Tag: Weapons

TWO CHARGED WITH GUN, DRUG COUNTS

By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, February 12, 1992

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Two men were charged with possession of a sawed-off shotgun and an automatic handgun and were being held in the Bergen County Jail, each on $25,000 bail, Police Chief John Orso said Tuesday.

Robert Cobb, 22, and Robert Scott, 19, were stopped in the parking lot of the municipal building about 9:30 p.m. Monday after detectives on patrol saw them drive back and forth several times, Orso said.

The men told the detectives they lived nearby and that the papers for the car were at their apartment, Orso said.

With the men’s permission, detectives entered the apartment at 2134 Mackay Ave., and found the shotgun and the .25-caliber automatic handgun on the bed, Orso said. They also found in a safe a record of drug transactions and $2,800, he added. Those items were confiscated.

Detectives later found out that Scott had two outstanding warrants, one for failure to appear in Bergen County Superior Court on a burglary charge and the other for failure to appear in Atlantic County Superior Court on a drug possession charge, Orso said.

Charges against the men include unlawful possession of weapons, unlawful possession of hollow nose bullets, and conspiracy to possess and distribute a controlled dangerous substance. Further details on the charges were not available.

Sgt. Bill Cullen, Detective Gary Moleta, and Detective John Klein, all of the borough’s Narcotics Squad, were involved in the arrest.

ID: 17368602 | Copyright © 1992, The Record (New Jersey)

PROBATIONER NABBED ON GUN CHARGES

MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Wednesday, October 17, 1990

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Passaic and Bergen County probation officers arrested a 42-year-old city man Tuesday on charges of having a cache of illegal weapons in his apartment.

Peter Decato of 31 N. York St., who was being held in the Passaic County Jail, was charged with five counts of possessing weapons and one count of possessing drug paraphernalia.

Passaic County Probation Officer Patrick K. Morris said officers recovered a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, two air rifles, a .22-caliber automatic, a .32-caliber eight-shot revolver, and 37 combat knives, including a projectile knife with a spring that could shoot the blade. The probation officers also found 45 hypodermic syringes, Morris said.

Rene L. Caggia, Decato’s probation officer in Bergen County, said Decato was to report to an outpatient psychiatric treatment center and the Passaic County Probation Department after moving to Paterson upon completing six months in the Bergen County Jail for a June 1987 arson conviction.

Decato was about to be sent back to Bergen County for violating probation when the officers, along with a Passaic County deputy sheriff, visited him at his apartment Tuesday morning, Morris said.

ID: 17319796 | Copyright © 1990, The Record (New Jersey)