The Fall Craft & Art Street Fair was winding down when 30-year-old Darnell Dixon tried to take the Galaxy S5 by threatening the victim just after 7 p.m. inside the Bow Tie Cinema on East Ridgewood Avenue, police said.
Officer John A. Ward, who was nearby, immediately grabbed him, they said.
Dixon was being held on $75,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF
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