EXCLUSIVE: An ex-con tried running from Little Ferry police and then fought with officers after they stopped a bus he was on to arrest him for stealing his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s wallet, authorities said.
Police got a call that Tyrone Wiggins was pounding on the door of the woman’s home before dawn yesterday, Little Ferry Detective Ronald Klein Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT this morning.
When they arrived, she told them that she’d let him in and he took off with her wallet, Klein said.
A witness told police that Wiggins, 37, had gotten on a bus. Officers stopped the bus in Moonachie moments later and brought him back to the scene.
There, a radio report came in that Wiggins was wanted on a warrant out of Union Township.
At that point Wiggins bolted, Klein said. Four officers caught him quickly, he said.
“He tried fighting and eventually was subdued,” the detective said. “In the patrol car he made threats to kill officers.”
Wiggins — who served time twice in New York State, once for robbery and another for weapons possession — was being held on $200,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
He is charged with four counts of assault on police, two counts of terroristic threats and four counts of eluding with risk of injury.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF