⚠️ Three men were arrested after police targeted suspected shoplifters at Garden State Plaza.
🚔 Officers say the driver rammed several police vehicles before he was pulled from the Mercedes.
➡️ Police say the car was linked to earlier robberies in Tenafly and at the mall’s Gucci store.
PARAMUS — The latest crackdown on groups of shoplifters at this New Jersey mall ended with an expensive crash, according to police.
On Thursday night, Paramus police arrested three men in the parking lot outside the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall. The trio was taken to Bergen County Jail.
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Tyron Hartfield, 37, of Irvington and Xavier Granger, 22, of Newark are both charged with third-degree conspiracy to commit theft and fourth-degree resisting arrest. Granger is also charged with fourth-degree obstruction.
The longest list of charges went to Shaquan Cuttino, 32, Newark, who officers say rammed a white Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 into a police vehicle. Cuttino is charged with two counts of second-degree aggravated assault, second-degree eluding, and several third-degree offenses, including three counts each of resisting arrest and criminal mischief, two counts of assault by auto, and one count of conspiracy to commit theft.
Police say Mercedes was linked to earlier robberies
Their arrests were the latest operation by the Paramus Police Department Crime Suppression Unit…