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Officer Nabs Gang Of Four Fleeing Willowbrook Shoplifting Spree: Wayne Police
A quartet of New Yorkers who went on a shoplifting spree at a bunch of Willowbrook Mall stores were headed north when a Wayne police officer stopped them, authorities said.
The crew fled the mall with more than $5,000 worth of assorted stolen merchandise – with security tags still attached – from Express, Forever 21, GAP, H&M, Hollister, Old Navy, Pacsun, and Zara – Detective Capt. Dan Daly said.
Officer Michael McLaughlin stopped their 2004 Jeep Liberty with Connecticut license plates at Valley Road and Mac Donald Drive moments later, the captain said.
The vehicle’s registration…
Knife-Wielding Ex-Con Caught After Threatening Pizza Makers, Wayne PD Says
Wayne police captured an ex-con who they said threatened some local pizzeria employees with a knife.
Khalil Bakho, 56, had stood in the doorway of Brother Bruno’s Pizza, Deli and Bagels on Hamburg Turnpike, pointed at the workers and made a slicing motion across his throat with the knife, Detective Capt. Dan Daly said.
A responding officer searching the area moments later spotted Bakho, of Wayne, slouching in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, Daly said.
Bakho was arrested after the officer found the knife under his seat, he said.
He was sent to the Passaic County Jail to await a firs…
