January 15, 2014 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 11 Wyckoff Man pays bail after chase on icy streets A 21-year-old Wyckoff man paid $25,000 to avoid being sent to Bergen County Jail after he briefly evaded appre- hension due to icy road conditions on Jan. 3. He also tempo- rarily avoided arrest due to a Ridgewood homeowner, who was also charged. Patrolman Kyle Ferreira attempted to stop a vehicle that was being driving erratically on Wyckoff Avenue at 1:07 a.m. on Jan. 3. The driver failed to stop for the flashing lights and siren and the police officer terminated the chase due to icy road conditions and adverse weather. Police report that the 21-year-old driver took shelter at the home of a female friend and her mother on Walthery Avenue in Ridgewood. The 53-year-old female homeowner told police that the man and her daughter were inside, but refused to bring them out, even though police warned her that the driver was wanted for criminal and traffic offenses. Police then requested and received a search warrant, entered the house, and charged the driver, who was not there, with multiple motor vehicle offenses, eluding a police officer, and for contempt of court for removing an interlock device installed on his vehicle following a driv- ing while intoxicated conviction. He later turned himself in at police headquarters and made $25,000 bail rather than go to Bergen County Jail. The Ridgewood woman was charged with hindering the apprehension of a wanted fugi- tive. She was served with a complaint and released on her own recognizance. In an unrelated incident on Dec. 31, Sergeant Joseph Soto observed two vehicles in a remote area of the park- ing lot of the Cedar Hill Shopping Center after all the stores were closed. He spotted two men sitting in one of the cars, and when he approached he detected the odor of marijuana. The investigation disclosed marijuana, narcot- ics paraphernalia, a digital scale used in drug transactions, and a bag containing psilocybin mushrooms, a controlled dangerous substance. The two 20-year-old men from the two cars, one from Franklin Lakes and one from Montclair, were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, and were released on their own recognizance.