66°
Terrance McCarroll (MUGSHOT courtesy Hackensack PD)
As police suspected, another woman admitted that Terrance “Stacks” McCarroll, 29, held her against her will, using warrants police had for her as his leverage — as well as beatings and burnings with a hair curler.
The original charges were relatively minor compared to the case authorities have now compiled against McCarroll.
He remains held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of kidnapping, promoting prostitution, aggravated assault with a weapon, and two counts of weapons possession.
It all began at the Ocean County Jail, where a South Jersey woman was being held on charges of stealing her mother’s car after an argument.
“I got somebody who can get you out,” the other alleged victim told her, citing her ex-“boyfriend,” McCarroll. “But you got to work it off.”
The woman agreed, and, soon after, McCarroll showed up and posted her bail.
Then it was time to work.
“She claimed that she’d never done this kind of thing before,” a law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the case told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. But she told police she had no choice, he said.
“She admitted having several ‘dates’,” the officer said. “He would drop her off at these appointments, then he’d take the money, smack her around, threaten to kill her.
“It seemed he kept his eyes on her all the time.”
The woman told police she couldn’t take the treatment anymore. The only trouble was that her phone service was disconnected, and she didn’t have any way of getting back home.
While out on a call, the woman found a wi-fi hot spot. There she posted a message to her brother on Facebook, Hackensack Police Lt. Jaime Barrios told CLIFFVIEW PILOT two weeks ago.
Officers Nicholas Ortiz, Pedro Dominguez, along with Sgt. Darren DeWitt and Officer Dana Herrmann, went to the address the woman gave for McCarroll, he said.
Inside, Barrios said, they found a woman and some pot. So they took her in.
Narcotics Detective Jason Klosk then called McCarroll, who willingly came to police headquarters, claiming the drugs were his and not his girlfriend’s, and that she shouldn’t be charged, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
So Klosk charged him with drug possession.
McCarroll “thought that’s why he was coming in,” the source said. But police were hardly through with him.
Based in part on the Facebook woman’s statements, Detective Ryan Weber charged McCarroll with criminal restraint and promoting prostitution. A local judge ordered him held on $20,000 bail at the Bergen County Jail.
At that point, city investigators began digging further. What particularly interested them was that the Facebook woman claimed not to be the only one in McCarroll’s stable. It was only natural that they would interview the purported ex-girlfriend.
If McCarroll goes to trial and is convicted, or pleads out, a judge likely won’t be inclined toward leniency:
McCarroll, a Hackensack native who lived for a time in Elmwood Park, has been booked no fewer than eight times in Bergen County the past decade.
He’s been convicted, and spent two years on probation, for making violent threats. He was also arrested in connection with drug crimes and for driving while on the revoked list.
Bergen County authorities also have picked up McCarroll several times for failing to pay child support and court fines.
{loadposition log}
Click here to follow Daily Voice Hackensack and receive free news updates.
