HARRISON —
He had an appetite for starch — for both his stomach and for his wash.
That is the tale of a Newark man who was picked up July 19 on a charge that he swiped a lot of items from the QuickChek on Bergen St. during the afternoon without dispensing the requisite cash for those goods.
At 1:09 p.m., police said the store manager flagged down a police officer and reported that a man she described as black, with a long pony tail, between 40 and 50, wearing dark-colored pants and T-shirt, had removed numerous food and cleaning products from a rear aisle, placed them into a black-and-white plastic bag and left without paying, walking north on Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard and turning west onto Warren St.
Police said Sgt. John Brown and Officer Marc Silva found an individual matching the description in the 100 block of Warren carrying a partly-open plastic bag containing several bars of Dove soap, Gain laundry detergent and several packages of chocolate chip cookies.
Police said the man, listed as Tyler Williams, 51, reportedly admitted taking the merchandise because he was jobless and hungry.
Police listed the full contents of the bag as: two bags of Chips Ahoy cookies, two bags of Keebler cookies, three packets of Cheezit crackers, nine packages of Welch’s fruit snack, four bars of Dove soap, one bottle of Gain detergent and one bottle of Febreze spray with a total value of $70, police said.
Williams was also found to be wanted on four active Bloomfield warrants totaling $1,574. Bloomfield PD was notified and, after being issued a local summons for shoplifting, returnable July 27, was released pending a July 26 court date in Bloomfield.
— Ron Leir
