A Belleville resident is being accused of falsely reporting that he was stabbed in a Nutley park on New Year’s Day, police said.
Authorities said the single-car crash happened around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Police arrested a volunteer fire chief in Nutley after he allegedly attempted to meet a juvenile for sex in North Bergen, authorities said.
The victim wasn’t injured in the attempted robbery, Belleville police said.
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Nutley police are working with their peers in Belleville, who reported a similar incident weeks earlier, authorities said.
A witness found a 57-year-old man’s body beneath a waterfall. The cause of death remains undetermined, police said.
A Nutley man illegally entered several unlocked cars and got into a shoving match with one of the victims, authorities said.
$60 in cash and the food he was delivering was taken, authorities said.
A Nutley woman tried to help someone she met online, only to be “deceived, defrauded and bilked out of her life savings,” authorities said.
The resident incurred more than $13,000 in phony charges before detectives were able to identify the culprit, authorities said.
More than $17,000 in funds were returned to a Nutley resident who was recently the victim of a fraud, police said.
The body of a North Jersey man was pulled from the Passaic River over the weekend after a passing rower noticed the body, authorities said.
A 16-year-old girl and a 30-year-old man were reported missing last week. Both have been found, Nutley police said.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting that took place in Belleville on Friday night.
Two separate crashes on the same stretch of the Garden State Parkway claimed two lives Monday morning, state police said.
Police: A Nutley resident thought they were talking with a country music star. They weren’t – and it ended up costing thousands of dollars.
All of the accounts had Texas addresses, Nutley police said.
Inmates suspected of “splashing” officers with unknown liquids were targeted for reprisals, prosecutors allege.
“Because of the defendant’s 17 prior convictions, the state sought an extended-term sentence,” prosecutors said.
A Nutley woman got a call from a man claiming to be a cop. Here's what he told her, authorities said.
Two men approached the attendant, brandished a knife and stole a “large sum of money” from him, Nutley police said.
The victim said their relationship with “Emily Brooks” started more than a year ago. Then she asked for help paying her bills.
A Belleville man posted online videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail.
Previous scam alerts may have helped a local resident to avoid becoming a victim themselves, Nutley police said.
One of the most “popular thefts” in New Jersey has struck Nutley again, police said.
Nutley emergency responders found an 80-year-old woman entrapped in a Volkswagen. She was taken to the hospital, authorities said.
A boil water advisory for Belleville continued into Friday morning after a huge main break earlier this week.
Multiple cases of fraud and theft recently took place in Nutley, including an incident at the Nutley Diner, police said.
A man was arrested in Nutley after he allegedly tried to assault officers and enter a locked police car, authorities said.
The 32-year-old told police that a juvenile punched him, knocked him down, and started kicking him outside a store on Franklin Avenue.
A Newark man was arrested in connection with three break-ins this month around Belleville, and two in other municipalities.
The 46-year-old victim, a Belleville resident, was working at his store in Newark when the shooting happened, authorities said.
A 46-year-old Belleville resident was killed in a shooting that took place at a corner grocery store in Newark, prosecutors said.
Nutley police said a county bomb squad took the shell to a safe location to be detonated.
An Essex County jury convicted a Belleville man of taking part in a robbery in Newark, prosecutors said.
A Georgia resident has been accused of cheating a Nutley man out of $30,000 after he got word that he won a "Clearing House Sweepstakes."
Several cases of fraud were reported in Nutley. Here’s what happened, police say.