By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, June 20, 1991
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A Queens woman who left a stolen car at a borough service station came back to claim it on Tuesday in a second stolen car and was arrested, police said.
Sherrilyn Clark, 23, was being held in the Bergen County Jail on Wednesday on $2,500 bail on charges of possessing stolen cars.
A Brooklyn man who accompanied her on Tuesday, Bernadino Torres, 31, also was arrested on the same charge and was being held on the same amount of bail.
Both the 1988 Mercury Sable that Clark left at the Citgo service station on the Franklin Turnpike on Saturday and the 1980 Buick that Torres drove to Mahwah Tuesday were stolen, Detective Lt. Ray McGill said.
Clark asked that the Sable be towed to the station for repairs when it stalled on the New York State Thruway about 8:15 a.m., McGill said, adding that she also told the mechanic that the car was a 1985 Sable.
The mechanic became suspicious and notified police when he realized the Ford Motor Co. did not start building Sables until 1986.
McGill said the Sable was reported stolen from Manhattan on Feb. 7.
Officers from the Mahwah police force and the Bergen County Sheriff Department’s Auto Crime Unit were on hand to arrest Clark when she arrived about 11:50 a.m. Tuesday to claim the car.
Noticing that an identification tag in the Buick had been altered, an officer checked and found it had been stolen from Manhattan on March 15, McGill said.
Keywords: MAHWAH; MOTOR VEHICLE; THEFT
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