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Ho-Ho-Hold It: Police In Northwest Bergen Nab Holiday Package, Lawn Decoration Thieves Ho-Ho-Hold It: Police In Northwest Bergen Nab Holiday Package, Lawn Decoration Thieves
Ho-Ho-Hold It: Police In Northwest Bergen Nab Holiday Package, Lawn Decoration Thieves Police in many towns this past week have calculated what they collected this Christmas season – as in: plenty of holiday-related arrests. Multiple residents have reported the theft of package thefts from homes during the Holiday Season. A suspect driving a white Ford Transit van was observed in surveillance videos provided to us by the victims. Midland Park police who’d been called by a resident nabbed two Bronx men as they fled a home where they’d swiped multiple packages in a white Ford transit van. Their Wyckoff colleagues did some investigating and charged the driver, Downiel Sanchez…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Men Wanted In NJ Grandparent Scam After Pretending To Be Jailed Grandkids: Prosecutor Men Wanted In NJ Grandparent Scam After Pretending To Be Jailed Grandkids: Prosecutor
Men Wanted In NJ Grandparent Scam After Pretending To Be Jailed Grandkids: Prosecutor A pair of New York men are wanted by authorities for pretending to be New Jersey residents' jailed grandchildren asking for bail money, scamming them out of thousands of dollars, authorities said. Jorge Peguero-Mendez, 34, and Richard Quinones-Perez, 24, both of the Bronx, New York, are wanted on charges of theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. An elderly victim from Barnegat was contacted in December 2021 by an individual claiming to be her grandson, authorities said. The individual informed her that he had b…

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by Cecilia Levine