Mugshot: Repeat Offender Flips Bird After Trashing South Hackensack Motel Room
He’d just ripped a TV from the wall and destroyed a telephone at a South Hackensack motel, but Timothy Carriel wasn’t done yet: Positioned for his mugshot, he gave police the finger.
It wasn't anything new for Carriel, who's been arrested no fewer than four times in the past six months. Once of those times he refused to submit to fingerprinting, records show.
Carriel, 19, of Hackensack, fought and threatened the officers who responded to the Knights Motel during the rampage, Capt. Robert Kaiser said.
After they subdued him, they found the 6-foot, 141-pound Carriel carrying 15 Xanax bars an…
Car Burglars Caught By Cresskill Police
Targeting dark houses without exterior lighting, a pair of car burglars entered nearly a dozen vehicles in Cresskill and made off with wallets, cash, change and sunglasses before borough police nabbed them.
Officer Matthew Banta was on patrol just before 4 a.m. Saturday when he spotted the pair, dressed all in black, walking on McGrath Drive, Detective Charles Franke said
He and Officer Shawn Cole arrested both after finding them carrying items taken from unlocked vehicles in the borough, Franke said.
Jonathan Park, 18, and Leonely Gomez, 20, both of Leonia, were charged with several count…
Passaic Sheriff: Route 23 Jalopy Stop Turns Up BB Handgun, Knives, Baton, More
Passaic County sheriff’s officers who stopped a couple for having an obstructed view in their 16-year-old Chevy seized an array of weapons – among them, five knives, a BB gun, ammunition and an expandable metal baton, authorities said.
Officers Christopher Savitsky and Tomaz Cydzik smelled marijuana after stopping the red 2002 Chevrolet Malibu on northbound Route 23 in Wayne last weekend, Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik said.
The clothing of both Ruben Carraballo, 31, who was driving, and 23-year-old passenger Joanna Motl, who owns the car, also reeked of pot, the sheriff said.
They…
