Public Safety

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news A Montclair man accused of animal cruelty after a road rage video went viral on the internet pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance on Tuesday. Marc Dionne, 22, appeared before Judge Sybil Elias in Essex County Superior Court in Newark on a charge of fourth-degree animal cruelty...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news At least three police officers - two from Clifton and one from Verona - were injured in a series of events that ended with a car crash in Montclair on Thursday, July 20. Alex Kashani, 24, of Clifton, was arrested after he led police on a motor vehicle pursuit through Clifton and Montclair before crashing on Gordonhurst Road...

A Montclair man was among 75 people arrested during a narcotics operation in Newark between Monday, July 17 and Sunday, July 23. Sharrod Wilder, 27, of Montclair, was arrested and found in possession of a loaded .32 caliber handgun while wearing a monitoring bracelet in the area of North 12th Street and 6th Avenue, according to a press release from the Newark Department of Public Safety... Read Mo

Montclair police are investigating after a report of shots being fired in the area of Pine Street early Sunday morning. Lt. David O’Dowd said Monday that the police had received a call at 12:22 a.m. Sunday about a possible report of shots fired near the intersection of Glenridge Avenue. He s...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair resident Marc Dionne, shown on video throwing a small dog out of a car in a July 12 road-rage incident, claimed that he did it in an attempt to distract the other man involved in the altercation, according to the police report...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Imagine if there were another Sandy-sized power outage in Montclair. It will probably happen. But what if there was a small energy grid, separate from the township’s main grid, that could keep a handful of essential buildings running? T...

By LINDA MOSS and ERIN ROLL moss@montclairlocal.news roll@montclairlocal.news After an incident that sparked public outrage and put Montclair in the media spotlight once again, a township man this week was charged with animal cruelty for throwing a tiny dog out of a car in a road-rage incident on Bloomfield Avenue, an act depicted in a video that went viral ...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Police have made an arrest in several burglaries that have taken place around Montclair’s northern end over the last week. Danny Gonzalez, 20, of Newark, was arrested on July 14 and charged with 13 counts of burglary and 15 counts of theft, according to a statement released by the Montclair Police Department on Monday. He w...

By LINDA MOSS and ERIN ROLL moss@montclairlocal.news roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair authorities are planning to bring animal-cruelty charges against a man who pulled a small dog out of a vehicle and hurled it into traffic in a road-road incident that went viral...

Several people were reported injured following a two-vehicle accident near Montclair High School Friday afternoon. The accident happened at the corner of Chestnut Street and Midland Avenue between 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. It is not known how many people have been injured, or what the extent of their injuries were...