A woman waiting for a bus at the stop on Irvington Avenue last Wednesday between 8 and 8:30 a.m. was reportedly punched in the back by a man who then took her cell phone, said Sgt. Christopher Black of the Maplewood Police Department. The man then got in a dark-colored SUV parked on Union Avenue, and fled east on Irvington Avenue, Black said.
In other police news this week:
October 8, 2014; Bicycle Theft; At approximately 3:45 p.m., a bicycle was stolen from Quick Chek on Springfield Ave.
October 19, 2014; Bicycle Thefts; Sometime over the previous few days two bicycles were removed from an unsecured garage on Parker Ave