May 4,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that on Sunday, May 1, patrol responded to a Franklin Avenue office building to investigate the report of a burglary. The management company reported one of the offices has been vacant and when they went to check on it, they discovered someone had broken into it and appeared to be living within it. Patrolman DiBenedetto located the man in a second floor office. Michael Russo, age 54 who reported to be homeless, admitted to breaking into the office and living there for two weeks. He was placed under arrest and charged with burglary, criminal mischief and possession of burglary tools. He was transported to the Bergen County Jail on a Complaint Warrant issued by Ridgewood Municipal Court.Readers believe this to be the same homeless man reported on this blog at the Ridgewood train station in April.
Prior to this on Saturday, April 30, Sgt. Brian Pullman found a female sleeping in the grass in Graydon Park. When he went to check on her wellbeing, she reported to him that she was homeless. An identification check revealed that she had warrants for her arrest from Highland Park and New Brunswick. Joyce Umberto, age 63, was arrested and turned over to the Highland Park Police Department.
So…How do we help this gentleman? Or are we just going to ignore it like everything else around here unless its connected to the garage or shitting on one of our neighbors?
3 meals a day and a clean cot at the bergen County Jail…
Always been a few homeless people in Ridgewood. Those in the know, know where they sleep.
He is a messenger of our back to the future,
Let’s build them a big garage in the center of town add on a .covered ramp bridge from the train to the garage structure for faster panhandling and revenue opportunities.look at Iselin folks. It’s all in black and white today.
Put beds and restrooms in the new oversized,unneeded garage.
They should apply for a job at Greek to Me
9:57 Why don’t you give them a room in your house?
How does a homeless person from Highland Park wind up in Ridgewood?
Did she just get off the train one day and stay? Maybe Highland Park people bought her a ticket?
so mean. so sad. shame on you.
You got that right 9:36…and a special hex on 1:21…real nice.