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Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say
Blood Trail From Stabbing Over Parking Spot Leads To Clifton Ex-Con, Police Say Police who followed a blood trail after a 21-year-old Clifton man was stabbed in the back during a fight over a parking spot identified his assailant as an ex-con who’s already spent several years in prison for a series of violent crimes. Officers followed a blood trail along Van Winkle Avenue toward Passaic after responding to the 9 p.m. stabbing near Lake Avenue, Clifton Police Lt. Robert Anderson said. They were quickly joined by a K9 team and crime scene detectives from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, he said. The officers began reviewing surveillance video along the trail and saw …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Wheelchair-Bound Mugger, Partner Rob Clifton Supermarket Shopper Police: Wheelchair-Bound Mugger, Partner Rob Clifton Supermarket Shopper
Police: Wheelchair-Bound Mugger, Partner Rob Clifton Supermarket Shopper Two homeless men – one of them confined to a wheelchair -- mugged a Clifton resident coming out of a local supermarket, authorities said. Piotr Waszkiewica, 39, and wheelchair-bound Guy Shane Crocker, 53, approached the 66-year-old victim outside the Exito Supermarket in Botany Square on Tuesday and demanded $20, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. When he refused, Waszkiewica and Crocker hit him, threw him to the ground and rifled through his pockets, taking $100, Bracken said. The took off, leaving the victim with facial injuries, he said. Detectives identified and arrested the pair Wedn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Clifton PD: One Robbery Victim Pistol-Whipped Returning From Work, Other Stabbed After Church Clifton PD: One Robbery Victim Pistol-Whipped Returning From Work, Other Stabbed After Church
Clifton PD: One Robbery Victim Pistol-Whipped Returning From Work, Other Stabbed After Church A Clifton resident returning home before dawn was pistol-whipped and beaten unconscious by two masked robbers, said city police who sought witnesses. The 30-something victim, who was hospitalized with severe cuts on his face and head, told police he was attacked as he got out of his car on Fair Hill Road around 5:15 a.m. Sunday. One of the robbers hit him with a handgun during the beating, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. At one point, the victim apparently lost consciousness, Bracken said. His attackers then fled in at least one vehicle, he said. A Clifton Fire Department ambulance too…

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by Jerry DeMarco