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Prosecutor: Fleeing Suspect Breaks Into Bergen Home, Assaults Woman
A suspect fleeing police broke into a Franklin Lakes woman’s home, knocked her down and tried to hide in her chimney before he was captured, authorities said. Then he inexplicably smiled for his mugshot.
Justin M. Gonzalez, 24, hopped out of a parked car and took off on foot as Oakland police responded to a suspicious person’s report on Brook Hollow Road before dawn last Friday Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Gonzalez, of the Hudson Valley, NY town of Livingston Manor, got away, but not for long, the prosecutor said.
Several hours later, Franklin Lakes and Oakland police respo…
