted Fort Lee detectives after they were informed that a four-month-old child was admitted to Hackensack University Medical Center on Jan. 22 with serious internal head injuries. An investigation by the Fort Lee Police Department's General Investigation Bureau and the Prosecutor's Office Special Victim's Unit resulted in the arrest of Yu, Bendul said. Details of the alleged assault are not being released; however, Yu is believed to …
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
A joint investigation by the Bergen County Narcotic Task Force and the Fort Lee Police Department led to the arrests of the two men on cocaine possession and distribution charges.
A month-long investigation has led to the arrest of two New York City men on drug distribution charges in Fort Lee, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. Stephen Bonilla, 35, of the Bronx and Carnitto Johnson, 39, of Queens were arrested in Fort Lee on Dec. 6 after a joint investigation by the Bergen County Narcotic Task Force and the Fort Lee Police Department, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. After receiving information about Bonilla’s and Johnson’s suspected drug activities, an undercover detective was able to “infiltrate their operation” and on Dec. 4 to purchase 25 grams of what police suspected to be cocaine, Molinelli said. The undercover detective then negotiated an $18,800, 400-gram cocaine purchase, and on…
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Authorities raid Union Street home, say they've recover highly volatile bomb-making chemical and assault rifles.
A New York doctor who was active in the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 was charged Saturday with possessing a large quantity of chemicals used in bomb-making, hours after authorities conducted a raid on the Ridgewood house in which he lived, officials said. Roberto Rivera, 60, a medical doctor, was charged with recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury or damage after FBI agents and members of the Bergen County bomb squad found precursor chemicals used in the making of explosives, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said in a release Saturday afternoon. Molinelli called at least one of the chemicals "highly volatile," but authorities did not disclose the names of the chemicals found in the house. Rivera was being held on $1 …
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Functional exercises designed to test the coordination between all levels of law enforcement and municipalities come to play in the recent luring incidents.
With everyone on heightened security because of recent incidents of luring, what the public does not get the chance to see is that police are constantly training for worst case scenarios, especially ones involving child abductions. With the recent spate in luring incidents around Bergen County, police are utilizing the specialized training that they continually undergo in trying to apprehend the people posing a threat to children. Understanding the increased levels of concern luring cases provoke within the community, New Milford Police Chief Frank Papapietro, a founding member of Bergen County's Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), said law enforcement is "fully trained and fully prepared to deal with any potential situation of this magnitude." …
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Bergen County Police say the remote control evidence recovery robot is one of only a half dozen in the county and provides a valuable shared service that local municipalities likely couldn't afford on their own.
An underwater robot the size of a microwave has found its way into the crossfire of a divisive county-wide debate. This week, the Bergen County Police Department’s Water Search and Recovery Unit showed off its new SeaBotix LBV-200-4 Mini ROV — a robot designed to assist the 15-person unit in underwater search and recovery. During a demonstration at the lower lake of the Ramapo Reservation in Mahwah this week, BCPD Sgt. Mark Tiedemann showcased the remote-control device, which sends a video feed from underwater to its operator on dry land. County police conducted the demonstration in the long shadow of a debate over whether or not the county’s police department — and its specialty units like the WSAR — will continue to exist on their own or…
John Blackthorn
8:34 pm on Monday, June 17, 2013
When I heard this earlier today I had no idea that someone like Darius would do something like this. You see, I go to school with Darius for a couple of years now and continue to go today. There are a few of "shady" kids at the school but none more than Darius. He always hung out near the girls of the school which always stuck me as odd but never really gave me a sence that he would do something … more ›