ONLY ON CVP: The husband of a woman’s clothing designer was indicted this week on charges of running from Little Ferry police and then threatening to kill them after stealing her wallet.
Tammy Pusher-Wiggins called police to say that Tyrone Wiggins was pounding on the door of her home before dawn on Jan. 15, authorities said.
When they arrived, they said, she told them that he took off with her wallet.
A witness told police that Wiggins, 37, had gotten on a bus.
Officers stopped the bus in Moonachie moments later and brought him back to the scene. There, a radio report came in that Wiggins was wanted on a warrant out of Union Township.
At that point Wiggins bolted, but police caught him quickly, Little Ferry Detective Ronald Klein Jr. told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time.
In the patrol car, the detective said, Wiggins threatened to kill the four officers.
Wiggins had his bail reduced from $200,000 to $40,000 and was released from the Bergen County Jail five days after his arrest.
He was picked up in Fort Lee and released on $1,000 bail last month on contempt of court and simple assault charges.
The grand jury indictment charges him with robbery, eluding police, trying to prevent law enforcement from making an arrest by threatening violence, threatening to kill Pusher-Wiggins and the four officers — Sgt. Chris Boel and Officers Michael Derwin, Keith Ehalt and John Clark — and knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to them as they were doing their jobs.
Wiggins — who served time twice in New York State, once for robbery and another for weapons possession — once co-owned Audacity Republic Apparel with Pusher-Wiggins, 33, records show. She is the company’s chief executive officer and owns her own New York City boutique.
One of her signature items is a t-shirt that joins the faces of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF