Fingerprints Lead To Arrest In Saddle Brook Burglary: Police

SADDLE BROOK, NJ — Fingerprints were left at the scene of a burglary at the Auto Trader Wholesale business early in the morning of Sept 4, authorities announced.

Tahaad D. Caster, 20, of Paterson was charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief, said Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler.

Video footage of the burglary showed a black vehicle pull up to the rear of the building at 4:30 a.m. Sept. 4, Kugler said. Two men exited the vehicle and another remained inside the vehicle.

One of the men threw a brick through the front glass door and go inside while the second man remained outside, Kugler said. The first man handed the second a safe, which was heavy, he said.

The men threw the safe over a fence leading to North 6th Street and followed it; the men then went back to the vehicle without the safe, the chief said. The vehicle backs out of the parking lot and headed north on 5th Street.

Saddle Brook detectives John Tritto and Scott Habermann reviewed the surveillance footage and the Bergen County Sheriff's BCI Unit helped detectives recover fingerprints and DNA from the scene, Kugler said.

As a result of the match, Caster was identified and detectives discovered he is incarcerated in Passaic County Jail on unrelated charges, Kugler said.

Authorities are trying to locate the other two suspects.

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Photo: Tahaad D. Caster, 20, of Paterson/Saddle Brook Police Department