Crime & Safety
Man Arrested After Reporting Fake Carjacking and Kidnapping
A Berkely Heights man was arrested for filing a false police report, police say.
A Berkley Heights man was arrested after filing a false police report involving a carjacking and kidnapping, according to a recent police report.
Nabil Talsmat, 36 of Berkley Heights reported that a carjacking and kidnapping had occurred in South Orange on Saturday, Aug. 31.
A detective assigned to the case “determined that the subject Mr. Talsmat had fabricated the incident and no such crime had taken place in South Orange,” police said.
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He was arrested on Sunday, Sept. 1, according to the report.
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