Police: Clifton Detective Cracks Car Burglary String With Arrest

CLIFTON, N.J. -- Clifton police cracked a series of overnight car burglaries with the arrest of a Passaic man, authorities said Monday.

Jerry DeMarco

03/13/2017 9:21 a.m.

Thomas Hansen, 22, was already in the Passaic County Jail, having been arrested Feb. 21 on drug charges, when Detective Alex Zamora connected him to more than a dozen car break-ins reported in a four- to five-block radius of the Rosemawr section a few days before.

Hansen was charged with 15 counts of burglary, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said.

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