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.
Son served after his father uses his name as alias
A man who had been using his son’s name as one of his aliases was caught on the afternoon of March 3 for an outstanding warrant out of Paterson after police pulled over the vehicle his son had been driving them in. According to the police report, officers stopped the Paterson pair’s 2001 Chevy Suburban on a random plate check that came back with expired and suspended registration.
Untangling the matter, police brought the father in and had the truck, which was registered to a third party, towed. The father, 56, was directed to appear in Paterson the next day to settle his warrant.
He told police he had used several aliases years ago and had served 18 months in jail.
His son, 32, who was waiting for him in the lobby, was served with unregistered vehicle, operating while suspended, no liability insurance, and failure to surrender suspended driver’s license, all answerable at Pascack Joint Municipal Court March 27.
Business’s plow driver delivers snow across street
A landscaping company apologized to a Hawthorne Avenue homeowner after he called police to report one of its plow drivers shoved its business customer’s snow across the street on March 3, blocking his driveway.
The company is reported to have told police it regrets its employee’s error and removed the snow without question back to its customer’s property. It added it would retrain its newer drivers.
Tax returns, on USB memory stick, said stolen from mail
A Kinderkamack Road resident called police March 5 after the Post Office reportedly declined to take up her complaint of mail theft.
According to the police report, the woman’s accounting firm mailed her her completed 2018 tax returns on a USB memory stick, and this had been removed from its envelope before it reached her, with the enveloped taped back shut.
Police advised her that mail theft is a postal matter and that she should pursue it with the postmaster. She said she understood.
Pascack Press reached the local postmaster by phone, but the official refused to discuss the allegation or mail theft in general.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the federal law enforcement, crime prevention, and security arm of the Postal Service, says on its website, “If you see a mail thief at work, or if you believe your mail was stolen, call police immediately, then call Postal Inspectors at (877) 876-2455 (press 3).”