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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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