Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released
Rochelle Park PD: Mailbox Check Thief Caught, Released Fighting the recent rash of nationwide postal box thefts, Rochelle Park detectives said they nabbed a man who deposited a check swiped from a burglarized postal box. As with nearly all of the recent area arrests in these types of cases, the defendant is from Paterson. It began In late November 2018, when two boxes outside the borough post office on Rochelle Avenue were broken into and several pieces of mail stolen – particularly checks, Detective Sgt. James DePreta said. Last month, a resident told police a check sent to her credit card company never arrived, DePreta said. Investigators w…
Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again
Oakland PD: Accused Counterfeiter Released Under Bail Reform Does It Again Only a month after he was busted with more than $650 in counterfeit $10 and $20 bills in Haworth, a Fairview man was caught by an Oakland detective with what authorities said was nearly $1,000 in bogus bills -- along with recent purchase receipts from several area stores.Andrew Lochard, 29, has a criminal record that also includes arrests in 2017 on forgery and money laundering charges in Hillsdale and falsely claiming to have a bomb in Paramus. JB Pet Supply summoned Oakland police Monday after Lochard tried passing a phony $20 bill, Detective Lt. Christian Eldridge said. Soon after, Eldri…
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation
Suicide Call Leads New Milford Police To Basement Pot-Growing Operation A suicide call led New Milford police to a pot-growing operation in the basement of a local home. Officers were originally called to do a welfare check on a woman at a River Road home, Detective Lt. Kevin Van Saders said. The woman answered the door -- not telling police that she was the one who made the call -- then directed them to the basement. There they found her brother, 48-year-old Victor A. Collado, and “detected an odor of raw marijuana,” Van Saders said. On a table in plain view was pot, the lieutenant said. Collado admitted growing the weed, then showed the officers “a climate…
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest
Wallington Drug Raid Produces Cocaine, Cash, Arrest A Polish national had roughly $3,000 worth of cocaine for sale in his Wallington home, said authorities who arrested him. Arkadiusz Krupinski, 30, “became a target after detectives received a tip that he was selling cocaine from his Anderson Avenue home,” Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said. Besides the cocaine, detectives seized nearly $1,700 in drug proceeds during a warranted raid on Saturday involving a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team and a county sheriff’s K-9 unit, Kudlacik said. A judge ordered Krupinski’s release on Tuesday, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform law, after two days in the Ber…
Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In
Wayne Schools Locked Down: Fugitive Burglar, Accomplice Caught After Home Break-In One burglar claimed he’d been carjacked while another fought furiously with police who chased him down after the pair broke into a Wayne home and stole a TV, jewelry and watches, authorities said. Area schools were locked down after a neighbor reported the Sherwood Street burglary just before noon Friday, Detective Capt. Laurence Martin said. Off-duty Detective Mike Polifrone was leaving an extra-duty assignment when he spotted the burglars’ fleeing car and pulled it over on Alps Road at McDonald Drive, Martin said. In the back seat of the beige Honda Accord he saw a Vizio TV. The lone oc…
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts
Blame Key Fobs: Fort Lee PD Nabs Seven Teens In 17 Vehicle Burglaries, Four Auto Thefts Fort Lee police cracked a rash of vehicle burglaries and thefts by seizing seven Hudson County teens – three of them 16 and one 15, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 17 break-ins and four outright thefts of automobiles were reported over a 10-day span in August in Fort Lee alone, Capt. Matthew Hintze said, adding that others were reported in neighboring Cliffside Park, Palisades Park, Ridgefield Park and Leonia. Blame key fobs, he said. “Although this technology has added a level of convenience, it has also created opportunities for criminals to burglarize and steal vehicles without hav…
Clifton Police Chase Bentley Stolen From Garfield Gas Station, Nab Driver After Newark Crash Clifton Police Chase Bentley Stolen From Garfield Gas Station, Nab Driver After Newark Crash
Clifton Police Chase Bentley Stolen From Garfield Gas Station, Nab Driver After Newark Crash A Clifton police chase that began after a thief stole an unoccupied Bentley convertible while it was being gassed up in Garfield ended soon after it crashed in Newark, authorities said. Officers Zakaria Bernardo and Matthew Fernandes were on patrol on Route 3 near Route 21 just after 3:30 p.m. Monday when they heard an alert that the car was stolen from a Wawa on Jewell Street – and that the nozzle from the gas pump might still be attached, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. Moments later, they spotted the Bentley speeding down southbound Route 21, he said The officers tried to get the dri…
Judge Frees Duo After NJSP Seizes $375,000 Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Storage Unit Judge Frees Duo After NJSP Seizes $375,000 Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Storage Unit
Judge Frees Duo After Njsp Seizes $375,000 Heroin, Coke In Fair Lawn Storage Unit Two men whom State Police said they nabbed with $375,000 worth of heroin and cocaine stashed in a Fair Lawn storage facility were ordered released by a judge after less than a week in jail, under New Jersey's 2017 bail reform law. Detectives from the NJSP’s Central and North Trafficking Units stopped Wellington Moya, 44, of New York, N.Y., who was driving a Toyota Camry, and Douglas Watson, 41, of Hawthorne, who was driving a Range Rover, as they entered the Wagaraw Road storage facility on Aug. 31, State Police said. During the stop, they said, troopers discovered more than two pounds of c…
Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room
Mahwah PD: Rockland Man Ran Credit Card Theft Scam From Hotel Room A Rockland man who checked into a Mahwah hotel with a stolen credit card was printing up bogus cards there, said police who busted him after being alerted by a manager. Davidson Gilot, 26, of Spring Valley was running “a complex scam” from the hotel room – but was sniffed out after he tried to pay for an additional night with the stolen card, Chief James N. Batelli said. Gilot bought legitimate credit card numbers off the dark web and stole other numbers, all of which he entered into a credit card reader “to identify an individual's name and information associated with those numbers,” the c…
Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood
Mahwah Police Find Pot Grow Room, Arrest Resident And Friend From Englewood Mahwah police searching for a man who’d fled a previous arrest found a pot-growing operation at his home, authorities said. They arrested Michael Deans at his Pine Hill Road home along with Jordan Winfree of Englewood, both 29, after a warranted search turned up marijuana package for resale, high-concentrate THC oil and a pot grow room, Police Chief James N. Batelli said Thursday. Deans was wanted for having pot for sale in a school zone and fleeing police, among other offenses, when Detective Sgt. Kevin Hebert and Detectives Michael Grassi, and Eric Larsen went to his home to serve an arre…
Prosecutor: Drug Sting Nets Unemployed Teaneck Dealer, 20 Prosecutor: Drug Sting Nets Unemployed Teaneck Dealer, 20
Prosecutor: Drug Sting Nets Unemployed Teaneck Dealer, 20 An unemployed Teaneck man was busted after selling pot and cocaine to an undercover detective several times, authorities said. Thomas Johnson, 20, was targeted following a tip that he was dealing, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Thursday. A series of undercover buys followed before investigators arrested Johnson on Tuesday and charged him with a single count each of distributing each drug, Calo said. A Central Judicial Processing Court judge in Hackensack released him from the Bergen County Jail less than 24 hours later, with conditions, under New Jersey’s 2017 bail reform…
Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative
Paterson Drug Raid: 3 Young Children Turned Over To Relative Three young children who were home during a Paterson drug raid were turned over to a relative after authorities found three pounds of pot, several bags of cocaine and dozens of Oxycodone. Members of the Paterson Police Narcotics Division who’d been watching the second-floor River Street residence and detached garage for weeks also seized more than $40,000 in drug money while arresting Rafael Rosario, 35, and Jessica Madera, 27, Police Director Jerry Speziale said. Investigators and uniformed officers hit the home around 1:30 a.m. last Friday and found the youngsters – ages 9, 8 and 3 – alon…