Mahwah May 5, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 3 Former resident charged with stealing political signs by Frank J. McMahon The Mahwah Police Department has charged a 32-year-old Hoboken woman, who is a former Mahwah resident, with the theft of political signs belonging to Daniel Weixeldorfer, a candidate in the upcoming May 11 municipal election for the Mahwah Township Council. According to a Mahwah police report, several witnesses observed the woman removing Weixeldorfer’s campaign signs from the area surrounding the Mahwah train station near the intersection of Miller Road and Franklin Turnpike and putting them in the trunk of her car. Those witnesses also observed her license plate, according to Weixeldorfer, and the police traced the license plate number to the woman. The candidate says 80 to 100 of his signs are missing. Mahwah Detective Kevin Hebert and Patrol Officer Russell Read then interviewed the witnesses, who positively identified the woman from a photo array. She was then interviewed and charged with theft and released on her own recognizance. She is due to appear in Mahwah Municipal Court on May 12. “I was extremely upset,” Weixeldorfer said, after explaining how the theft of his signs came to his attention by way of eye witnesses who saw the woman taking the signs around lunchtime on April 24 and putting them in the trunk of her black SUV. He explained that the signs were taken from an area stretching from the train station to West Ramapo Avenue and along Island Road to West Airmount Road. He added that he had lost 40 to 50 signs the previous week, but did not report that loss to the police. The Mahwah Police Department is also investigating the defacement of political signs that were owned by Councilman Allan Kidd and were located around the intersection of Miller Road and Franklin Turnpike, and the reported theft of the political signs owned by council candidate John Speich and Councilman John DaPuzzo and his running mates Harry Williams and Roy Larson. Police Chief James Batelli advised that, in the Kidd defacement incident, someone allegedly put bumper stickers on his political signs which contained wording that expressed opposition to Kidd’s election. In response to Kidd’s complaint, Chief Batelli sent a police officer from his department to investigate that incident and he interviewed Kidd and the owner and employees of the Sunoco station, and the owner of the Gulf station across the street, but no one who was interviewed could provide any information of evidential value. Batelli also advised that he has directed a police officer to visit the Sunoco station to determine if its camera surveillance system captured any images that would provide information pertinent to the investigation. “Unfortunately, during every election event we experience these types of acts and this election has not proven any different,” Batelli said in response to an inquiry about the incidents. “These acts are neither condoned nor overlooked by our agency.” ������� ��� ����� ����������������������� NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEADER IN CONTEMPORARY VARICOSE VEIN TREATMENT ������������������������������ ��������������������������������������� �������������������� ��������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������ CHUBACKVEINCENTER A NEW STANDARD OF VEIN CARE 265 Ackerman Ave. Ridgewood, NJ 201-693-4330 ���������������������������� ��������������������� ���������� presents... Presents 2ND ANNUAL SPRING GALA PERFORMANCE Saturday, June 5th, 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM At Berrie Center for the Arts, Ramapo College. ���������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������������������������������������������������������������������