Cedar Grove Police Arrest Suspected Burglar At Meadowbrook Garden Apartments

Cedar Grove police arrested a suspected burglar in the Meadowbrook Garden Apartments on Sunday night.

Responding to a report of a suspicious person walking in the building’s common hallway with a flashlight around 8:20 p.m., police conducted a search of the property, eventually finding Peter C. Saoud, 39, of Rutherford, hiding in a storage room.

After a subsequent investigation, police arrested Saoud and charged him with criminal trespassing and possession of CDS (Suboxone) without a valid prescription.

Saoud was also charged with the possession of stolen property (jewelry and a checkbook) that had allegedly been stolen earlier that day in a residential burglary on Ethel Drive in Little Falls.

Saoud was processed on all charges and turned over to the Little Falls Police Department, which had issued an arrest warrant relating to the Ethel Drive burglary.

The arrest was the second report of suspicious activity in a week at the Meadowbrook Garden Apartments.

On Sept. 14, a resident of the building reported that an unknown person entered her apartment during the previous afternoon and stole $900 from her purse.

There were no signs of forced entry in that incident, Cedar Grove police stated.

Other recent incidents at the apartment complex include:

• Cedar Grove Woman Calls in False Kidnapping to 911
• Apartment Fire Renders Unit ‘Uninhabitable’