Amazing none of the computer " tough guys " have anything to say bout this. Washington Township Police reponded to a burglary in progress - unknown number of actors or if weapons are involved. What do they do ????? They take the clown down without incident after he burglarized and destroyed two local businesses. Professionals. They actually AREN'T following people up and down the mountain at all times after all - how do you like that !! They show up and take care of business. Thanks PD for being out there for me and my family,

wash twp

the article gives this dept. no justice. the call was an active burglary/theft in progress with a bad man. one officer arrived on scene with his backup minutes away. the officer BY HIMSELF approached the businesses on his his own. not knowing if there were one bad guy or five bad guys weapon or no weapons having family or having family with kids or no kids. confronted the bad guy and took him down b4 anyone showed up. would or could the wash twp committee or christie do that? jelly donut is the answer. jason please give the article, the respect it deserves and make it the breaking news thanks.

Here you go- the 500 cops in long valley are actually confronted with a real crime and do the job they are hired for, big whoop. Now they can go back to following people on the mountain the other 364 days of the year. I like that they keep the illegals driving through town scared s...less.

Times are so politically correct and caught in legalize that in this article the theif has to called "alleged".....Maybe he should be identified as a "economic victim".

As a pompous tool with no sense of humor who feels compelled to mention that I am an attorney (not a very successful one, or I wouldn't need to mention it), I wish the entire country to be overrun by undocumented aliens who violate the law with impunity. Furthermore I am such a complete ass that I believe my viewpoint to be endorsed by an unseen higher power (God) and invoke his name as endorsement of my demonstrated idiocy. Any one who disagrees is amoral and should be drawn and quartered.

Good job by the WTPD. People aren't "illegal". What they do is sometimes, like going where the law doesn't permit them.

@ Dp (aka Sam whineberg) I'm an attorney.

I'm a little confused here. Where exactly in the story does it mention anywhere that the suspect is an immigrant... legal or illegal???

Nowhere. Dp brought it up and has been harping on it since. Then he changed his name to something similar to mine and kept talking about how he dislikes immigrants. Strange person. Speaking as an attorney of course.

Double penatration randomly added that in his post for no reason at all.

This really takes the fun out of things - the original post was not meant to be taken seriously. Max Wienberg is a bit uptight, writing too many important attorney reports apparently makes one that way. There is no illegal alien in the original crime, no one is angry, no one has it in for space aliens.

Virtually every report of criminal activity in the newspapers, where a person is named, uses "allegedly" to avoid a lawsuit in case the person named is later found innocent. A sign of the times, based on someone filing suit and winning his/her case. Glad that Officer Myers and the officers caught the person, no shots were fired and there were apparently no injuries. Interesting that someone "allegedly from Newark" traveled to a crime free area to break into a business in crime free Washington Township, on a major highway (Route 46).

Bad idea robbing the liquor store at the bottom of Route $^ where WTPD hang out. And now, take a look at this fine citizen. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/nj_inmate_is_one_of_many_hopin.html

I'm an attorney I'm an attorney I'm an attorney I'm an attorney...did I mention I'm an attorney??

Sam - All I can tell you is that I love you Navy boys .... Every time we have to fight you are always nice enough to give us a ride