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Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves
Police: Saddle Brook Detective Outwits Walmart Electronics Thieves Saddle Brook police tracked down two men who they said loaded a pair of shopping carts with home theater equipment and assorted household items and tossed them into the back of a U-Haul parked right outside a Walmart fire exit. Brendan Hunt, 43, of Garfield and Gerard Hill, 53, of Passaic left the truck there for a quick getaway from the Route 46 store around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Detective Capt. John Zotollo said. They got onto westbound Route 46 and apparently seemed free and clear. Saddle Brook Detective Robert Littlejohn changed all that when he went to a Passaic spot where thieves often…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
'Help Me! Help Me!': Former Marine Surrenders To SWAT In Second Bergen Hotel Standoff In Month 'Help Me! Help Me!': Former Marine Surrenders To SWAT In Second Bergen Hotel Standoff In Month
'Help Me! Help Me!': Former Marine Surrenders To SWAT In Second Bergen Hotel Standoff In Month A SWAT team standoff at a Saddle Brook motel ended Friday night with the arrest of a former Marine from Somerset County who'd been seized with a gun by the same unit at an Elmwood Park hotel last month. Ronnie Shertel, 37, of Hillsborough called 911 from the Crowne Plaza hotel off Route 80 in Saddle Brook around 10:30 p.m. Friday, saying he'd heard shots in the next room, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. "Help me! Help me!" he shouted before hanging up, Kugler said. When police arrived, Shertel shouted from inside for them to break down the door, the chief said. They established a perimet…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel
Police: Fleeing Peeping Tom Clips Victim With Car Outside South Hackensack Motel A peeping Tom caught looking into the windows of a South Hackensack motel room while a couple was having sex clipped one of the victims with his car as he fled, authorities said. Eduardo Moreno was "peering into motel room windows where the curtains were not shut all the way and watching the occupants" at the Congress Inn on Route 46 around 2:45 a.m. Feb. 22, Deputy Police Chief Robert Kaiser said. One of the occupants chased after him and was grazed as Moreno drove off, Kaiser said. Police tracked down an arrested Moreno, a Mexican national living in Passaic, on Sunday. He was charged wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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South Hackensack Detectives ID, Bust Accused Burglar South Hackensack Detectives ID, Bust Accused Burglar
South Hackensack Detectives ID, Bust Accused Burglar South Hackensack detectives cracked the theft of a laptop during a local burglary when they arrested a career criminal from Paterson who was staying at an area motel, authorities said. Detective Sgt. James Donatello began by reviewing surveillance video after the victim reported the $2,500 Apple laptop stolen from a vehicle parked outside a local home the night of Feb. 17, Deputy Police Chief Robert Kaiser said. Donatello and Detective Brian Kropp identified their suspect as Angel Colon, 56. He'd been staying at the Stagecoach Motel on Route 46 the night of the break-in, Kaiser said. As i…

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by Jerry DeMarco