Crime & Safety

Watch, DVD Thief Sentenced to Jail, Probation

Dennis Fastiggi was given 180 days in confinement for thefts over three-month period.

A Hopatcong man received 180 days in jail and five more years of probation for stealing watches out of cars and DVDs from a home, according to the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office.

from a Hopatcong home, then pawned them to Saturday Night Matinee in Rockaway in March, according to police. At that time he was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Less than two months earlier, Fastiggi was arrested for entering cars and taking multiple watches from the vehicles, police said.

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Fastiggi admitted that between January 20, and March 25, 2013, in the Borough of Hopatcong did enter several residences and stole property, the prosecutor's office said.


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