A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the state, the Department of Corrections and the New Jersey Parole Board in the death of a Garfield woman allegedly strangled by a parolee who escaped the custody of a halfway house.

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.”

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli of shooting his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk in their Garfield shop. The verdict was returned after a little more than a day of deliberations. Thomas Battinelli was portrayed by Assistant [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli of shooting his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk in their Garfield shop. Thomas Battanelli "(above, right") looked stunned as the verdicts, which included several counts of hindering, theft and unlawful weapons [...]

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT “He is so cold, so calculating, that he sits and waits — like any good hunter would,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told jurors during closing arguments yesterday in the murder trial of Thomas Battinelli, accused of killing his business partner of 20 years at their Garfield shop. And he [...]

The Garfield Police Department was on the scene of a crash on Semel Avenue at midnight on May 1. A Lexus struck a parked vehicle and flipped over.

Ridgewood Police general Incidents and Arrests 5/13/2013

A Garfield man who had spoken out against the police shooting of a city teen intended to harass the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office when he phoned it repeatedly last year, a municipal judge decided Tuesday.

The dog ran away from his house Tuesday morning, but was spotted on the NJ Transit tracks in Garfield, New Jersey.

SHOUT OUT Members of the Lodi Police Department shaved their heads to raise breast cancer awareness and show support for Alicia Veri-Rodriguez, who is battling the disease. As soon as Veri-Rodriguez’s cousin, Lodi Police Officer Dominic Miller, offered to shave his head, brother officers took up the cause, as well. Handling the clippers was Alicia’s [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A teen was pulled into a car outside a Teaneck hotel and robbed by a group of men he’d stolen cellphones from, before an alert security guard saw what was happening, followed them as they took off and called police. All five were ordered held on $1.5 million each in [...]

A TRIBUTE The late Nicholas Ciarocco took firefighting so seriously that he sometimes woke his kids in the middle of the night for surprise drills. On May 19, he and two other former Lodi firefighters who also answered the final call the past year will be among 124 from the area honored for their service. [...]

On Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office will partner with local law enforcement to host a countywide Gun Buyback at various places of worship across the county.

On Monday, January 7th, Bergen County Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested suspect Gabriel E. Santana who is accused of assaulting two Bergen County Police Officers as he fled the county shelter early Monday morning.