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Knife-Wielding Sex Offender Utters Racial Slurs Against Asian Man In Fort Lee: Authorities
A registered sex offender from out of state was jailed after pulling a knife and uttering racial slurs against an Asian man during a dispute at a Fort Lee shopping center, authorities said.
Responding officers arrested Brett Epps, 47, of Mansfield, Ohio, after speaking with him, the alleged victim and others at Whiteman Park Plaza on Lemoine Avenue shortly after 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, Capt. Edward Young said.
Police seized the weapon, brought Epps to headquarters and charged him with aggravated assault, four counts of bias intimidation, making terroristic threats and illegal weapons p…
Epic Fail: Would-Be Bank Robber Captured After Leaving Empty-Handed, Hackensack Police Say
A would-be bank robber who walked out of a Hackensack TD branch empty-handed ended up with bracelets instead, authorities said.
City resident Roderick Troy Smith, 32, was nabbed by Hackensack police detectives and FBI agents who spotted him on Anderson Street on Tuesday, Feb. 7, Capt. Michael Antista said on Thursday.
It began around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 18, when a man walked into the TD Bank at the corner of University Plaza Drive and River Street, passed a note to a teller demanding money and said he was armed with a gun, the captain said.
The robber was denied and took off, said Antista, the …
Crazed Robber Beats Fair Lawn Gas Station Worker, 83, Fights Officers, Smears Feces At HQ: PD
A crazed female robber beat a defenseless 83-year-old gas station employee, fought with Fair Lawn police and then urinated and defecated at headquarters, authorities said.
Sincere Wiley, 30, began arguing with the attendant at the BP station on Wagaraw Road before shoving him, kneeing him in the face and punching him in the eye shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, Detective Eric Eleshewich said.
She then brandished a box cutter, grabbed some tobacco product and $88 in cash and ran, the detective said.
Responding officers saw Wiley – who lives in the upstate New York town of Lockport …
