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Joseph Ferguson, 23, of Kearny was carrying various items stolen moments earlier from an Abbott Place home when Kearny Detectives Ray Lopez and Michael Farinola — responding to a 911 call of a suspicious-looking man carrying a GAP shopping bag — grabbed him just before 6 o’clock last night, North Arlington Police Chief Louis Ghione told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.
These included several pieces of jewelry, a Play Station, a camera and a cellphone, along with items believed taken in another North Arlington break-in, Ghione said.
Ferguson tried to make a run for it outside North Arlington police headquarters, but Detective Augie Feola and Officer Anthony Scala quickly grabbed him, the chief said.
While processing him, they noticed a bulge in Ferguson’s pants that turned out to be prescription pills — Xanax and Percoset — in a plastic envelope, he added.
Ferguson, who has a criminal history that shows arrests for burglary and resisting, was charged with burglary, escape and drug possession, among other counts.
He was being held on $28,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
An investigation was continuing.
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