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‘Walkout’ Thieves Continue To Victimize Area Bank Customers, Fort Lee Police Nab Four ‘Walkout’ Thieves Continue To Victimize Area Bank Customers, Fort Lee Police Nab Four
‘Walkout’ Thieves Continue To Victimize Area Bank Customers, Fort Lee Police Nab Four Plainclothed Fort Lee detectives captured a group of “walk out” thieves who’d been following bank customers and distracting them long enough to steal their money and other valuables, authorities said. Law enforcement agencies throughout the region have been kept busy by the thieves, who blend in with the local citizenry and identify people making large cash withdrawals from their banks, Fort Lee Police Capt. Edward Young said. They then employ various distraction tactics – puncturing tires, for instance – or simply follow victims to their homes and burglarize the residences when nobody’s ho…

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by Jerry DeMarco