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North Harrison and Main Streets, East Orange, NJ

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E. Orange DPW Workers Chase Down Mugger Who Robbed Elderly Woman: City E. Orange DPW Workers Chase Down Mugger Who Robbed Elderly Woman: City
E. Orange DPW Workers Chase Down Mugger Who Robbed Elderly Woman: City Not all heroes wear capes, as the expression goes. And in East Orange, sometimes they wear the uniform of the city's Department of Public Works.  DPW employees Syid Griggs and Khalil Olivera were working near North Harrison and Main streets Oct. 10 when they witnessed a male grab an elderly woman's purse as she was leaving Bank of America on Main Street, a city spokeswoman said.  When the woman resisted, he threw her to the ground and took off. That's when Griggs and Olivera "leaped into action," the city said.  Griggs and Olivera chased him down and held him until police ar…

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