September 15 Evening News
NJ.COM REPORTED TWO 24-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS WERE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY A SUBWAY TRAIN IN MANHATTAN EARLY SUNDAY. ACCORDING TO POLICE AND A REPORT IN THE NEW YORK POST, FORMER RUTGERS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS MALAIKA CHITRE, OF SOUTH BRUNSWICK, AND NAVAM KAUL, OF SAYREVILLE, WERE KILLED AT SPRING STREET STATION SHORTLY AFTER 3 A.M.NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICERS FOUND A 24-YEAR-OLD WOMAN AND A 24-YEAR-OLD MAN ON THE ROADBED AFTER THE TWO HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A TRAIN. THEY BOTH WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
NORTHJERSEY.COM REPORTED THAT A PALISADES PARK POLICE OFFICER HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH LYING UNDER OATH DURING AN INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATION THAT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY TERMINATED. ACCORDING TO THE BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, CORY J. HAVENS, 32, WAS CHARGED IN FEBRUARY WITH FOURTH-DEGREE AND FALSE SWEARING. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE ARREST, HE WAS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY PENDING COURT PROCEEDINGS. HAVENS WAS OFFICIALLY TERMINATED ON AUGUST 25 BY THE BOROUGH COUNCIL. HIS ATTORNEY, JOHN BRUNO, HAS NOT RESPONDED TO ANY MESSAGES.
NORTHJERSEY.COM REPORTED A FAIR LAWN BAGEL SHOP AND ITS NEIGHBORING BUSINESS WERE DAMAGED BY FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. AN EMPLOYEE ARRIVED TO OPEN THE BAGEL SHOP ESTABLISHMENT, “HOT BAGELS,” AROUND 3:20 AM, WHEN THEY NOTICED HEAVY SMOKE, IN WHICH THEY PROCEEDED TO CALL 911. THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO “HOT BAGELS” AT
6-07 SADDLE RIVER ROAD. ACCORDING TO ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF MARC (pah-mee-AIR-ee), FIREFIGHTERS FOUND SMOKE COMING FROM THE SHOP AND REQUESTED A FULL FIRST-ALARM RESPONSE. THE FIRE EXTENDED TO THE WALLS AND CEILING, IN WHICH FIRE FIGHTERS HAD TO BREAK DOWN SECTIONS OF THE BUILDING. AFTER FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED, THE FIRE WAS UNDER CONTROL IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES. THERE WERE NO INJURIES REPORTED. THE FIRE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
NORTHJERSEY.COM REPORTED THAT WAYNE TOWNSHIP WILL INSTALL CAMERAS AT ITS LARGEST PARKS IN ORDER TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE AND PROTECT THE POPULAR BALLFIELD. THE CAMERAS WILL PIPE VIDEO FEEDS DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH ALLOWS OFFICERS TO BE DISPATCHED TO THE PARKS IF SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY IS OBSERVED. THE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL APPROVED A $220,000 BOND TO COVER THE COST OF THE SECURITY SYSTEMS, EXPECTED TO BE IN PLACE AS EARLY AS THIS FALL AT ALPS ROAD SPORTS COMPLEX AND AT DAVE WAKS MEMORIAL PARK ON BARBOUR POND ROAD.
A CHEVROLET CAR CAUGHT FIRE IN LOT 4 APPROXIMATELY AT 10:54 AM TUESDAY MORNING. STUDENTS LEAVING CLASS REPORTED SEEING A PARKED CAR, IN WHICH CAMPUS POLICE ARRIVED AT THE SCENE, INSTRUCTING THE PASSENGERS TO LEAVE THE SMOKING VEHICLE. THE SITUATION BECAME EXPONENTIALLY WORSE, AS THE CAR BECAME ENGULFED IN FLAMES.
SPORTS MANAGEMENT MAJOR SEBASTIAN BOLANOS, WHOSE CAR WAS PARKED NEXT TO THE FIRE, EXPRESSES HIS OWN CONCERNS.
“NAH, WE WERE JUST WALKING FROM CLASS, BUT BY THAT POINT WE STARTED SEEING SMOKE. WE WERE JUST LIKE, WHAT DO WE DO? MY CAR IS RIGHT THERE. I HAVE TO GO TO WORK. NEXT THING YOU KNOW, IN FIVE MINUTES, FIRE JUST STARTED COMING OFF FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE CAR, AND THE WHOLE THING WAS ON FIRE. IT STARTED TO EXPLODE, SMOKING EVEN MORE. I THINK THE FIRE DEPARTMENT JUST GOT HERE, NOT EVEN 5 MINUTES AGO.”
BUSINESS MAJOR DEON BENBOW-GONZALEZ EXPLAINS HIS OWN ACCOUNT.
“IT LOOKS LIKE THE ENGINE CAUGHT ON FIRE, AND STARTED OFF SMALL, AND THEN IT JUST STARTED SPARKING UP IN THE AIR, AND THEN IT WAS SPARKS, IT WAS LIKE BOOM BOOM BOOM, GOING ON, IT WAS CRAZY. TWO CARS IN THE FRONT ARE DAMAGED, THE TWO WHITE CARS, THE BMW AND THAT WHITE CAR OVER THERE.
BENBOW-GONZALEZ EXPRESSES HIS OWN WORRIES ABOUT THE INCIDENT, CONCERNED ABOUT POLICE RESPONSE TIME.
“THE POLICE TOOK TOO LONG TO COME. WE WERE STANDING HERE FOR 20 MINUTES, AND THEY STILL DIDN’T COME YET, BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THEM.”
BRAVE NEW RADIO ATTEMPTED TO GET A RESPONSE FROM CAMPUS POLICE WHILE REPORTING THE INCIDENT, BUT WERE DENIED TWICE. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.