by Carolyne Volpe Curley / Carolyne@WestEssexNOW.com
Published 10pm

During the questioning, another report came in that two males were earlier seen on camera footage attempting to break into a parked car at a residence on Woodrow Place. Police responded and viewed the footage and confirmed that the persons on tape attempting a car burglary matched the two males currently being questioned. ​

In Custody

• ​Nasir Johnson, 20, of Newark
• Sharrod Morris, 20, of Newark

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Charges

• Criminal attempt
• Hindering apprehension after providing false information

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Johnson and Morris were charged and later transported to the Essex County Jail where they will await their detention hearing.

This morning at about 6:36am, Fairfield Police responded to a report of a man bleeding severely outside of KZY Logistics trucking business located on Commerce Road. 

According to Fairfield Police Chief Anthony Manna, the first officers to respond located Bryan Tay, 40, of Paterson, in the rear of the building in the area of the tractor trailers. Tay was reportedly bleeding severely from his abdomen from what appeared to be a knife wound. 

Tay was alert and conscious and reported to the officers that he had been stabbed by a co-worker who officers later determined to be Alptug Akkus, 29, of Paterson, who had left the area. Area police were notified. 

West Essex First Aid Squad was dispatched and treated Tay at the
scene and then transported him to Morristown Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

At 8:51am,  Montclair Police  notified Fairfield that Akkus was in Mountainside Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries that he allegedly sustained during the earlier incident in Fairfield.

After Fairfield detectives Lieutenant Charles Zampino and Sergeant Jeffrey Didyk today reviewed video footage from the parking lot as well as the statement from Akkus and determined that both Tay and Akkus are truck drivers for KZY Logistics whose dispute erupted after an incident which took place while both were working in Arizona earlier this week. 

ASSAULT
According to Manna, this morning Akkus came to the company’s parking lot to return his tractor, and Tay was reportedly there waiting for him hiding behind a car, armed with a wooden plank. On the tape viewed by police, Akkus can be seen emerging from his truck and Tay reportedly began striking him with the plank.

During the assault, Akkus allegedly pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed Tay once in what police describe as self-defense.

CHARGES
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office was contacted and authorized the following charges against Bryan Tay:

• One count 3rd degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapons
• One count 3rd degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose
• One count 4th degree possession of a weapon

Tay was arrested at Mountainside, served with his complaints and was released from police custody on his own recognizance pending a hearing in the Superior Court in Newark. No charges have been filed against Akkus.

This afternoon, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, announced that Robert Bruckner, owner of Major Mindset Hypnosis Counseling in Fairfield, was arrested and charged yesterday with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of child and practicing medicine without a license. Bruckner, 55, who lives in Randolph and is not a licensed doctor, advertises hypnosis services to both adults and children.

Reportedly, Bruckner's clients told Fairfield Police that they visited his offices for hypnotherapy services but that during the session Bruckner had "subjected them to what was described as a prostate exam or asked clients to submit to a prostate examination."

According to Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey Conrad, who is handling the case, it's not known if Bruckner has assaulted any clients while they were under hypnosis. 
 
Fairfield Police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office initiated a joint investigation which remains ongoing.

Anybody who may have information pertaining to this matter should contact The Essex County Prosecutor Office's Special Victims Unit at 973-753-1130