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PAIR ARRESTED TRYING TO FLEE

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By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Wednesday, February 5, 1992

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Two men suspected of a string of robberies in New Jersey were being treated Tuesday at Bellevue Hospital Center for broken limbs after they injured themselves trying to escape from Fort Lee and New York police officers, police said.

Ramon Harper, 24, of Edison and Derrick Sheridan, 31, of Avenel were arrested Monday night in New York, police said.

Rochelle Park Detective Don Simon said the men grabbed a 33-year-old woman as she walked into the West Passaic Street Shop-Rite at about 9:50 p.m. One of them pulled her pocketbook from her shoulder, Simon said.

Fort Lee police spotted the men’s car approaching the George Washington Bridge and chased it into the city.

The suspects abandoned their vehicle and jumped off a roof 25 feet to the ground, where they were arrested, Royster said.

Police said Harper and Sheridan are suspects in recent strong-arm robberies in communities including Hackensack, Lodi, Wayne, West Orange, Denville, Parsippany, and Rahway.

ID: 17367905 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)

February 5, 1992
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POLICE NAB 3, THWART TWO THEFT ATTEMPTS

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Byline: By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, January 11, 1992

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Two men were arrested after police got a tip that they were stealing luggage from a warehouse in the city, police said.

Officers George Alston and George Coleman, responding about 10:10 a.m. Thursday, arrested Ivan Torres, 34, and Alberto Vega, 37, both of West New York, after a short foot chase, Police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said.

The two were charged with burglary, theft, and resisting arrest and were being held Friday in the Bergen County Jail on $10,000 bail.

The warehouse, located at 35 S. Van Brunt St., is an unmanned storage building for a North Bergen luggage store, Tinsley said. Vega and Torres backed a truck up to the rear of the warehouse and had filled it with 45 cases of portfolios worth about $12,000 when the officers arrived.

They fled on seeing police, but the officers found them hiding near the Englewood Municipal Building a few minutes later, Tinsley said.

In an unrelated incident later Thursday, police arrested William T. Blaine, 19, of 248 W. Forest Ave., Englewood, on charges of attempted armed robbery, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest, Tinsley said.

Officers responding to a report of a robbery in progress about 8:45 p.m. arrested Blaine after a short foot chase. Blaine was one of five men who allegedly tried to steal a bicycle at knifepoint from a 36-year-old Englewood man near the McDonald’s restaurant on West Palisade Avenue.

Blaine was being held on $7,500 bail in the Bergen County Jail.

ID: 17365696 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)

January 11, 1992
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POLICE CHASE, CHARGE SIX TEENS AFTER REPORT OF HOUSE BREAK-IN

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By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, December 19, 1991

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Six Dwight Morrow High School students were charged with burglary and theft after police, responding to a report of a break-in at a house, caught the suspects after a chase.

Five of the students four girls ages 14 to 17, and a 15-year-old boy were taken into protective custody after the chase, which ended a few minutes after noon Tuesday in a field at the rear of the high school, police said. The five were released to their parents.

Police were looking for the sixth student, a 14-year-old girl, on Wednesday, Police Capt. C. Kenneth Tinsley said.

Several police officers on patrol, including Police Chief William Luciano, heard the report of the burglary at a house on Liberty Avenue, Tinsley said. A resident called police and told them he saw youths carrying brightly colored knapsacks coming out of his neighbor’s house.

Luciano and several patrolmen caught the students after a short foot chase.

The students had several rings and other jewelry determined to have been stolen from the Liberty Avenue home, along with a sealed United Parcel Service packet that had just been delivered to a Lantana Avenue address, police said.

A Bergen County police dog, employed to search the area because of the distance between where the students were caught and where the break-in was reported, found a knapsack containing wrapped presents and jewelry in a bush behind the burglarized home, police said.

Police could not say whether the students had been involved in other burglaries in the area.

“There have been previous burglaries in that area, and we’ve made arrests of young adults, but we haven’t linked these youngsters to other burglaries in the area,” Tinsley said.

Dwight Morrow Principal Richard Segall said he was unaware of the arrest but that the students would be appropriately punished if they had been charged with such crimes.

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December 19, 1991
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