Career criminal Gregory Calvo, 53, is the very embodiment of the phrase “known to police.”
He’s been convicted nearly two dozen times in Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Morris and Essex counties since 1989 – for offenses that include robbery, theft, burglary, drug dealing, domestic violence and aggravated assault — and has been in and out of state prison and county jails since that time only to be arrested once again.
Calvo was serving one of those sentences in the Hudson County Jail when authorities said he threatened to shoot a food service worker in the head.
Three years ago, witnesses said Cavlo got into a fighting stance when officers confronted him in an Acme Supermarket at the Edgewater Commons along the Hudson River.
He’d just stolen hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise from the Marshalls, Old Navy and TJ Maxx in the shopping center, authorities said.
“I’m not going to be arrested today,” Calvo announced before kicking, elbowing and spitting on the officers, who ultimately Tasered him and took him into custody.