Teaneck Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Attorney questions Bogota chief over charges against...

  11 hrs ago | via NorthJersey.com 

  Bogota Police Officer Regina Tasca, whose attorney on Tuesday questioned the borough's police chief over his decision to file disciplinary charges against Tasca, the department's only woman officer.

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  Related Topix: Bogota, NJ, Teaneck, NJ

• Hackensack hospital and CVS clinics form affiliation

  Yesterday | via Hackensack Chronicle 

  Physicians from Hackensack University Medical Center will now serve as medical directors in six CVS MinuteClinics in North Jersey as part of a new affiliation between the hospital and retail division of CVS Caremark.

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  Related Topix: Retail, CVS, Hackensack, NJ, Medicine, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Hackensack University Medical Center

• Road Warrior: Beware the seat-belt crackdown

  Sunday May 27 | via NorthJersey.com 

  We're about halfway through another perilous Memorial Day weekend, a time when parades honoring the nation's war dead are often eclipsed by long lines of cars pulled to the sides of roads for the annual Click It or Ticket seat-belt crackdown.

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  Related Topix: Wood-Ridge, NJ

• Teaneck firefighter injured as rear of two-story hou...

  Saturday May 26 | via NorthJersey.com 

  Firefighters attending to a fellow firefighter who was injured Saturday in a blaze at a house on Clinton Place in Hackensack.

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  Related Topix: Teaneck, NJ, Hackensack, NJ, Fire, Bogota, NJ, Maywood, NJ

• Officials Investigating After Leonia Pedestrian Foun...

  Saturday May 26 | via Patch.com 

  Port Authority officials are investigating how a Leonia woman ended up injuredA early Saturday in an area of the George Washington Bridge off-limits to pedestrians, an agency spokesman said.

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  Related Topix: Leonia, NJ, Teaneck, NJ

• Police investigating how Leonia pedestrian got acces...

  Saturday May 26 | via NorthJersey.com 

  FORT LEE - Police are investigating how a female pedestrian got access to the lower level of the George Washington Bridge early Saturday morning, a spokesman for the Port Authority said, Christina McQuaid, 26, of Leonia broke an ankle after getting her foot stuck in a grate, spokesman Steve Coleman said.

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• N.J. man arrested in 1979 disappearance of NYC boy E...

  Thursday May 24 | via NorthJersey.com 

  A New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old New York City boy to death in 1979 was arrested on a murder charge on Thursday, police said, the first arrest in a case that helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement.

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  Related Topix: Maple Shade, NJ, Little Falls, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, Bergenfield, NJ, Mahwah, NJ

• Library Circulation Declines Over Two Years

  Thursday May 24 | via Patch.com 

  The Public Library experienced a second year of declines in circulation in 2011, according to data from the Bergen County Cooperative Library System.

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  Related Topix: Libraries, Bergen County, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, Paramus, NJ

• Fire Breaks Out at House on St. Marks Place in Teaneck

  Wednesday May 23 | via Patch.com 

  Teaneck firefighters were on the scene of a fire at a house on St. Marks Place, off Hargreaves Avenue Wednesday evening.

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  Related Topix: Teaneck, NJ, Englewood, NJ

• Route 4 Tree-Pruning to Continue Thursday

  Wednesday May 23 | via Patch.com 

  Public Service Electric and Gas company tree-pruning on Route 4, that has caused major traffic delays through Teaneck, will continue Thursday, with more work planned along the highway next week.

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  Related Topix: Teaneck, NJ, Fort Lee, NJ, Hackensack, NJ

• Jones Attends Rothman Event in Bergen County

  Wednesday May 23 | via TheAlternativePress.com 

  Mayor Jeffrey Jones traveled to Wood-Ridge in Bergen County on Wednesday to attend a campaign event for Rep.

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  Related Topix: Bergen County, NJ, Wood-Ridge, NJ, US Politics, Bill Pascrell, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Paterson, NJ, Teaneck, NJ

• Newark airport worker accused of Obama threat can ge...

  Tuesday May 22 | via NorthJersey.com 

  A man accused of talking about shooting President Obama in 2009 can get his gun collection back, a New Jersey appeals court said in a ruling released Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Newark, NJ, Linden, NJ, Teaneck, NJ

• Knife-wielding robber takes cash, man's car in Paterson

  Tuesday May 22 | via NorthJersey.com 

  PATERSON - Police are looking for a robber who held up a man picking up lab samples at a medical building and drove away in his car, authorities said. 7 comments

  Related Topix: Paterson, NJ, Broadway, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, Belleville, NJ

• Atlantic City official convicted on drug distributio...

  Tuesday May 22 | via NorthJersey.com 

  The Press of Atlantic City reports that Akbar Malik Salaam of Egg Harbor Township, a public works supervisor, faces up to 15 years after an Atlantic County jury found him guilty of official misconduct and drug distribution charges.

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  Related Topix: Atlantic City, NJ, Atlantic County, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, Belleville, NJ

• NYC man pleads not guilty in Teaneck murder of Rober...

  Tuesday May 22 | via NorthJersey.com 

  Sui Kam "Tony" Tung said nothing at his brief appearance in state Superior Court in Hackensack , where he was formally charged with the March 6, 2011, murder of Robert Cantor.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Teaneck, NJ, Hackensack, NJ, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Bogota, NJ

• New York man charged in Teaneck slaying, arson will ...

  Tuesday May 22 | via The Jersey Journal 

  BERGEN COUNTY - The man charged with killing a Teaneck resident who was dating his estranged wife will appear in court today, following his extradition from New York on Monday.

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  Related Topix: Bergen County, NJ, Teaneck, NJ

• Invention helps the heart

  Monday May 21 | via Green Bay Press-Gazette 

  Benjamin Strauss is working on a new cardiac defibrillator that could be inserted near the heart only a few millimeters under the skin.

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  Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, Bergenfield, NJ, Teaneck, NJ, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Patent / Trademark Law

• New York Man Charged in Teaneck Murder Brought to Be...

  Monday May 21 | via Patch.com 

  The 49-year-old Manhattan man charged with murder and arson in the killing of Teaneck software engineer Robert Cantor was extradited to Bergen County Monday ahead of a court appearance.

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• Lyndhurst brothers held in sex assault of girl

  Monday May 21 | via NorthJersey.com 

  LYNDHURST - Two township brothers who allegedly sexually abused a girl over a period of several years have been charged with sexual assault, authorities said.

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  Related Topix: Lyndhurst, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Hackensack, NJ

• The Third Pascrell-Rothman Debate

  Monday May 21 | via TheAlternativePress.com 

  The two congressmen running in the 9th District's Democratic primary eased up on their attacks during Wednesday night's debate.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, Bill Pascrell, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Teaneck, NJ, Paterson, NJ