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God sent him, man found in woman’s car in Wyckoff says

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A bus driver and others came to the aid of 68-year-old woman who’d just gotten off a bus in Wyckoff last night by grabbing a 20-year-old Paterson man who police said she found in her car.

Photo Credit: Courtesy WYCKOFF PD

“God told him to be here,” the woman told police Zakiy I. Muhammad said when she discovered him reclining in a seat in the parking lot of the Wyckoff YMCA — wearing the vehicle owner’s slippers — around 11 p.m.

Muhammad “initially gave the officers a fictitious name and address and continued to state that he had been sent there by God,” Police Chief Benjamin C. Fox said this morning.

“He resisted arrest to the point where the officers had to physically restrain him on the bus,” the chief said.

Muhammad was being held on $3,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with auto burglary, resisting arrest and hindering by providing false information.

The car apparently had been left unlocked, Fox said.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy WYCKOFF PD

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