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GOTCHA! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Plenty Of Packages, Police Say GOTCHA! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Plenty Of Packages, Police Say
Gotcha! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Plenty Of Packages, Police Say At least eight victims had packages snatched from their porches just before Christmas by a woman who tore them open, kept the items inside and tossed the empties into a Dumpster, police in Wayne said. Stephanie Ortiz, 20, of Totowa had just swiped a package from a home on Cecelia Drive when officers responding to that call got another from someone at a commercial building on Riverview Drive, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Ortiz had been “observed un-packaging items and discarding the packages and boxes in their dumpster" there, Daly said. Sgt. Luis Oliveira and Patrol Officers Angelo Giam…

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Accused Accomplice Charged In Shooting Outside Popular NJ Nightspot Accused Accomplice Charged In Shooting Outside Popular NJ Nightspot
Accused Accomplice Charged In Shooting Outside Popular NJ Nightspot A parolee accused of firing a gun at three people outside Mother’s Ale House in Wayne last month had help, authorities said. Ex-con Errol Heber, 36, of Passaic “was identified as an accomplice to the shooting,” Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in a joint announcement Wednesday with Wayne Police Chief Jack McNiff and East Rutherford Police Chief Dennis M. Rivelli. The trio didn’t elaborate on Heber’s alleged role. They did shed some light, however, on how the accused gunman, 33-year-old parolee Robert Jackson of South Hackensack, was charged. No one was struck when gunf…

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