Suspicious man observed near second and Mount Prospect avenues, Newark NJ
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Suspicious ActivityAccording to the dispatch call, officers observed a male dressed in all black with a backpack near Second Avenue and Mount Prospect Avenue. The individual engaged in a possible hand-to-hand exchange through a fence and displayed scanning and suspicious behavior before walking west on Second Avenue.
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02:43
Transcript:
00:00
Any surveillance scores by Broadway in second.
00:04
I'm not too far.
00:08
We had a male dressed in black with a backpack.
00:14
Walking around, head on a swivel.
00:16
I think west on second half.
00:20
I head over there as well.
00:23
Okay.
00:25
Round. Yeah, I don't have eyes on that individual anymore.
00:27
I'm looking around second in summer form.
00:31
Sorry, he's got.
00:33
We're in the area.
00:35
Yeah, I'm in the area circling around.
00:38
I'm negative right now.
00:41
We're coming in the area of the drone.
00:42
I'm still descriptive again.
00:46
Male, all black clothing.
00:50
A black backpack on.
00:52
Heading west on Second near Summer and Wake Fern, Whitman.
00:59
Whitman.
01:01
I copy. We're still in the car, but we're in the area looking to.
01:07
Now.
01:08
Prospect is second.
01:09
I just passed the middle, all black backpack sitting into that bag.
01:18
Possibly as far as in a male.
01:22
That's what you're talking about.
01:25
Yeah, that's in the, you know he's got on the front of them, the backpack?
01:30
Yeah, April.
01:33
Yeah, keep an eye on him.
01:35
He was on Broadway and then he went up to somebody through a fence.
01:39
Looks like he handed him something.
01:40
I couldn't see.
01:41
And then he came south like he was waiting for the bus and then he went west on second.
01:47
Yeah, when he was taking his backpack off, he started scanning the street.
01:55
You still have eyes on him there?
01:58
I'm looping back around to him.
02:00
I'm coming down now.
02:03
Any contact cars in the area? How are you looking to have that guy approached or no?
02:09
Yeah, I've had minimal to be approached.
02:12
Let's just see if I drive these anything, but definitely up to something.
02:15
Head on a swivel, he made some contact with people and now he's scanning the area.
02:22
Okay, I got eyes on him.
02:24
I'm looking through my mirror.
02:26
He's just posted up in front of the bodega.
02:30
He was texting and looking south down on Mount Prospect.
02:35
So what's the exact location? I missed it.
02:39
Mount Prospect and Second Avenue.
02:42
He's going back into the backpack now.
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Location mentioned:
2nd Ave & Mt Prospect Ave, Newark, NJ 07104
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