EMS personnel and Paramedics administering medical aid after passer by tip off ,in Downtown Ridgewood
February 17,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, A passerby called 911 to report an adult male experiencing a life threatening medical emergency in an automobile parked on North Broad Street in Ridgewood on Wednesday morning, 02/17.
Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS personnel, along with a paramedic unit from The Valley Hospital, were on the scene in rapid succession to begin administering medical aid. The patient was transported to The Valley Hospital by a Ridgewood EMS ambulance.
If Mayor Paul does not issue an emphatic statement about this then I think the citizens should upraise. It is ridiculous that he allowed this to happen in a meeting that he chairs, he said nothing, he did nothing, he did not speak to Dana on the way out, he is such an obnoxious self-serving jerk. It is increasingly apparent that this whole event may have been in some way planned in order to make Dana look bad. Well, Sir Paul and Sir Albert, this did not happen. Instead you and your blondie gal Friday wound up looking like complete and total insensitive, uncivil idiots. There are simply not enough horrible adjectives to describe the three of you.
FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 6:55 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 6:57 PM
BY JIM NORMAN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — A 25-year-old village man has been charged with possession of a half–pound of marijuana with the intent to distribute the drug, authorities said Wednesday.
Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said police had seen Joel T. Schwartz selling marijuana on multiple occasions from his home on Hunter Road, and as a result of the observations a search warrant was obtained. When detectives executed the search warrant at Schwartz’s residence on Tuesday, Grewal said in a release, they discovered and seized the marijuana, which he said was valued at more than $13,500.
FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 6:20 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 6:23 PM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
A third man has been arrested in connection with the alleged armed robbery and kidnapping of a Paterson taxi driver in December, Ridgewood police said Wednesday.
Guillermo Carrillo-Iraheta, 18, of Suffern, N.Y., who was arrested in Mahwah on Tuesday afternoon, is accused of participating with two men from Bergen County in the carjacking of a taxicab in the early morning hours of Dec. 26, according to a press release.
Police had announced on Tuesday the arrest of the other two men in connection to the case, both 20 years old — Wilber Jonathan Barahona of Ridgewood and Jostin Vidal Soriano Reyes of Waldwick. Barahona was arrested at his home on Monday morning and Reyes was arrested in Waldwick on Monday afternoon, authorities said. All of the arrests were made by a multi-agency task force involved in the investigation, they said.
• Construction to start in May 2016, with the garage opening in February of 2017.
• Non-resident permit rates adjusted to be the same as resident permit rates.
• The first set of rate increases going into effect in July of 2016. These include extension of the
meter hours to 9 p.m. as well as increasing on-street meter rates in the core area to 75¢ per
hour.
• The second set of increases – core meters to $1 and all other on- and off-street parking to
75¢ per hour – is projected to begin in February of 2017 when the garage opens.
• It will be imperative that enforcement schedules are extended for the new meter hours and that enforcement is active. Weak enforcement will have a significant negative impact on the revenue stream from the extended meter hours; once people note that they never see people writing tickets in the evening and/or they “get away with it” once or twice, word will get out and the extended meter hours will not produce the level of revenue they should.
photo by Boyd A. Loving Police summoned to disturbance at Council meeting
February 11,2016
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Ridhewood NJ, resident Dana Glazer had his cell phone knocked out of his hand by a meeting attendee. Police investigation underway. No charges pressed as of this writing.
Witnesses state that it happened when Jim Griffiths was being honored and was especially disturbing especially with so many small children in the room. But, it did happen, “and the choice of timing was fully in the hands of the person who hit the man with the camera. I saw the entire thing because it had caught my attention that one resident was inches from another,bothering him, so I was watching. When the “aggressor” hit the man with the cell phone and knocked the phone to the ground, that was when I ran to get the police.”
The witness went on , “By the time I got to the police desk, one flight down, an officer was already radioing in to get to the courtroom, so either someone else called the police or the police saw on closed circuit camera I counted four officers that came up. What was even more shocking was that at the end, was that Councilwoman Hauck had the audacity to suggest that “no one saw it happen” (you can watch the tape tomorrow, I don’t want to put words in her mouth) – so if she didn’t see it then does that mean it did not happen? And the suggestion that I could have handled it differently, really? So if I see one person hit another, but something nice is going on at the same time, I should just sit back and do nothing.”
A long time resident who did not witness the attack said ,” I think it a sad day for Ridgewood when members of the pubic are afraid to come to meeting for fear of possible assault or harassment by other members of the public.. This was all fueled by the council majority who berated this same member of the public in recent council meeting for video taping them, We have sunk to a new low here in Ridgewood. Never in all my years in town have I see such distrust, in fighting,berating of the public by council members and i’ve been here a long time. ”
The victim Dana Glazer is also someone who has been threatened repeatedly for recording public meetings. This has now opened up the gates for others to attack those who wish to record.
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on Thursday, February 4, patrol responded to an alarm at the Water’s Edge Café at Graydon pool. Upon investigating the alarm it was determined that someone had broken the lock off the building. Several items inside were damaged and thrown around. The matter is under investigation by the Detective Bureau.
Ridgewood NJ , back in December the Ridgewood Police department investigated an alleged kidnapping and carjacking that was reported early Saturday morning.
At the time the Ridgewood Police said that the “vehicle in question” has been located near the Thruway in Bergen County, N.J, and an investigation is ongoing. .The victim has also been recovered suffering only minor injuries.At the time the Ridgewood Police withheld further information about the incident .And we were told New York State Police are also working with police in Ridgewood, N.J.
Today it is being reported that two men wanted in connection with this carjacking, kidnapping and robbery were arrested by members of a task force comprised of federal, state, county and local authorities. Including FBI and ICE, investigators from the New Jersey State Police, New York State Police and Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, and members of the Ridgewood, Mahwah, Hawthorne and Waldwick Police departments .
Jostin Vidal Reyes of Waldwick and Wilbur J. Barhona of Ridgewood, both 20, were taken into custody Monday following more than a month and a half of intensive work.
Authorities and other sources said Reyes and Barhona got into a cab in Paterson around in the early a.m. hours of Dec. 26 for a ride to Waldwick. Sources say the two decided to rob the cabby and kidnap him once they reached Ridgewood and as previously reported ditched him on the New York Thruway.
The pair now face various counts of robbery, aggravated assault, cajacking, kidnapping ,weapons offenses and are being held pending $400,000 bail each in the Bergen County Jail.
A Letter from Dr. Fishbein Click here to read a letter from Superintendent of Schools Dr. Fishbein regarding the safety protocols in place for emergency incidents
Ridgewood NJ, A Honda CR-V SUV slammed into an occupied tour bus that was returning students and their chaperons back to the Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood on Friday, 02/05 from a trip to Quebec. The incident occurred at 3:17 PM on Franklin Turnpike in Ridgewood, near the entrance/exit to Route 17 southbound.
Neither of the drivers, nor any of the 44 bus passengers, were injured in the collision, however the SUV was heavily damaged and had to be removed from the scene by a flatbed tow truck. Ridgewood PD investigated the incident and issued a summons to the SUV driver. After a delay of almost one (1) hour, the virtually undamaged bus continued on its way to drop off students and chaperones at the school. The driver of the SUV is reportedly a public safety officer at nearby Bergen Community College.
Ridgewood Nj, Congressmen Scott Garrett confirmed his offices have received some calls about this IRS fraud. Please spread this information from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to friends and family so they know to be on the lookout for these phony phone calls.
Sources tell the Ridgewood blog that scammers feel people are more vulnerable near tax time .
The IRS generally contacts people, first, by mail – not by phone – about unpaid taxes. The IRS will not ask for payment using a prepaid debit card, a money order.
“The IRS is Calling Me? Can This Be For Real?” (TIGTA PSA English) 60 seconds
Fraud is real. Just hang up on Fraud. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is warning taxpayers to be on high alert for scammers who impersonate IRS employees in aggressive phone calls that demand money. Don’t believe them; just hang up! For more information and to report a contact, visit us at www.tigta.gov.
Several residents reported having received a phone call from a man identifying himself as Dennis Gary with the treasury department, The caller requests that you call him back to avoid an enforcement action from the IRS. This is a scam do not call the number back. One of several numbers tied to the scam is 303-479-3380.
The IRS does not:
1 Call you to demand immediate payment. They will not call about taxes you owe without first mailing you a bill.
2 Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the chance to question or appeal the amount they say you owe.
3 Require you to use a certain payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card.
4 Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone.
5 Threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement to have you arrested for not paying.
If you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from the IRS and asking for money, here’s what to do:
• If you know you owe taxes or think you might owe, call the IRS at 800-829-1040 to talk about payment options. You also may be able to set up a payment plan online at IRS.gov.
• If you know you don’t owe taxes or have no reason to believe that you do, report the incident to TIGTA at 1.800.366.4484 or at www.tigta.gov.
• If phone scammers target you, also contact the Federal Trade Commission at FTC.gov. Use their “FTC Complaint Assistant” to report the scam. Please add “IRS Telephone Scam” to the comments of your complaint.
. Remember, the IRS currently does not use unsolicited email, text messages or any social media to discuss your personal tax issues. For more information on reporting tax scams, go to www.irs.gov and type “scam” in the search box.
Ridgewood NJ, Its a bird ,its a plane no its a heavily intoxicated Superman. On Thursday 1/21/16, patrol responded to a business on East Ridgewood Ave for the report of an adult male dressed in a Superman costume sitting in the lobby of the business. Upon arrival, officers found a heavily intoxicated 29 year old male from Hackensack. The man was transported to Valley Hospital for treatment related to the intoxication.
Ridgewood NJ, Remember to remove all ice and snow from your vehicle before driving, especially from the hood, windows and roof. It’s the law in New Jersey! Motorists who fail to do so face fines of $25 to $75 for each offense, regardless of whether the ice and snow is dislodged from the vehicle. If flying ice or snow causes property damage or injury to others, motorists face fines of $200 to $1,000 for each offense. There are approximately 500 fatalities in the United States per year due to icy road conditions.
Ridgewood Police : Ice & Snow – Remove It Before You Go
Remember to remove all ice and snow from your vehicle before driving, especially from the hood, windows and roof. It’s the law in New Jersey! Motorists who fail to do so face fines of $25 to $75 for each offense, regardless of whether the ice and snow is dislodged from the vehicle. If flying ice or snow causes property damage or injury to others, motorists face fines of $200 to $1,000 for each offense.
Ridgewood Police :Keep fire hydrant clear
If you have a fire hydrant in front of your house, help yourself and help your neighbors by keeping it clear of snow.
Ridgewood Police : Overnight parking is suspended in the Village
Overnight parking is suspended in the Village. Residents are prohibited from parking on village streets overnight. Please reconfirm but residents residing in the Central Business District are permitted to park vehicles in the Cottage Place and Hudson Street lots.
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