PASSAIC, N.J. -- A Passaic man used a mobile app to traffic more than 500 kiddie porn images, authorities said.Detectives charged Leonel Tovar Martinez, 40, of Jackson Street with nearly two dozen counts each of possessing, distributing and maintaining child pornography, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said.Members of Berdnik's Internet Crime Unit arrested Martinez following a ...

DEMAREST, N.J. – A former Demarest businessman who helped federal authorities crack one of the nation's largest income tax scams ever was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison Tuesday in exchange for wearing a wire.Roberto Diaz will have to serve just about all of that time: There is no parole in the federal prison system.Diaz, 48, agreed to wear a listening device after Bergen ...

TENAFLY, N.J. – A Bronx woman caught trying to cash a forged check hit one Tenafly police officer in the neck and grabbed another while being arrested, authorities said Tuesday.Tenese N. Thompson, 36, “became agitated and attempted to walk away” from officers responding to the PNC Bank just before 6 p.m. Monday, Capt. Michael deMoncada said.Officials at the Highwood Avenue bank had ...

FAIR LAWN, N.J. -- Fair Lawn detectives seized $15,000 in suspected proceeds and an ounce of pot from a man who they said was selling the drug from his home.Edward Martinez, 23, had the pot "in different storage containers" at his Grunaer Place home, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.He was processed and released on a court summons charging him with various drugs counts and money ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Hackensack detectives tracked down and seized a Teaneck man who they said robbed a local pharmacy of 4,000 Oxycodone pills.Steven A. Aquino, 28, sold the pills for $7,000 in cash that the detectives said they found stashed in a pair of gloves used during the June 16 holdup at J&J Pharmacy on State Street.Aquino was wearing all black clothing, a cloth over his ...

BERGENFIELD, N.J. – A masked robber in a tweed cap took $200 at gunpoint from a Bergenfield Chinese takeout restaurant Monday night, said authorities who asked the public for help finding him.The victim told police she was the front counter of Hunan Express on North Washington Avenue when the robber came in just after 9:30 p.m., Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said.“He pointed what appeared to be ...

SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A woman repeatedly slashed a man cradling a 1-year-old child in the back with a box cutter during a Hackensack custody dispute became a brawl in the middle of Route 46, authorities said.South Hackensack police took five people into custody on various assault and weapons charges.Responding officers Sunday afternoon found four siblings and a fifth man -- all from ...

TENAFLY, N.J. -- Is the theft of a set of golf clubs from the Knickerbocker Country Club in Tenafly related to others around North Jersey? Tenafly detectives were investigating.A victim said he left his clubs and bag unattended next to his vehicle in the Knickerbocker parking lot for a short period of time around 2:30 p.m. July 2, Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said.He returned to find ...

GLEN ROCK, N.J. -- A Glen Rock pedestrian was in the crosswalk when she was struck Friday afternoon by an SUV driven by a borough woman.The 49-year-old victim "entered the Glen Avenue crosswalk in front of the Glen Rock Inn [in the central business district] and began crossing the street heading east" just after 2 p.m., Police Chief Dean Ackermann said."The pedestrian ...

TETERBORO, N.J. – Authorities on Friday identified a woman struck and killed crossing Route 46 outside the Teterboro Walmart Thursday night as 37-year-old Sharonda Hayes of Paterson.Hayes sustained massive head trauma after being struck by an eastbound vehicle at 10:14 p.m., responders said late Thursday.“At present the cause of the crash remains under investigation and no charges have ...