Oakland Teen Arrested


icepickOn August 3 at 10:10pm, Wyckoff Police responded to the Boulder Run Shopping Center on a report that there was a fight in progress and one of the individuals involved was threatening another with a knife.

The officers encountered a large group in the parking lot, and when the offenders were pointed out to police, a small group fled the area on foot.

The investigation determined that a fight had started between two Oakland boys, ages 15 and 16, when the older youth pulled out an ice pick, and allegedly held it to the other boys chest and threatened to stab him.

A Bergen County Police K-9 unit and other area police agencies were contacted to assist in searching for the boy involved. He could not be located and was subsequently picked up at his home. He was charged by Sgt. Jack McEwan with unlawful possession of a weapon and terroristic threats.

The complaints will be heard in Bergen County Juvenile Court. The ice pick was recovered the next day in a garden bed on the Boulder Run property. Det. Sgt. Michael Musto, Sgt. Brian Zivkovich, Ptl. Andrew Poremba, Ptl. Terrance Murphy and Ptl. William Plisich assisted in the investigation.