YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Teaneck man arrested on burglary charges plotted an unsuccessful scheme from his jail cell to have one of his co-defendants killed, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.
Detectives from Molinelli’s office have charged WIlliam “Christopher” Collins, 41, with conspiracy to commit murder, the prosecutor said.
Collins was one of four men and a 17-year-old boy taken into custody last December by a multi-jurisdictional task force consisting of detectives from the Special Investigation Squad of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and several Bergen County municipal police departments in connection with a series of local burglaries, Molinelli (above, right) said this afternoon.
Four months ago, his detectives got a tip that Collins was plotting to kill one of his co-defendants before the case could go to trial, the prosecutor said.
Additional charges were expected, he said.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
