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.”

A Lodi man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for taking part in a family-run heroin distribution ring that included his wife and her son.

Senator Bob Gordon, Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (all D-Bergen/Passaic) today hailed the Governor's announcement that $300 million in federal funding will be used to buy out Sandy-affected properties as well as repetitively flood-damaged homes in the Passaic River Basin, but said that relief is needed for residents in flood-prone areas statewide.

To no surprise Tea Party Darling and Republican New Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett (Bergen, Sussex, Warren) voted for the 37th time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

On May 4, the Lodi Police Department conducted an undercover sting operation to see if local businesses would sell cigarettes or alcohol to an underage person.

Lodi introduced its final municipal budget of $17,115,443.33 at a meeting on May 7.

ANOTHER CVP SCOOP After at first changing his mind, a bank robber instantly recognized in surveillance photos after the holdup pleaded guilty today to robbing a Chase branch in Lodi last May. Robert Galasso accepted prosecutors’ offer of six years in prison, followed by three years of parole supervision, in exchange for today’s plea in [...]

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 [...]

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 Friday, Feb. 8, while rendering assistance to a disabled vehicle during the recent snowstorm, two Bergen County Sheriff’s Officers seized a substantial amount of marijuana and arrested the driver of the vehicle.