Wyckoff April 18, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 3 Police seek residents’ aid after burglary wave by John Koster Wyckoff Police Chief Benjamin Fox asks township residents to report any unusual noise or activity and any suspicious persons or vehicles in the aftermath of three burglaries that took place on April 8. “Residents are reminded to contact the police if they hear suspicious noises,” Chief Fox said the morning after the incidents. “In all of these burglaries, glass was smashed -in one instance by throwing a chair through the glass door which had to create significant noise. See it. Hear it. Report it.” On April 8 at 8:58 p.m., police responded to a burglar alarm at a Wiltsie Court house and found that the rear glass door had been smashed with a patio chair. The master bedroom had been ransacked and jewelry was State pride shows Wyckoff Mayor Christopher DePhillips (center) meets with Wyckoff/Midland Park Rotary Club members Tom Madigan (left) and Ron Pepper (right) at the flag poles in front of Wyckoff Memorial Town Hall after the club donated a flag pole to fly the New Jersey state flag. taken. The incident had just taken place, so Midland Park, Ridgewood, and Hawthorne police were called in and the Bergen County K-9 unit responded. The police search turned up a second burglary with a smashed rear glass door at another Wiltsie Court home. Again, the master bedroom had been ransacked and jewelry appeared to have been stolen. While the police search of the neighborhood was still going on, a Hil-Ray Avenue resident came home and found that his own home, which backs up to Wiltsie Court, had also been broken into and the bedroom had been ransacked. The burglar alarm that drew the initial response from the police came in just before 9 p.m. Police believe this home was the last (continued on page 12)