Laundering
A team of three shoplifters were allegedly caught by an employee and on camera taking laundry material from the CVS at Newark and Washington streets on March 25 at 9:16 p.m. Police were dispatched to the store and were met outside by an employee who pointed out several containers of liquid detergent, fabric softener, and bleach in a 1997 Ford Crown Victoria parked nearby, police said.
The employees told police he saw a man leave with a baby carriage and noticed him allegedly moving items from the carriage into the car. The employee called police and confronted the man, but the employee told police that the suspect fled the scene.
The employee also told police that the man was with two women who were still in the store. The two women told police they were unaware and had not participated in any shoplifting, Captain Anthony Falco said
After police reviewed surveillance video, the two women were charged with shoplifting. Natacha Praylow, 29, Jersey City, was also found to have an outstanding warrant from Jersey City, while Jasmine Santos, 28, 100 block of Jefferson Street in Hoboken, had four warrants: North Bergen, Jersey City, and two in Elizabeth. The male suspect was not apprehended.
Knifepoint robbery uptown
An uninjured woman was robbed at knifepoint last week for a bundle of electronic items, police said.
After parking her car on Washington Street at roughly 10:56 p.m., the 27-year-old woman approached her apartment building on the 1300 block of Bloomfield Street. As she was preparing to open the front door, she noticed a man coming up behind her, she told police.
The man, she said, was a thin black male, roughly 6 ft. 1 in. in height, wearing jeans, a dark hooded sweatshirt, and sunglasses. And he was brandishing a knife, she told police.
The victim screamed, police said, and dropped bags she was carrying, including her purse.
As she bent down to pick the bags up, the robber told her to “shut up” and hand them over, according to the police report.
He took the bags and told her to get inside, she told police. She went to a neighbor’s apartment, and the neighbor called the police.
The aggressor took her purse with many personal belongings, a cell phone, a laptop, a Blackberry, a Canon camera, and an iPod. Police have not yet found any suspects, Falco said.