Motor Vehicle Crime
March 2, 2022 (Laurel Place): The victim reported that at some point between noon and 5:00 PM, a backpack was stolen from her vehicle. The vehicle was parked in the area of the Iris Gardens. The Vera Wang bag was valued at $50 and contained a wallet, two debit cards, a vaccination card, $120 cash, and a New Jersey driver's license.
March 2, 2022 (Valley Road): The victim reported that he observed a male party enter a vehicle that he had been working on and flee down the driveway. The suspect entered a newer model black Honda Civic and fled south on Valley Road. The victim stated that the only item he believes is missing is a set of car keys. The suspect was described only as a male wearing a thin black puffy jacket and a grey hooded sweatshirt.
March 6, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): A 2017 Mercedes Benz C30 was stolen from the 7-11 parking lot. The victim stated that she left her vehicle running but retained possession of the key fob. The vehicle was recovered the following day in Nassau County, New York.
Burglary / Theft
March 3, 2022 (Montclair Avenue): A caretaker arrived at a Montclair Avenue residence to check on the property and discovered unknown persons had entered the home through a basement door sometime in the past three or four days. It appears some jewelry and an undetermined amount of cash was removed from the home.
March 5, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): The victim reported that while sitting on Church Street a male approached her and stole a coffee cup from her that contained cash. The suspect was described as a black male wearing a purple top and jeans. The cup reportedly contained between
$50.00 and $100.00.
March 8, 2022 (Grove Street): At 1:52 AM Officers responded to Grove Pharmacy on an activated burglar alarm. Responding officers discovered a brick laying on the sidewalk and the front glass door had been completely pushed in. Officers checked the interior of the business but the suspect(s) were no longer on scene. The owner arrived and confirmed a total of approximately $300.00 was removed from three separate cash registers. Surveillance video shows the suspects to be two males wearing hooded sweatshirts and sweatpants. One male had a backpack. Both males are wearing medical masks, sneakers, and gloves. They were last seen running north on Grove Street towards Oxford Street.
Motor Vehicle Crime
March 10, 2022 (Pleasant Way): The victim reported that at some point between 5:00 PM and 8:00 AM, an unknown person(s) entered two unlocked vehicles that were in his driveway. A cellphone and a pair of ear buds were reported stolen.
March 16, 2022 (Hitchcock Place): The resident reported that her mother’s 2021 Toyota Rav 4 was stolen out of her driveway. A responding detective observed the vehicle fleeing on Thomas Boulevard and followed the vehicle before losing sight of it on South Orange Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue in Newark.
March 17, 2022 (Greenwood Avenue): An employee of Senior Care Enterprise reported that one of their transport vans was stolen from their lot just before 7:30 AM. The vehicle is a 2016 Ford Van, color white, and was last seen east on Walnut Street.
March 17, 2022 (Bellevue Avenue): The victim reported entering her vehicle and observing all of the items within her center console had been removed. She checked her surveillance video and observed a small, crossover type vehicle, stop near her vehicle. A male subject exited and entered her vehicle. Nothing was reported missing.
March 19, 2022 (Glenridge Avenue): The victim reported that she left her 2018 Kia running along the curb while she entered a nearby store. When she returned five minutes later the vehicle was no longer there. A silver Huffy Mountain bike was left in its place.
March 20, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): The victim reported that he parked his 2014 BMW on Bloomfield Avenue while he picked up food. He reported the vehicle was off and he was in possession of both set of keys.
Burglary / Theft
March 8, 2022 (Park Street): The complainant reported that his bicycle was stolen from the lower level of the YMCA between 8:15 AM and 10:35 AM. The bicycle was described as a green and black mountain bike valued at $400.00. Surveillance video shows a black male between 5'8” and 6'0” tall, wearing blue jeans, a dark color sweatshirt, a black back pack, and a mask covering his face approach the bicycle. He removes a pair of bolt cutters from his bag and flees with the bike towards North Fullerton Avenue.
March 8, 2022 (Lloyd Road): The resident reported that she left her residence at 7:00 AM and returned at 5:30 PM. When she returned, she discovered a first-floor exterior door leading to a bedroom had been forced open. Multiple rooms within the residence had been entered and ransacked. Jewelry boxes from the master bedroom had been emptied. A full inventory of missing items was not available at the time of the report.
March 8, 2022 (Valley Road): An employee of a contracted oil disposal company reported a theft of cooking oil from a Valley Road business. A 175 gallon tank that had been placed empty in August had been drained empty. The oil was valued at approximately $500.00.
March 14, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): An employee of Fleet Feet reported that at approximately 12:30 PM a black male entered the store and started to look at various items. The suspect removed one red jacket off of a hanger on a rack, and placed it into a black gym bag he was carrying. Shortly after the suspect then took another jacket off of a hanger and place it into his bag. The suspect exited the store with the jackets after being confronted and fled east on Bloomfield Avenue. The suspect was described as a black male, 5'10'' – 6’00” tall, 35-50 years old, wearing a black 'Nets' hooded jacket, green pants, black shoes, black beanie, brown sunglasses. He was carrying a black 'Northface' backpack and a black gym bag with neon green straps.
March 15, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): An employee of The Connect Clothing Store reported a female and two males entered the store and stole $785.00 worth of merchandise. The female was a black female with a medium build, black hair, wearing a grey shirt and grey pants. The first male was a slim built black male wearing a baseball cap, black pants, a blue hooded sweatshirt, and white and blue sneakers. The second male was a heavy-set black male wearing black pants, an orange hooded sweatshirt, a black and orange camouflage jacket, white and black sneakers, and carrying a black plastic bag.
March 16, 2022 (Orange Road): The resident reported that she received a notification from her surveillance system of motion in her kitchen. As she checked the footage, she observed an unknown female in her kitchen. Entry appears to have been gained through a bathroom window. Proceeds were $30.00-$400.00 in cash and personal documents.
March 16, 2022 (Walnut Street): Area restaurant owners reported theft of cooking oil from their used oil tanks. Surveillance video shows two males exiting an older model Jeep Cherokee with temporary registration. The males are seen tampering with the oil tanks.
Suspicious Incident
March 21, 2022 (North Fullerton Avenue): The manager of Chase Bank reports that over the past several weeks unknown juveniles or young adults have been congregating in front of the bank and asking customers to cash checks for them. The juveniles have always run off when the manager confronts them. The manager reports receiving several complaints from customers regarding the juveniles. Specifically, that the they are aggressive in their requests and become angry when their requests to cash checks are denied. The requests are mostly made on Fridays and Saturdays. If successful, the deposited checks are mostly fraudulent.
Luring
March 18, 2022 (Heller Way): The resident reported that her twelve-year-old daughter and eight- year-old niece were playing in the front yard of the residence when a vehicle reportedly pulled up in front of the residence and asked the girls if they needed a ride. The victims ran to the back yard and notified their parents. The vehicle was described as a dark red four door vehicle last seen south on Heller Way. The driver was described as a dark skinned Hispanic or Indian male in his twenties or thirties. Anyone with information can contact Detective Daniel Heiser at (973) 509-4724.
Burglary / Theft
March 22, 2022 (Greenwood Avenue): The resident reported that an unknown person(s) entered her apartment and rummaged through her main bedroom. A pair of Apple AirPods valued at
$120.00 were reported missing.
March 22, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): An employee of 7-11 reported a theft to the business office. Surveillance video shows two males enter the store together at 8:55 PM. One male distracts the attendant at the counter while the second male proceeds to the office at the rear of the store. The male that entered the rear office is seen rummaging through a desk and removing items. An inventory of stolen items includes $2400.00 in cash, twelve cartons of Newport Cigarettes ($100.00 value each carton), and an unknown amount of Juul E-Cigarettes (total value of approximately $110.00). The suspects were described as two dark skinned males. One was approximately 5'7”-5'11” tall, stocky build, wearing a blue sweatshirt with hood up, black jacket over blue sweatshirt, tan pants, dark shoes wearing a blue surgical mask. The other suspect was approximately 5'10”-6'2” tall, large build, wearing a light-colored baseball cap with possible "New York Yankees" logo, grey sweatshirt, jeans, wearing a light color N-95 type mask. They fled east on Bloomfield Avenue in a white, 4-door, older model (mid 1990's - early 2000's) sedan possibly a Honda or Acura, with dark rear tints.
March 23, 2022 (Undercliff Road): The resident reported that an unknown suspect entered his home through an unsecured rear sliding glass door which led to a porch. From there, the suspect broke a small glass frame window from a kitchen door and entered the kitchen. Once inside, the suspects located the keys to the resident’s 2022 Bentley Bentayga and fled the scene in the victim’s vehicle, in an unknown direction.
March 27, 2022 (Llewellyn Road): The resident reported that her garage was entered sometime between March 24th and March 25th. Three bicycles were stolen from the garage. They were described as a "Baby Maker” brand mountain bike, bright orange in color. The second bike was a "Cannondale Quick Disks 5” women's Mountain Bike, black in color. The third was a "Youth GT Stomper”, midnight blue in color. Total value of the missing bicycles was approximately
$2400.00.
Suspicious Incident
March 25, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): A female student at Glenfield Middle School reported that she was walking to school in the area of Bloomfield Avenue and Hartley Street. At approximately 7:45 AM a male sitting in the driver’s seat of a black four door sedan honked his
horn and waved her over to his car. The male reportedly asked the female juvenile for her phone number. The female told the male she was late for school and ran towards Maple Avenue. She described the suspect as a dark-skinned black male, 33-37 years old, 5'8'' in height, medium body size (not muscular), round face, dark brown hair, balding, wide nose, big eyes, and was wearing a blue short-sleeve t-shirt with yellow accents. The suspect was operating a black, four door sedan with cream colored interior and was reported to be very clean.
Motor Vehicle Crime
March 26, 2022 (Warren Place): A 2020 Volvo XC90 was stolen from a driveway on Warren Place. Surveillance video shows the theft occurred shortly before 5:00 AM but there was no suspect description.
March 26, 2022 (Grove Street): A 2019 Audi Q5 was stolen from a driveway on Grove Street. The resident was made aware of the theft after receiving an alert from her bank that someone was attempting to purchase $73.00 worth of gasoline. The vehicle was recovered, parked and unoccupied, on March 27th in Newark.
March 26, 2022 (Wildwood Avenue): The resident reported that he exited his home and unlocked his 2017 Audi. While walking to the car he observed an unknown male approach his vehicle and enter the driver’s side front door. The resident yelled to the suspect who fled to an awaiting black Toyota Highlander. The Toyota fled south on Grove Street.
Arrests
March 26, 2022 (Bloomfield Avenue): Officers responded to a shoplifting at The Wine Guys on Bloomfield Avenue. Responding officers were flagged down by bystanders who stated the male suspect was running through rear yards on Montague Place. Witnesses reported the male physically attacked the store clerk before fleeing the scene. Officers located a 28-year-old male from East Orange, NJ hiding in the rear yards of Montague Place. This subject resisted arrest once located. He was charged with Robbery, Resisting Arrest, and Aggravated Assault before being transported to the Essex County Jail. The victim was treated for facial injuries and abrasions to his right elbow.
March 27, 2022 (Claremont Avenue): Officers responded to CVS on Claremont Avenue after receiving a report of a shoplifting in progress. A 55-year-old male from East Orange was located charged with Shoplifting approximately $125.00 worth of merchandise from the store.