RIDGEWOOD -- Village police are asking for the public's help in identifying a young man who has taken to smearing excrement on the walls of local businesses.



In a statement released Friday, Ridgewood cops said an unidentified white male, about 5-foot-10 with short blonde hair, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, on June 20 went into the bathroom of a service station on Goffle Road.

The vandal "wiped excrement on the walls, floor and toilet" before leaving in a white van, police said.



It's the fourth such incident to occur in the last week at a Ridgewood business.

Anyone who can identify the smear-master, believed to be between the ages of 19 and 25, is asked to call detectives at 201-251-4536.

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