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Told Not To Smoke, Lyft Passenger From Jersey City Assaults Driver, Snatches Keys: Leonia PD Told Not To Smoke, Lyft Passenger From Jersey City Assaults Driver, Snatches Keys: Leonia PD
Told Not To Smoke, Lyft Passenger From Jersey City Assaults Driver, Snatches Keys: Leonia PD A passenger assaulted a Lyft driver, took the keys and took off when she wasn't allowed to smoke during the ride, police in Leonia said. Tiffanie Grant, 41, of Jersey City got into a heated exchange with the driver, who stopped on Fort Lee Road near Spring Street around 2 p.m. last Friday afternoon, June 9, Leonia Police Chief Scott Tamagny said. "That's where the argument became physical," the chief said. After punching and grabbing the driver by the neck, Grant snatched the keys and hopped out, Tamagny said. Special Law Enforcement Officer II Steve Oxnard and Officer Anthony Mikatarian …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective
Broad-Daylight Mugging Of Woman Outside Englewood Cafe Solved By Sharp-Eyed Detective GOTCHA! A fresh eye cracked the mugging of a woman who got into a fierce broad-daylight struggle with a robber outside an Englewood cafe over a year ago, authorities announced. Surveillance images show the suspect cruising the area on a bicycle before donning a face mask, pulling up a hood and riding up to the woman, who was having cake and coffee outside Dulce Le Leche on busy West Palisade Avenue in early November 2020. The would-be robber tried snatching the woman's wallet, but he didn't know what he was in for: She wasn't giving it up that easily, Detective Lt. Fred Pulice said. The wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
'Late Fees': Paterson Debt Collector Beats, Robs Debtor, Wayne Police Charge 'Late Fees': Paterson Debt Collector Beats, Robs Debtor, Wayne Police Charge
'Late Fees': Paterson Debt Collector Beats, Robs Debtor, Wayne Police Charge A Paterson man collecting a debt behind a Wayne shopping center beat the debtor and robbed him of $100 – claiming he’d accrued late fees, police said. The victim told police he met with Anthony Ferguson, 35, of Paterson behind the shopping center at Preakness and Valley Roads to satisfy an unspecified debt. He said Ferguson told him “the amount owed had changed due to late fees,” then began punching him in the face and head, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Then he took the money and left, Martin said. Detective Skylar Cauceglia worked the case, eventually obtaining an arrest warrant…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store
Former Football Star Charged In Elmwood Park Cellphone Robbery -- After Returning To Store Once considered one of the top high school football prospects in the country, a now-34-year-old Paterson man was charged with Friday's strong-armed robbery of cellphones from an Elmwood Park Verizon store. Chenry Lewis was arrested Saturday after he returned to the Route 46 store, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Then he smiled for his mugshot. The night before, Lewis used force to flee with the phones, turning what began as a snatch-and-run into a robbery, the chief said. Authorities have "no idea" why Lewis went back, Foligno said. He remained held Sunday in the Bergen County Jail. …

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by Jerry DeMarco