Crime & Safety
Police Blotter: Multiple Armed Robberies Reported
The following information has been provided by the South Orange Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
- Fabian Wiley, 30, of Newark, was arrested on Dec. 15, at approximately 11:40 p.m., after officers responded to a call of an assault that had taken place inside a Prospect Street residence. Wiley allegedly assaulted the resident with punches after an argument ensued. An officer responding to the scene saw Wiley walking away from the area of the assault and he was arrested after being positively identified by the victim.
- A supervisor from the Clark Sreet school said on Dec. 15, someone removed an iPad from a teachers room. The room was locked at the time of the incident and a set of keys to the room were stolen sometime between Dec. 12 and Dec. 14.
- A Kingman Road resident said sometime during the overnight hours of Dec. 17, someone entered his open garage and entered his unlocked 2006 Cadillac. The victim said the person had ransacked the interior of the car, but no items were stolen.
- A Newark resident said on Dec. 17 at approximately 5:30 a.m., he was robbed at gunpoint while walking west on South Orange Avenue in the area of South Centre Street. The victim said he was approached by a black man, approximately 6-feet tall with dreadlocks and wearing a brown jacket, dark pants and a black and white scarf covering his face. The victim said the man pointed a large revolver at him and demanded his money. After the victim relinquished his cash, the victim said the man then fled on foot south on South Centre Street.
- Troy Jackson, 50, of Irvington was arrested on Dec. 18 at approximately 8:30 p.m. for allegedly shoplifting from the Pathmark. Jackson was spotted by officers walking on Valley Street. While being questioned, the stolen items were discovered.
- A Vose Avenue resident on Dec. 20 at approximately 12:15 a.m., she was removing items from the trunk of her car parked in her driveway, when she was robbed at gunpoint. The victim described the man as being a light-skinned black man, with long thin braids, approximately 6-feet tall, wearing dark clothes and had a black and white scarf covering his face. The victim said the man brandished a handgun, described as being a revolver, when he robbed her of her pocketbook. After robbing the victim, the man fled on foot down the driveway and north on Vose Avenue. The victim's pocketbook was later recovered in the street on Vose Avenue.
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