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Garfield PD: Arrest Made In Street Mugging Of Woman From Woodland Park Garfield PD: Arrest Made In Street Mugging Of Woman From Woodland Park
Garfield PD: Arrest Made In Street Mugging Of Woman From Woodland Park A Clifton man with a criminal history mugged a 28-year-old Woodland Park woman, said Garfield police who charged him with aggravated assault and robbery. Officer Benjamin Marceca was flagged down by the victim in the area of Belmont and Pierre avenues just after 7:45 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. Marceca learned that she’d been “assaulted by a male acquaintance she was meeting on Cambridge Avenue,” Sucorowski said. Wilby Tapia, 34, “reportedly grabbed her by the hair, pulling her down, and then assaulted and choked her,” the captain said. He then “went through her purse and…

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Garfield Police Nab 14-Year-Old Overnight Burglars Who Broke Into Liquor Store Garfield Police Nab 14-Year-Old Overnight Burglars Who Broke Into Liquor Store
Garfield Police Nab 14-Year-Old Overnight Burglars Who Broke Into Liquor Store Garfield police nabbed two 14-year-old boys who they said broke into a liquor store before dawn Thursday. Officers found the two hiding along the banks of the Passaic River near Cambridge Avenue less than 10 minutes after the 4:42 a.m. break-in at River Drive Bar & Liquors, Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. The pair got in through the front window of the River Drive business, Sucorowski said. City police were joined in creating a perimeter by Passaic and Wallington police and a Bergen County sheriff's K-9 unit. They issued juvenile complaints against them for burglary and theft. Both wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons
Prosecutor: Garfield Pet Shop Drug Ring Had 56+ Pounds Of Pot, Weapons Detectives found 56 pounds of pot, five rifles and two shotguns at a Garfield pet grooming shop while arresting five accused members of a drug-dealing operation during a series of raids. They also found an assault weapon, a revolver, ammunition and three high-capacity ammo magazines at the Passaic home of one of the alleged crew members, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. Calo’s detectives arrested three people connected to Happy Pet Tails on River Drive, including a Garfield couple, 31-year-old Jennifer M. Santos and Carlos M. Gutierrez, 30, following an investigati…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SEEN HIM? Sketch Released Of Garfield Shrink-Wrap Robber SEEN HIM? Sketch Released Of Garfield Shrink-Wrap Robber
Seen HIM? Sketch Released Of Garfield Shrink-Wrap Robber GARFIELD, N.J. – Garfield police on Tuesday issued a composite sketch of one of two robbers who they said pistol-whipped a mechanic and strapped him to a chair in shrink wrap. The victim said the two entered the garage where he was working at Passaic Street and Cambridge Avenue around 6:50 p.m. Thursday wearing dark-colored winter hats, hooded sweatshirts and bubble jackets. After asking for help, one of the robbers “pointed a handgun at him [and] struck him in the face,” Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. They bound him in the chair, robbed him and fled, the captain said. The victim sustaine…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Garfield PD: Robbers Pistol-Whip, Tie Up Mechanic At Work Garfield PD: Robbers Pistol-Whip, Tie Up Mechanic At Work
Garfield PD: Robbers Pistol-Whip, Tie Up Mechanic At Work UPDATE (Jan. 16): Garfield police on Tuesday issued a composite sketch of one of two robbers who they said pistol-whipped a mechanic and strapped him to a chair in shrink wrap. The victim said the two entered the garage where he was working at Passaic Street and Cambridge Avenue around 6:50 p.m. Thursday wearing dark-colored winter hats, hooded sweatshirts and bubble jackets. After asking for help, one of the robbers “pointed a handgun at him [and] struck him in the face,” Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. They bound him in the chair, robbed him and fled, the captain said. The victim sustaine…

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by Jerry DeMarco