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Do People Read Crime Stories? Ask Glen Rock Man Who Helped Police Nab Accused Cellphone Thief Do People Read Crime Stories? Ask Glen Rock Man Who Helped Police Nab Accused Cellphone Thief
Do People Read Crime Stories? Ask Glen Rock Man Who Helped Police Nab Accused Cellphone Thief A Glen Rock resident who’d read last month about thieves sending fraudulently bought cellphones to third-party addresses led police to a Bronx man who they said was carrying eight phones worth $8,000. The Harding Road resident was on his own phone with police after receiving a FedEx package with someone else’s name on it when a man came to door trying to collect it, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The resident was wise to the growing scam, however: He'd read about it. ****** SEE: In what’s become a common scam, a thief had an illegally purchased iPhone shipped to the home of a Glen Rock…

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by Jerry DeMarco