Gotcha! Just-Released Repeat Offender Pinched For Porch Pirating In Franklin Lakes

A repeat offender was caught snatching packages from a trio of mailboxes in a Franklin Lakes neighborhood, authorities said.

Salvatore Cardinale
Photo Credit: *FLPD (BACKGROUND) / BCJ (MUGSHOT)*

Jerry DeMarco

08/30/2023 10:00 a.m.

Officers responding to a call of a trespasser at a Franklin Lakes Road residence grabbed Salvatore Cardinale, 47, of Hackensack on Mulberry Way shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, Capt. Mark McCombs said.

Cardinale, who already had an outstanding warrant from the borough of Middlesex, had only just been released from the Bergen County Jail the day before after being arrested for shoplifting in Paramus over the weekend, records show.

Franklin Lakes police charged him with three counts each of theft and criminal mischief and sent him back to the county lockup.

He remains there while awaiting a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.

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