🐶 Bayonne police are looking for a group of alleged dognappers

🐶 The five were spotted unleashing a dog from a porch of a home

🐶 They were last seen with the dog in Manhattan


Update: The stolen dog, Rocco. has been located and will be reunited with its owner this evening, said Captain Eric Amato, Bayonne Police Department.

BAYONNE — Police in this Hudson County city are looking for help from the public with locating or identifying five people believed to be responsible for a dognapping.

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The Bayonne Police Department Detective Bureau said that on July 24, at 6:20 p.m., a Jack Russell terrier named “Rocco” was on a leash on the porch of a home on 41st Street and Avenue E.

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The group of individuals is seen unleashing Rocco, removing him from the porch, then leaving the area, police said.

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The five, with Rocco in their possession, then boarded a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail train at the 45th Street station in Bayonne bound for Hoboken.

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Once they were at the Hoboken stop, the individuals boarded a Path train and exited at the 14th Street stop in Manhattan.

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If anyone can identify the actors in these photographs or has any information regarding Rocco’s whereabouts, please contact the Bayonne Police Detective Bureau at 201-858-6925.

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