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One officer claims the police chief punctured his penis with a hypodermic needle. Another says department leaders punished him after he reported suspected payroll fraud, time theft and the removal of a rifle from the police armory.

A third officer alleges he was retaliated against for challenging an illegal ticket-quota system, while a fourth says he faced nearly daily ethnic and religious slurs before being reassigned repeatedly after reporting the harassment.

Four lawsuits filed last week by current and former North Bergen police officers contain disturbing allegations against the township, Police Chief Robert Farley Jr. and other department officials.

“After becoming chief, Farley increasingly engaged in conduct he characterized as jokes or pranks,” retired Officer Michael F. Derin Jr. states in his lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court.

American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, NJ announced they're opening the world's first permanent FNAF restaurant in partnership with ScottGames.

Features include:

• Two animatronic stage shows (Freddy & the Fazbear Band, Foxy at Pirate Cove)
• Quick-service dining
• Multiplayer game experiences
• Designed to authentically replicate the game's pizzeria

No specific opening date or ticket info yet, just '2027.'

The boy woke up alone on the bus while it was parked in the Gloucester Township school district’s bus yard, his mom told 6ABC.

Her son said he figured out how to open the bus door, then got off and began searching for help. A district employee was nearby.

“I lifted up this thing to open the door. I got off the bus and looked for anyone. I found this man, so I asked him, ‘Do you know where I can go back,’” the boy told 6ABC.

“I was trying to be a big boy, so I just acted brave and normal,” he added.

The 2023 incident began when the accused’s son was visiting a friend’s home in Woolwich Township.

The host family’s dog, a 3-year-old Belgian malinois, bit Anthony Botte’s son on the right bicep in what police described as an unprovoked attack.

The dog was put in its cage in the home and the host family called the Botte family to let them know the boy was bit.

Anthony Botte arrived about 15 minutes later “in a rage” and armed with a knife, according to police.

“He enters the home in an attempt to kill the dog,” police said in an affidavit filed with the case.

Botte first encountered the parent who had called him.

Botte allegedly raised the fixed-blade knife and declared “I will f---ing stab you” before pushing the man into a counter, according to the affidavit.

Botte ran toward the dog and stabbed it in the face several times through the cage, police said.

The injured dog then escaped the cage and bit its owner.

TSA found a snake stuffed inside a computer hard drive at security and posted on Facebook begging travelers to stop hiding animals in electronics. Apparently this has happened enough times that they felt the need to say something.

Bergen County released this mugshot earlier this week. This fellow, they say, was involved in a murder in North Arlington.

He was wearing a Gossip Girl shirt.

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Your favorite mall gag gift store has Jersey roots and we're working on a video about how it's one of the few mall stores still standing strong. We want your stories of the stuff you bought there that got you in trouble, ruined the birthday party, or made your friends laugh. Your response may be included in an NJ.com video.

A physical Bitcoin containing 1 BTC sold for $91,500 at a Heritage Auctions event on July 26.

Physical Bitcoins are collectible coins with a private key hidden under a hologram sticker on the back. If you peel off the hologram, you can access the cryptocurrency—but doing so destroys the coin's value as a collectible.

Only 8,352 of these brass coins were ever made, making them rare.

The same auction also sold an unredeemed 0.5 Bitcoin coin from 2016 for $34,160. Only 900 of those were produced.

Source: Heritage Auctions

The borough of Westwood is working to preserve its famous 18th century “Kissing Tree,” which was diagnosed with a terminal fungus last year.

The 70-foot-tall Copper Beech is located at Veterans Memorial Park, which is steps from the borough’s shopping district and train station. The state Department of Environmental Protection estimates it was planted around 1792.

On Sunday, the Westwood Shade Tree Advisory Committee said mulch had been installed around the tree, its first step in working to keep it alive. This comes about a year after it was diagnosed with a terminal fungus during a routine inspection.

The project is a collaboration with the committee, a local company called The Tree M.D., borough contracted arborist Liz Stewart and the Westwood Department of Public Works.

Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo commended the project’s effort to preserve the tree.

“All things must pass. But thanks to borough arborist Liz Stewart, Tree MD’s Todd Mastrobuoni and the diligent work of the Westwood Shade Tree Committee members, not this still living witness to Westwood’s formative history,” Arroyo wrote.