Police nab Fairview, North Bergen ‘diversion’ burglars

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: Fairview and North Bergen police teamed up with investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to nab a crew of thieves who they say committed a string of “diversionary burglaries” in which one of them kept a homeowner occupied while the others ransacked the victims’ homes.

Jerry DeMarco

08/31/2012 6:37 a.m.

MUGSHOTS: Fairview PD

After quickly assembling an ad hoc to task force to investigate the thefts in both municipalities, authorities stopped a red Jeep Liberty with Michigan license plates on Wednesday on Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen, Fairview Police Chief Frank DelVecchio told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

One of the occupants — later identified as 42-year-old Hank Miller — tried to run but was quickly caught, the chief said.

Also arrested were Luigi Frank, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tony Miller, 40, of Queens. Both were charged with various crimes.

Hank Miller, 42, of Michigan was charged in North Bergen with eluding, resisting arrest, crime of gang criminality, three counts of burglary and theft, and a fugitive from justice warrant out of Michigan. He also was charged with burglary and theft by deception in Fairview.

He is being held on $150,000 bail for the North Bergen charges and $75,000 for the Fairview charges at the Hudson County Jail.

Tony Miller was being held on the same amount.

Luigi Frank was being held on $75,000 bail.

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