ANOTHER ASSAULT SUSPECT ARRESTED; ENGLEWOOD PROBES STRING OF MUGGINGS

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, February 1, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | Four Star B | NEWS | Page B03

Police arrested a 24-year-old city resident Wednesday after a tip that he was one of three men who mugged an elderly man walking home from a bus stop on Cambridge Avenue last month.
Christian Darren Giles of 24 W. Forest Ave. was being held in Bergen County Jail Thursday on $10,000 bail on charges of attempted robbery and aggravated assault.
Giles was arrested Wednesday after police received information that he was one of those who mugged a 62-year-old man about 6:45 p.m. Jan. 17, said Englewood Detective Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley.
The victim, whom Tinsley declined to identify, was knocked to the ground from behind after passing three men on Cambridge, Tinsley said. The attackers fled when someone approached in a car, he said.
Giles was arrested Wednesday night behind a building on Armory Street by Detectives Robert Keane, Edward Murray, and Joseph Martin.
Tinsley said his office also is investigating whether Giles is connected to two suspects in the robbery of a fast-food deliveryman Sunday night, and whether Giles and those suspects are connected to 12 other assaults that occurred during the past three weeks.
Malik McKinnon, 20, of 210 First St., Englewood, was being held in Bergen County Jail on $10,000 bail on a charge that he robbed the deliveryman of about $100. McKinnon turned himself in Monday after the victim gave police the description of a juvenile who allegedly participated in the robbery. The juvenile was released to the custody of his parent.
“We haven’t linked him to the two suspects but we are still investigating,” Tinsley said of Giles.
Giles was paroled a month ago after serving one year of a three-year sentence for robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer. He has two other convictions for similar offenses, police records show.

Keywords: ENGLEWOOD; ASSAULT

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