End of mini-crime spree. Good Job neighbors and JCPD.

May or may not be connected == but we managed to get
the police to arrest and take away a young "homeless"
guy who's been squatting in a tenement lobby for a few
weeks now. This is on Third, between Erie and Jersey.
There is a ten unit bldg that has only two occupants,
the rest of the apts have been empty for three or more
years, awaiting rehab. The guy has been camped out
on the stoop and in the lobby, menacing folks
and checking out cars and other houses and monitoring
peoples' coming and going. Very spooky.

After the third visit by the police in response
to folks calling and complaining about this guy-
who seems like he considers the empty house his
home, the officers patted him down and
found a "weapon" and also discovered that there are
a bunch of outstanding warrants on him.
So they cuffed him and took him off.

We are free of him for a while , it looks like.
But who knows .

It looks like we are being forced to get
suspicious again, the way we were
years ago, when we saw folks hanging
around that we knew did not live here.
The police have been pretty good on response
time, so it behooves us to call when we see
something that does not look right.

Jersey City man, seen with TV, arrested on theft charges

Wednesday, August 25, 2010
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Jersey City man was arrested with three stolen flat-screen TVs and a laptop after police responded to a report of suspicious men carrying televisions down the street Monday, officials said.

Sykes Dunbar, 42, of Rutgers Avenue, was arrested at Monmouth and Fourth streets around 11:30 a.m. and charged with burglary, theft and possession of burglary tools, Jersey City reports said.

When police responded to the location, they found Dunbar standing next the stolen goods and he told the officers they belonged to his friend's aunts and he was just waiting for the friend to pick him up, reports said.

The cops waited, but the friend never showed up so they found an address in the laptop and went to the Third Street residence where they found the front door and apartment door of the victims' residence had been pried open, reports said.

Dunbar was arrested and police reached out to the victims, two 28-year-old women, and they responded and identified the items, reports said, adding that they also identified jewelry found in Dunbar's pocket.

No other arrests were made.