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THE OBSERVER | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Reports from the Kearny Police blotter A different sort of shoplifting suspect was arrested last week at Walmart. This one, Kearny police reported, walked out of the store not with stolen goods, but with cash scammed from the returns counter. At 1:30 p.m. Sept. 1, Officers Steve Hroncich and Cesar Negron responded to an alert from store security, who reported that a man had left the premises with a $63+ refund for items he had not purchased. How did he get the money? Security said he had picked up discarded receipts from the parking lot, entered Walmart and removed from the shelves the same items as were on the receipts and took it all to the returns counter, getting a “refund.” A short time later, Negron spotted a man fitting the suspect’s description just off Harrison Ave. in Harrison, took him into custody and brought him back to the store
for identification. Charged with shoplifting was 18-year-old Julian Yates of Newark, who was being held on $2,000 bail. Other recent reports from the KPD blotter included the following: Aug. 30 At 3:30 p.m., responding to complaints of drug use in the area, the Vice Squad was on Schuyler Ave. near the Kearny-Harrison border, where they observed what appeared to be a drug transaction. Arrested for alleged possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia were Joseph Berl, 24, and David Herman, 21, both of Harrison. Returning to the same area at 5:45 p.m., the officers witnessed another apparent transaction and saw one suspect then enter a parked car and drive away. When he was stopped on Davis Ave. at Harrison Ave., police said they observed him remove
something from his shirt and discard it on the floor. The item was found to be a bag of suspected cocaine, police said. Two more plastic bags, containing suspected marijuana, were reportedly found in his pocket. Charged with possession of the drugs and paraphernalia was 60-year-old Dante Manzamares of Harrison. Sept. 1 Officers John Fabula and Dave Rakowski were called to Kearny Ave. and Afton St. at 2:30 p.m. to deal with a loud and disorderly group, one of whom – an 18-year-old Kearny male – appeared to be especially agitated and under the influence of some unknown substance. When the teen was asked to take a seat on the curb, onlookers gathered, and Fabula told them to disperse. Most heeded him, but one 17-year-old Kearny male pushed past, bumped him and laughed in his face. The
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kid was arrested for obstructing an investigation, taken to headquarters and later released to his adult sister. Rakowski remained at the scene to await the ambulance that had been summoned for the other youth, who was believed to be in need of medical attention.
sobriety tests and took her to HQ for an Alcotest. Charged with DWI and careless driving was Angie Gomez, 27, of East Newark.
P.O. Fabula responded to Walmart at 3:45 p.m. after two men reportedly tried to shoplift with a 43-inch plasma TV. Confronted in the foyer At 3:30 p.m., Rakowski, P.O. by store security, the suspects Sean Kelly and Sgt. Anthony became combative and fled, Limite responded to a twoleaving the TV behind. vehicle accident at the interPolice Chief John Dowie section of Quincy Ave. and noted that an “upstanding Devon St. One of the drivers, citizen” who had witnessed fitting the description of a the confrontation and saw the man known to police, reportmen run to a car, called police edly fled on foot down Quincy. anonymously to provide the Kelly, who knew the man’s license plate number. address, assumed he would be Fabula checked the DMV heading home and saw him photo of the registered owner arrive, reportedly carrying a and matched it to one of the plastic bag containing metal suspects, Dowie said. canisters. Police said these Because of the assault on a proved to be aerosol inhalants. guard, the crime was elevated Carlos Crincev, 33, of from shoplifting to robbery, Kearny, arrested before for and a warrant for same was isalleged “huffing” of aerosols, sued against Randolph Samuwas reportedly unsteady on el, 43, of Jersey City. his feet. He was given field sobriety tests, arrested, taken Sept. 3 to HQ , and again provided Det. Mike Gonzalez rewith Narcotics Anonymous sponded to a local health-care literature, police said. facility at 10 a.m. to follow up Crincev was charged with: on a theft and forgery investiDWI; leaving the scene of an gation involving a credit card accident; reckless driving; reported stolen from a patient being under the influence of a being treated there. CDS; possession of a CDS, and The detective had found refusal to take an Alcotest. that the card was subsequently used at five Kearny Sept. 2 stores – Discount City, Street At 2:10 a.m., Officer Ben Smart, Walmart, Wawa and Wuelfing stopped a vehicle Quick Chek – viewed their reportedly traveling at a high security videos and developed rate of speed on Passaic Ave. a suspect. between North and South After being interviewed, Midland Aves. Police said Melissa Sheppard, 38, of Harhe detected a strong odor of alcohol, gave the driver field see KPD page
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