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Michael Acosta

Paramus PD: Two More Members Of Auto Theft Ring Caught Returning To Same Neighborhood Paramus PD: Two More Members Of Auto Theft Ring Caught Returning To Same Neighborhood
Paramus PD: Two More Members Of Auto Theft Ring Caught Returning To Same Neighborhood Two members of an auto theft ring believed responsible for a rash of vehicle thefts and burglaries in Paramus weren’t tough to find, police said Friday. Having already seized one suspect before dawn the day before, officers received a call of two suspicious-looking men in the area of Linwood Avenue and Godwin Road around 5:30 a.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Officer Michael Boccher spotted and stopped Michael Acosta, 18, of Paterson and Edras Mendoza, 20, of Passaic, moments later, Ehrenberg said. Both told officers they were headed to the Jersey Place home of relatives, but poli…
Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay
Tech Consultant Buys 400+ Cellphones With Hackensack Company's Money, Sells Them On eBay A tech consultant used a Hackensack company's money to buy $200,000 worth of cellphones that he then sold on eBay, authorities charged. Michael Acosta, 34, of North Bergen used his position in the company to buy more than 400 phones without authorization from its service provider between October 2015 and September 2018, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday. He “later sold them on eBay for his own personal gain,” Calo said. Acosta was issued a summons and released pending a Feb. 20 first appearance in Bergen County Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charge…