Find Your Daily Voice
39°
Fair Lawn PD: Hackensack Man Looking Into Cars Outside Bank Had Heroin, Crack, Airsoft Gun
Fair Lawn police investigating a report of a man looking into car windows found a Hackensack man carrying heroin, crack and an airsoft gun, authorities said.
Officers Anthony Burgos and Peter Federico found 43-year-old David Merritt in the parking lot of the Chase Bank on River Road just after 3 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Brian Metzler said.
They found the drugs and weapon inside a backpack he was carrying, Metzler said.
Merritt, it turned out, was wanted on warrants out of Clifton, Paterson, Ledgewood.
Records show other prior arrests just this year in Elmwood Park, Paramus, Little Ferry, Roche…
Fair Lawn Police Captain Cracks Months-Old Cell Tower Battery Thefts
FAIR LAWN, N.J. – Thanks to a Fair Lawn police captain, one of two CVS shoplifters caught in the act was also charged with swiping four cellphone tower batteries several months ago, authorities said.
Hawthorne couple Michael Wright, 41, and Nicole Paletta, 36 -were carrying nearly $50 worth of items taken from the River Road pharmacy when police arrested them a short time later.
Paletta was released pending a court hearing.
Wright, however, was held, after Capt. Joseph Dawicki identified him as the burglar who took the batteries from a Saddle River Road tower last Dec. 19.
Wright, who was…
