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Hackensack Ex-Con Charged With ½ Pound Of Coke, $12G Sketchy Cash In Illegally Parked Corvette Hackensack Ex-Con Charged With ½ Pound Of Coke, $12G Sketchy Cash In Illegally Parked Corvette
Hackensack Ex-Con Charged With ½ Pound Of Coke, $12G Sketchy Cash In Illegally Parked Corvette A hardcore ex-con was charged with having nearly a half-pound of cocaine and $12,000 in suspect cash in a stolen car that he left idling in a fire lane outside a shopping mall in Hackensack. Jarrett Bruce, 39, was initially released at the Shops at Riverside just off westbound Route 4 after Lt. Sean Briggs ran a computer check, found a mismatched VIN and impounded the 2022 Chevy Corvette in early April, Hackensack Police Capt. Michael Antista said. Discovering that the ‘vette had been reported stolen, police had grounds to seek -- and obtain -- a search warrant. They found the drugs and cas…

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Out-Of-Town ID Thieves Caught Bank Hopping In Rochelle Park: Police Out-Of-Town ID Thieves Caught Bank Hopping In Rochelle Park: Police
Out-Of-Town ID Thieves Caught Bank Hopping In Rochelle Park: Police Three ID thieves who'd already victimized no fewer than 19 people didn't realize a pair of Rochelle Park detectives were watching as they hopped from bank to bank, authorities said. Detectives Brian Cobb and Brian Gallina began following their white Honda Accord with New York plates after seeing it being driven erratically near West Passaic Street and Paramus Road, Capt. James DePreta said. "At times, they entered and then ran from banks into the waiting vehicle," he said on Friday, May 12. The suspects tore up what appeared to be a check and tossed it out the window as the detectives pull…

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Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities
Polish Ex-Con Nabbed In Burglary Spree Bites Wallington Detective: Authorities A drug-addicted Polish national with a lengthy rap sheet – including three arrests in barely a month’s time – bit the hand of a Wallington detective while resisting arrest for a series of vehicle break-ins. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock and Detective Simon Popek identified Adam Marek Jaworski through surveillance video during an investigation into a vehicle burglary shortly before 6 a.m. April 4, Police Chief Carmello J. Imbruglia said. Jaworski, 30, who most recently has been living in Clifton, is known to police. He has a history of drug-related arrests in several Bergen and Passaic county t…

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Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police
Trio With Stolen Checks, IDs Flees Carlstadt Bank, Nabbed By Hasbrouck Heights PD: Police A trio of thieves who’d been burglarizing vehicles parked outside New Jersey gyms had paper and tape covering their license plate when they tried to cash a stolen check at a Carlstadt bank, authorities said. Were they ever in for a surprise. The trio was still at the drive-up window when the manager of Lakeland Bank called police, Acting Police Chief Thomas Cox said. Discovering the holder’s account frozen, the teller refused to cash the $1,300 check and the trio drove off, the chief said. Borough police issued a Be on the Lookout (BOLO) for their blue Altima, which Hasbrouck Heights Poli…

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Police: Armed Carjacker Who Rammed Patrol Car Captured In Fort Lee Police: Armed Carjacker Who Rammed Patrol Car Captured In Fort Lee
Police: Armed Carjacker Who Rammed Patrol Car Captured In Fort Lee An armed suspect wanted for a carjacking in New York City was captured by Fort Lee police after he rammed a police cruiser and fled on foot, authorities said. Police had gone to a condo complex on Hilltop Court where the carjacked vehicle reportedly was located shortly after 3 a.m. on May 30, Capt. Edward Young said. Seeing them coming, Anthony Almonte, 20, hit the gas and struck a police patrol vehicle, Young said. He then hopped out and ran off, leaving a gun with a defaced serial number behind, the captain said. Police nabbed Almonte at his home in the Hilltop Court Condominiums on Jun…

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Bergen Ex-Con Admits Brutally Beating GF’s Dogs To Death Bergen Ex-Con Admits Brutally Beating GF’s Dogs To Death
Bergen Ex-Con Admits Brutally Beating GF’s Dogs To Death An ex-con from Bergen County admitted brutally killing two of his girlfriend’s dogs at her home in upstate New York, authorities announced. Matthew Savinovich, 28, of Norwood “systematically and brutally killed” his now-former flame's Chihuahuas by “slamming them against a wall” in her Lake Peekskill, NY home, Putnam County District Attorney Robert V. Tendy said Thursday, April 28. Savinovich also admitted crushing and killing a ferret of hers by “intentionally dropping a mattress and box spring on top of it,” Tendy said. The killings occurred “over the course of their relationship from De…

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Police: Intruder Breaks In Overnight, Robs Lyndhurst Grandmother Police: Intruder Breaks In Overnight, Robs Lyndhurst Grandmother
Police: Intruder Breaks In Overnight, Robs Lyndhurst Grandmother A repeat offender broke into his grandmother's home in the middle of the night, then pulled her purse from her hands and fled when she caught him, Lyndhurst police said. Joseph A. Ban, 29, was rummaging through the 77-year-old victim's belongings when she awoke around 2:30 a.m., Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. She confronted Ban, who demanded cash and credit cards, the lieutenant said. The woman grabbed her purse, but Ban wrested it from her, knocked her aside and ran from the home, he said. Officer Michael LeStrange and Sgt. Charles Giangeruso were checking area automated teller machi…

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Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup
Little Ferry PD: Officer Nabs Garfield Repeat Offender, 20, In Burglarized Pickup A 20-year-old Garfield car burglar with a string of recent arrests tried talking his way out of an another when a Little Ferry police officer caught him breaking into a pickup truck before dawn, authorities said. Xhonatan Gaba, 20, was sitting in the passenger seat of a Chevy pickup owned by a tenant at the Williamstone Manor Apartments on William Street when Officer Joseph Montemurro rolled up around 3:15 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief James Walters said. Montemurro was cruising the area after finding another vehicle unlocked with its emergency lights flashing and car alarm blaring on Jackson…

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