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Lyndhurst PD: Fleeing Motorcyclist From Lodi, 19, Captured Carrying Drugs, Knife
A motorcyclist who tried to give a Lyndhurst police officer the slip was captured following a brief chase, authorities said.
Jaydan Tejada, 19, of Lodi, was carrying a large kitchen knife, a ski mask, and assorted drugs -- crystal meth and psilocybin mushrooms, as well as THC candies and vaporizers -- following the pursuit, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said.
It began shortly after 11:30 p.m. Mondy, Aug. 7, when Officer Nicollette Villani spotted a pair of motorcycles heading south on Park Avenue.
Neither rider was wearing a helmet and both had their lights off, Auteri said. …
NO LIE: Career Bergen Burglar Caught Breaking Into, Of All Places, An Alarm Business: Police
A career criminal from Bergenfield who’s been busted well over a dozen times the past two decades was caught breaking into an alarm business, Maywood police said.
Myles Gerard Shanahan, 61, has a long history of arrests in several towns – Bergenfield, Closter and Tenafly, among them -- mostly for burglary, theft and shoplifting but also for assault and DWI, records show.
He'd been released a few weeks earlier following an arrest for a burglary in Bergenfield when officers in Maywood responded to a late-night alarm at Chief Security Systems on Spring Valley Road on March 29, Police Chief Ter…
