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Police: Warren County Man, 28, Jailed On Home Burglary, Harassment, Disorderly Conduct Charges
A Warren County man accused of a home burglary, harassment and criminal mischief has been jailed, police say.
Bryan Daken, 28, is accused of breaking into a home on the 70 block of S. Lincoln Ave. in Washington Borough around 10:15 a.m. on Feb. 6, township police said.
Daken, of Washington, was arrested at the scene and charged with burglary, trespass, criminal mischief, harassment, disorderly conduct, possession of (CDS) less than 50 grams of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and maintaining a nuisance.
Daken was being held at the Warren County Jail pending a court appearance.
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Lyndhurst PD: Wood-Ridge Driver Kicked, Spit At Officers, Claimed He Had COVID
A drunk driver from Wood-Ridge kicked an off-duty Lyndhurst police lieutenant who stopped him for driving recklessly, then spit on the officer’s backups, claiming he had the coronavirus, authorities said.
A recklessly-driven BMW driven by Joseph Marotta, 37, nearly hit Lt. Paul Haggerty’s car as he turned off Post Avenue onto Stuyvesant Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Friday, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said.
Haggerty alerted headquarters and followed the BMW as it headed back to Post Avenue, he said.
Marotta pulled to the curb near the corner of Post and Willow as backup Officers Joseph White, …
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Make $40,000 Heroin Bust
Palisades Interstate Parkway police seized $40,000 worth of heroin and arrested two people – one of them from Orange County, NY -- after stopping a minivan on the parkway, authorities said.
PIP Police Officer Matthew Levine stopped the Honda Odyssey for a traffic violation in Alpine on Dec. 15, Lt. Jock H. Watkins, Jr. said Friday.
A probable-cause search turned up 4,000 wax folds of heroin, Watkins said.
Arrested, he said, were two passengers: Holly Anne Mead, 32, of Newburgh, who was charged with marijuana possession, and Gabriel Zurita-Bayron, 36, of Philadelphia, who was charged with h…
Tapping A Vein: Route 208 Continues To Deliver Drug Arrests For Franklin Lakes PD
Franklin Lakes police continued to pick accused offenders off Route 208, including four in a little over a day and a half.
Arrested Saturday and later released pending a hearing on possession of Xanax, pot and drug paraphernalia charges were a Queens couple, Ryan Samtamaria, 20, and Andrea Kearney, 18, Capt. John Bakelaar said.
Officer David Blum, who stopped the pair, made another drug arrest on the highway hours earlier, charging Stephen Smith, 39, of Bushkill, PA with possession of heroin and hypodermic needs, Bakelaar said. Smith was released pending a hearing.
The day before, Officer…
Paramus PD: Two More Members Of Auto Theft Ring Caught Returning To Same Neighborhood
Two members of an auto theft ring believed responsible for a rash of vehicle thefts and burglaries in Paramus weren’t tough to find, police said Friday.
Having already seized one suspect before dawn the day before, officers received a call of two suspicious-looking men in the area of Linwood Avenue and Godwin Road around 5:30 a.m., Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
Officer Michael Boccher spotted and stopped Michael Acosta, 18, of Paterson and Edras Mendoza, 20, of Passaic, moments later, Ehrenberg said.
Both told officers they were headed to the Jersey Place home of relatives, but poli…
Cliffside Park PD: North Bergen Thief, 15, Hits Other Teen With Stolen Car
A 15-year-old North Bergen boy driving a stolen car struck another teen in Cliffside Park, then was captured as he tried to flee along with a passenger who'd been involved in a chase-related police shooting last month, authorities said.
The Lexus, stolen out of North Bergen a short time earlier, struck the 17-year-old victim Sunday afternoon in the 300 block of Washington Avenue, Capt. Vincent Capano said.
The driver and his passenger got out, then drove up the block and parked after having words with the victim, Capano said Tuesday.
Responding police officers grabbed the driver, who still…
