A former high-ranking DEA agent from Rockland and an agency IT specialist from Lyndhurst lied on national clearance security forms about owning and operating a South Hackensack strip club that employed illegal immigrants from Brazil and Russia as dancers, federal authorities have charged.

Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge has been cited for lewdness several times by state investigators — and was the site of a wild January 2014 brawl in which two men were deliberately hit by a car, another was stabbed and a fourth was bashed in the head with a hammer (file photo, above).

Retiree David Polos — who was an assistant special agent in charge of the DEA’s Manhattan office for nearly 24 years — also supervised the club via computer and smartphone apps along with co-defendant Glen Glover, a federal complaint on file in the Southern District of New York alleges.

Working regular shifts, they “hired, fired, and paid bartenders, dancers, and bouncers; advertised the Club in local periodicals; manned a back office available only to employees; remotely monitored video camera feed from the Club when not present; and generally tended to various club-related matters…at times during DEA work hours,” it says.

Investigators intercepted texts in which Polos, of West Nyack, joked about bringing President Obama to the club so that he could “check out” certain dancers, the complaint says.

Polos, who supervised the New York Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force and once was the executive assistance to the office’s chief of intelligence, also kept his DEA badge visible and once flashed an ankle-hostered agency service weapon during a dispute, it says.

The complaint says Twins Plus featured “scantily clad and sometimes topless women (‘dancers’) and offers private stalls for what are supposed to be limited-contact dances between patrons and those dancers, commonly called ‘lap dances.’”

Both men surrendered in Manhattan this morning.

“David Polos and Glen Glover had important and sensitive law enforcement jobs with the DEA,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said this afternoon. “As alleged in the complaint, they also had other secret jobs, which they concealed from DEA in order to maintain their national security clearance, betraying the oaths they had taken and creating needless risk for the agency they worked for.”

If they’d been truthful about their interests in the club, Bharara said, they’d have been investigated and “the security clearances that they were required to maintain as federal law enforcement employees likely would have been denied.”

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Rodriguez added: “We expect those in government—and particularly those charged with enforcing the law—to tell the truth. As alleged, the defendants’ lack of candor is what finds them before a judge today in Manhattan Federal Court.”

DOJ OIG Special Agent-in-Charge Gardella said: “Federal law enforcement officers must be held to the highest standards of integrity. The alleged conduct is serious and we will do everything we can to ensure that justice is done in this case.”

Bharara praised the investigative work of the FBI and DOJ OIG. He also thanked the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division for its assistance.

The case is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Martin S. Bell and Andrew D. Goldstein f the Office’s Public Corruption Unit.

A brawl last year produced a 22-count indictment naming four of six men arrested by police. One of them ended up with a skull fracture when he was hit in the head with a hammer. Another sustained several broken bones after he and another man were hit by a car.

The bar owners and several employees also were cited by South Hackensack Police with 14 violations for various alleged infractions of borough ordinances and ABC laws, authorities said at the time.

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•  ONLY ON CVP: Sporting a scar embedded in his scalp, a Garfield man originally accused of stabbing another man during a wild brawl at a South Hackensack strip club admitted having the knife — but said he couldn’t remember what happened after he got hit in the head with a hammer. READ MORE….

• YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A wild South Hackensack strip-club brawl in which two men were deliberately hit by a car, another was stabbed and a fourth was bashed in the head with a hammer has produced a 22-count indictment. READ MORE….

• YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Some of the damage that a South Hackensack bar fight wrought was revealed tonight by Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli in confirming an exclusive CLIFFVIEW PILOT report on Saturday about additional charges brought in a Jan. 28 brawl outside Twins Plus Lounge in South Hackensack. READ MORE….

• UPDATE: A man who was stabbed and another who was hit in the head with a hammer during a South Hackensack strip-club melee have been charged in connection with the brawl, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. READ MORE….

SHOUT OUT: City Place in Edgewater is hosting a free concert open to the public, along with an outdoor food and wine bar for the hundreds of volunteers who helped residents displaced by the massive Avalon condominium fire earlier this year.

The public is invited to the free June 12 concert with the RPM Band and can buy food and drink at the event, which runs from 6 to 10 p.m. on the east side of the promenade.

Meanwhile, 700 or so volunteers will eat and drink for free — courtesy of Fleming’s Steakhouse, Greek Taverna, Baumgart’s Café and Panera Bread — and be eligible for prizes.

PHOTO: Courtesy Michael Russo

Borough and county officials and Edgewater firefighters are invited, as well, organizers said.

“I saw firsthand the hours that the volunteers put in at the Donation & Relief Center,” said the Greek Taverna’s Pete Hajiyerou. “This event is our time opportunity to thank them for their tireless efforts in helping the community.”

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SEE: Power restored to Avalon at Edgewater neighborhood, cars retrieved, post office, schools to reopen

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FACT SHEET:

• The City Place Donation and Relief Center opened 12 hours after the Avalon complex fire on Jan. 21 displaced 1,000 local residents;

• The center was designated as the official immediate relief center by Edgewater Mayor Michael McPartland, the only location with the authority to distribute gift cards to fire victims;

• It remained open and operating seven days/week;

• In the first month, the center collected more than $500,000 worth of merchandise;

• It distributed $250,000 worth merchandise and $21,000 in gift cards, assisting more than 160 displaced families — a total of 480 men, women, and children;

• It closed on March 1.

PHOTOS: A BMW slammed into a tree in a collision with a Honda Accord in Fair Lawn this morning.

The BMW driver, who got out and was walking around under his own steam, was taken to the Valley Hospital with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after the 9:30 a.m. crash at Saddle River Road and Elaine Terrace.

Saddle River Road northbound was closed at Morlott Avenue while crews worked.

Both vehicles were towed from scene.

STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

PHOTOS: Councilman Al Granell

PHOTOS: No one was injured when a crane toppled outside a North Arlington dry cleaners this morning and its cab landed on the hood of an SUV.

Parts of the hood and front grill of the vehicle were damanged by the cab of the fallen crane outside Ridge Cleaners at Ridge Park Drive and Ridge Road.

PHOTOS: Councilman Al Granell

Elvin Diaz (PHOTOS submitted by family friend)
TOP: Photo by CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Chris Denton
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

CVP EXCLUSIVE: An ex-con with a lengthy criminal history who was shot and killed after authorities said he charged at Hackensack police officers with a knife this afternoon in an apparent suicide-by-cop once set fire to his car in an attempt to kill himself — and was the cousin of a city officer who responded to today’s incident, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.

Elvin Jesus Diaz, 24, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center just before 3 p.m., roughly 90 minutes after authorities said he charged officers who’d gone to his parents’ Temple Avenue home on a probation check.

“This was a scenario in which he forced the officers’ hands,” City Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It wasn’t a scenario where the officers had any kind of discretion.

Elvin Diaz
PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Chris Denton
MUGSHOT: Coutesy BCSO

“He outright charged at them.”

Sgt. Miguel Molina, a 15-year department veteran, and Officer Elvin Hernandez, who joined two years ago, “fired their weapons, striking him several times,” Mordaga said.

Backup officers rushed to the scene — among them, Diaz’s cousin, the director said.

“All of the officers are extremely distraught,” Mordaga said this afternoon.

Molina and Hernandez were brought to HUMC to be evaluated and treated for shock, he said.

“We feel for the family,” Mordaga said. “But there was absolutely 100% no other alternative.”

A records check by CLIFFVIEW PILOT turned up several incidents involving Diaz the past five years:

After family members reported him missing in late July 2010, he set fire to his car on Johnson Avenue and was rushed to the hospital after city firefighters rescued him, records show. Police later charged him with arson.

Three months later, officers responded to his parents’ home because he was acting violently, records show. They subdued Diaz and an ambulance took him to Bergen Regional Medical Center.

In January 2012, according to city records, family members again reported him missing.

Diaz was arrested on drug charges in May 2013 and again a month later on a drug-related warrant, criminal records show. He pleaded guilty and received probation.

Diaz was suspected in a burglary when officers approached him in December 2014 and he turned on them, sending one to the hospital, Mordaga said this afternoon.

He was charged with assault on police, resisting arrest and obstruction, then posted $15,000 bail and was released three days later from the Bergen County Jail.

Two weeks after that, Diaz was issued a disorderly person’s summons for an unspecified incident, the director said.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo: John Cito

A family friend told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that he’d moved back to Hackensack after a brief stay in Florida last year and was living with his Dominican-born mother in the home at 10 Temple Avenue that his parents, Julian and Cecilia, bought near the corner of Main Street 15½ years ago.

Diaz had been diagnosed depressive and complained to friends that he’d had trouble finding work because of people’s reactions to his neck and facial tattoos, several of which he’d recently gotten.

Police again encountered him this afternoon after the Bergen County Probation Department sent them to his parents house after he’d failed to report to his probation officer, Mordaga said.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification was at the Temple Avenue scene just off Main Street.

PHOTOS TOP/ABOVE:  CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Chris Denton / MUGSHOT: Courtesy BCSO

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 27-year-old Lodi woman was charged with busted on prostitution and drug charges after undercover detectives answered her Backpage.com ad and were offered a half-hour’s sex for $80, borough police said.

Kristi Villano — who called herself “Vanessa” had carrying 25 glassine envelopes of heroin stamped “KO,” as well as several hypodermic syringes and crack pipes, when the undercover went to her Route 46 apartment earlier today, Detective Capt. Donald Scorzetti said.

The Lodi High School graduate was being held on $15,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with promoting prostitution and various counts of drug and drug paraphernalia possession.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy LODI PD

ABOVE: CLIFFVIEW PILOT photos

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two teens and three adults were hospitalized after a school bus crossed a double-yellow line in Paramus and collided with an NJ Transit bus, sending it into a utility pole, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The No. 168 NJT bus driver and a passenger were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center following the 5:50 p.m. crash on East Ridgewood Avenue in front of the Bergen County Bureau of Police Services building near Pascack Road, authorities said.

One teen from the Bergen County Special Transportation Bus was taken to HUMC and the other to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, Anthony Cureton of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. The school bus driver was also taken to HUMC, he said.

Two other students refused treatment for what were described as minor injuries.

The NJT bus was headed west on East Ridgewood when the driver tried to swerve to avoid the school bus, which was coming right at it, Cureton said.

The school bus clipped the rear of the larger vehicle, he said.

PHOTOS: Courtesy LeeAnn Kerwin

STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An occupant in one of three vehicles that collided on Route 208 in Fair Lawn tonight was picked up by Hawthorne police and escorted from the scene.

Two women were hospitalized — neither with serious injuries — after the crash, which knocked off the rear axle and a back tire of a Jeep and flipped it onto its roof around 9:45 p.m.

One had a cut on the back of her head, while the other complained of body-wide aches and pains, responders told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Fair Lawn Rescue 1 and 2, Fire Department trucks 1 and 2, Fair Lawn EMS and a Valley Hospital Mobile Intensive Care Unit responded to the crash just south of McBride Avenue in front of the Columbia Bank’s headquarters.

STORY / PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

CVP EXCLUSIVE: An ex-con with a lengthy criminal history who was shot and killed after authorities said he charged at Hackensack police officers with a large knife this afternoon in an apparent suicide-by-cop once set fire to his car in an attempt to kill himself — and was the cousin of a city officer who responded to today’s incident, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned.

Elvin Jesus Diaz, 24, was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center just before 3 p.m., roughly 90 minutes after authorities said he charged officers who’d gone to his parents’ Temple Avenue home on a probation check.

“This was a scenario in which he forced the officers’ hands,” City Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. “It wasn’t a scenario where the officers had any kind of discretion.

Elvin Diaz
PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Chris Denton
MUGSHOT: Coutesy BCSO

“He outright charged at them.”

Sgt. Miguel Molina, a 15-year department veteran, and Officer Elvin Hernandez, who joined two years ago, “fired their weapons, striking him several times,” Mordaga said.

Backup officers rushed to the scene — among them, Diaz’s cousin, the director said.

“All of the officers are extremely distraught,” Mordaga said this afternoon.

Molina and Hernandez were brought to HUMC to be evaluated and treated for shock, he said.

“We feel for the family,” Mordaga said. “But there was absolutely 100% no other alternative.”

A records check by CLIFFVIEW PILOT turned up several incidents involving Diaz the past five years:

After family members reported him missing in late July 2010, he set fire to his car on Johnson Avenue and was rushed to the hospital after city firefighters pulled him out, Mordaga said. Police later charged him with arson.

Three months later, officers responded to his parents’ home because he was acting violently, the director said. They subdued Diaz and an ambulance took him to Bergen Regional Medical Center, he said.

In January 2012, family members again reported him missing.

Diaz was arrested on drug charges in May 2013 and again a month later on a drug-related warrant, criminal records show. He pleaded guilty and received probation.

Diaz was suspected in a burglary when officers approached him in December 2014 and he turned on them, sending one to the hospital, Mordaga said.

He was charged with assault on police, resisting arrest and obstruction, then posted $15,000 bail and was released three days later from the Bergen County Jail.

Two weeks after that, Diaz was issued a disorderly person’s summons for an unspecified incident, the director said.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo: John Cito

A family friend told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that he’d moved back to Hackensack after a brief stay in Florida last year and was living with his Dominican-born mother in the home at 10 Temple Avenue that his parents, Julian and Cecilia, bought near the corner of Main Street 15½ years ago.

Diaz had been diagnosed depressive and complained to friends that he’d had trouble finding work because of people’s reactions to his neck and facial tattoos, several of which he’d recently gotten.

Police again encountered him this afternoon after the Bergen County Probation Department sent them to his parents house after he’d failed to report to his probation officer, Mordaga said.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification was at the Temple Avenue scene just off Main Street.

TOP PHOTOS: Submitted by family friend
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police nabbed a local man who they said was dealing pot and a Lodi couple passing through with heroin in separate busts yesterday.

Joseph Vargas, age 26, was charged with possessing and distributing marijuana last night following a six-week investigation, Police Chief Michael Foligno said this morning. Vargas posted $10,000 bail and was released pending a court hearing.

Several hours earlier, Miguel Thomas, 20, and Rachel Posadas, 19, were released on court summonses after officers who stopped their car on eastbound Route 46 found them carrying 15 bags of heroin, three hypodermic syringes and drug paraphernalia, Foligno said.

UPDATE: An off-duty Fort Lee police officer was responsive and complaining of head, back and arm injuries after he was ejected from his Jeep when it collided head-on with a sedan driven by a 65-year-old Harrington Park man outside the Rockleigh Golf Course this morning, authorities said.

Laki Pothos was flown by AirMed One to Hackensack University Medical Center while the other driver was taken to the hospital by ambulance after the 9:44 a.m. crash on Paris Avenue.

The driver of the Nissan Altima “suffered facial lacerations and was complaining of pain” after firefighters extricated him, Northvale Police Chief William Essman said this afternoon.

The westbound newer-model Jeep Wrangler rolled, ejecting the 32-year-old officer, a two-year veteran of the Fort Lee depatment.

A landing zone was set up at Hogan Field.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit and the Bergen County Sheriff’s BCI responded along with various police, firefighters and paramedics from Northvale, Norwood and Rockleigh.

PHOTOS: Courtesy NORTHVALE POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM ESSMAN

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Maywood detectives investigating the theft of a $600 cellphone after a fitness center locker was broken into charged a Bergenfield man with the crime.

Chad Afflick, 25, of Bergenfield was released on a court summons charging him with theft, car burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief following his arrest yesterday.

The victim called police on May 6 after finding the lock on his locker at the HUMC Fitness and Wellness Center on Route 17 cut and his keys missing, Detective Jason Liaban told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

He then checked the vehicle and found the iPhone gone, Liaban said.

Detective Matthew Parodi identified Afflick as a suspect after reviewing surveillance footage from the facility.

He then confessed, Liaban said.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy MAYWOOD PD

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Garfield police charged an 18-year-old city man with threatening a couple with a brick and a knife yesterday after one of the victims hailed a police officer working a traffic detail.

Yousef Nabil Rabah was being held on $25,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail, charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and two counts of weapons possession.

Officer David Coniglio was working a traffic post at Monroe Street and Pierre Avenue when a 28-year-old man came running down the street yelling around 3:15 p.m., Capt. Darren Sucorowski said this morning.

The man told Coniglio that the assailant threatened him and a woman he was with on Palisade Avenue with a brick and a knife, he said.

Officers and detectives flooded the area and within 10 minutes, Detective James Zangara and Officer Anthony Koptyra spotted Rabah, Sucorowski said. He was taken into custody by Officer Claire Follari.

No one was injured, the captain said.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Mahwah man whose girlfriend’s baby ingested heroin they were using, putting her in a coma, got probation and a lecture from a judge in Hackensack today.

Mark Tomat, 26, did get 30 days in the county jail, to go with the five years of intensively supervised probation, for testing positive on a March drug test, barely two weeks after he pleaded guilty to child endangerment.

He also angered Superior Court Judge Edward A. Jerejian today when he said: “For the first time in my life I’m not nervous standing here.”

“You say you’re not nervous, but you should be,” Jerejian told him. “Because if you violate probation, you’re going to prison…for five years. So think about that every day.”

The judge also warned Tomat not to “think you can use drugs and be successful on probation….Take my word on it: You may think you can do it, but it’s not going to happen.

Tomat admitted in February that he and Tara Bradbury bought the heroin, took it to her Wyckoff apartment and used it on Valentine’s Day 2014.

After discovering an hour or so after leaving the apartment that the baby swallowed the drug because of their negligence, Tomat said he returned and gave a statement to police.

The boy, who is Bradbury’s from a prior relationship, was unresponsive when he was brought to The Valley Hospital with small bruises on his forehead after Wyckoff police got a 911 call.

Medical staff told investigators that the boy “responded favorably” after they gave him Narcan, authorities said at the time.

He was later transferred to New York-Presbyterian Hospital with swelling of the brain and eventually recovered, they said. He has since been in the care of relatives.

Although the couple at first denied knowledge of what happened, detectives found deleted messages on Bradbury’s and Tomat’s cellphones “indicating they were both aware the child had ingested narcotics and their intention to deny any knowledge of that,” according to Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli.

The two tried to “blame it on the baby’s father, who wasn’t even there,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Demetra Maurice told the judge.

Bradbury’s probation includes an individualized drug and alcohol rehabilitation regimen tailored specifically to her needs — which is modified, as needed, as she proceeds through treatment. Although the specifics of any single rehabilitation plan are confidential, all are “appropriate to an individual’s current condition,” court officials said.

Defense attorney Warren Sutnick said his client already committed himself to Bergen Regional for five days, then entered a 28-day program at the Turning Point rehabilitation center in Paterson.

Maurice countered that the 28-day program is not sufficient for Tomat’s addiction, which by his own admission is longstanding.

For his part, Tomat told the judge he is finally willing to face his addiction.

“My way of thinking and doing things has changed,” he said. “I’m willing to listen. Anything that happens is fine with me. It’s a blessing — a chance to change my life.”

Bradbury three months ago gave birth to preterm boy. READ MORE….

STORY / TOMAT PHOTO: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter Mary K. Miraglia
BRADBURY MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

HAVE YOU SEEN HER? Park Ridge police are seeking the public’s help finding the woman above as they investigate the theft of a borough resident’s credit card from a Rockland County bar.

The card was used in Ramsey and Mahwah, they said.

The woman was described as a “person of interest” in her early 20s, with brown hair and a slim build.

If you know her, or have seen her, please call Park Ridge detectives: (201) 391-5401 ext. 5236 (OR: mbabcock@parkridgepolice.com).

PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

PHOTOS: A YOUNG driver was taken to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley after a collision in Washington Township that flipped his station wagon this afternoon.

Police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT the driver admitted speeding when his Subaru Forrester struck a parked Hyundai Sonata at Walnut Street and Lincoln Avenue just after 1:30 p.m.

Both vehicles were removed by flatbed tow trucks.

Firefighters and paramedics responded.

PHOTOS: Boyd A. Loving

PHOTO: A driver who experienced a medical emergency last night lost control of his Dodge Durango, which crossed the double yellow line and rolled into a utility pole on the other side of the street.

Responders to the intersection of Godwin and Ackerman avenues shortly after 10 p.m. included Ridgewood police and EMS and a paramedic unit from The Valley Hospital, where the victim was taken.

A plainclothes officer drove the Dodge Durango to the victim’s home. Neither the vehicle nor the pole sustained significant damage.

STORY / PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving

ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A man originally charged with sexually abusing a 12-year-old Englewood girl last winter had been molesting another girl for nearly seven years, an indictment returned against him this week alleges.

Investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit took Victor Brito Casimiro into custody on Dec. 16, charging him with sexually assaulting the 12-year-old over the previous two weeks.

A judge ordered him held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail and required that he surrender his passport.

Additional charges were brought following interviews with a second alleged victim who the indictment says was five when Casimiro began molesting her in 2007.

It continued until the end of September last year, the indictment alleges.

Casimiro, whose bail is now $300,000, was first charged with a single count of aggravated sexual assault on the first girl through digital penetration, as well as three counts of sexual assault for allegedly touching the girl’s vagina, buttocks and breasts.

The indictment adds two sexual assault charges in connection with the second girl.

It also charges Casimiro with impairing the morals of both.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? Saddle Brook police are seeking the public’s help finding a serial thief who’s hopped store counters and made off with an armful of cigarettes several times the past six months.

They described him as 6′ to 6’3″ with a thin build.

Two thefts were identical:

On Dec. 4 of last year, the thief walked into a store at 1:40 a.m. wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black sweat pants, dark sneakers with a white sole and sunglasses. After going over the counter, he fled with several cartons.

Two days ago, he entered another store at 2:21 a.m. wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with a Nike Jordan logo, black sweat pants, dark sneakers — apparently Nikes — with a white sole and a black mask.

He “walked brazenly past the store clerk, who was standing at the front of the counter, climbed over it, grabbed umerous cartons of cigarettes and exited the store,” Capt. Vincent Laurentino told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The same thief is suspected in two convenience store burglaries, on Feb. 8 and April 8, in which smokes were taken, Laurentino said.

Police are also investigating a shed burglary from this pas Monday and a food truck burglary from Tuesday. A cash register taken from the food truck was found in Elmwood Park on Thursday, the captain said.

If you see him, know who he is, of have information that could help the investigation, please call Saddle Brook PD: (201) 843-7000

IMAGES: Courtesy SADDLE BROOK PD

PUBLIC SAFETY: Lodi police this week issued summonses to four businesses who they said sold tobacco products to minors during an undercover quality-of-life investigation.

Nine businesses in all were investigated by the Lodi Police Department Narcotics Division following complaints about the illegal sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to customers under 19, Capt. Donald Scorzetti said.

Those receiving summonses:

South Main Street Deli, 79 South Main Street
Circle Liquors, 109 Terhune Avenue
Quick Stop Deli, 93 South Main Street
Charles Street Deli, 385 Passaic Avenue

Five other businesses were checked and found in compliance, Scorzetti said:

53 South Main Street convenience store
Hometown Deli, 25 Union Street
Union Food Mart, 231 Union Street
Walgreens, 20 Arnot Place
Rafi’s Deli, 327 Main Street