Officers were alerted to a report of a parolee with an ankle monitor, later identified as Felix Martinez, a 40-year-old Patterson resident, near Brookdale Park, after he had been involved in several investigations about break-ins at the park, the Essex County Sheriff’s Office said.
Following each of the burglaries, victims have been alerted that their stolen credit cards have been used in nearby Staples and Walgreen’s , authorities said.
Police received a report of another burglary at the park and the victim reported fraudulent transactions totaling over $2,000 at a Staples in Cedar Grove, authorities said, near where Martinez’s ankle monitor was tracked, authorities said…