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SCAM ALERT: ‘Gypsy’ Thieves Are Back, Con Elderly Glen Rock Couple Out Of $18,000 SCAM ALERT: ‘Gypsy’ Thieves Are Back, Con Elderly Glen Rock Couple Out Of $18,000
Scam ALERT: ‘Gypsy’ Thieves Are Back, Con Elderly Glen Rock Couple Out Of $18,000 SEEN IT? “Gypsy” scammers are out again, police warn, pointing to an elderly Glen Rock couple who came thisclose to losing $18,000. The con artists, also called “travelers,” move around the East Coast using scams and diversions to get into people’s pocketbooks. This time, a grifting group coincidentally came to the door of a couple who’d called a legitimate roofing company for help, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. When the couple asked whether they were their contractors, they said they were. They then “proceeded to cover the entire roof with some sort of tar or rubberized as…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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‘Community Vehicle’ Owned By No One Seized By Glen Rock PD, Driver Busted With Stolen ID ‘Community Vehicle’ Owned By No One Seized By Glen Rock PD, Driver Busted With Stolen ID
‘Community Vehicle’ Owned By No One Seized By Glen Rock PD, Driver Busted With Stolen ID Not only did a Paterson driver give Glen Rock police who pulled him over a license created with a stolen ID, authorities said. And not only was the SUV he was driving unregistered and uninsured.  The black 2005 Honda CRV also carried license plates taken from another car and was considered a "community vehicle," they said. Several people from the same neighborhood used the SUV and never bothered to register or insure it, Police Chief Dean Ackermann explained. Felix Montero-Terrero, 44, happened to be behind the wheel when borough Police Officer Jim Donnelly stopped the CRV on Lincoln …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Swastikas Found Scrawled At Glen Rock Middle School Swastikas Found Scrawled At Glen Rock Middle School
Swastikas Found Scrawled At Glen Rock Middle School Detectives were investigating the discovery Thursday morning of two swastikas drawn in pencil in a boy's bathroom at the Glen Rock Middle School, authorities said. School officials contacted them after discovering the symbols in the middle school section of a building that also houses the borough high school, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Detective Sgt. Jim Calaski "made all appropriate notifications," while the school "has also reached out to parents and is following up with the student body," the chief said. "As of this time there is no evidence to support that this incident is relat…

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by Jerry DeMarco