Thursday, April 11, 2013
Mahwah Police say they initially pulled a Toms River man over for speeding and unsafe driving, but were led by the smell of marijuana to a cache of illicit cargo.
A Toms River man was arrested Tuesday after cops say he was discovered transporting cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana through Mahwah. Mahwah Police Officers Sean Hayes and Kevin Tielemans Tuesday pulled over a Dodge Charger they saw speeding and tailgating on Route 17 North, Chief Jim Batelli said. Edward Grant, 36, gave police conflicting details about why he was driving a rented car, why he was in Mahwah, and whether or not he was staying in a hotel in the township, cops said. They also reported there was an odor of marijuana inside the car, which prompted them to search it. Inside Grant’s car, police found four bags containing a white powdery substance believed to be cocaine, an unlabeled pill bottle containing oxycodone, a metal grinder…
Registration for the two programs starts Monday, and the Mahwah Municipal Alliance is adding a new summer program to its offerings
Mahwah’s Junior Police and Youth Leadership Academies will be back this year, and online registration for the popular summer programs will begin next Monday at 12 noon, the Mahwah Municipal Alliance announced Thursday. According to a release from MMA members Mayor Bill Laforet, Police Chief Jim Batelli, and President Carolyn Blake, the JPA will be held this year from July 8 – 19, and the YLA from July 29 – August 2. The two academies will be offered for the same prices they were last year, $225 for the JPA - a day camp for students entering 6th grade next September - and $275 for the YLA - a 5-day sleep away leadership camp for students entering the 8th through 12th grades. In the release, Laforet said the programs are “unlike any offered …
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Florida man was charged with possession of several types of drugs Monday afternoon, cops say.
A 22-year-old Florida man is facing multiple drug charges after a traffic stop in Mahwah Monday afternoon. Timothy Murphy was the passenger in a car driving through the township Monday when Mahwah Police said they spotted the driver cutting off another car. Officer Ryan Hill pulled Murphy and the friend over for the unsafe maneuver, according to police. Hill spotted drug paraphernalia in the car, police said Tuesday morning. Cops searched the car and found morphine tablets, oxycodone pills and a small baggie believed to contain cocaine, Police Chief Jim Batelli said Tuesday. The amount of each drug found was “consistent with personal use,” Batelli said. Murphy was charged with three counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance…
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The victim’s mother walked in on the attack, police said.
A Mahwah man accused of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old township girl was arrested in Suffern Monday after authorities say he fled the scene of the alleged assault. Tomas Marin-Martinez, 49, of Mahwah, was arrested on Lafayette Avenue in Suffern after fleeing a township home where he allegedly molested a girl described as his “acquaintance,” Bergen County Prosecutor Molinelli announced in a release Thursday afternoon. “The mother of the victim reported to the Mahwah Police that at about 8 p.m [Monday] she entered her residence and found Martinez in the process of sexually assaulting her seven year old daughter,” Molinelli said. According to Mahwah Police Chief Jim Batelli, Martinez was a friend of the family who was living with them at …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Suspect was involved in three similar convenience store burglaries around Bergen County, cops say.
A 23-year-old Mahwah man already in jail on burglary-related charges admitted to breaking into the Fardale Deli and Mini Mart last week and stealing an undisclosed amount of cash, police said Monday. Stefanos Papastefanou is being held in the Passaic County Jail for allegedly burglarizing a convenience store in Ringwood, Mahwah Police Chief Jim Batelli said. Ringwood authorities alerted Mahwah police to the similarities between the Passaic County burglary and the burglary of the Mahwah Mini Mart, police said. During an interview with Mahwah police from his Passaic County Jail cell, Papastefanou admitted to the Mahwah burglary, Batelli said. During the interview with Mahwah Detective Kevin Herbert, police say Papastefanou also admitted to …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A Spring Valley man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the same Mahwah neighborhood where two people were arrested on drug charges Tuesday.
A man walking on South Railroad Avenue in Mahwah Wednesday afternoon was arrested on drug possession charges less than 24 hours after an alleged cocaine dealer was arrested about a block away, police said. An anonymous caller reported to police Wednesday morning that a man carrying drugs was walking on the street, according to Mahwah Police Chief Jim Batelli. The call came less than a day after an alleged drug dealer was arrested nearby, on East Ramapo Avenue. Police responded to the scene at around noon on Wednesday and found Emmanuel Laforest, 32, of Spring Valley, N.Y., walking on the street carrying what they believe to be cocaine, Batelli said. The man initially falsely identified himself to police, pretending to be his brother, who …
Police are continuing to investigate the sale of crack cocaine on and around East Ramapo Avenue.
An ongoing drug investigation by Mahwah Police led to the arrest of a suspected New York drug dealer and a township woman who police say purchased crack cocaine from him. Acting on a tip, police set up surveillance around the East Ramapo Avenue neighborhood near Route 17 earlier this week and observed Yves “Ice” Louis, 35, of Spring Valley, N.Y., driving through the neighborhood at about 1:46 p.m. on Tuesday. Cops pulled over his blue BMW for following a vehicle too closely, they said, and conducted an interview with Louis. After an investigation, cops were led to the nearby home of Deborah Janicelli, 51, who admitted to having purchased crack cocaine from Louis, Police Chief Jim Batelli said. Police also found crack cocaine and drug …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Video shows the burglar smashing the front door with a rock before leaping over the deli counter and looting the cash register, cops say.
Authorities are looking for a burglar who busted through the front door of the Fardale Deli & Mini Mart this weekend and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. Footage recorded by a security camera at the Wyckoff Avenue store shows a white four-door car pulling up to the deli at 5:05 a.m. on Sunday, police said Tuesday. At 5:09 a.m., a person wearing a dark-colored hoodie, full-face ski mask, dark colored gloves and boots exited the vehicle, picked up a large rock and threw it through the front door of the deli, shattering the glass, according to Mahwah Police Chief Jim Batelli. The robber then entered the store, jumped over the counter and pried open the cash register, police said. The person was in the deli for less than a minute before …
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Police say the New York man may have injected his victim with a date rape drug or insulin during an alleged attack at her township home.
A 71-year-old man was arrested in Mahwah this weekend after a township woman claimed he attacked her and injected her with what might have been a date rape drug, police said Monday. Cops responded to a Mahwah home Friday afternoon where a 67-year-old female claimed that a former boyfriend, John Zechowski, of Brooklyn, N.Y., knocked on her door earlier that day wearing a hoodie and holding a package in his hand, according to Police Chief Jim Batelli. The victim was expecting a package and opened the door, cops said. Zechowski allegedly shoved her into her home "where a struggle ensued and she was knocked to the ground" causing a laceration to her head, Batelli said. “Zechowski, who was in possession of a syringe, then allegedly attempted to…
Friday, March 22, 2013
The township council spent two hours Thursday night trying to figure out who authorized a policy change in 2012 that caused overtime costs to jump $187K
The Mahwah Township Council voted in front of a packed audience Thursday night to cut $100,000 from the 2013 police overtime budget, effectively reversing a policy decision that required police officers to be present at Tuesday night court proceedings. A large part of the budget hearing on Thursday night was spent trying to determine who authorized a policy change in January 2012 that required police officers to attend court proceedings on Tuesday nights for the tickets they write out. During several rounds of questioning from council members, Police Chief Jim Batelli, Municipal Prosecutor Dennis Harraka, and Mayor Bill Laforet all denied approving the policy switch. Laforet said that in a contract negotiation with the PBA in late 2011, he…
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2:11 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
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