Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack
Wayne PD: Just-Released Heroin User Causes Commotion At Supermarket When Caught With Crack Claiming he’d only just been released for carrying 140 envelopes of heroin, a user with visible track marks on his arm drew a crowd by shouting at Wayne detectives who said he was carrying six bags of crack and several unused folds of smack when they found him staggering from store to store in a commercial district. Detectives Skylar Cauceglia and Vincent Ricciardelli first spotted a 2014 Toyota in the area of the Hamburg Turnpike Quick Chek before watching it go to the Circle K store and then Trader Joe’s, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Each time, 32-year-old Paul C. Drake Jr. got o…
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Route 17 Shut Down After Tractor-Trailer Yanks Down Wires In Ramsey EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Route 17 Shut Down After Tractor-Trailer Yanks Down Wires In Ramsey
Exclusive Photos: Route 17 Shut Down After Tractor-Trailer Yanks Down Wires In Ramsey In one of the most frustrating of coincidences, Route 17 on Friday afternoon was closed in both directions again after a tractor-trailer got tangled in utility wires in Ramsey -- dangling them over the highway and requiring that poles be replaced like they were during a traffic nightmare two weeks ago. The UPS rig was pulling out of the northbound side's Quick Chek when it snagged the wires, closing the highway in both directions from Allendale Road to Lake Street, responders said. Like last time, the utility poles will have to be replaced. That means: Northbound Route 17 would remain c…
911 Call Leads To Felony DWI Charge For Red Hook Woman At Convenience Store 911 Call Leads To Felony DWI Charge For Red Hook Woman At Convenience Store
911 Call Leads To Felony DWI Charge For Red Hook Woman At Convenience Store A 911 call led to the arrest of a 41-year-old woman for felony drunk driving after police found her inside her vehicle in a Quick Chek parking lot. Lisa D. Jackson of Red Hook was arrested after Ulster Police responded to the store on Ulster Avenue and found that she was driving under the influence and with a suspended license, Ulster police said. During the course of the arrest, Jackson refused to submit to a breath test, police said. She was charged with felony DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation, as well as several misdemeanors, including drinking alcohol in her vehicle.  Jackson w…
Oakland Gas Station Sells Winning Lottery Ticket Oakland Gas Station Sells Winning Lottery Ticket
Oakland Gas Station Sells Winning Lottery Ticket An Oakland gas station is one of three New Jersey retailers that sold a third-tier lottery ticket. The Valero Food Mart on Ramapo Valley Road sold the $10,000 ticket matching four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn from the March 27 drawing, lottery officials said. The winning numbers were 07, 25, 43, 56 and 59. The Gold Mega Ball was 13, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 03. If those tickets had been purchased with the Megaplier option, the prizes would be multiplied to $30,000.  The other $10,000 tickets were sold in Belleville and Seacaucus. A second-tier prizewinning…
Wayne PD: Fugitive Ex-Con Who Shoplifted 37 Red Bull Cans Fakes Seizures Wayne PD: Fugitive Ex-Con Who Shoplifted 37 Red Bull Cans Fakes Seizures
Wayne PD: Fugitive Ex-Con Who Shoplifted 37 Red Bull Cans Fakes Seizures WAYNE, N.J. -- A career criminal caught stuffing more than three dozen Red Bull cans in his coat was wanted on no fewer than nine warrants -- including one out of California -- then threw himself on the floor of Wayne police headquarters twice, faking a seizure, authorities said. Detective Paul Kinder was in the Quick Chek on Pompton Road Tuesday night when he saw David Harrison, 42, stashing the Red Bulls into a heavy winter jacket, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Kinder arrested Harrison, who twice had "a simulated seizure, throwing himself on the floor," Martin said. A m…
Clifton Quick Chek Robbed Again Clifton Quick Chek Robbed Again
Clifton Quick Chek Robbed Again CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton Quick Chek was robbed again -- this time by a bandit who police said made off with cash from the register after claiming he had a gun. No one was injured in the Feb. 11 holdup of the Market Street store, Lt. Robert Bracken said. The robber was described only as white or Hispanic and possibly in his early 20s. Bracken asked that anyone who might have seen something or has information that could help detectives call them at:  (973) 470-5911. Callers can remain anonymous, he said. The same Quick Chek was robbed in December and in April 2016.