Hillsdale PD: Shoplifter Strolled Out With Hand Basket, $2,500 Hidden Goods

HILLSDALE, N.J. – He was hardly discrete about it: A suspect picked up by a passing patrol officer near the Hillsdale train station was carrying a Walgreens shopping basket and $2,500 worth of stolen merchandise bulging from his pockets, police said.

Hillsdale Walgreens
Photo Credit: *COURTESY: Abbey Roadme*

Jerry DeMarco

03/01/2018 11:48 a.m.

Officer Travis Woods was headed to the shoplifting call when he spotted Mark P. Zurich, 32, of Jersey City carrying the hand basket – with several of the stolen items sticking out of his jacket, Detective Bill Diedtrich said Thursday.

Zurich was charged with shoplifting and sent to the Bergen County Jail before a judge released him a short time later pending a hearing.

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