If it's on camera, then I say wwe hang'em....

we seem to need a better deterrent in Wayne.......

Nice looking gentlemen. A liberal judge will likely let them out without posting bail.

No doubt there will be a profiling charge and these two will be released.

Hope they rot in jail! They look needy!

Great job Detective.Mitchell !!!! HELLO NEIGHBORS, guess you didn't see the two men carrying a bolt cutter, pry bar and tire iron on Valley Road at 11am ? Glad somebody was paying attention.

what does this say about how they regarded the WPD to have allegedly done this within such a short distance of the station? yes, good job detective.

Mr. Resmer, I'm trying to understand your comments. If you did some research you'd see that all towns have been overwhelmed by these types of crimes. Criminals see opportunity, they don't care if it's across the street from the court house. The off duty put his life on the life dealing with these men and a simple thank you would suffice. Wpd has done an amazing job catching the scores of different burglars that have come to our town. They risk their necks every night while most of us are safe in bed. This is not the appropriate time to deflect your own agenda. I'm sure others like Scondo will also find something negative to say. I simply say great job Wpd and keep up the hard work.

Tim, what I am saying is that there certainly is a crime wave going on, and the reason it is happening is because individuals like these who are accused of this crime walk out in broad daylight with bolt cutters and tire irons to bust off in to yet another home literaly within sight of the entire police department and they could give a rip less about fearing getting caught by this particular department.
This isnt a great job by the WPD at all, it is yet another dumb luck example of some one observing the obvious and in this case it just happened to be an off duty cop.
Yes good job detective I agree, very poor job of the the department for putting the fear in the psyche of those who prey upon the rest of us to begin with.

Mr Resmer,

As I understand everyone has a right to there opinion, I can't help but disagree strongly but respectfully. At this day in age the departments around the state are running at absolute minimum manpower. I think it's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback but the truth is that aside from less cops on the streets and the rules the cops have to follow to protect us are not in their favor. My brother is a police officer (not wayne) and I can tell you that the majority of time cops spend working is in service calls. With a town that is almost 30 square miles it is nearly impossible to catch these guys. Imagine if 30 cops were working each square mile individually, a burglary takes minutes to happen so without intelligence or some luck it is really hard to catch people in the act. I suppose the cop in Wayne who got shot didn't scare the guys who shot at him either with a gun and flashing lights to his car on. Most criminals just don't care, they don't think like us. How exactly do you scare people who know the courts and laws favor them and add in their lack of fear about anything. Our cops have 55,000 residents and probably double that during a work day in town. That's a tough task with a department that's outnumbered 500 to 1 at night and 1000 to 1 or more during the day. Maybe you can post suggestions based on those facts. Our country and state is changing sadly.

Tim, it is a refreshing change to be honestly disagreed with here @ Patch and to have ones opinion acknowleged even if we disagree. And disagree we do. In the example of the officer who was shot? There but for the grace of GOD go you or I, unarmed. And at a distinct disadvantage because of course the right to self defense here abouts is denied us. The low numbers of sworn officers you bemoan are a result of $120-k salaries plus full benefits I do opine. As the rest of us (47 pct as Romney now defines us) have a sense of entitlement because we expect a standard if performance and result from gvt, even police. This yeat that expectation was woefully unmet what with burglaries literaly every other day it seemed. WPD got lucky yesterday, the detective went home alive, officer Worrell survived the criminal element has no fear of the WPD so it would appear.

Stew, is there some police department which you feel, in your infinite wisdom, all criminals fear and avoid at all costs?

Justag, I think the Sheriffs department has the overall ability to address these crime waves best, 1st because they are a county wide agency with not just greater dollar resources but also far greater intel. After all the department manages not just the jails but the courts as well. In many more ways they are at greater the front line and know who the bad players are.
In small towns like Wayne these departments are some what insulated and territorial and lacking in resources. Take for instance some weeks ago when off Rt 23 there was an attempted burglary in the night when the occupants were asleep? The second time the residence was targeted. Several local departments responded because Wayne probabaly just did not have the staff on hand to cordone off the area and in the time it took to deploy, 2 suspects of the four still escaped and were never caught.
Yesterday it was reported that Gov Christie said that communities would be well advised to share resources in the face of looming state budget cuts.

Video surveillance is fighting back the war against unwanted intruders. Circuit City has a Night Owl 4-channel (4 camera) package on sale for 269.00 It doesn't include an off-duty police officer, but it has night vision, and smart-phone capabilities.

jvd, vid-sur is passive in that it is watching and reporting, Tim is correct the perps can be in and out in minutes, here on our block it was three homes burgaled simultaneous within sight of one another and two alarms reported to have gone off and still no one saw anything and for what ever reason the WPD did not respond till one homeowner returned from work by 7:30 pm.
In this example the owner was alerted in real time and there is a vid, in my experience before Judge Weis an audio tape recording of an incident was suppressed by him. If you would like to hear what I recorded it is available to you or anyone else to hear.
So when people like Tim speak of the courts Judge Weis is one of those of whom Tim refers to.

You have to wonder if these guys from Brooklyn are affiliated with the guy that got nabbed earlier this Spring, he too was from Brooklyn. I had a deep feeling that there was more than just one guy pulling these robberies off. And, just prior to the other guy getting caught, they got 2 others. It is a good job of the WPD along with vigilant residents. Always keep your eyes and ears open to protect our homes.

Stewart, neither of the suspects was from Passaic county. That seems to leave the sheriff's dept out of the intel on these guys doesn't it? These guys are from Brooklyn. Maybe we need to contract with NYPD to be a 90,000 member metro PD to cover the tri-state area?

Good job WPD - I'm just thankful that these 2 pieces of dirt are off the streets and outta my town! Let's just keep on keeping our eyes open, neighbors!!

During the past rash of burglaries, each time I went out I would take a few minutes both coming and going, to "patrol" my neighborhood. I would drive around several blocks looking for anything suspicious. If others did the same all over town at various times of the day, there would be a lot more eyes watching out, without a lot of effort. It's worth a try!

The greater the police presence on patrol in the neighborhoods, the greater the deterent.

No Stew, that was your logic. The bigger the better. That's what you said. You said that the sheriffs department is county wide so they would have all the intelligence. Well, how would they keep tabs on guys from Brooklyn?

guy what I believe is that the WPD cant seem to handle the task and we might be better off with a county agency with county wide resources and intel, at a possible substantial cost savings to the tax payers here in the form of salaries and legacy costs just like those that governor Christie has been addressing.
The criminal element crossing state lines to commit a crime is a federal offense, so I guess your position is that a federal agency has no jurisdiction in cross state line crime because Wayne has exclusive jurisdiction then?

Wonder why this story made the papers yet 2 months ago when this SAME house was robbed it wasn't in the papers or anything? I wonder if it has to do with the fact that Wayne Police screwed up? I am a good friend of this family and couldn't believe it when they told me. The police arrested the getaway driver after a neighbor called in a suspicious van sitting on Rose Terrace for a long time. The driver said he thought he was in Lodi, not strange at all huh? The officer locked him up on a warrant he had from Paterson but he let him leave the van there on Rose Terrace while he took him to the station. Meanwhile his friend is in this same residence on valley road robbing the place. When he went back to the van he sees his friend is not there so he breaks the van window and puts all the stolen things in the van and sits and waits for the driver. The driver bails himself out of jail and takes a taxi back to the van on Rose Terrace. They then take off scott free! Later on in the day the homeowners find out they got robbed and reported it (this was before the homeowners had an alarm system). The police then put two and two together and realized it was the same van that the neighbors reported to them earlier. Why did Wayne Police let this guy leave his van parked on Rose Terrace while he got arrested? Why wasn’t the van towed? Why didn’t the officer check up on the van after the guy bailed himself out?

yes I remember this happened, I felt at the time the officers involved must have felt pretty stupid, I can only imagine the Chiefs reaction! I am willing to say, that the WPD officers learned something at the homeowners expense, but to find out this was that very house kinda blows the theory that 'they will not return' if these are even the same players right?
In the Marines it is/was taught ' there is no such thing as a coincedence on the batlefield, and if it happens again, you may assume you have engaged the enemy'.
What I most would want to know is why in the former incident the burglar even got in to and waited in the van with out anyone noticing, what he must have been thinking while in hiding and, did they split a gut laughing about it!

If WPD can't handle the task, why have virtually all the burglars been caught? Normally, on a national level, burglary as a crime has a very low rate of being solved. Yet, the last year or 2, WPD has caught numerous burglars and thus solved many of the burglaries. If you think there are towns that catch every burglar so no one is ever willing to do a burglary there again you are living in a TV show dreamworld.

Good solid police work Detective. Your instincts were right on. Congratulations.

KrisTee, you can't make this stuff up.

No need for OPRA. Just look it up in the news. The burglars were arrested on a traffic stop last year with stolen guns in their car. Then another was chased, pinned down and captured off of black oak ridge road. This year, the two "ladies" breaking into the flood buyout homes in Hoffman Grove were captured after a short foot chase. The burglar Catti was caught in the valley after he was followed and chased. The man who had been the driver of the van you speak of was later charged with burglary and now these 2 were caught. Oh, also the 2 on Fairfield road that were found by alert patrol and chased, hemmed in and caught. I think there are a few others, but that's quite a few Stew! All arrested by WPD. Kinda makes your statements look like a personal agenda Stew.

Mr. Stewart, it seems I believe I know who you are. Your name isn't Stewart or Resmer. You use words "key words" in many of your posts. How many on here knew the WPD does there pre-shift meetings in the "squad room" for one example. If I'm correct you were basically pushed out the door to retire, everyone hated you because you weren't a real cop, you were a mobile ambulance chaser with a badge, your now mad and willing to do anything to ruin wpd. Let's review your posts. 1. Criminals are scared of wpd ---these guys hit towns all over. 2. The location of the crime you state is almost a mile from Wpd (another lie), 3. Why in gods name would the pcsd patrol Wayne..lol...they keep there people in Paterson for good reasons and they were created to run the jail and courts not our town. Not to mention that our cops have required education called a College degrees and many are veterans. What percentage of the non-required pcsd have degrees. No disrespect to pcsd but I like the required degree thing. 4. Do you even pay taxes?????? Town taxes ??? We already send triple the cost of our PD to your beloved county in taxes from my municipal tax bill. That's the waste of money. Change your name on here and the fake pic. The gig is up. And surprise surprise that out of 50 posts I think one person agreed with you and they're probably a 15 year old kid. Get the message dude. Your nuts.

I for one am very happy with our Police Department. There has been an increase of burgularies in Wayne and that I believe is due to the economy. I'm sure there is an increase throughout the nation. I appreaciate the fact that our Police Deparment has made several arrests which I beleive sends the messasge "NOT IN OUR TOWN" loud and clear. A big Thank You to our men and women in blue.

Maybe the car couldn't have been towed but an officer should have followed up on it after the guy bailed himself out. Especially it being a suspicious van that wAs sitting there for an hour and the guy saying he was lost and not even knowing what town he was in. Especially with all the burglaries going on. The police are telling people to be alert and to call in suspicious activity, which is what this neighbor did, and when we do "nothing can be done about it". If this van was sitting in front of a police officers home, I'm sure it would have been followed up... Just saying

ITS SAD THAT PEOPLE! STILL LIVE BACK IN TIME WITH THEIR WAY!! OF THINKING!! JUST SAD: :-((

I agree gary2012..
If you cant tow vehicle you keep an eye on the suspicious van with tinted windows and ny Plates..obviosly he was parked for an hour because he was up to no good, he was hanging around for a reason..what was police thinking? Was that officer at the town meeting held by police and mayor..guess not. Lucky for the robbers..if police would have kept a watch on the vehicle they would have caught the other robber as he was heading to vehicle with all the stolen items.another case solved.

So you forgot to pay a parking ticket. Your eating lunch on a sidestreet in your van. You've been there for an hour or so. The cops show up. The cop was simply told that there is a suspicious can. The cop has had a dozen of these types of calls today but he checks the guy out, gets a reasonable story, there's nobody else around, the car is properly registered, insured and parked legally. It isn't on a highway where it is not allowed to be parked and left because its a danger, mr. Resmer. So the cop finds that the guy has a cheap warrant like a lot of people Do. So he arrests him and does his job. The police check the area also but nothing seems unchanged and no other residents or alarm companies call. Seems like some of you need to spend one day in a cops shoes to learn how things really work. Sometimes it's not so cut and dry. If the cop was wearing his psychic glasses with see thru vision he would have known that half a mile away his friend was breaking in a house then he would have driven there and seen the act thu the walls and arrested him.

I'm also dying to know Stewarts obsession with Wayne. What's the deal? Wayne is a great place. He could harp on any town. I think it's funny that he wastes so much time trying to give it a bad name but everyone laughs. Hes probably the joke of the council meetings, i bet they laugh before and after and really loudly. He should be a cartoon character that we all tell our kids, now bobby that's the person you dont wanna be. Living by the river, broke, and jealous of the whole world but yelling that the welfare check was late. That's why you like the Sheriffs...lol..they were nice to you in Paterson when you needed your food stamps early once. How cute.

Please Stew and those against him do not make this a political boxing ring~Every workplace has good and bad...I'm very thankful that Sean & the WPD were able to catch these 2 thugs. Kudos, good job boys!!!