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The burglars scattered as police arrived at the corner of Fair Lawn Avenue and River Road shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, Sgt. Eric Eleshewich said.
It was around 6:30 a.m. when officers spotted one of them about a quarter-mile up River Road, the sergeant said.
Seeing them, he ran down to the river, where the officers captured him, Eleshewich said.
Yaniel Diaz Mateo, a 21-year-old Dominican national who lives in Paterson, was charged with robbery, burglary, theft, resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a police officer, the sergeant said.
He remained held Monday in the Bergen County Jail.
Mateo spent nearly a month in the lockup following a July 22 arrest in Hawthorne for receiving stolen property and resisting. A judge freed him on Aug. 18 pending further court action, records show.
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