Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal announced today the arrests of Tyrone Goings of Hackensack and his brother, Travis Goings of Englewood.
Police said the arrests are the culmination of a three-month-long investigation by detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Squad and a multi-jurisdictional burglary task force comprised of detectives from Fort Lee, Paramus, Cliffside Park, Tenafly, Saddle River, and Teaneck police departments.
According to police, in response to a reported increase of residential burglaries in the eastern part of Bergen County, detectives from the affected towns met and shared information about the burglaries.
As a result, a task force was formed and a joint investigation began.
Police said on the evening of June 8, 2017, task force detectives were conducting physical surveillance in the Borough of Cliffside Park when they observed the brothers in a vehicle that circled the same blocks for a period of time.
Police said shortly after the vehicle left the area, detectives confirmed that a burglary had been committed to a residence on Washington Avenue in Cliffside Park.
Detectives located the suspects’ vehicle and conduct a motor vehicle stop.
Police charged the men each charged with one count of Burglary, for the Washington Avenue, Cliffside Park burglary along with an additional count of Burglary, for an April 27th, 2017 residential burglary to a Cliffside Park residence on West End Avenue.
The investigation is ongoing and more charges are expected.
Tyrone and Travis Goings are currently lodged in the Bergen County Jail, pending a detention hearing.
Prosecutor Grewal states that the charges against the defendants are merely accusations and that the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and would also like to thank the Fort Lee, Paramus, Cliffside Park, Tenafly, Saddle River and Teaneck Police Departments for their assistance with this investigation.