Three men wanted for a series of package thefts in Wayne, and surrounding communities were taken into custody on Wednesday.
According to police, several complaints by residents of a suspicious vehicle circling several communities had police step up presence in the area where they stopped a black Honda on the Black Oak Ridge Road at Route 23 near the Bottle King just after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Police said during the stop; they noticed two packages in the back seat of a Zip car.
An investigation indicated that one of the packages contained designer sneakers and a sweatsuit worth several hundred dollars that occupants inside the vehicle took from outside a home in Wayne.
Police said that they also found a designer woman’s jacket that cost $1,000 that was allegedly stolen from a Springfield home.
Officers arrested the driver Mr. Taliek Jones, 19, of Newark and two passengers from Brooklyn, Mr. Devell Benjamin and Mr. Thafou Felix, both 18.
The trio were charged package/identity-theft related offenses and police impounded the car they occupied.
Police said Jones was ordered held in the Passaic County Jail pending a detention hearing, but the other two were released on summonses.
The incident remains under investigation.