MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Wednesday, October 17, 1990
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Passaic and Bergen County probation officers arrested a 42-year-old city man Tuesday on charges of having a cache of illegal weapons in his apartment.
Peter Decato of 31 N. York St., who was being held in the Passaic County Jail, was charged with five counts of possessing weapons and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.
Passaic County Probation Officer Patrick K. Morris said officers recovered a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, two air rifles, a .22-caliber automatic, a .32-caliber eight-shot revolver, and 37 combat knives, including a projectile knife with a spring that could shoot the blade. The probation officers also found 45 hypodermic syringes, Morris said.
Rene L. Caggia, Decato’s probation officer in Bergen County, said Decato was to report to an outpatient psychiatric treatment center and the Passaic County Probation Department after moving to Paterson upon completing six months in the Bergen County Jail for a June 1987 arson conviction.
Decato was about to be sent back to Bergen County for violating probation when the officers, along with a Passaic County deputy sheriff, visited him at his apartment Tuesday morning, Morris said.
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