Tag: Theft

3 SEIZED IN BREAK-IN AT JEWISH CENTER

By John H. Kuhn and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Thursday, October 11, 1990

The Record (New Jersey) | Four Star B | NEWS | Page B04

Three men were arrested Tuesday after breaking into several lockers in the men’s room at the Jewish Community Center on the Palisades and stealing watches and about $1,000 in cash, police said.

One of the men was spotted about 4:30 p.m. breaking into a locker in the center on East Clinton Avenue. A center member chased him and got the license plate number of the car he fled in.

About a minute later, Tenafly police Officer Robert Whittaker stopped the car about a half-mile away at Huyler Avenue and Dean Drive, police said.

Charged with burglary and theft were Richard Russell, 29, and Robert Menegigian, 35, both of Dumont, and Robert Ruglio, 31, of West Orange.

Police found a driver’s license that was reported stolen from the Randolph YMCA and a membership card from the Saddle Brook Howard Johnson Health Spa. Police said they also found a stolen American Express card.

Ruglio, who police said entered the center, was to be held at the Bergen County Jail Annex on $7,500 bail. Russell was released on $5,000 bail, and Menegigian on $1,500.

Police recovered about $1,000 in cash along with several watches and wallets.

ID: 17319154 | Copyright © 1990, The Record (New Jersey)

BANDITS HIT LOTTERY FOR $2,000 IN TEANECK LIQUOR STORE HOLDUP

MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, October 7, 1990

The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A04

Three armed men allegedly stole about $5,000, including about $2,000 in New Jersey Lottery money, from a Teaneck wine and liquor store Friday as the store owner and his brother locked up for the night, Teaneck police say.

Pannabhai D. Grohel, owner of the Jersey Wine and Liquor store at 166 W. Englewood Ave., said he thought the robbers had watched his routine for some time before Friday’s robbery.

After the store closes at 10 p.m., Grohel, 52, said, he and his brother Dhamji, 46, usually spend about 30 minutes stocking the shelves for the next day’s business. The robbers, two of them armed with automatic handguns, entered the store from a side door on Queen Anne Road as the Grohel brothers emerged at 10:35 p.m. on Friday, he said.

“As soon as we opened the door, they pushed the door and they came in,” Grohel said.

The Teaneck police report of the incident, filed by Patrolman Robert Croonquist, said Dhamji Grohel was hit on the head and face with a gun and that the men were taken to Holy Name Hospital for treatment.

ID: 17318619 | Copyright © 1990, The Record (New Jersey)