Abandoned Wyckoff Home Broken Into, Police Said

Editor’s note: The Wyckoff Police Department provided the information to Patch in this summary of police activity.

• On Dec. 23 at 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Michael Ragucci stopped a vehicle on Russell Avenue near Waverly Road that had been driving erratically.

Following the traffic stop, Karen M. Caputo, 55, of Fair Lawn, was arrested for driving while intoxicated, police said. After submitting to a breath test at police headquarters Caputo was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to keep to the right, reckless driving and improper maintenance of lamps, police said. She was released to her daughter and is scheduled to appear in municipal court Jan. 7.

• On Dec. 23 at 9:15 a.m. Patrolman Ryan Noon was on patrol operating a vehicle with an automated license plate reader; the computer identified a vehicle that had traveled past him in the opposite direction as a stolen car, police said.

The vehicle, a Mercedes Benz, was stopped on Wyckoff Avenue just over the Mahwah border, police said. Further information confirmed that the vehicle had been reported stolen in Edison, police reported.

The driver, [Name Removed], was unable to provide any documents for the car and claimed that it had been given to her by her father, police said. Meta was arrested and charged with receiving stolen property, a third-degree crime, and released in her own recognizance, authorities said. The car was returned to the owner who previously reported it stolen, police said.

• On Dec. 24 at 2:15 p.m., Sgt. Kevin Kasak and Patrolman Kyle Ferreira responded to a Kingston Street home after a mail carrier reported that the front door of the home was standing open, police said.

An investigation determined that the front door had been kicked open, shattering the interior frame around the it, authorities said. The further investigation found that the house has been vacant for about five years and there was nothing of value inside and nothing is believed to have been stolen, police said.