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Teen Tricked Into Fake Date In Englewood Robbed At Gunpoint, Detectives Make Arrest Teen Tricked Into Fake Date In Englewood Robbed At Gunpoint, Detectives Make Arrest
Teen Tricked Into Fake Date In Englewood Robbed At Gunpoint, Detectives Make Arrest A teenager tricked into coming to Englewood for what he thought was a meeting with a woman he’d connected with on Instagram instead had his valuables stolen at gunpoint by a trio of robbers. Xavier Medina, 18, lured the 17-year-old victim from North Bergen to the area of Lake Street and Broad Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. Jan. 8, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Friday. The victim went there “with the prospect of meeting a female,” Torell said. Instead, he was accosted by three robbers, one of whom pointed a gun at his chest while the others took his backpack, iPhone and AirPods, the cap…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Englewood PD: Robber Uses 'Letgo' App To Rob Victims Englewood PD: Robber Uses 'Letgo' App To Rob Victims
Englewood PD: Robber Uses 'Letgo' App To Rob Victims Englewood detectives charged a local man with robbing a Hackensack couple who came to town to sell an iPhone through the “Letgo” buy/sell app. Sincere Degroat, 19, was carrying an iPhone stolen during one of the robberies when Detective Sgt. Chris Kedersha and Detective Chris Quirk nabbed him in Mackay. The iPhone was stolen from a Hackensack couple on Jan. 5 after the woman, 21, listed it for sale on “Letgo” and agreed to a meeting in Englewood, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Friday. DeGroat snatched the phone from her, “indicated he had a gun and said he would shoot them both,” Tore…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEE ANYTHING? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street SEE ANYTHING? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street
SEE Anything? Cellphone Seller Says He Was Mugged In Letgo App Meet On Rutherford Street A man told Rutherford police he tried to sell a cellphone in a meeting set up through the Letgo app and got mugged instead. Police asked borough residents and merchants in the area of Ames Avenue headed toward the train station to check their surveillance systems for a gold-colored Chevy sedan that the victim said his attackers fled in. The 33-year-old man told police he brokered a deal on the classifieds application to sell an iPhone to a buyer on Ames Avenue just before 10:30 p.m. Friday, Lt. Sean Farrell said. The Chevy had three black men and a black woman inside when he approached it …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks
Edgewater PD: Repeat Thief Swipes Goods From 3rd App Victim In Weeks EDGEWATER, N.J. – Released three times after snatching items from sellers he met on the LetGo and OfferUp apps, an Edgewater man did it again, police said. This time, 19-year-old Joshua Emmanuel offered to buy a gold necklace the seller offered on LetGo – then snatched it from the victim’s hand and ran, Police Chief Donald Martin said. It was the third time since January that Emmanuel lured sellers to town only to steal their merchandise, Emmanuel said. He was arrested after a similar incident in Englewood last April and spent nearly seven months in the Bergen County Jail. The last two ti…

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by Jerry DeMarco