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Wayne Neighbor's Call Leads To Car Burglary Arrest Wayne Neighbor's Call Leads To Car Burglary Arrest
Wayne Neighbor's Call Leads To Car Burglary Arrest Thanks to a citizen’s call, a Wayne police officer seized a car burglar who’d just swiped a laptop, authorities said. Officer Diego Ocampo was responding to a vehicle burglary call from Riverview Drive when he spotted Anthony Cole of Rahway on the lower end of Valley Road shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday, March 27, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Cole, 41, was fumbling with a backpack before the officer stopped him, Daly said. Officer Donald Cook spotted the laptop in the grass nearby, the captain said. Turned out it belonged to a neighborhood resident who confirmed moments later that it ha…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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GOTCHA! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Pile Of Packages, Wayne Police Say GOTCHA! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Pile Of Packages, Wayne Police Say
Gotcha! Porch Pirate Pinched After Pilfering Pile Of Packages, Wayne Police Say At least eight victims had packages snatched from their porches just before Christmas by a woman who tore them open, kept the items inside and tossed the empties into a Dumpster, police in Wayne said. Stephanie Ortiz, 20, of Totowa had just swiped a package from a home on Cecelia Drive when officers responding to that call got another from someone at a commercial building on Riverview Drive, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said. Ortiz had been “observed un-packaging items and discarding the packages and boxes in their dumpster" there, Daly said. Sgt. Luis Oliveira and Patrol Officers Angelo Giam…

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Wayne Police Nab Quartet In Car Burglary Spree Wayne Police Nab Quartet In Car Burglary Spree
Wayne Police Nab Quartet In Car Burglary Spree WAYNE, N.J. – They prowled the quiet streets of Wayne overnight looking for vehicles that they could steal or burglarize – but thanks to an alert resident, police arrested a quartet of suspects. The Stagg Road resident called police around 2:40 a.m. Wednesday: She’d seen someone get out of an older-model Chevy Blazer parked near her property and toward her vehicles before suddenly running back, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Moments later, Sgt. Dan Dubois spotted and stopped the SUV on Riverview Drive. The four occupants had items, including a wallet, that had just been stolen from …

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by Jerry DeMarco