Uber Driver, Accomplices Stage Knifepoint Holdup Of Passenger At Saddle Brook Hotel: Prosecutor
An Uber passenger was robbed at knifepoint outside a Saddle Brook hotel by a man who’d conspired with the female driver and another accomplice to hold him up, authorities said.
Uber driver Karina Eremyan, 30, of Fair Lawn was behind the wheel when ex-con Antonio Bowen, 28, of Fair Lawn put a knife to the passenger’s neck in the parking lot of the Crowne Plaza Saddle Brook hotel off Route 80 around 3:30 a.m. March 23, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Bowen forced the fare to turn over his backpack, which contained $3,000 and other undisclosed items, the prosecutor said Friday.
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Death Of Woman, 42, With Pets In Saddle Brook Doesn't Appear Suspicious, Authorities Say
A 42-year-old woman and some of her pets were found dead amid extreme hoarding conditions in her Saddle Brook home on Monday, responders said.
Firefighters had to rip the front door off the East Lanza Court residence to gain entry, witnesses said.
What appeared to be the smell of ammonia prompted a call for a hazardous materials unit, they added.
A "large number" of pets, several of them dead and some barely alive, were found, along with numerous cages, trash, litter and debris, responders said.
Police cordoned off the area around the house with crime-scene tape.
However, there appears t…
