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140 Shopping Carts Stolen From Rochelle Park ShopRite: Man, 77, Younger Pal Busted 140 Shopping Carts Stolen From Rochelle Park ShopRite: Man, 77, Younger Pal Busted
140 Shopping Carts Stolen From Rochelle Park ShopRite: Man, 77, Younger Pal Busted A 77-year-old Cuban national and a middle-aged accomplice from Newark were arrested after 140 shopping carts were stolen from the Rochelle Park ShopRite over the course of two weeks, authorities said. The carts began vanishing from the parking lot of the West Passaic Street supermarket on March 27, Rochelle Park Police Capt. James M. DePreta said.By early this week, 140 were gone, the captain said. Total value: $28,000 (or $200 per).  Reviewing surveillance video with supermarket security, Rochelle Park Detective Sgt. Jared Shatkin and Detective Nick Mercoun identified a distinctive r…
Ex-Con Charged By FBI With Igniting Explosive Outside Passaic County ATM Ex-Con Charged By FBI With Igniting Explosive Outside Passaic County ATM
Ex-Con Charged By FBI With Igniting Explosive Outside Passaic County ATM A career criminal from Passaic County who's been busted dozens of times in North Jersey in just the past few years used an explosive device to damage an ATM, federal authorities charged. Nicolas Torres, 41, of Passaic, has amassed a lengthy rap sheet over much of his adult life, mostly involving business break-ins that local police and county prosecutors have dealt with. This time, though, the FBI's got him. Torres was captured on surveillance video igniting the device in front of the Chase Bank ATM on North 6th Street in Prospect Park in the early morning hours of July 5, 2022, U.S. Attor…
Newark Police Car Struck, Stolen Car Thieves Captured After Crash In Garfield Newark Police Car Struck, Stolen Car Thieves Captured After Crash In Garfield
Newark Police Car Struck, Stolen Car Thieves Captured After Crash In Garfield A driver wanted for hitting a police cruiser with a stolen BMW was nabbed by Garfield police after he crashed into a pole, igniting a fire, and took off on foot, authorities said. Garfield police spotted the orange 2020 BMW M4 shortly before noon Wednesday, March 27, after colleagues from Newark who were tracking the vehicle via GPS pointed them to Prospect Street after one of their vehicles was hit, Capt. Mario Pozo said. Garfield Police Officer Noah Murphy tried stopping the sedan moments later, the captain said, but the driver threw it in reverse, hit the gas and accidentally slammed int…
SEEN IT? Report Of Child Climbing Into Car Trunk Sparks Fruitless Search In Bergen County SEEN IT? Report Of Child Climbing Into Car Trunk Sparks Fruitless Search In Bergen County
Seen IT? Report Of Child Climbing Into Car Trunk Sparks Fruitless Search In Bergen County A man's claim that he saw a child climb into the trunk of a woman's car in the Pascack Valley section of Bergen County sparked an intense but fruitless area search, police said. The citizen told Washington Township police that he saw a white woman who appeared to be in her mid-30s get out of a dark red or maroon Toyota sedan in the 600 block of Chestnut Street around 4:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Corporal Christopher Osenbruck said. The woman walked to the back of the vehicle and helped what appeared to be a grade school-aged child into the trunk, the corporal said. The citizen told police t…
Man Masturbates In Front Of Woman At Englewood CVS, Flees On Electric Scooter Man Masturbates In Front Of Woman At Englewood CVS, Flees On Electric Scooter
Man Masturbates In Front Of Woman At Englewood CVS, Flees On Electric Scooter Authorities sought the public's help identifying a bearded man who masturbated in front of a woman in an Englewood CVS and then fled on an electric scooter. The woman apparently had turned down an aisle when the man exposed himself at the CVS on West Palisades Avenue shortly before 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 1, Englewood Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. He then ran out a back door to the parking lot during the commotion, got onto an e-bike and fled, the lieutenant said. The man was described as in his 20s, with an average height and build and a beard, he said. ANYONE who saw or knows the man is as…
COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder COLD CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder
Cold CASE: Answers Sought In Escaped Inmate's 1976 PA Murder Nearly half a century after his body was located on the side of a Bucks County highway, investigators are still seeking Terrance Schonleber's killer.  The 25-year-old was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds on the north shoulder of Interstate 276 in Upper Southampton on July 15, 1976, state police detectives say.  During the initial investigation, police learned that Schonleber "was involved in criminal activity" with various "associates" in New Jersey and greater Philadelphia, troopers said.  At the time he died, police said the 25-year-old was wanted in the Garden S…
NY Fugitive Wanted For Trashing GF's Bogota Apartment, Pulling Fire Alarm Caught, Brought To NJ NY Fugitive Wanted For Trashing GF's Bogota Apartment, Pulling Fire Alarm Caught, Brought To NJ
NY Fugitive Wanted For Trashing GF's Bogota Apartment, Pulling Fire Alarm Caught, Brought To NJ A Bronx resident who trashed his girlfriend's Bogota garden apartment and then pulled a fire alarm that emptied the complex was extradited to New Jersey to face charges, authorities said. That could be problematic, however. Officers called to the scene chased Erison J. Borbon, 28, as he sped away from the River Road apartment complex in a 2010 BMW late close to midnight on Dec. 4, 2022, Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said. The excessive speed convinced them to terminate the pursuit out of concerns for public safety, Cole said. Police charged Borbon with circulating a false report of impending …
AGAIN AND AGAIN: Allendale Ex-Con Freed After Two Years Charged In Ramsey, Ho-Ho-Kus Burglaries AGAIN AND AGAIN: Allendale Ex-Con Freed After Two Years Charged In Ramsey, Ho-Ho-Kus Burglaries
Again AND Again: Allendale Ex-Con Freed After Two Years Charged In Ramsey, Ho-Ho-Kus Burglaries A Bergen County ex-con with a violent history had been free all of two days when he started up again, authorities said. Justinian Rocco, 25, of Allendale was released from custody only two weeks ago. He’d spent two years behind bars for laying down on a railroad track, stopping NJ Transit service and fighting with police who arrested him. Rocco is already back in the Bergen County Jail, charged with more than a half-dozen burglaries and break-in attempts in Ramsey and Ho-Ho-Kus. The career criminal got into a frenzied brawl with responding officers in a waist-high stream -- biting and kick…
Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police
Ex-Con Runs Out Of Gas, Gets 'Ride' From Lyndhurst Police An ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet was walking with a gas can in the middle of the afternoon when a Lyndhurst police officer pulled up and asked where he was headed. Antwon Cooper, 43, of Hillside, NJ told Officer Matthew Giunta that his Hyundai Sonata had run out of gas just up the road. Cooper ended up getting a ride -- to police headquarters. What he didn't know was that Giunta had already found the abandoned vehicle on Polito Avenue and began investigating, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. The Hyundai had a temporary California license plate that didn't match the VIN number on the d…
UPDATE: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson UPDATE: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson
Update: Ex-Con Charged In Horrific SUV Crash That Killed One, Injured Others In Paterson A Florida ex-con with a massive criminal record was driving an SUV that killed one pedestrian and injured several others in a horrific crash in downtown Paterson, authorities revealed. Harold Rasbin, 31, already had grand theft auto convictions on his record – as well as a string of arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and assault dating back to when he was 15 – when a police officer responding to a call of an attempted break-in spotted him shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said. Rasbin took off on foot, hopped into a Honda that had been left running on Oliver Street and sped off…
NJ Cancer Nurse Dies After Being Knocked Down By Homeless Mugger In Times Square NJ Cancer Nurse Dies After Being Knocked Down By Homeless Mugger In Times Square
NJ Cancer Nurse Dies After Being Knocked Down By Homeless Mugger In Times Square A cancer nurse from New Jersey died after a day and a half of fighting for her life, after being knocked down by muggers in Times Square. Maria Ambrocio, 58 -- who worked at Bayonne Medical Center -- was walking through Times Square with friends after a trip to the  Philippines Consulate and lunch around 1:30 p.m., the New York Post reports. Meanwhile, Jermaine Foster grabbed a cell phone out of a 29-year-old woman's hands on West 41st Street and Broadway, then shoved Ambrocio to the ground while he fled, police said. Ambrocio was rushed to Bellevue with head trauma, and was pronounced de…
Authorities: Fleeing Thief Crashes Vehicle Into Bus In Teaneck, Captured By Bogota PD Authorities: Fleeing Thief Crashes Vehicle Into Bus In Teaneck, Captured By Bogota PD
Authorities: Fleeing Thief Crashes Vehicle Into Bus In Teaneck, Captured By Bogota PD A thief who crashed his car into a bus while fleeing Teaneck police was captured by their colleagues from Bogota, authorities said. Jamaal Bertrand had just walked past officers responding to a fraud attempt at a township T-Mobile store late Wednesday afternoon when an employee pointed him out, Deputy Police Chief John Faggello said. Bertrand, 34, of Williamstown, bolted as they approached -- but was later spotted Officer Melissa Terpstra as she drove by on Cedar Lane, Faggello said. Bertrand, who’d removed his sweatshirt in an attempt to elude police, “ducked behind a bush after seeing Of…
Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say
Man In $1M Meth Lab Bust, Pal Put Dead Body Under NJ Family's Doghouse, Police Say Two Sussex County ex-cons have been accused of relocating human remains found in a Hopatcong home to a doghouse underneath a deck, authorities said. Brian Cheda-Hackembruch, 25, of Andover Township (who you may remember from his involvement in a $1 million meth lab raid), and Matthew R. Thomas, 27, of Newton had found the body of an individual who died of a medical emergency in a Hopatcong home, Andover Township police said. Instead of notifying officials, the pair loaded the victim into the trunk of his or her own vehicle, then hired a towing company to move the car to a street near West L…
Police Bust Massive Drug Operation In North Jersey Hotel Room Netting 6 Arrests, Heroin, Coke Police Bust Massive Drug Operation In North Jersey Hotel Room Netting 6 Arrests, Heroin, Coke
Police Bust Massive Drug Operation In North Jersey Hotel Room Netting 6 Arrests, Heroin, Coke Two women in the process of dumping cocaine into a hotel room sink drain were interrupted by police who found MDMA, heroin, suboxone and other drug paraphernalia, Secaucus police said. Police were conducting a "park and walk" in the Harmon Meadow area of Secaucus when someone notified them of possible nefarious activity inside one of the rooms on Feb. 16, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. After a week-long investigation, police went into the hotel room whree Ana Roman and Tracy Eayres were in the process of dumping cocaine into a sink drain, Miller said. A search of the room turned…
Wallington Police Chief Gets In On Action Again, Helps Nab Wanted Garfield Ex-Con Wallington Police Chief Gets In On Action Again, Helps Nab Wanted Garfield Ex-Con
Wallington Police Chief Gets In On Action Again, Helps Nab Wanted Garfield Ex-Con Never one to be confined to a desk, Wallington Police Chief Carmello Imbruglia once again assisted his officers in capturing a wanted offender. The alert went out after ex-con Adam Jaworski of Garfield snatched two bottles of Johnnie Walker black from a local liquor store and fled on a bicycle during Monday’s snowstorm, Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Imbruglia stopped Jaworski – who was wearing an orange winter hat and black jacket and face mask – across the street from police headquarters after hearing a description from Officer Szymon Popek, Kudlacik said. Jaworski, 28, suddenly bolted but w…
SEEN THEM? Warrants Issued For 8 North Jersey Men In Newark Shootings SEEN THEM? Warrants Issued For 8 North Jersey Men In Newark Shootings
Seen Them? Warrants Issued For 8 North Jersey Men In Newark Shootings Newark police issued warrants for the arrests of eight men wanted in separate shooting incidents. The following individuals are wanted on various charges, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. Jeromy Lockett, 31, of Newark, wanted on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a weapon and conspiracy.  Ronald Robinson, 54, of Bloomfield Jerrell Darvin, 28, of Irvington Terrance Gadson, 28, of Phillipsburg Alrahim Claiborne, 27, of Newark, and Travis Rogers are each being sought for separate incidents on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a weapon an…
Police: Bogus Contractors Solicit 'Way Too Much Money' From NJ Homeowners In New Scam Police: Bogus Contractors Solicit 'Way Too Much Money' From NJ Homeowners In New Scam
Police: Bogus Contractors Solicit 'Way Too Much Money' From NJ Homeowners In New Scam A group of people posing as contractors approached a North Jersey home and tried scamming the owners out of money, prompting local police to issue a warning. The group stopped at a Florham Park home Wednesday, Aug. 26 and offered to do driveway and masonry work for the owners, local police said on Facebook. Since the incident, the group has tried to scam the homeowners out of “too much money to even mention,” police said. “These solicitors were not authorized and are part of a criminal element whose mere presence often delegitimizes our honest, legal contractors." Anyone with informa…
Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects
Bergen Sheriff's Officer, PalPark Police Nab Overnight East Bergen Burglary Suspects A Bergen County sheriff’s officer helped Palisades Park police capture a pair of burglars who authorities said have been breaking into vehicles in East Bergen overnight. Sheriff’s Officer Michael Griffin was on patrol around 3 a.m. Saturday when he heard an alert and spotted borough resident Christopher Bueno, 22, and Dakota Cirelli, 19, of Elmwood Park on 10th Street. Griffin grabbed the two, who were arrested by borough police, said Capt. Anthony Muccio, the officer in charge of the department. Each was charged with four counts of attempted vehicle burglary and turned over to Cliffside P…
RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS RECOGNIZE HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS
Recognize HIM? Mugger Flees With Wallet From Elmwood Park CVS Police turned to the public for help finding a mugger who wrested a wallet from an Elmwood Park CVS customer, injuring him, before fleeing Friday afternoon. The robber lost a pair of Nike flip flops that he was wearing when he accosted the victim in the vestibule of the Market Street pharmacy just after noon, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He was also wearing a sleeveless black tank top with the word "Proven" on the front, shorts and a black cap, Foligno said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Criminal Identification was processing the footwear and an iced tea bottle the robber had…
Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising
Garfield PD: Ex-Con Who Ran After Car Burglary Claims He Was Just Exercising A Morris County ex-con chased down by Garfield police after a vehicle burglary told them he was running to get some exercise, authorities said. Officer Nicholas Kopacz spotted Scott P. Cuskaden, 48, in a River Drive parking lot Wednesday night minutes after a man who fit his description broke into a vehicle on nearby Hobart Place, Capt. Richard Uram said. Cuskaden took off as Officer Jonathan Librizzi pulled into the parking lot in his marked police vehicle, the captain said. Librizzi chased down Cuskaden, who told the officer that he’d begun running for exercise, Uram said. Cuskaden, of …
Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft
Hackensack PD: Fleeing Ex-Con Who Tried Climbing Into Ex's Window Falls 4 Floors Down Air Shaft A Hackensack ex-con fell four stories down an air shaft while trying to escape police after trying to climb into his ex-girlfriend's window before dawn Sunday, authorities said. Alec Parker, 34, climbed a fire escape and was trying to get into his ex-girlfriend’s Main Street apartment when responding officers arrived shortly after 4:30 a.m., Detective Capt. Darrin DeWitt said. They tried to talk with him, but Parker fled up the fire escape to the roof, then entered the stairwell and forced his way into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment, DeWitt said. He then ran into her bathroom and through t…
CRIME SPREE: Habitual Hackensack Teen Offender Charged In New Milford Police Pursuit, Car Theft CRIME SPREE: Habitual Hackensack Teen Offender Charged In New Milford Police Pursuit, Car Theft
Crime Spree: Habitual Hackensack Teen Offender Charged In New Milford Police Pursuit, Car Theft An 18-year-old Hackensack man charged in a weekend Bergen County crime spree led New Milford police on a stolen car chase, authorities said. Denys Ludizaca was driving the 2011 Toyota Camry reported stolen out of Hackensack when Officer Edward Trinkleback tried to pull him over on Madison avenue shortly before 10:30 p.m. Sunday for failing to use his directional signal, they said. Ludizaca “disregarded the officer’s signals to stop and turned down multiple side streets,” Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said Wednesday. He eventually pulled over, then hopped out of the car along with a 16-yea…
RECOGNIZE HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft RECOGNIZE HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft
Recognize HER? Police Seek Help In $1,445 UGGs Mall Theft Authorities sought the public's help Wednesday finding a woman who they said used a Glen Rock resident's ID and credit card to buy $1,445 worth of UGG boots at the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne. The woman in the photos (above and below) walked out with 10 pairs of boots from the Lord & Taylor store at the mall shortly before 8 p.m. Feb. 15, a Saturday, Glen Rock police said. She was described as 20 to 30 years old, with glasses and apparently braided hair. Surveillance images of the suspected thief.Glen Rock PD Anyone who knows or sees her is asked to contact Glen Rock Police Detective…
Elizabeth PD Sets Up 'Safe Zone' For Completing Online Purchases Elizabeth PD Sets Up 'Safe Zone' For Completing Online Purchases
Elizabeth PD Sets Up 'Safe Zone' For Completing Online Purchases Making purchases or selling items online is convenient for many, but also carries risks when that anonymous stranger contacted on a buy-and-sell website turns out to be a criminal.  To combat this type of crime, the Elizabeth Police Department has created a Safe Exchange Zone in front of its headquarters at 1 Police Plaza, In addition to its proximity to the police station, the area itself is under full-time surveillance.  There have been a number of robberies as online purchases through sites like Craigslist and Facebook have increased in popularity, often with "sellers" luring b…