Roommate banished
A woman called police at 4:50 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29 to report she was being illegally kicked out of an apartment on Park Avenue by her male roommate, according to a police report. Three moving men were hauling her furniture from the building when police arrived.
The male roommate, Joseph Fionda, 27, Ridgewood, N.J., told police he hired the men to allegedly take the victim’s belongings – without her permission – and put them into storage. The men had already removed her television, computer, electronics, clothing, and kitchen and bathroom supplies by the time police arrived.
Fionda told police she was a “squatter,” according to the report, but the victim produced a valid lease with signatures from all parties.
Officers found a padlock forcibly removed from her sitting room door which leads to her bedroom.
The victim told police that she and her boyfriend keep the door padlocked because Fionda has threatened to throw away their belongings in the past.
Police ordered the moving men to return the property. They charged Fionda with burglary and theft of movable property.
Parking ‘spat’
A Lyndhurst woman was arrested for allegedly spitting on a man after a dispute over a parking spot.
The victim called police on 2:26 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3 to report that Debra Honan, 41, Lyndhurst, pulled around his car and tried to take a parking spot he was preparing to pull into on Willow Avenue.
The man was able to block the spot with his car, he told police, but the woman exited her vehicle and stood in the spot as her passenger took control of the car.
While the passenger pulled around the block – eventually double-parking in front of the victim – the victim told police that Honan allegedly spat saliva and chewed gum at him through his car window.
When police arrived, he showed them the piece of gum lying on his car floor. He told police that he accidentally wiped some of the saliva into his mouth and was afraid he would catch a disease.
Police found Honan nearby and she was arrested for simple assault.
She told police she has no diseases and gets a physical regularly.
Simple assault
A West Caldwell woman’s head was allegedly slammed into a wall as she left a bar on Washington Street on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 2:34 a.m.
The woman told police that as she was leaving the bar, a man and a woman – the ex-girlfriend of the victim’s current boyfriend, whom she recognized – made disparaging remarks to her.
Then the man, Michael Rodriguez, 26, Boonton, N.J., allegedly grabbed the victim’s neck from behind and slammed her head into the wall. The victim fell to the floor and Rodriguez and the ex-girlfriend left the premises.
The victim later identified Rodriguez to police outside the bar – he was standing next to another police officer – and he was arrested on a simple assault charge, according to the police report.
The victim had a contusion on her head and was transported to Hoboken University Medical Center.