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Paramus NJ, Paramus Police Sgt. Dean Avagnano saved a doe that was stuck between two fences. Sgt. Avagnano went above and beyond the call of duty .

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Paramus NJ, Paramus Police Sgt. Dean Avagnano saved a doe that was stuck between two fences. Sgt. Avagnano went above and beyond the call of duty .

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Paramus NJ, according to Paramus police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg , A scam artist who demanded $15,000 from a Paramus mom to bail her daughter out of jail, was lured into a trap by the mother she tried to con.

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Paramus NJ, according to Paramus Police eight employees were evacuated from Stew Leonard’s store in Paramus Park in Bergen on Tuesday after a refrigeration pipe broke, filling the store with carbon dioxide before it opened to customers.
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Paramus NJ, one (1) non-life threatening injury was reported following the Tuesday afternoon, 12/06, crash of a Lexus SUV into a nail salon on East Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus. A flatbed tow truck winched the vehicle from inside the structure and towed it away. Paramus Police, Paramus EMS, Paramus Fire Department, and the Paramus Rescue Squad responded to the mishap.

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Paramus NJ, a trio of ski shop thieves who hit the same store twice were arrested last week after a chase that saw two suspects flee along the Route 17.
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Paramus NJ, no injuries were reported following the Friday afternoon, 11/18, crash of a NJ Transit bus into a utility pole on East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, adjacent to the New Jersey Veterans Home and New Bridge Medical Center campuses. The driver was the only occupant on the bus at the time of the crash. No disruptions to utility services were reported in connection with the mishap. Paramus Police and Paramus Fire Department units responded to the incident.
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Paramus NJ, no injuries were reported following a Tuesday morning, 10/18, multiple vehicle crash on Route 17 northbound near Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus, in which one (1) vehicle rolled over on its side, and another careened off of the highway into a stationary roll-off container and adjacent building. Two (2) vehicles were towed from the scene. Damage to the building appeared to have been cosmetic in nature only. Paramus Police and Paramus Fire Department responded to the incident.

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Paramus NJ, the adult driver of a KIA Sportage escaped injury during an early Wednesday afternoon, 10/05, crash in which the vehicle jumped two (2) concrete traffic control islands as it careened across busy West Midland Avenue in Paramus. and slammed into a detached garage and fence. A traffic control sign was flattened as well. Paramus Police and Paramus Fire Department responded to the mishap. The damaged vehicle was towed from the scene.

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Ramsey NJ, according to Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman a high speed police pursuit ended in a crash in Paramus and three arrests after the chase involving two stolen vehicles that started in Ramsey.

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Paramus NJ, according to Paramus Deputy Police Chief Robert Guidetti ,on Thursday New York teenagers fleeing police in a stolen car hit two vehicles stopped in traffic while exiting onto New Jersey Route 4 in Paramus . The two youths apprehended in a residential area .
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Paramus NJ, Paramus Police captured at least four (4) occupants of a BMW sedan that crashed in the rear of a Pleasant Avenue, Paramus business while being pursued by several Paramus patrol vehicles on Monday morning, 09/05. Two (2) Paramus police cruisers were heavily damaged during the pursuit; they were both removed by flatbed tow trucks. The BMW sedan was also damaged and towed away. An ambulance transported one (1) individual involved in the pursuit to Hackensack University Medical Center’s main campus with non life threatening injuries. Rochelle Park Police assisted in the transport of prisoners to Paramus Police Department headquarters.

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Paramus NJ, for the third time this summer Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus was the scene of a “swatting” incident . Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person’s address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage situation, or a false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed, among other things.
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Ridgewood NJ, Thursday evening, 08/25, high speed pursuit of an alleged DUI driver that originated in Ridgewood, terminated in a crash with injuries in the parking lot of Home Goods on Route 17 southbound in neighboring Paramus. Multiple parked vehicles were reportedly damaged by the fleeing black colored BMW in downtown Ridgewood, and several moving & parked vehicles were hit in Paramus. At least two (2) individuals were injured in the Paramus crashes. The suspected DUI driver, an adult male reportedly from East Orange, was captured quickly by Paramus Police and turned over to Ridgewood Police for processing.

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Paramus NJ, seems you not even safe in your own home, according to Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg a Jersey City man is accused of crashing a vehicle stolen from New York into the backyard of a Paramus home on Monday, then took off on foot .
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Paramus NJ, the adult male operator of a motor trike (a 3-wheeled motorcycle) sustained a serious leg injury during a Friday morning, 08/12, single vehicle crash in the 100 block of West Century Road in Paramus. A traffic light at the driveway entrance to The Frisch School and Country Club Plaza office complex was downed when the motor trike plowed into it. The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. Borough of Paramus Public Works Department employees began the process of repairing and re-erecting the downed traffic light shortly after the victim was removed from the scene by ambulance. A flatbed tow truck removed the damaged vehicle from the scene.
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