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! Robber From Wallington Menaced 7-Eleven Workers At Two Stores With Knife: Prosecutor
An elite team of investigators captured a 23-year-old Wallington man who they said robbed two 7-Elevens on either side of the Passaic River by threatening workers with a large knife. Tymear Haskins grabbed an employee from behind as the victim took out the trash in back of the 7-Eleven on Main Avenue in Wallington shortly before 4 p.m. April 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. After making the employee convince a co-worker to open a locked side door, Haskins tied one of them with a cord and held the other prisoner in a back office while demanding the code to a safe, the prosecuto…
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Prosecutor: Wallington Pizzeria Owner From New Milford Touched, Sexted Teens, Are There More?
A Wallington pizzeria owner from New Milford sexually touched at least three underage teens while trying to get them to have intercourse with him, authorities charged. Investigators were trying to determine whether Juan Cuello-Pina, 30, had contact with any other possible victims, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. A judge in Hackensack released Cuello-Pina on Tuesday after he was booked into the Bergen County Jail on four counts of criminal sexual contact and child endangerment hours earlier. That has raised concerns among some parents in town. Cuello-Pina, who’s married, s…
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Wallington Detectives Arrest Local Man In Theft Of Donation Jar For Sick Kids
A drug user snatched a jar filled with donations for sick children from the counter of a Wallington deli before he was identified and arrested by detectives, authorities said. Adrian Siwek, 30, was wearing a gray hooded NASA sweatshirt and knit cap when he entered the Super Deli on Wallington Avenue on Monday and diverted the casher’s attention away from the plastic container, Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Detective Lt. Joseph Rock identified the borough resident by reviewing the store surveillance video after the owner reported the theft on Thursday, Kudlacik said. Detective Brian Ros…
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Wallington Driver Killed In RR Trestle Crash
A Wallington driver was killed Saturday night when his mini-SUV slammed into a railroad trestle near the Wood-Ridge border. The 60-year-old victim's vehicle slammed into a concrete support on Main Avenue near Al Ventura Road at 8:41 p.m., Police Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit joined borough police, firefighters and the Wallington Emergency Squad at the scene. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.
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New Brunswick Woman Kidnapped, Beaten: Guatemalan National Captured, Jailed in Bergen
A Guatemalan national abducted his ex-girlfriend in New Brunswick, beat and tried to choke her and then stole her cellphone before dumping her in Wallington, authorities said. A good Samaritan flagged down a passing Wallington police officer, who found the frantic woman at the 7-Eleven on Main Avenue speaking only Spanish, Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. A Passaic police officer responded to translate for the 38-year-old victim, who told police that Miguel Anton Perez, 47, grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into his car in New Brunswick. Perez “punched her in the back and put his hands aro…
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Wallington Crash Outside MVC Sends Driver To Hospital
A 31-year-old Wallington driver was hospitalized after a pre-dawn single-vehicle crash Thursday outside the local MVC office on Main Avenue. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after crashing his 2004 Honda Accord around 4:15 a.m., Wallington Police Chief Carmello Imbruglia said. Responders said the victim initially was knocked out but regained consciousness. The cause wasn't immediately determined.
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Wallington PD Nabs Accused Robber In Vicious Beating Of Gas Station Attendant With Hammer
Wallington police identified and arrested an accused masked robber who they said viciously beat a gas station attendant with a huge hammer while taking $300. George Marcelino-Perez, 24, of Passaic was the bandit caught on surveillance video dressed all in black “like a ninja” and pacing up and down Main Avenue with a mask Tuesday morning before attacking the attendant in the Citgo station office, Chief Carmello Imbruglia said. Marcelino-Perez yanked the attendant from his chair and hit him several times with the hammer, demanding money, authorities said at the time. After unsuccessfully at…
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Masked ‘Ninja' Robber Attacks Wallington Gas Station Attendant With Huge Hammer
A masked robber dressed all in black “like a ninja” attacked a Wallington gas station attendant Tuesday morning with a huge hammer, injuring him and fleeing with what was believed to be a few hundred dollars, authorities said. Area surveillance cameras show the 20-something robber “pacing up and down Main Avenue with the mask on, carrying a hammer the size of an ax” around 7:40 a.m., Detective Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. “Either nobody saw anything or nobody said anything,” Kudlacik said. Eventually, the 6-foot-tall robber went into the Citgo station office, yanked the attendant from his ch…
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Two Garfield 18-Year-Olds Charged In Shooting Death Of Wallington Pizza Deliveryman
Two Garfield 18-year-olds were both charged with murder in the slaying of a 27-year-old Wallington pizza delivery man who was shot and killed in his car earlier this month, authorities said. Andy DeJesus and Joel Nunez also were charged with felony murder, robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Mark P. Centurione said in a joint release Tuesday. Dervy Almonte-Moore of Elmwood Park was pronounced dead at St Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson at 2:48 a.m. July 15. A little over a half-hour earlier, police found…
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Two Garfield 18-Year-Olds Charged In Shooting Death Of Wallington Pizza Deliveryman
UPDATE: A 16-year-old boy remained in custody along with two Garfield 18-year-olds who were charged in the shooting death of a 27-year-old Wallington pizza delivery man in his car during a robbery last month, authorities said. https://garfield.dailyvoice.com/police-fire/3rd-teen-seized-in-shooting-death-of-wallington-pizza-deliveryman/740459/ ORIGINAL STORY: Two Garfield 18-year-olds were both charged with murder in the slaying of a 27-year-old Wallington pizza delivery man who was shot and killed in his car earlier this month, authorities said. Andy DeJesus and Joel Nunez also were charge…
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