This week, police in Fort Lee, NJ became fed up once and for all with the irritating texting while walking epidemic. Fort Lee’s police chief has started ordering his officers to ticket careless pedestrians on the spot: “They’re not alert and they’re not watching what they’re doing,” Police Chief Thomas Ripoli told CBS, saying his office had seen 23 pedestrian accidents since January because of Twexting. “As of now, they are to give summonses to pedestrians who do not adhere to crosswalks and the lights.”
The War On Texting While Walking Has Begun In NJ
Man Accused Of Fatally Running Down Girlfriend Seems "Sympathetic"
The Fort Lee resident who allegedly ran over his girlfriend multiple times was extradited from Queens back to NJ to face murder charges. Charles Ann, 26, who apparently fled to a friend's apartment in Flushing after the fatal confrontation, will be arraigned on Monday. His public defender told WCBS 2, "In my opinion, he does seem sympathetic. He does seem ‘normal.’ You know, I know he’s kind of been painted as a bad guy in the media."
Man Accused Of Killing Girlfriend With Car Held On $3 Million Bail
The 26-year-old man who allegedly killed his girlfriend on a Fort Lee, NJ street by driving his car over her multiple times is still in Queens, awaiting extradition back to NJ. Aena Hong, 25, was killed on Monday afternoon and, at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Ann, a U.S. citizen, was found in a Flushing apartment with his passport and $3,000 cash. Police think he was trying to flee the country after the brutal confrontation. A witness said, "The guy ran over the girl. He backed up again. It happened really quick"— the driver seemed to want “to finish her."
UPDATE: Man Arrested For Running Car Over Girlfriend "Back And Forth, Couple Of Times"
A woman was killed when she was brutally mowed down in Fort Lee, NJ last night, and witnesses say the driver ran over her multiple times. Police found a car with NY plates abandoned a mile from the scene. One of the good Samaritans who tried to help the woman told WCBS 2, "I tried to open the [driver's] door and the door was locked. He deliberately killed that woman I think."
DEA Busts NJ Heroin Mill With Park Slope Clientele
The DEA announced today that they had arrested ten people in connection with a Fort Lee, NJ heroin mill which allegedly was distributing throughout the tri-state area, including, in particular, Park Slope. They seized five and a half pounds of heroin from the mill (worth $1.5 million), $50,000 in cash, as well as 100,000 glassine envelopes which had brand names such as "Spring Break," "Roger Dat," "True Love," and "LeBron James."
Driver Flees Gas Station Without Paying, Dragging Attendant
A gas station attendant was dragged by a car when its driver fled. According to MyFoxNy, "Security camera video shows the employee holding onto the side of a Nissan Maxima, desperately trying to stop the driver. That is because the driver apparently had pumped $20 worth of gas and then drove off without paying." The incident occurred at a Fort Lee, NJ Lukoil station near the George Washington Bridge.
Surprise: Teens Left In Police Van For 14 Hours Lost Trust In Police!
Adam Kim and Kevin Jun, two of the five New Jersey teenagers left locked in a police van for 14 hours after a party raid, have had some issues trusting The System since the incident two weeks ago, and will be working out those issues with a lawsuit. Kim even says he has been left with a slight phobia of cars. "This situation was a complete failure of all acceptable police practices," Kim's attorney, Nancy Lucianna, told NorthJersey.com. "All they had to do was check the van and check the amount of cellphones left in headquarters."
Teens Locked In Police Van For 14 Hours After Party Raid
It's an adolescent rite of passage: one minute you're doing rips off a beer bong and pogoing to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at a raging house party, the next minute you're getting loaded into a police van and left for dead somewhere in Fort Lee, New Jersey. We've all been there! But you never forget your first time: a group of five teenagers say they were rounded up after cops raided their house party at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, then locked inside a van outside police headquarters for 14 hours.
Investigation Into Fatal Crash Near GW Bridge
A motorcyclist's fatal crash, during a police chase, near a NYC-bound lane to the George Washington Bridge early yesterday morning remains under investigation. Bergen County prosecutor John Molinelli says that Israel Curbelo, 39, crashed "near the bridge's toll plaza in Fort Lee around 4 a.m., after he struck a vehicle he was trying to illegally pass." Apparently Curbelo was being pursued by two police vehicles because he was driving erratically; according to Cliffview Pilot, at one point Curbelo drove across a residence's lawn during the four-minute chase and Molinelli also added, "Officers at the scene detected the odor of alcohol from Curbelo during resuscitative efforts, and a small amount of what is believed to be marijuana was found on [him]."
Health Officer Exterminates Wrong Birds in NJ
It was NY parks commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving who dubbed pigeons "rats with wings," a term that fourteen years later was popularized by Woody Allen in his 1980 flick “Stardust Memories.” So surely there's some blood on their hands in the war on the pigeon community in New York (only recently was a National Pigeon Day established to combat the haters).
Man Flees Traffic Stop, Jumps Off GW Bridge, Disappears
[UPDATE BELOW] Life is so unpredictable: One minute you're pulling out of a New Jersey gas station, the next minute you're diving off the George Washington Bridge to escape police after a high-speed chase. An unidentified man presumably fell to his death yesterday morning after trying to escape from cops who pulled him over for a "routine stop" while driving his 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix through Fort Lee. Police say the man was pulled over around 9:30 a.m. for failing to yield, and the vehicle "had law enforcement equipment inside." But within minutes he sped away toward the bridge, with the fuzz in hot pursuit.

