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Officer Edward Welsh and Diorys Turbides stopped the Dodge minivan in the area of Lafayette Avenue and Oak Streeet in Passaic, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.
The driver, 28-year-old Rafael Mora-Reynoso resisted at first but was quickly taken into custody, he said.
He was charged with stealing the minivan from the 200 block of Clifton Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Feb. 11 and with taking a 2003 Hyundai from Walgreens on Main Avenue the day before – while leaving behind a vehicle stolen out of Passaic, Bracken said.
Mora-Reynoso was also charged with resisting arrest, another charge of theft and receiving stolen property.
Passaic police were preparing their own charges against Mora-Reynoso, who was sent to the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing.
Mora-Reynoso had been released just a week earlier, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law, after Millburn police charged him and another man with stealing $777 worth of merchandise from Macy's in the Mall at Short Hills.
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