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A repeat offender wanted for groping a local woman may have been ready to strike again when a Ridgefield Park police officer grabbed him, authorities said.
It became the third time that Michael Hernandez, 22, had been arrested in Bergen County in a little over a month -- as well as the third time that police ended up seeing him released.
The first time, they were required to release Hernandez under New Jersey's bail reform law after they said they caught him breaking into cars on May 16.
Ten days later (
May 26), Hernandez and two other men stole a cab in Union City that they later crashed, injuring two women in another vehicle, during a chase in Fairview, authorities said.