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Rockaway Man Snuck Photos Of Woman Under Bathroom Stall At Giralda Farms, Police Say
A 24-year-old Rockaway man was arrested for taking photos of a woman under a bathroom stall at Giralda Farms, authorities said. Joan S. Acosta Gacha snuck the photos while the woman was using the restroom at Giralda Farms, the estate of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, Madison Police Chief Darren P. Dachisen said. Police did not specify where on the property the incident occurred. Acosta-Gacha was charged with invasion of privacy and released pending an appearance in Morris County Superior Court. He was also served a trespass warning barring him from Giralda Farms.
Police & Fire
Owner Of Nutley Tanning Salon Secretly Filmed Clients, Prosecutor Says
The owner of a Nutley tanning salon was arrested on drug possession and other charges, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday. Martino Poli, 38, of Stanhope, owns the Sun of a Beach salon on Franklin Avenue and was being held at the Essex County jail. Police began to investigate the business after a female customer reported seeing a camera lens in the tanning bed she was using. The camera appeared to be recording her, the woman said. Police searched the business Wednesday and found “surreptitious recording devices,” the prosecutor’s office said. Police also allegedly found co…
Police & Fire
After Year In Jail, 'Compulsive' Bergen Cyber-Stalker From Old Tappan Charged Again
A year behind bars apparently made little difference to a convicted “compulsive and repetitive” cyber-stalker from Old Tappan who went after his victim yet again after being released, said authorities who seized him once more on Wednesday. Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 29, spent 364 days in the Bergen County Jail after being convicted of posting fake nude photos and creating bogus social medial accounts of a woman he’d dated nearly seven years earlier. This came after three arrests for similar behavior over a two-year span. The unemployed salesman was released in late October. Bergen County Prosecu…
Police & Fire
Linden Teacher Charged With Using Bathroom Peephole To Watch Sex Act: Report
The head of the math department at Linden High School was arrested by State Police last month for allegedly using a peephole in a bathroom stall to spy on an adjacent stall at a Parkway rest stop, MyCentralJersey reported. Richard Sullivan, 55, was arrested April 17 at the Forked River rest area in Lacey and charged with invasion of privacy and endangering the welfare of a child. The invasion of privacy charge involves observing a sex act without consent, according to court documents cited by MyCentralJersey. He also allegedly admitted to using the peephole on multiple oc…
Police & Fire
Hawthorne Apartment Building Janitor Hid Camera To Spy On Female Tenant, Police Charge
A Hawthorne maintenance man hid a camera in a woman’s apartment, recording her at least four times, said authorities who arrested him. The Hawthorne Square Apartments summoned police to the Forest Avenue complex after finding the camera in the ductwork, Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thursday. Police identified 52-year-old Oscar Martinez as the culprit after checking the camera’s microSD card and finding personal photos of him and his family on it, Hoogmoed said. Martinez, who’s been with the complex since they opened last year, was charged with burglary, criminal mischief and invas…
Police & Fire
Passaic Sheriff: Deli Cook With 1,000+ Child Porn Files Secretly Video'd Bathroom Users
A now-former cook at a Haskell deli who's accused of having more than 1,000 child porn files on his computer recorded videos of three different people with a camera hidden in his bathroom, authorities said. Ricardo Antonio Moya-Cruz, 28, of Pompton Lakes became a target following a tip from the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children that he was trafficking videos and photos of child pornography, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. Sheriff’s detectives armed with a warrant seized more than 1,000 files in a raid on Moya-Cruz’s home on Wednesday, the sheriff said. “A…
Police & Fire
Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School
UPDATE: An Englewood school custodian accidentally recorded himself installing a hidden camera in a Dwight Morrow High School bathroom used by a female night-shift employee, authorities said. Officials had considered canceling classes while police and sheriff's officers continued an hours-long pre-dawn search of the high school and adjoining Janis E. Dismus Middle School campuses for Francisco Jaius Lopez-Martinez, 59, of Bergenfield, who hid out there when he heard police were looking for him. It began when the victim, who is part of the night shift maintenance and cleaning crew that serv…
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Englewood PD: Janitor Mistakenly Recorded Himself Installing Secret Bathroom Cam At High School
UPDATE: An Englewood school custodian accidentally recorded himself installing a hidden camera in a Dwight Morrow High School bathroom used by a female night-shift employee, authorities said. Officials had considered canceling classes while police and sheriff's officers continued an hours-long pre-dawn search of the high school and adjoining Janis E. Dismus Middle School campuses for Francisco Jaius Lopez-Martinez, 59, of Bergenfield, who hid out there when he heard police were looking for him. It began when the victim, who is part of the night shift maintenance and cleaning crew that serv…
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: Budd Lake 'Peeping Tom' Took Cell Phone Video Of Kid Engaged In Sex Act
A 23-year-old man from the Budd Lake section of Mount Olive was arrested after taking a cell phone recording of a juvenile engaged in a sex act, authorities said. Police identified Melquan M. Vargas as a suspect in "peeping Tom" incidents at Hensyn Village apartments that occurred late last year, after he was arrested on charges for possession of more than 50 grams of marijuana, Mount Olive Police said. A search of Vargas' home on Jan. 25 turned up a cell phone video depicting a juvenile in a "prohibited sexual act," along with a pound of marijuana, police said. Vargas was charge…
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Prosecutor: Norwood Peeping Tom Secretly Recorded People Naked
A consultant from Norwood secretly recorded two people naked, said authorities who arrested him Friday on invasion-of-privacy charges. Petro “Peter” Barbounis, 46, who is married, is accused of using a camera “to record two victims depicting them nude and/or sexually explicit without their knowledge or consent,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said. He was released pending a July 18 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Calo thanked Norwood police, as well as officers from the Lyndhurst, Hillsdale and Oradell Police departments who participate in …
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Fort Lee PD: Building Super Climbed Ladder To Peep On Semi-Naked Girl
FORT LEE, N.J. – A Fort Lee building superintendent climbed a ladder to peep into an underage girl’s second-floor window as she was getting dressed, said police who were seeking any other potential victims. Police responding to 1405 Teresa Drive on a Peeping Tom report arrested Luis DeJesus, 53, on invasion of privacy and "peeping Tom" charges, Detective Sgt. Robert Tilton said. He was released pending a March 2 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Tilton urged anyone else who believes they’ve been a victim of a similar crime to contact his depart…
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