Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Police found a homeless man from Hackensack hiding underneath a bed in a Mahwah home Wednesday morning, authorities said.
An astute neighbor may have prevented what cops are calling a would-be burglary near Franklin Turnpike Wednesday morning. A Winter Terrace resident called police Wednesday morning to report a suspicious person wandering around the neighborhood and snapped a photo of the man on her smart phone, according to police. Responding officers used the photo while searching the neighborhood for the man, Police Chief Jim Batelli said. Police eventually located Joseph Lisanti, a 27-year-old homeless man, hiding under the bed of a second floor bedroom in a nearby Winter Terrace home that had an unlocked back door, Batelli said. According to cops, Lisanti, who is living in a homeless shelter in Hackensack, took a train from Hackensack to Mahwah …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Video shows the burglar smashing the front door with a rock before leaping over the deli counter and looting the cash register, cops say.
Authorities are looking for a burglar who busted through the front door of the Fardale Deli & Mini Mart this weekend and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. Footage recorded by a security camera at the Wyckoff Avenue store shows a white four-door car pulling up to the deli at 5:05 a.m. on Sunday, police said Tuesday. At 5:09 a.m., a person wearing a dark-colored hoodie, full-face ski mask, dark colored gloves and boots exited the vehicle, picked up a large rock and threw it through the front door of the deli, shattering the glass, according to Mahwah Police Chief Jim Batelli. The robber then entered the store, jumped over the counter and pried open the cash register, police said. The person was in the deli for less than a minute before …
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Burglars stole some of the only items a Mahwah family had left, police said
Mahwah Police have recovered most of the tools stolen from a family that lost its house in a fire, Chief Jim Batelli said this week. Following up on a tip from a local resident, the MPD found most of the thousands of dollars worth of tools that were stolen last weekend from a shed that was left standing near a Stag Hill home that burned to the ground earlier this month, Batelli said. Most of the stolen tools, which included two chainsaws, a table saw, a circular saw and other tools, were found Monday, not far from the Mountain Road home, Batelli said. All of the items of significant value that were stolen were found, police said. The Bergen County Bureau of Criminal Investigation processed the found tools, and dusted them for fingerprints…
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Police are looking for burglars who they say stole the few items the family owned that were not destroyed in the blaze
Mahwah Police are looking for a person or group of people who stole thousands of dollars in tools from a shed left standing next to the remnants of a township home that burned to the ground last week, authorities said Wednesday. Police Chief James Batelli called the burglars, who police say broke the lock on the shed to steal tools the family had inside it, “people of very questionable character, to take the few belongings this family has left.” According to police, Roger Mann – who recently thanked the community for its support after the fire - returned to his Stag Hill home Sunday night after a family member noticed the lock on the family’s shed next to the home had been cut off. Burglars stole two chainsaws, a table saw, a circular saw …
Friday, December 28, 2012
The two fled the home after trying to disarm a security system, police said
Police are looking for two men who broke into a Mahwah home Thursday night then fled after unsuccessfully trying to disarm the home’s security system. According to police, surveillance video from the inside and outside of the Farmstead Road house shows two masked men breaking into the home at approximately 7 p.m. One of the men heads immediately to the security system in the basement, and then both men leave the home through a back door after failing to disarm the home’s alarm system, cops said. Mahwah police officers and a K-9 unit responded to the home Thursday night as a burglary-in-progress but found no one in the house and nothing missing from it, Police Chief Jim Batelli said Friday. “Wires had been pulled from the security system in…
Friday, December 21, 2012
Updated: Police identify man, who they say may have been high on narcotics during the incident
A man wearing only underwear was arrested outside a Polo Club home in Mahwah Friday morning after apparently trying to break into the home by throwing a large rock through one of its glass doors, Mahwah Police said Friday afternoon. The homeowner of a “very large home” on Halifax Road called police at about 10:46 a.m. Friday morning to report a loud noise in the first floor of her home that she thought was either a gunshot or breaking glass, Chief Jim Batelli said. When responding officers found no intruders in the home, Mahwah Captain Stephen Jaffe started “checking the perimeter of an adjacent house,” Batelli said. “Captain Jaffe was approached by an individual who had bloody hands, apparently from the broken glass. They had a brief …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Police may press charges against group of teens who allegedly broke into the home of a vacationing family and stole money
A group of Mahwah teens are facing possible charges after one underage boy allegedly signed into a social networking site while breaking into the township home of a family on vacation, Police Chief James Batelli said. According to police, a teenage friend of the homeowner’s son admitted to breaking into the home near Island Road and stealing $1,500 after the family found some clues left at the scene of the crime. “In looking at one of the household computers, the [homeowner’s] daughter noticed that she recognized the name of a friend of her brother’s that was used to sign on to [Facebook],” Batelli said. “In addition, a search of the history of the computer showed that other inappropriate sites had been accessed.” A police investigation …
Friday, June 1, 2012
All burglaries occurred during daylight hours; two burglaries occurred over the past three days
Mahwah Police have responded to three residential burglaries across the township over the past two weeks, Chief James Batelli said Friday. Most peculiar about the burglaries – which occurred in the Fardale, Cragmere and West Mahwah sections of town – is that each occurred during daylight hours, Batelli said. The first burglary happened on Tuesday, May 21, at a home on Glenmere Terrace in Fardale, sometime between 1:30 and 6:30 p.m., Batelli said. According to police, burglars forced the back door open, ransacked the first and second floors, and stole cash and jewelry. The homeowners were not home at the time, police said. The second burglary, at a home on Meadow Ave. in West Mahwah – not far from the NY border – happened between 12:30 and …
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