Elizabeth man is wanted in at least eight law enforcement jurisdictions for similar slimes, authorities said.
NUTLEY -- Authorities are looking for an alleged thief who they say targets elderly women in supermarkets.
Police are searching for Denmon. (Courtesy Nutley Police)According to Nutley police, a man later identified as Charles E. Denmon, 62, of Elizabeth, was caught by a surveillance camera stealing a wallet from a 74-year-old woman shopping in a local supermarket. Denmon, police said, waited for the woman to leave the purse in her shopping cart momentarily unattended while she was shopping in the frozen food aisle, and snatched her wallet from it. The woman had several hundred dollars and her identification in the wallet, police said.
After investigating the incident, police in Nutley discovered that Denmon was wanted in multiple other towns for similar thefts.
He allegedly targets elderly women in supermarkets, and steals cash and credit cards from their wallets when they aren't looking. Denmon, who is also wanted by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, Bergen County Sheriff's Office, New Milford Police, Verona Police, Caldwell Police, Livingston Police, and Essex County Sheriff's Office, was arrested Saturday in Wallington, police said.
He was transported to the Bergen County Jail where charges from multiple jurisdictions are being processed, police said.
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