Carlstadt police charge dock worker with hitting fiancée with bag of jars, making threats

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Carlstadt dock worker hit his fiancée in the chest with a bag of mason jars and threatened to harm her during an argument, for which he was arrested, police said.

Jerry DeMarco

12/17/2014 2:46 p.m.

Detective Sgt. David Smith and Officers William Pangaro and Anthony Bellina took 36-year-old Jose Luyando III into custody on Sunday, after the frightened woman left the house with their children, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said this morning.

Luyano posted $2,500 bail and was released pending a Jan. 1 Municipal Court hearing on charges of simple assault and making terroristic threats.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

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