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Robert Bodurka of Maywood, 47 (above, left) was charged with additional two counts of burglary, conspiracy and criminal mischief, increasing his bail at the Bergen County Jail to $201,200 from what had been $125,000.
Thomas Sussina, 21, of Sussex was also charged with two more counts of burglary and one of conspiracy out of Little Ferry. His bail was $72,500.
South Hackensack detectives arrested both men and a woman last week at a Wayne motel in connection with a smash-and-grab pizzeria burglary last Monday.
All three were feeding combined 200-bag-a-day heroin habits, authorities said.
Bodurka was released from state prison three months ago after serving two years for burglary and drug convictions.
Police said he, Sussina and 31-year-old Ginette Lezette split the proceeds while staying at the Airport Motel off Route 46 in South Hackensack.
Detectives recovered two cash registers — one stolen from the pizzeria before dawn last Monday after they said Bodurka and Sussina smashed a side door and the other from a Hasbrouck Heights gas station in similar fashion.
“That’s been the M.O.: Smash a door, grab the register and bolt,” South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last week. “It’s usually between 1 and 4 in the morning.”
Bodurka alone is charged with two more smash-and-grabs in Elmwood Park and another in Clifton.
Elmwood Park’s occurred at a Midland Avenue liquor store just after 4:45 a.m. Dec. 13 and at a Route 46 gas station just after 5 a.m. Jan. 3, Police Chief Michael Foligno told CLIFFVIEW PILOT last week.
Bodurka fled the first in what was described as a “landscaping-type truck” after surveillance video showed him failing earlier in the night to get in and then returning with a hand-held sledgehammer to break the glass, Foligno said.
“Responding officers located a cash tray with money and receipts on the Route 80 West ramp off of Molnar Drive,” the chief said.
Bodurka took the register, containing $200 in cash, from the gas station after breaking a window on the side of the building, Foligno said.
Surveillance cameras recorded that burglary, too, he said.
Lezette, who Kaiser said “conspired with Bodurka and Sussina and split the money,” was charged with the Hasbrouck Heights and South Hackensack burglaries. She remained held on a combined $40,000 bail.
Bodurka — also known as Robert Bodurke and Peter Davaney — has a rap sheet that stretches back nearly 25 years.
It includes arrests for two January 2012 smash-and-grab burglaries and a third a month earlier, all in Maywood.
All were committed while Bodurka was on parole.
Police picked him up after surveillance cameras caught Bodurka smashing a Maywood liquor store’s front window with a hammer, grabbing several scratch-off lottery tickets and cigarettes and speeding off in a car he’d parked outside.
MUGSHOTS: Courtesy SOUTH HACKENSACK PD
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