FORT LEE ?” Traditionally, students in Fort Lee have been taught that the body of water that lies between North and South Korea, Japan and Russia is called the “Sea of Japan.”

ONLY ON THE PILOT Uri Elam seemed to have the world on a string after emigrating to the U.S. from Brazil and building a multimillion Carlstadt company that makes gluten cheese snacks –until he led Bogota police on a five-mile chase with his pickup truck last night. With his father as a passenger, Elam hit [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Motorists caught not yielding to pedestrians have been receiving warnings from Hillsdale police working undercover — but not anymore, warns Police Chief Eric Stalter. “For now, this program has had an educational focus,” Stalter said this morning. “However, within the near future we will shift the focus of the program [...]

A MAGICAL WEEKEND Whirlwind isn’t the word for the weekend that police from Bergen County – particularly a Westwood patrolman and county sheriff’s officer — showed Nathan Norman, a 6-year-old cancer survivor from Virginia who won the world’s hearts with a simple Christmas wish. Try hanging at the Yankee Stadium batting cage with Mariano Rivera [...]

A MAGICAL WEEKEND Whirlwind isn’t the word for the weekend that police from Bergen County – particularly a Westwood patrolman and county sheriff’s officer — showed Nathan Norman, a 6-year-old cancer survivor from Virginia who won the world’s hearts with a simple Christmas wish. Try hanging at the Yankee Stadium batting cage with Mariano Rivera [...]

The Fair Lawn Police Department was one of 29 state, county and local law enforcement agencies awarded accreditation by the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police "(NJSACOP") on May 9 in Princeton.

Beginning on May 20, law enforcement officials will be out in full force, taking part in the 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization and cracking down on motorists who are not belted.

“Officers throughout New Jersey are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing their seat belt.”

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera’s (Verismo Opera) Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites soloists in all voice categories to audition for roles and experienced stage managers to apply for the position in the professional opera company’s 2013-2014 productions. New Jersey residents are encouraged to apply.

FORT LEE ?” The Fort Lee Police Department hosted the “Be Seen, Be Safe Padestrian Safety” forum in an effort to keep pedestrians and drivers safe and informed.

FORT LEE ?” Less than a week after the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office capped a four-month investigation into North Jersey's heroin use with the arrest of more than 100 individuals, Fort Lee police have uncovered an apartment allegedly doubling as a drug production facility in the Coytesville section of town.

PLEASE HELP A fundraiser for former Bergen County Sheriff’s officer and lifetime Fort Lee firefighter William Cumiskey is being held to help him fight Lou Gehrig’s disease. Cumiskey was diagnosed with ALS shortly after retiring from the sheriff’s office in 2009 following a distinguished 25-year career. PBA Local #134 and the Fort Lee Fire Department [...]

Police have arrested and charged five men with heroin-related offenses. The borough resident and four individuals from New York are accused of possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, among other charges. They were found with about three pounds of heroin, with a street value of more than $250,000, authorities said.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Fort Lee police seized three pounds of heroin worth more than $250,000 on the street, along with two stolen handguns, pot and other contraband in a raid on a Hudson Terrace apartment that Chief Keith Bendul said was operating as a heroin distribution mill. The pre-dawn raid was prompted after [...]

FORT LEE ” A man lay facedown, with his arms splayed, on the hood of a car. Two girls sat slumped over in their seats in another car, pinned under the wheels of an old Toyota Corolla with a shattered windshield.

At a hearing held today in Pricenton, 29 New Jersey municipal, county and state law enforcement agencies have been awarded accreditation from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police [NJSACOP] through its New Jersey Law Enforcement AccreditationCommission (NJLEAC).Prior to the hearing, assessment teams visited each of the agencies for a two-day on-site assessment. The assessment teams subsequently recommended accreditation to the commission at the culmination of that assessment.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Jurors today convicted a Marine MP of illegal possession of a weapon without a permit following a Christmastime melee outside a Fort Lee nightclub. Hisashi Pompey sat stoically as the verdict was read, following more than three hours of deliberations. He remains free on $10,000 bail pending a Sept. 6 [...]

Ridgewood Police General Incidents and Arrests

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT “If there are 11 Marines in jeopardy and one of them can sacrifice himself to save them, that’s what he will do,” Marine MP Hisashi Pompey told jurors today, testifying in his own defense in a weapons trial in Hackensack. Pompey is accused of unlawfully carrying a handgun for a Christmastime [...]

A New Jersey father of five is facing charges of exposing himself to a child, and it's not the first time he's been arrested.