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City police responding to 1 a.m. disturbance call at a local home last week found Sughuy Cepeda, 43, there in violation of a temporary restraining order, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
Formerly of Cliffside Park and the Fort George section of Washington Heights, the 5-foot-3-inch, 215-pound Cepeda has a recent history of run-ins for which she’s been jailed no fewer than a half-dozen times in barely two years
Records show assault and harassment charges, family court issues and traffic violations in several towns – among them, Teaneck, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Bogota and Hackensack.
Several of those times she’s been booked into the Bergen County Jail only to have a judge order her released soon after.
Things escalated dramatically last month, when authorities said Cepeda spit a mouthful of water on two Englewood police officers, coughed at them and claimed she had the coronavirus when they arrested her for violating a TRO.
Authorities charged her with several second-degree counts of making terroristic threats and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers – as well as with assaulting an EMT.
A judge released her four days later.
Cepeda remained held in the jail Monday – a full week after her arrest -- pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. She’s charged with making terroristic threats during an emergency and contempt of a domestic violence order.
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