Crime & Safety

Fruit Thief Strikes In Nutley

An unknown person picked a resident's apple and pear trees clean, police said.

It’s the five-fingered-farmer’s market discount.

Nutley police reported that on Aug.1, a resident called to inform them that an unknown person had picked all of the fruit from his apple and pear trees during the previous evening.

The suspect may have needed a ladder; the resident told police that some of the missing fruit came from branches over nine feet high.

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