Fox Bites Two in Borough on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

A fox bit two people in the borough over Christmas weekend before he was found and killed by borough police.

Police said the fox bit a child on Inwood Circle Thursday. After that incident, police searched for the fox but came up empty; the fox then bit an adult male on Edgehill Ave. Friday. After police responded to that scene, they said, they found the fox and "destroyed" it.

None of the bites are considered to be life-threatening. Police said they will test the fox's remains for rabies.

In other police activity:

* Gregory Gordon, 24, of Netcong, was arrested by Chatham Borough Police Wednesday and charged with forgery and theft by deception.

A employee from undisclosed service station on Main Street called the police department the morning of Dec. 17 and reported a customer had passed a counterfeit $10 bill. The service station employee supplied Detective Jeffrey Battiloro with a license plate number, which a vehicle check showed to be Gordon's.

Battiloro interviewed Gordon Dec. 22. He was arrested the next day, served with a warrant and released on his own recognizance, pending a court appearance.

* Barrington Cill, 21, of East Orange, was arrested by Chatham Borough police Thursday on an active warrant issued by the municipality of Paterson.

Police said they were investigating an occupied suspicious vehicle when a customary investigative check uncovered the warrant.

Cill was arrested and taken to borough police headquarters. He was unable to post $201 in bail, so department members contacted Paterson police.

Cill was issued a new court date and released on his own recognizance.  

* Borough police are investigating a potential case of criminal mischief that likely took place Wednesday evening.

An employee of the business said she heard a loud noise outside her store at 6:15pm Wednesday, according to police. Police said she went outside to investigate the matter, but did not notice anything suspicious—she thought the noise might have been caused by snow falling from the roof. She closed the store at 6:30 pm, and again, did not notice anything amiss when she opened her store at 9:30am Thursday. But at 11:30am, police said, she saw that one of the store's windows contained two holes and multiple cracks. 

Police said no projectiles were found in or around the store, and said the incident will be evaluated by the department's Detective Bureau.