A woman was held in custody at the Pathmark Supermarket at Lackawanna Plaza on Sunday afternoon (June 21st) for allegedly shoplifting. Before police arrived at the scene, store security officials reported that the woman, Charade Jenkins, 44, of Montclair, had become aggressive. She allegedly scratched a police officer in the face and kicked him in the groin, along with kicking another officer in the knee.
As she was physically subdued and handcuffed, Jenkins’ husband, Donald Couram, 52, also of Montclair, allegedly struck two police officers with his fist before he, too, was handcuffed.
Jenkins was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, possession of a weapon and shoplifting goods worth $346. Couram was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and obstruction of law. Both are in jail, with bail set at $75,000 bond and $7,500 cash each. The two officers, whose injuries include facial lacerations and a sprained knee and thumb, will resume work after being medically cleared.
Police are also investigating an incident that occurred just after midnight on Monday (June 22nd), when a Montclair youth aged 20 was allegedly assaulted and robbed at the intersection of Orange Road and Draper Terrace. The youth was approached by six males and was asked, “Are you Hakmob?”
The victim reports being struck in the face with a closed fist when he failed to respond, and then punched and kicked by the whole group on his head, torso and legs. The victim reports that the group took his cell phone and $10 bill, then fled south of Orange Road. The alleged suspects are black males, aged 16 to 19, wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and light colored pants; one suspect had long, braided hair. Anyone with information should contact the Juvenile Aid Bureau at 973-509-4751.
Wondering about Hakmob? Authorities say here that it’s a reference to a local gang, the Hollow Crime Family.
And that’s why I stopped shopping at the Lackawana Pathmark even though it was just a block from my old apartment.
I can think of at least 3 separate occasions where I nearly ended up as collateral damage because of two shoppers argument about who cut whom off in line degraded to fist fights.
Be aware of your surroundings.
DH came home on Monday afternoon and noticed a bunch of cop cars on our street. He asked a neighbor what happened and she told him that a woman who lives at a house about six down from us (never met her–don’t know if she’s old, young, black, white, married, single, whatever) was followed home from the West Orange Shop-Rite by a man who held her up at gunpoint and demanded her purse, in her own driveway. From what I understand, she was not hurt physically but am sure she’s pretty shaken up.
Scary stuff. Be careful out there.
We no longer shop at any Pathmark. It’s not a store that’s aimed at our purchasing selections.
Ditto Pathmark’s owner, better known as A & P.
We shop at both the Livingston & West Orange Shop Rites, a little at the Bloomfield one, but not as much as the aformentioned two.
$346 at a Pathmark?! What were they shoplifting–saffron? (If Pathmark even sells that!) Or maybe they just filled up their cart and tried to make a run for it?
OK, I read the Star-Ledger blotter and it mentioned that they attempted to shoplift over $300 in groceries and they had a partial list including scallops, baby formula and maple syrup. How are you going to shove all of that under a coat or into a bag? And then to attack an officer of the law? They are addled or just plain dumb.
Also, I shop at Pathmark for many things and I don’t see this or any other altercation happening on a regular basis. I believe that there were some holdups last year in the Stop ‘n’ Shop parking lot on Franklin Avenue in Bloomfield.
I like King’s or the West Caldwell Shop-Rite (Much cheaper than King’s).
Does anyone know why there are always police present at the Shop Rite on Broad Street in Bloomfield?
Charade Jenkins? Who would name their kid Charade? Someone who wants us to play stupid party games? Anyway, mommy and daddy turned out to be just as good at raising an dishonest child as they were in raising a child with a lame name.
Spiro T., Charade Jenkins is just as good a name as, say, Jesse Woodson (James) or Coleman (Younger), or even Simon Bolivar (Buckner) or George Washington (Carver). and really, you know better anyway. I just hope you weren’t trying to make just a whisper of a racialist sort of point there.
A name does not automatically guarantee “dishonesty” or even honesty. Abraham “Kid Twist” Reles, for example, was for a long period during the 1930′s, Murder Inc.’s most reliable assassin, until he turned stoolpigeon.
Cathar, my point had to do with questionable parenting.
I’m not surprised anyone would try to shoplift from that store.
I’ve had to wait in 45 minute check out lines there when there were only three other customers ahead of me.
Trust me, the urge to steal a stick of butter was strong within me.
No it didn’t, Spiro. You were trying to make a “funny” with a modest racial slant. It didn’t work and it should ill befit you.
Cather, thanks, but really, you might agree that African Americans are not the only Americans who gave their kids dumb names and fail to instruct them to be honest in stores.
I like King’s or the West Caldwell Shop-Rite (Much cheaper than King’s).
Completely agreed, Nellie! Good thing I live near there… but we don’t have Whole Paych– er, Foods right around the corner!
Of course I too could list a whole raft of silly-sounding names from a diverse ethnic spectrum, Spiro T.
But few of them are specifically known to shop at that specific Pathmark (whose mere mention on this site always brings up somewhat racially tinged comments which are not per se racist).
Down in SC, I should add, said diverse spectrum of potential felons seems usually to shop at Food Lion stores (as opposed to my own fave grocer down in the sunny, slow-moving but very courteous South, Piggly Wiggly).
My southern grocery store choice is Giant.
nellie,
As far as southern grocery stores, have you ever been to Harris Teeter? Id move to NC just to be near one!
Never been there, Jimmy. But the name is interesting.
RaeVen, they hire them to stand watch and for the peace of mind for their customers, I do believe.
what’s so surprising, people robbing?
Actually, Sandy, the Brookdale Shoprite parking lot can get very busy and there have been instances of road rage with arguments over parking spaces. The cops are hired but to control the traffic.
I shop at that Pathmark because I think the customers are nicer and better behaved them the mob scene that is the Bloomfield Shop Rite. The deli is funky but I’ve never seen or heard anything like this story describes. In my grocery bargain hunting I’ve noticed all the area Pathmark’s have funky deli’s, anyone else find that to be true or am I a cold cut snob?
cathar,
There’s a Food Lion in Hatteras (sp?) that we stop at every year to restock on our favorite muscadine wine and I’ve never once come away with the same creepy, ghetto feeling I get from the Pathmark in question.
You like muscadine wine, GNM? I know it’s a regional Southern thing, but I always worry about instant diabetic shock after just one sip. Do you also like CheerWine? (Not really wine, I realize, but…)
Food Lion, I suspect, has never fully recovered from the famous ABC-TV “expose” about the chain’s, uh, curious practices re meat dating. Everybody seems to remember that one. But I’m sure there are very nice ones, just not around the Charleston, SC area. (Where, to reply to someone else above, Harris Teeter seems to lately be on a building-of-new-markets kick. And they are nice stores, you’re spot on there.)
cathar,
Yes, the missus and I love Muscadine wine… It may help to explain that it is the only wine that I like because it is so sweet and one of only a handful that she likes (all the others being generally sweet, as well).
Coincidentally, Cathar, I just happened to watch the 1960 movie about Murder,Inc. and Reles (starring Peter Falk!) this past weekend while visiting my elderly parents in Queens.
There were some cool scenes, and some excellent cinematography, but the music was too melodramatic for my taste.
Spiro T., I shall always like the movie “Murder Inc.” for its featuring one of the very rare screen appearances by the acerbic Henry Morgan. Interesting movie, as I recall, but even some of the plot elements were, as you note, melodramatic.
I also just looked up who did the score for the movie. Frank De Vol, of all people, the dolorous-looking guy who played “Happy Kyne” on the old “Mary Hartman…” spinoff show “Fernwood Tonight.” I don’t remember the movie soundtrack at all, but I do know that DeVol is viewed as a key player in what screen movie buffs consider the “Silver Age” of movie music.
hrhppg; if ‘ya want REAL “Deli” you go to either a good Italian or Jewish deli. All else is imitation, made to a price point. Sometimes you’ll have to “travel” a bit. THE best Italian Deli I ever found was in Madison NJ ~ but I think they retired and sold. The best Jewish Deli is Zaydies in South Orange, bar none !
How come there aren’t any WASP delis?
There are more “WASP” delis than any other!
Check out any A&P,Pathmark or Shop Rite.
Hansel & Grettal await as does Mr. Hormel and Mr & Mrs Thuman. Don’t forget the butter, and the Ann Page Mustard!