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Off-Duty Morris County Cop Chases Down Routine Shoplifter Found With Nearly $8K In Stolen Items Off-Duty Morris County Cop Chases Down Routine Shoplifter Found With Nearly $8K In Stolen Items
Off-Duty Morris County Cop Chases Down Routine Shoplifter Found With Nearly $8K In Stolen Items An off-duty Morris County police officer chased down an alleged routine shoplifter who ran into the woods after he was found with nearly $8,000 in stolen merchandise. Police in Mansfield received a call from an off-duty officer from Roxbury who recognized a 34-year-old Middletown, NY man wanted out of several jurisdictions for high dollar thefts on July 16, the department said. The Roxbury officer saw the man loading merchandise from Home Depot into a garbage can that was inside his shopping cart before leaving without paying, police said. The alleged shoplifter then ran into the woods beh…

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by Valerie Musson
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Police Find Clifton Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk Police Find Clifton Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk
Police Find Clifton Couple In Stolen Car Crash Naked On Sidewalk You don't see this every day: Police responding to a stolen car crash in Clifton said they found the driver and his female passenger both naked on the sidewalk. Both seemed to be under the influence of some type of drug when city officers found them in the 400 block of Clifton Avenue around 11:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. The 2014 Honda Civic they were in had just been stolen from Richfield Village when it struck another vehicle in an intersection and then a parked car, Bracken said. Hansel Moreno-Tavarez, 28, of Clifton, and his female passenger were treated for minor injur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Police: NY Man, 28, Tried To Fill Fraudulent Codeine Prescription At Warren County Walgreens Police: NY Man, 28, Tried To Fill Fraudulent Codeine Prescription At Warren County Walgreens
Police: NY Man, 28, Tried To Fill Fraudulent Codeine Prescription At Warren County Walgreens A New York man was found with several stolen prescription blanks after attempting to fraudulently receive Codeine from a Warren County Walgreens, authorities charged. The 28-year-old Jackson Heights man —whose name authorities did not make public — tried to fill a fraudulent Codeine prescription on a stolen New York State blank from Walgreens in Warren County around 12:30 p.m. on March 22, Mansfield Township police said. The man tried but was prevented from running away as officers arrived, police said. A search of the man’s vehicle turned up several additional prescription blanks, which p…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught
Van Pursuit From NY State Ends In Paramus With Vehicles Struck, Philadelphia Driver Caught UPDATE: A multi-agency pursuit Thursday night that began in upstate New York ended 100 miles away in Paramus Thursday night after a Brooklyn man rammed two police cars with a U-Haul van that he was driving on two front rims and a rear flat tire, police said. Mark Simpson, 31, got out of the van shortly after crashing around 10:30 p.m., then hopped the highway divider and ran behind the Suburban Diner before police nabbed him moments later, authorities said. It began more than an hour and a half earlier with a theft from a Walmart in Catskill, NY, they said. New York State Police said troop…

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by Jerry DeMarco