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Gotcha! Repeat Offender Resists After Hackensack Police Track Him Down: Authorities
A repeat offender was arrested for the third time in a little over seven months after Hackensack police said he committed a series of vehicle burglaries along a stretch of high-rises.
He put up a fight, though, and had to be Tased, authorities said.
Reggie Scott, 40, initially eluded security guards -- as well as a police manhunt -- following break-ins along Prospect Avenue, Hackensack Police Director Raymond Guidetti said.
On Tuesday, Oct. 19, however, he was behind bars.
"During the month of October, the City of Hackensack suffered from a rash of burglaries to a number of motor vehicles…
Update: Humc Patient Care Tech Fighting For Life Following Attack
UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of suicide in South Jersey, authorities said.
The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said.
HUMC employees we…
South Hackensack PD: SWAT Team, Detectives Capture Armed Robbers, Drug Dealers In Motel Raid
It happened in a flash: A SWAT team stormed a South Hackensack motel, capturing two armed robbers and three drug dealers from Teaneck and Englewood who've been living there, authorities said.
South Hackensack detectives were preparing to hit two rooms following a series of undercover drug deals when a legitimate 30-year-old customer told them that two other men living in a third room had robbed him, authorities said.
The victim, who lives in Bergenfield, told police that he agreed to meet Malik Lee, 25, of Englewood to buy some pot for $200, Capt. Robert Chinchar said.
Lee showed up for th…
Paterson Man Captured After Wild Stolen Car Chase Charged In Ridgewood Crime Spree
A Paterson man captured in Paramus after a wild stolen car chase that went through several Bergen County towns was responsible for a series of vehicle thefts and burglaries, as well as home break-ins in Ridgewood, authorities said.
John Chavan Johnson, 32, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest two days earlier.
He’s charged with five counts of burglary, six of theft, three of resisting arrest among 19 offenses in all, most of them in Ridgewood.
Also still being held was Johnson’s alleged accomplice, Samantha Boseski, 30, of Clifton. She was charged with&nbs…
Police: Trio Shopped With Stolen Card Numbers At Hackensack Bloomingdales
A trio of men shopping with stolen credit card numbers were arrested by Hackensack police, said authorities who charged them.
On Monday at approximately 8:20 p.m., Hackensack police officers were dispatched to Bloomingdales at The Shops at Riverside for a fraud in progress, Captain Frank Aquila said.
The three suspects -- Andrew Parkes, 31 of Jamaica, New York; Demetri Stewart, 26 of Jamaica, New York; and Lernard Lawley, 31 of Brooklyn, New York -- were at the register of Bloomingdales at The Shops at Riverside paying at the register when police arrived, Aquila said.
Officer Panagiotis Se…
