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Ex-cop charged in Midland Park slaying violated restraining order 2 weeks earlier, police say

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OCTOBER 22, 2015, 5:36 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015, 11:34 PM
BY STEFANIE DAZIO AND ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD

A former New York City police officer who fatally stabbed his former girlfriend with a machete at her Midland Park home previously threatened her with scissors, violated a restraining order at least twice and was the subject of two massive manhunts this month, authorities said Friday.

Arthur J. Lomando, 44, was charged with murder and related offenses Friday and remained in a New York City hospital where both of his feet had been amputated after he jumped in front of a Manhattan subway train Thursday night. Hours earlier, Suzanne Bardzell, a 48-year-old mother of two, had been found dead in her SUV in the driveway of her Midland Park home, the vehicle’s engine still running.

The killing culminated a monthlong series of events that included police showing up at Lomando’s Centereach, N.Y., home in the early morning of Oct. 10, only to leave when he refused to turn himself in to authorities for violating a temporary restraining order, said Midland Park Police Chief Michael Powderley. Police launched a manhunt hours later after a borough police officer on patrol saw Lomando’s unoccupied car near Bardzell’s home, Powderly said.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/suspect-in-midland-park-killing-violated-restraining-order-two-weeks-prior-police-say-1.1439863

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Prosecutor: Suspect in fatal Midland Park stabbing jumps in front of NYC subway

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OCTOBER 22, 2015, 5:36 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015, 12:19 AM
BY STEVE JANOSKI AND JIM NORMAN
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD

MIDLAND PARK – A 48-year-old woman was fatally stabbed by her estranged boyfriend when she pulled into her driveway on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli identified the woman as Suzanne Bardzell, who owns the home, a Cape Cod-style house in the 700 block of Godwin Avenue.

Molinelli said the attacker, identified as Arthur J. Lomando of Centerreach, N.Y., escaped to New York City, where he threw himself in front of a subway train at Amsterdam and St. Nicholas avenues. Lomando was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was treated for head and leg injuries, the prosecutor said.

Lomando is a former employee of the New York City Police Department who had been “separated” from the department for “quite a few” years for “physical and/or mental reasons,” Molinelli said.

Molinelli said Lomando left the machete-like knife that was used in the attack at the scene of the killing.

When police arrived at the scene, Bardzell was already dead inside the vehicle, and the engine was still running, Molinelli said

https://www.northjersey.com/news/prosecutor-suspect-in-fatal-midland-park-stabbing-jumps-in-front-of-nyc-subway-1.1439011

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Police Respond to Shooting in Midland Park

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Police Respond to Shooting in Midland Park
October 15,2015
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Midland Park NJ, An adult male shooting victim was transported by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center from a home located at 29 Post Street, Midland Park shortly after 12 midnight on Friday, 10/16. The victim was reportedly shot in the abdomen. A paramedic unit from The Valley Hospital assisted Midland Park EMS.
The victim was conscious and alert at the time of transport. A bloodied white tee shirt could be seen on the victim as he was being loaded into the ambulance. Police officers from Wyckoff and Midland Park were observed at the scene shining flashlights inside the first floor of the home. No other information about the nature of the shooting was immediately available.
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Police Deploy Drone in Search for former Police Officer

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Police Deploy Drone in Search for former Police Officer
October 10,2015
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Midland Park NJ,  A Bergen County Rapid Deployment Force responded to Midland Park on Saturday afternoon, 10/10 to aid in the search for a former police officer wanted in connection with the issuance of several warrants who went missing at approximately 1 AM the same day. Police officers from more than a dozen departments throughout the County were a part of the search team.

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The search was focused along the New York Susquehanna and Western railroad line, which parallels Greenwood Avenue in the borough. A drone was launched to assist in search efforts. The search was called off at approximately 3 PM with negative results.
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Midland Park bank raises millions to repay US

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY RICHARD NEWMAN
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THE RECORD

Stewardship Financial Corp. of Midland Park is the latest northern New Jersey bank to raise millions of dollars from investors to repay capital provided by the U.S. government to spur lending after the most recent recession.

The parent of 30-year-old Atlantic Stewardship Bank said late Friday that it raised $16.6 million to replace $15 million in funding received in 2011 from the U.S. Treasury through the Small Business Lending Fund, which was part of the Small Business Jobs Act signed into law by President Obama in September 2010.

The program gave banks with less than $10 billion in assets an incentive to make loans to businesses with less than $50 million in annual sales. The more loans they made, the less they had to pay to the government in dividends. The kinds of loans that qualify include commercial and industrial loans and owner-occupied commercial real estate loans.

Many banks, including Atlantic Stewardship, used the money to replace the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. The participating banks have been making quarterly dividend payments to the Treasury at an annual rate of as low as 1 percent or as high as 5 percent of the amount of the government’s investment, depending on the amount of small-business loans the banks make.

As of March 31, the total increase in small-business lending since the program began amounted to $16.4 billion, according to a Treasury survey of participants.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/stewardship-financial-repaying-u-s-1.1403175

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Midland Park critical of lead remediation by Ridgewood Water

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AUGUST 20, 2015    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY LYNN BRUGGEMANN
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MIDLAND PARK SUBURBAN NEWS

MIDLAND PARK — The Borough Council flooded officials of Ridgewood Water with questions about the high level of lead in water supplied to the community but was left parched by its steps to remediate the situation.

Richard Calbi, the company’s new director of operations, and its business manager David Scheibner were asked to appear at the council’s Aug. 13 meeting to explain information contained in a brochure the company sent to residents and businesses about the contamination.

The brochure states that routine monitoring in June 2012 found that some drinking water samples had lead levels above the “EPA action level” of 15 parts per billion (ppb) or 0.015 milligrams of lead per liter (mg/L).

The representatives explained that samples were taken at addresses identified as “high-risk” or known to have lead pipes.

Scheibner said results at “six homes triggered treating the whole system.”

Mayor Patrick “Bud” O’Hagan asked whether any of the “high-risk” addresses were in the borough.

The representatives said three residences, all known to have lead service lines, located on Godwin Avenue, Erie Avenue and Van Blarcom Avenue, were used in the sampling and showed lead contaminants.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/business/representatives-taken-to-task-over-lead-remediation-measures-1.1395022

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Electrical fire forced the temporary evacuation of the Ethos Spa in Midland Park

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Electrical fire forced the temporary evacuation of the Ethos Spa in Midland Park

August 14,2014
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Midland Park NJ, An electrical fire that originated in a commercial laundry dryer forced the temporary evacuation of the Ethos Spa at 85 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park on Thursday morning, 08/13. Midland Park FD responded and determined that the fire had not extended beyond the laundry room area. No injuries were reported and following ventilation of all smoke from the area, the premises were able to be reoccupied. Midland Park PD also responded.

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Midland Park principal accused of filing false complaint in retaliation

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JUNE 29, 2015, 7:29 AM    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015, 2:30 PM
BY STEVE JANOSKI
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

MIDLAND PARK – A borough couple are claiming in court papers that the principal of a Midland Park school reported them for child abuse and neglect in retaliation for a complaint the couple filed with the state Department of Education about the prolonged bullying of their child.

A lawsuit, filed May 21 in Bergen County Superior Court, alleges that Midland Park Jr./Sr. High School Principal Nicholas Capuano made “defamatory” statements about Cyril and Cathy Burke to the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency with “actual knowledge” the statements were false. He did so, the suit said, as retribution for the Burkes’ April 11, 2014, complaint to the Education Department regarding several years of “harassment, intimidation, and bullying” their child faced while attending the school.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/midland-park-principal-accused-of-filing-false-complaint-in-retaliation-1.1365119

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Vandals target sign of new mosque in Midland Park

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JUNE 2, 2015    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2015, 3:50 PM
BY LYNN BRUGGEMANN
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MIDLAND PARK SUBURBAN NEWS

MIDLAND PARK – Less than two weeks before the Elzahra Islamic Center planned to welcome the public to an open house at its newly established mosque, its leaders were forced to report the defacement of a sign at its entrance in what police are calling a bias incident.

Imam Moutaz Charaf reported the vandalism to the police department on Memorial Day, May 25, and estimates the damage at about $500. In the meantime, the sign has been altered to eliminate the appearance of the offensive symbols.

According to the police report, Patrolman Mark Berninger and Sgt. Gregory Kasbarian responded and found a swastika and “male genitalia” had been carved into the sign situated at the entrance of the mosque at 218 Irving St.

Police Chief Michael Powderley said the bias incident is being investigated by Detective Sgt. John Gibbons.

“It appears this is an isolated incident and the police have not received any other reports of this vandalism occurring in town,” Powderley said in interviews this week.

Powderley said since 2011 there have been “numerous incidents” in which swastikas have been featured in vandalized property.

“There were three separate incidents at the high school,” he said.

He said he has increased patrols in the area of the mosque.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/non-profit-news/vandals-target-sign-of-new-mosque-in-midland-park-1.1347227

 

The Elzahra Islamic Center is hosting a “community open house” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 5.