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Drug Store Robbery Spree: Second Suspect Snared In Passaic County Drug Store Robbery Spree: Second Suspect Snared In Passaic County
Drug Store Robbery Spree: Second Suspect Snared In Passaic County A Paterson man was charged by federal authorities with participating in seven drugstore robberies in the Silk City and Passaic, including one in which they said an ex-con partner fired two gunshots. A federal magistrate judge ordered Onijee Burgess, 26, detained following a hearing in U.S. District Court in Newark on Tuesday, Oct. 17.Burgess, Antonio Rivera and other unidentified co-conspirators went on a robbery spree from November 2022 through April 2023, holding up five different pharmacies -- including two of them twice, authorities said. Rivera demanded Percocet, morphine and oxycodone…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say
Bergen Drugstore Burglar Had Specific Target, Police Say Someone broke into a Wyckoff drug store -- all for two bottles of liquid codeine, authorities said. Officers responding to a 4:45 a.m. burglar alarm earlier this week found the front door glass shattered at Sicomac Pharmacy, in a small shopping strip off the corner of Cedar Hill Avenue, Lt. Joseph Soto said. They secured the business and learned that all that was taken were two bottles of the addictive morphine derivative, valued at $86 combined, he said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence. Wyckoff detectives were investigating.

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by Jerry DeMarco