Category: The Record
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THREATS LAID TO STUDENTS; 4 NABBED IN BCC BOMB SCARE CASES
Four Bergen Community College students, including one who wanted to avoid an ethics exam, have been charged with telephoning bomb threats to the school in two incidents last month, police said Wednesday.
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PRESS COVERAGE OF DEAD TEEN ASSAILED
Fair Lawn residents said Saturday that autopsy results showing that alcohol played no role in the death of a local 15-year-old at a New Year’s Eve party also indicate that her family and the party hosts were treated unfairly by the press and the justice system.
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DRUG DEALER RIVALRY HELPS COPS TIP LEADS TO ARREST OF 2 MEN
When Harry Kittrell returned from New York City early Saturday allegedly with a stash of cocaine and crack vials a convoy of police were waiting for him and a companion as their car crossed the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey.
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100-MPH CHASE, DRUG ARRESTS REPORTED BY PARKWAY POLICE
Two men were arrested on drug charges and a third led police on a 100-mph chase in three unrelated incidents on the Palisades Interstate Parkway, parkway police said.
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CHILD DROWNS IN RAIN PUDDLE MOTHER FINDS HIM ATOP COVERED POOL
A 2 1/2-year-old boy drowned Saturday in a puddle of rainwater atop a covered swimming pool in the back yard of his Pine Street home, police said.
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WOMAN ROBBED OF FURS, JEWELRY
A simple trip to Saks Fifth Avenue to store her three fur coats valued at $80,000 for the season turned nightmarish for a 43-year-old Englewood woman on Saturday when two men shoved her into the trunk of her Rolls-Royce and stole her furs and jewelry, police said.
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COLUMN/SECOND LOOK: THE LANDING ON RUNWAY GWB
The George Washington Bridge has been the scene of many suicides, accidents, and odd happenings during its 60-year history. But even after a quarter-century, what happened on Dec. 26, 1965, stuns the imagination.
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2 CHARGED WITH SELLING PHONY IDS TO MINORS
A 32-year-old Jersey City man who police said sold “several hundred” fake New Jersey driver’s licenses to underage students in four states was released Friday from a Delaware jail on $15,000 bail.
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FBI ARRESTS MAN IN FAKE DEATH SCAM
A 40-year-old North Bergen man who allegedly faked his wife’s and son’s deaths, then tried to collect on a $2 million life insurance policy, has been arrested by the FBI.
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SUSPECT HELD IN ASSAULT ON FAMILY IN FORT LEE
A 22-year-old Bronx man was being held on $250,000 bail Tuesday on charges that he was one of five men who assaulted a borough family during a robbery about seven months ago, police said.