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His parents told police they last saw Timothy Hamlett when he left his Wilson Avenue home around 6 p.m. the day after Christmas saying he was going to visit a friend in town.
The 6-foot-tall, 150-pound Hamlett — a former Don Bosco Prep track star — was wearing jeans, a blue or purple zippered Adidas jacket with a hood and sneakers, police said.
Family members said he may be hanging out in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan between 170th and 182nd streets along Broadway.
Hamlett was carrying a backpack with small, red brick-like particles on it when Officer Lamon Meeks stopped him on his bicycle based on witnesses’ reports in May following the brick-throwing spree.
Timothy Hamlett (Courtesy: TEANECK PD)
Although Hamlett was released, the backpack was sent to the New Jersey State Police Laboratory.
Hamlett, who recently attended the University of Pennsylvania, turned himself in after discovering that police were looking for him based on the results of the subsequent tests.
He was released after a Municipal Court judge granted him the opportunity to pay 10% of his $20,000 bail.
The vandalism spree occurred during the overnight hours of May 26 – May 27, beginning when a car on Helen Street was damaged around 9:50 p.m.
Nine vehicles and four houses in all were struck, Police Chief Rober Carney said at the time.
In one instance, an 18-year-old Claremont Avenue woman lying on a couch was hit in the face by a brick hurled through her window.
“She sustained a cut over her left eye, either from the brick or shattered glass,” Lt. Andrew McGurr said at the time.
She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center.
Barely 10 minutes after she was injured, a brick came flying through the window of a home on Cumberland Avenue. A car was damaged on Lincoln Place minutes later.
The reports quickly piled up through the night and into the next morning as home and or vehicle windows were also smashed on Lincoln Place, Martense and Sagamore avenues and Wyndham Road.
Anyone who sees Hamlett or knows where to find him is asked to call Teaneck police: (201) 837-2600
MUGSHOT: Courtesy TEANECK PD
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