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Lodi police charge repeat offender with threatening to kill ex-boyfriend, self

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 24-year-old heroin addict from Lodi who was charged with DWI after her car plunged over a 12-foot wall and into a Garfield shopping center parking lot last year was arrested again over the weekend after police said she threatened to kill her ex-boyfriend and herself with a knife.

Photo Credit: Courtesy LODI PD

Kelly Luterzo was free on $2,500 bail after she’d trashed the 60-something man’s apartment and police responding to his call last Thursday found her with heroin (SEE: Lodi heroin addict whose car plunged into Garfield parking lot arrested again).

Just before 6 a.m. on Saturday, the victim called again, Lodi Police Chief Vincent Quatrone said this morning.

He told the responding officers that Luterzo “came to the residence and knocked on the door in an attempt to speak with him,” the chief said.

“As the victim slightly opened the door, the suspect pushed passed him and then entered the kitchen area, grabbing a knife,” he said.

She then “began to threaten to kill the victim and herself.”

Luterzo was being held on $10,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession.

Luterzo sustained minor injuries on April 11, 2014 when her northbound car veered off Passaic Street, hit a light pole and then careened through a fence and a guard rail, dropping off the wall at Shopping Center Drive outside the Marshalls in Garfield.

She’s still facing drug possession charges following a traffic stop by Lodi police last September. That arrest came three months after Luterzo was stopped for not wearing a seat belt and ended up charged with illegally carrying prescription drugs and having drug paraphernalia.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy LODI PD

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