Tag: South Hackensack

TWO PATERSON MEN FACE GUN CHARGES CAR, MOTEL SEARCHES UNEARTH WEAPONS

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, June 6, 1991

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

Two Paterson men were charged Wednesday with carrying a police baton and two automatic handguns following their arrest during a traffic stop on Route 46.
William G. Figueroa, 18, of 62 22nd Ave. and David Cruz, 24, of 96 Market St. were stopped about 9:50 p.m. Tuesday after pulling out of a motel driveway onto Route 46 westbound without coming to a full stop, said Arthur Montenegro, the acting police chief.
Montenegro, Detective Lt. Gene Roma, Patrolman Brian Veprek, and Detective Michael Montenegro were on special assignment when they saw the 1985 Volkswagen Rabbit pull out of the driveway.
Roma saw the baton in the car’s back seat and asked whether either man was a police officer or a security guard. Both said they were not and police arrested them.
“When the driver got out of the vehicle, I saw the butt of a handgun sticking out of a hole in the console of the vehicle,” Arthur Montenegro said.
It was a loaded .380-caliber automatic, and its serial number was scratched off, meaning it was probably stolen, Montenegro said. A search of the car revealed a .38-caliber Derringer, he added.
Montenegro said a search of the motel room where the men had been staying turned up several hollow-nosed bullets.
Both men face charges including possession of two loaded handguns, hollow-nose bullets, and a baton, as well as defacing a firearm by filing off the serial number. Figueroa was being held in the Bergen County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail and Cruz on $2,500 bail.

Keywords: SOUTH HACKENSACK; WEAPON; CRIME

ID: 17345706 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)

POLICE CHIEF JOHN J. AGAR, 60

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, May 25, 1991

The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS (OBIT) | Page A08

If you cut John J. Agar, township police chief for the past four years, he would bleed blue, a friend said Friday.
That’s how much of a policeman he was, said the friend, Little Ferry Police Chief Donald Fleming. Mr. Agar died about noon Thursday at Englewood Hospital. He was 60.
Diagnosed eight years ago with leukemia, Mr. Agar’s condition worsened in the past year. He died three hours before he was to receive a career achievement award from the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association.
“We worked over the course of the years on many, many cases together,” Fleming said. “Even as police chief he was very active, going on drug raids. He made sure his community was safe. He was there when you needed him. He’s going to be missed. An asset to every community around.”
Mr. Agar lived on Agar Place, where his grandfather, John, set down roots at the turn of the century. Mr. Agar was a lifelong resident of the township and served 34 years in the Police Department.
He served with the Marines during the Korean War.
Mr. Agar joined the police force in 1957 after working several years with the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department.
Mr. Agar is survived by his wife, Eileen; two sons, David and Eugene; two daughters, Sharon Agar and Gail Reich; a brother, Charles, and five grandchildren.
Visiting will be Sunday and Monday from 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Trinka-Faustini Funeral Home in Little Ferry. A service by the Police Chiefs Association will begin at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, followed by a Mass at 9:30 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church in Hackensack. Burial will be at George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus. Donations to the Leukemia Society of America, Maplewood, would be appreciated.

Keywords: SOUTH HACKENSACK; POLICE; JOHN AGAR

ID: 17344410 | Copyright © 1991, The Record (New Jersey)