This section is based on data provided to Pascack Press weekly by neighborhood police departments. Due to pending court appearances and other variations, the following information shall be read in ‘press time’ context.
Hillsdale woman gets summonses, has car impounded
Police on patrol on Kinderkamack Road on March 29 at 11 p.m. got a database hit on a suspended registration for a car owned by a Hillsdale woman driving in the other direction.
The officer made a U-turn and followed the woman, who then pulled into a restaurant drive-thru. The officer waited. When she defendant pulled out of the restaurant lot, the officer activated his car’s emergency lights and pulled her over.
Ultimately, her car was towed. She was given summonses for driving after license or registration suspended or revoked, return or surrender of suspended or revoked license or registration, and no liability insurance on a motor vehicle. Her court date is April 24.
Who took package from Hawthorne Avenue mailbox?
A Hawthorne Avenue resident told police on April 3 that the post office says its carrier was not the one who took a package out of her mailbox containing an Amazon purchase.
The woman said she received the package just fine and that rather than take it inside her apartment she tucked it into her mailbox for safekeeping on her way to work. When she returned home, there was new mail in the box but the package was missing.
She said she called the post office and then contacted Amazon, which told her it would refund her the cost of her item: a $20 pullover sweatshirt.
She wanted also to file a police report. No further police action was taken.
Stopped for lamp, man socked with costly warrants
A Suffern, N.Y. man stopped on Grand Avenue for a brake light out on his Ford Explorer wound up in handcuffs just after 11 p.m. on March 3 after police discovered he had two warrants for $1,000 each.
He said he could pay only $500. Police contacted the court administrator, who approved collecting the $500 and then issued the defendant a new court date.
Summonses are answerable at Pascack Joint Municipal Court on May 5: maintenance of lamps; driving while license or registration suspended; no registration, license, or insurance card in possession; failure to surrender suspended license to the MVC; driving with an expired license; and careless driving.
The man’s car was left for a friend to pick up and drive them home.
Plate check leads to warrant find; man posts bail
Police pulled over a Wallington man just after midnight on April 4 on Noyes Drive after a random plate check showed a suspended driver’s license for the registered owner.
As well, the passenger side brake light was nonfunctional, and it turned out the driver had an active criminal warrant out of Garfield in the amount of $758.
The man was taken to headquarters, where he was processed. He paid his bail with $100 in cash and the rest by check.
He was given three summonses answerable in Pascack Joint Municipal Court May 8, then given a courtesy ride back to his vehicle. He was not to drive until his suspension is lifted.