NJ.COM REPORTED THAT A 24-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER BURSTING INTO A WOMAN’S MOTEL ROOM IN BELLEVILLE AND ROBBING AND BEATING HER ON MONDAY. JEREMY CALCANO OF UNION CITY WAS CHARGED WITH ROBBERY, ASSAULT, BURGLARY, KNOWINGLY RESTRAINING A VICTIM AND HINDERING APPREHENSION. CALCANO AND ANOTHER MAN DRESSED IN ALL BLACK CHARGED INTO A WOMAN’S ROOM AT THE BELLVILLE MOTOR LODGE ON WASHINGTON AVENUE. CALCANO PUSHED HER AGAINST THE WALL WHILE THE OTHER MAN SEARCHED THE ROOM, ASKING WHERE THE MONEY WAS. CALCANO ALLEGEDLY HIT THE WOMAN IN THE MOUTH AND ARM BEFORE TAKING HER PURSE, MONEY AND PASSPORT. ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, AS CALCANO FLED, HE THREATENED WITNESSES, SAYING IN SPANISH THAT IF THEY COOPERATED WITH THE POLICE, HE WOULD KILL THEM. INVESTIGATORS FOUND SOME OF THE STOLEN MONEY ON A WALKWAY BEHIND A VEHICLE. THE WOMAN WASN’T SERIOUSLY INJURED AND DECLINED MEDICAL TREATMENT. IT WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR IF THE OTHER ALLEGED ROBBER WAS CHARGED OR IF THE MEN KNEW THE VICTIM. ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS, CALCANO REMAINS HELD AT THE ESSEX COUNTY JAIL AND IS SCHEDULED FOR A DETENTION HEARING ON MONDAY. NO ATTORNEY IS LISTED IN COURT RECORDS.
NJ.COM REPORTED THAT A NORTH BERGEN MAN WAS ARRESTED IN BERGEN COUNTY AFTER POLICE SAID HE DEMANDED 6 THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM A FAMILY FRIEND TO REMOVE HIM FROM A FAKE DEPORTATION LIST. ACCORDING TO POLICE, 35-YEAR-OLD CARLOS ROCA-ROCA TOLD A FAMILY FRIEND IN FAIRVIEW THAT HE KNEW SOMEONE AT THE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND COULD HAVE HIM DEPORTED. THE DMV DOES NOT HANDLE DEPORTATIONS, AND POLICE DID NOT SAY WHY ROCA-ROCA USED THE DMV AS A RUSE. FAIRVIEW DEPUTY CHIEF JOHN PIEROTTI JR. SAID THAT HE TOLD THE VICTIM HE WAS PUT ON A DEPORTATION LIST, AND DEMANDED 6 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN RETURN FOR HAVING HIM REMOVED FROM THE LIST. ROCA-ROCA LATER ADMITTED THAT HE FABRICATED THE STORY TO GET MONEY BECAUSE OF PERSONAL FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. ROCA-ROCA WAS CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE THEFT BY EXTORTION AND THIRD-DEGREE THEFT BY DECEPTION. IT WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR WHETHER ROCA-ROCA REMAINED IN CUSTODY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. ATTORNEY INFORMATION WAS NOT AVAILABLE.
