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Kendall Leonard Ross
Kendall Leonard Ross, 37, is being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest today on a warrant, Chief Arthur O’Keefe told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Ross is best known for being caught in a sting set by Teaneck police in 1993 after several cab drivers were robbed by a man with a knife. A driver with a Hackensack cab company agreed to be the bait in the trap, and Teaneck police one night followed him to a call.
At their instruction, he beeped his horn twice after Ross got the driver in a headlock, robbed him of $31 at knifepoint and got out of the cab. But Ross took off, dropping a bag that held the knife along the way.
Ross, who was 18 at the time, also tossed away his hoodie, swam through a stream and kept running once he got to the other side.
Ridgefield Park sent a police dog, which tracked Ross — after smelling the bag and shirt — directly to an Englewood backyard. Realizing he was cornered, Ross surrendered. He was later found to have carried a gun.
Ross served his sentence in the Bergen County Jail and was ordered released a year later, even though the maximum term for his conviction was 17 years, according to criminal records. He was back behind bars in 2007 on another robbery conviction and again served a short term of less than a year, those records show.
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