January 14, 2015 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVII, No. 34
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Man charged in New Year burglary HARRISON – Harrison PD believes it has located – with help from the Newark PD – the suspect who broke into a local liquor store during the early hours of the New Year. At 4 p.m. on Jan. 1, police responded to Fulger’s Golden Liquor Store, Harrison and Davis Aves., where someone had shattered the glass front door with a brickto get inside and removed two cash registers and cartons of cigarettes before fleeing. Fortunately, the image of the suspect, described as a black man with a hoodie, was captured by the store’s surveillance camera and, according to Harrison PD’s Det. Sgt. Dave Doyle, police quickly sent out a still shot and an account of the break-in as an APB.net, a digital flier, to all police jurisdictions throughout the state. And, Doyle said, that same day, Harrison PD got a response from Wharton PD in Morris County advising that a man who appeared to be a match of the suspect’s photo was wanted by Roxbury PD, also in Morris. The man being sought by Roxbury was listed as Keith A. Herbert, 46, of Newark, Doyle said. “We were also called by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office, Bergen County Prossee BURGLAR page
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Robbery attempt backfires By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
grabbed a baseball bat and began swatting the robber. The two employees managed to disarm him. The ski mask came off. The emKEARNY – ployees recognized him as a “somewo feisty service station what regular” customer. They tried attendants not only refused to be cowed by an armed rob- to restrain him and keep him on ber, they battered him into submis- the premises, but he managed to escape, running east on Belgrove. sion and recovered the money he Officer John Travellino, Sgt. John had taken, Kearny police reported. Becker and Dets. Scott Traynor The panicked perp high-tailed it and Ray Lopez responded to the down the road, but he was arrested employees’ 911 call and were able the following day. to identify the suspect, police said. Police said the saga began at 11:22 They also recovered DNA evidence p.m., Saturday, Jan. 3, when a ski-blood from the baseball-batted masked man approached an attendant at the pumps at Steve’s Exxon culprit. The next day, Traynor, Lopez, at Passaic Ave. and Belgrove Drive, Det. John Telle and Sgt. Pete Gleapulled a large knife and demanded son arrested 25-year-old Charles all the employee’s money. Lambiase at his Kearny home. He Still holding the attendant at was charged with robbery and knifepoint, the thug forced him into weapons possession and was rethe station’s mini-mart, threatened manded to the Hudson County Jail. to stab the clerk who was working Police said Lambiase had fled there and demanded the cash from empty-handed. The two employthe store, police said. ees “took back everything he took. That’s when the tables turned. There were no proceeds from that According to police: There was a struggle over the knife. The clerk robbery.”
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Cops hunt Belgrove burglar KEARNY – Police are hunting a brazen burglar who smashed the front window of a Belgrove Drive home, ransacked an apartment and fled with electronic equipment and a safe. Police said the thief entered through the window of a ground-floor flat in a fourfamily home near the busy intersection of Belgrove and Bergen Ave. at about 7:45 p.m.
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Jan. 2. Although the target apartment was unoccupied at the time of the break-in, there were other residents at home, but they apparently heard nothing. Along with the safe, a laptop computer, an iPad and a camera were stolen. The suspect was last seen walking south on Belgrove, carrying some bags. Police said he had appar-
ently cut himself climbing through the shattered window, and detectives recovered DNA evidence, which has been sent to the N.J. State Police lab. The initial responding officers, Jack Corbett and Tom Floyd, also followed a blood trail along Belgrove and found more evidence, a roll of bloody tissues the burglar had apparently used on his wounds.
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Capt. Steve Durkin reported that police were able to track one of the electronic devices to an address in Newark, “but the signal has since been turned off.” Dets. Ray Lopez and Scott Traynor are conducting the investigation, which includes reviewing footage from security cameras in the area. – Karen Zautyk
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