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Police: Accomplice Of Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Surrenders Police: Accomplice Of Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Surrenders
Police: Accomplice Of Package Thief Who Attacked Postal Carrier In Englewood Surrenders UPDATE: The accomplice of a man who mugged a postal carrier in broad daylight on a busy downtown Englewood street last month surrendered after learning that he was wanted, authorities said. Christopher Sosa Lopez, 28, whose most recent address is in Englewood, was charged with robbery in connection with the Feb. 10 assault, Capt. Fred Pulice said. Lopez had driven Ronald A. Benitez Santana, a 31-year-old Dominican national who lives in the Bronx, to the postal annex on Smith Street earlier that day, Pulice said. Officers responding to a call of two suspicious men casing the facility found…

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FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street
Fierce Struggle: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street SEE ANYTHING? An Englewood postal carrier escaped serious injury Thursday in a knockdown, broad-daylight struggle with a strong-arm robber now being sought by police. The assailant was so intent on intercepting a particular package that he apparently staked out the local postal annex earlier in the day and then took cellphone photos of the contents of the carrier's truck while it was parked outside a downtown residential/commercial building on West Palisade Avenue. An employee at the Towne Centre at Englewood alerted the carrier to the stranger, Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. "Can I help you…

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Fair Lawn Detective Continues To Nail Mailbox Check Thieves Fair Lawn Detective Continues To Nail Mailbox Check Thieves
Fair Lawn Detective Continues To Nail Mailbox Check Thieves He did it again: A Fair Lawn detective continues to bust people cashing checks stolen from a local post office drop box. Once again, the missing item -- a cashier's check for $6,600 -- had been mailed at the Radburn Post Office. And once again, Detective Paul Donohue traced it. Donohue arrested 20-year-old Miguel Ortiz of Paterson, who "admitted to cashing the check into an ATM machine for another [person]," Sgt. Brian Metzler. Ortiz was released pending a court hearing on charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property. Meanwhile, an investigation was continuing. In recent …

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by Jerry DeMarco