Who messed with Madison Avenue woman’s shed?
MONTVALE, N.J.—A Madison Avenue resident alerted police in late January to a suspicious incident at her home overnight on Jan. 17.
According to the police report, someone removed two boards that has been attached to her storage shed door and disturbed plywood and flower pots.
Nothing seemed missing; the report was for information only. Police took note.
Police nab man wanted in River Edge over burglary
MONTVALE, N.J.—Police waited outside the home of a defendant wanted on an ACS warrant out of River Edge over burglary and criminal mischief. Just before noon on Jan. 27 the defendant, 32, left the house and got into his car, and police stopped him in his driveway and arrested him.
The defendant was taken to headquarters and processed, then handed over to River Edge police.
ACS stands for Automated Complaint System, a program of the New Jersey municipal courts.
Sleeping off drinks at convenience store ends in DWI
MONTVALE, N.J.—A woman whom police were called to check on as she slept in her SUV parked at the 7-Eleven at 9:34 a.m. on Jan. 26 has a court date to answer for a complaint of driving while intoxicated.
According to the police report, Montvale police were dispatched to the convenience store to conduct a welfare check, as the driver and her male passenger, both 37, had been seen sleeping in the purple Chevy SUV, which was running, for at least two hours.
It took a bit of rapping at the window to rouse the driver, who was slumped over the steering wheel. When she woke, she had reddened, glassy eyes. She slurred her words.
She told police she had been drinking vodka sodas at a Pearl River bar the night before and pulled over at the 7-Eleven to sleep. She estimated she had arrived at 4 or 5 a.m.
She reportedly failed field sobriety tests, had no open containers, and was arrested. She was charged with DWI and failure to exhibit documents.
MPD had Woodcliff Lake police contact the SUV’s registered owner to come pick it up. Then they gave the passenger a courtesy ride home. The driver was released to her father.
Drugs, open containers, and a restraining order
MONTVALE, N.J.—Police responding to a call for a welfare check at a silver Ford Mustang parked on Westminster Court on the afternoon of Jan. 25 found the driver, initially reported slumped over the wheel, up and moving. As police approached he stepped out of the car and closed the door.
Police on the scene immediately smelled the strong odor of burnt marijuana from the driver and from the interior, from when the door was open.
The driver, 20, said he was in the area to help a friend, who turned out to be someone who had a temporary restraining order against him.
A search of the car turned up several smoking pipes with burnt marijuana residue, an empty dime bag and several cut plastic straws commonly used to snort controlled dangerous substances, empty airplane bottles of rum and vodka in plain view on the floor, and a wallet with an empty paper fold with a stamped logo suggesting it had held heroin.
The driver was charged on a complaint warrant (contempt for violating a court order entered under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act) and for possession of drug paraphernalia, use or possession with intent to use (a disorderly persons offense); and was given a motor vehicle summons for possession of open, unsealed alcoholic beverage container.
The woman in the matter, 18, completed a victim notification form but refused to take her copy of her domestic violence rights. Both parties were reminded not to have contact with each other with the restraining order in effect.
The defendant was taken to Bergen County Jail.
Man who smoked crack gives K9 unit more to find
MONTVALE, N.J.—Just before midnight on Jan. 23 police rolled up on a blue Toyota Scion seen parked illegally, across multiple parking spots at the Garden State Parkway Rest Area.
The driver pulled away and ran two stop signs getting onto the parkway north, not signalling while getting into the right lane of travel at a slow pace.
There was no license plate on the front of the vehicle.
Police stopped the car on the exit 172 ramp. The driver, 54, said he had been shopping in Paramus and had been to an adult entertainment club in Lodi. He appeared overly nervous and alert, had glassy eyes, could not sit still, could not maintain eye contact for more than a second, and had burn marks on his fingers.
When backup arrived, police had the man step out of his car. Police notified the man of their observations and asked whether he had anything illegal in the car. He said he had smoked crack cocaine earlier but had nothing illegal in the car or on his person.
He declined a request to search his vehicle, prompting police to call for a K9 unit.
An open air sniff was conducted around the vehicle. K9 Harry hit on the front passenger side of the vehicle for the presence of drugs.
Searching the vehicle, police found two small plastic bags with crack cocaine residue (center console) and a glass pipe with burnt crack cocaine residue (driver’s side floor).
The driver was arrested and handcuffed. Police reported him as fidgety and uncooperative.
At headquarters, the man was searched and an officer found a rock of crack cocaine deep within an inner pocket of his jacket. The defendant denied knowing it was on his person, saying one of the girls he was with must have put it there.
He is charged with the following, answerable at Pascack Joint Municipal Court: possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to turn over controlled dangerous substance, improper signal, disregard traffic control device, improper/unclear plates, operation of motor vehicle in possession of narcotics.
After he was processed, police gave him a courtesy ride back to his car.
Too many plates, $500 warrant, and drug charges
MONTVALE, N.J.—Police conducted a traffic stop on Chestnut Ridge Road the afternoon of Jan. 22 that led to a drug arrest of the driver, 25.
According to the police report, officers noticed that a black 2011 Infiniti with temporary Pennsylvania plates was on the road with a broken driver’s side mirror. They stopped the car and spoke with the driver, who said he was a contractor for a dealership and had bought the car on Long Island. He said he was heading home from an attorney’s office.
During the course of their conversation, police smelled the odor of marijuana from the open passenger side window.
The officer called for backup. Central Dispatch advised that the driver had an active traffic warrant for $500 from Saddle River.
A search of the car turned up a clear plastic bag of marijuana in the center console, three traffic tickets in the glove box, a suspended New York registration, and two New York license plates on the back seat. The three tickets showed separate tags for the car.
The defendant was arrested and handcuffed. Police had the car towed to an impound lot in Emerson and brought the temporary plate to headquarters.
The man has a court date to answer for the warrant charge and possession of 50 grams of less of marijuana.
He also was issued summonses for operation of a motor vehicle while in possession of a narcotic, failure to possess driver insurance card, misuse of dealer tags, and mirrors required on every motor vehicle.
The marijuana was logged as evidence, and the defendant was released.
The New York Motor Vehicle Commission said it would investigate the multiple license plates that had been issued to him.
High beams on, man draws drug charges
MONTVALE, N.J.—Police arrested a 43-year-old man after stopping him just after 11 p.m. on Jan. 28, finding that in their investigation he had smelled of marijuana and had two marijuana cigarettes with him, one partially smoked.
The man, driving a 2018 Tesla, had his windows open despite frigid temperatures and was driving erratically, and with his high beams on.
At headquarters he was issued one summons for possession of a controlled dangerous substance and three motor vehicle summonses (improper use of high and low headlight beams, failure to keep right, and drug possession in a motor vehicle) all with a February court date at Pascack Joint Municipal Court.
He was given a courtesy ride back to his car.
Woman reports road rage after driver follows her
MONTVALE, N.J.—A detective took a walk-in report of a road rage incident the afternoon of Jan. 22. According to the report, a woman, 43, said she was driving on the Garden State Parkway when she passed a Mercedes with a New Jersey registration, as she did, the driver gave her a dirty look and then flipped her off.
This driver then reportedly followed the woman off the parkway and into the Wegman’s parking lot. No further action was taken. The woman wanted to report the license plate.
NOTE: Pascack Press gathers police reports every week from police departments across the Pascack Valley as a public service. The information is subject to change, and all suspects are innocent until found guilty in a court of law.