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The 31-year-old Maywood shoplifter ran into the Prospect Street store, grabbed $655 worth of liquor and then fled without paying just before 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said.
The store employee ran out after the shoplifter into the parking lot, where he was struck by Jeanelle Mulligan, who had been waiting for the shoplifter in the parking lot in a 2006 Toyota, police said.
The shoplifter broke free and ran from the scene, while the Bottle King employee was treated on scene by the responding officers and EMTs from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps. He was then taken him to Hackensack University Medical Center for non-life-threatening trauma.
Mulligan was subsequently charged with assault by auto and conspiracy to commit shoplifting. She was lodged in the Bergen County Jail pending an appearance before Central Judicial Processing at the Superior Court in Hackensack.
Efforts to find the shoplifter are ongoing. The lead investigator is D/Sgt. James Calaski, who is working in cooperation with P.O. Orsita. Also assisting on scene were Sgt. Robert Wojtecki, P.O. Adam Pyatak, P.O. James Donnelly, and officers from the Fair Lawn Police Department.
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