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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Armed Man Attempts to Carjack 87-year-old Driver

The man reportedly showed the elderly driver the butt of a gun and said, 'I don’t want to kill you. I just want your car.'

A man armed with a handgun attempted to carjack an 87-year-old local man late Sunday morning on a quiet Montclair cul-de-sac, according to police.  The Montclair man parked his 2006 Toyota on Claremont Place around 11:50 a.m. Sunday. Before he could get out of his car, the alleged attempted burglar walked up to the vehicle, police said.  After asking the driver for a dollar and to open the car door, the man allegedly opened his jacket and revealed what the driver described as the handle of a handgun, according to police.  “I don’t want to kill you. I just want your car," he allegedly told the driver.  The driver then took the keys out of the ignition and refused to hand them over. The man then reportedly walked away toward Grove Street, …

Tom

7:46 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013

What a surprise...a black man?   more ›

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Weekend Armed Robbery Reported on Jefferson Place

People sitting in their car when a man approached with a revolver and robbed them.

Montclair police are investigating an armed robbery that took place last weekend when a man flashed a gun at two people sitting in a car and took their money and cell phones. Police said the occupants were seated in a 2002 Mercedes Benz in the area of Jefferson Place around 7 p.m. when a man came up from behind the car and flashed a silver revolver at them. A gun was pointed at the driver through the open driver’s-side window, police said, and the man reportedly told the passengers to “Give me the money; give me the keys; give me your cell phones.” The two passengers gave the man $20 in cash, two cell phones and the keys to the car. The man, whom police did not describe, did not take the car, police said, but he fled on foot down …

sk

7:24 pm on Tuesday, January 1, 2013

WTF!!! Why does this town attract these types of a-hole scumbags?!?! We need safer streets and more normal people here.   more ›

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