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Police from 3 departments grab Route 17 tire thieves in the act

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police from three departments moved quickly and decisively, snagging a team of tire thieves before they could make off with a huge haul from a Route 17 dealership. All three — including two Dominican natives already facing similar charges — almost immediately posted $20,000 cash bail each and were released.

Photo Credit: Carlstadt PD

Wood-Ridge police got a call at 1:30 a.m. Saturday from a security company that monitors surveillance cameras at East Coast Toyota. Although the dealership is located in Wood-Ridge, a section of its lot is in Carlstadt.

Within moments, officers from both towns and East Rutherford had the lot surrounded. They quickly spotted a vehicle with its wheels removed.

A responding East Rutherford officer saw a U-Haul box truck in the area of 8th Street and Passaic Avenue in Carlstadt, right behind the dealership, and pulled it over.

That’s where police said, they found three men, burglar tools (including a lug-nut wrench) and the tires.

Carlstadt police filed charges of theft, receiving stolen property, conspiracy to commit theft, criminal trespassing and possession of burglar tools against (left to right, above): Kirving Vasquez-Holguin, 26, of Haledon and Delby Vargas-Gonzalez, 24, and Esterlyn Goris-Martinez, 33, of Paterson.

Goris-Martinez, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, already was facing June 2012 burglary, theft and possession of stolen property charges out of Hackensack, records show. Varga-Gonzales, meanwhile, was arrested in Elwood Park in February, and immediately bailed out, on a receiving stolen property charge.

MUGSHOTS: Carlstadt PD

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