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Radburn Post Office
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Detective Continues To Nail Mailbox Check Thieves
He did it again: A Fair Lawn detective continues to bust people cashing checks stolen from a local post office drop box. Once again, the missing item -- a cashier's check for $6,600 -- had been mailed at the Radburn Post Office. And once again, Detective Paul Donohue traced it. Donohue arrested 20-year-old Miguel Ortiz of Paterson, who "admitted to cashing the check into an ATM machine for another [person]," Sgt. Brian Metzler. Ortiz was released pending a court hearing on charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property. Meanwhile, an investigation was continuing. In recent …
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Detective On A Roll: Arrests Pile Up In Mailbox Check-Theft Cases
A Fair Lawn detective continued his recent streak of arrests connected to thefts from local mailboxes. Detective Paul Donohue arrested 20-year-old Franklin Peralta after a resident reported mailing a personal check from the Radburn Post Office, where dropboxes had been broken into, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The $2,128 check never reached its intended recipient and, instead, had been cashed by someone else, Metzler said. Peralta, he said, “used someone else’s account to cash the check at an ATM, then paid the account holder $50.” He was released pending a court hearing on charges of theft b…
Police & Fire
Fair Lawn Detective Makes Arrests In Separate Mailbox Check Thefts
A Fair Lawn police detective nailed two different people in connection with the thefts of checks that residents mailed outside the Radburn Post Office. In each case, the checks never made it to their destinations and were cashed by someone else, Sgt. Brian Metzler said. Detective Paul Donohue made arrests in both. Michelle Rivera, 18 of Paterson, was charged with theft by deception after claiming that she gave her bank card to an unidentified person who wanted to cash one of the checks. Gilbert Acevedo, 21, of Paterson, was charged with the same offense after admitting that he was paid $3…