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 

FAIRFIELD, NJ - Fairfield Police have arrested Jason S. Struss, 43, of Oakland, after last night's accident, and subsequent three-hour search throughout the Fairfield area. West Essex area police offered mutual aid, along with the Fairfield Fire Department, West Essex First Aid Squad, Essex County Sheriff's Department and NJ State police until Struss was eventually found and arrested on Alan Drive in Fairfield. 
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The incident began last night at about 9:23pm when repeated calls came into the headquarters notifying police that a car had flipped over multiple times after crashing with another vehicle on Route 46 West. Fairfield Police immediately responded and located what turned out to be a 2019 Nissan, owned by Struss,  near a parking lot at 333 Route 46. 

Concentrating their efforts on locating a man who they surmised was heavily injured, and knowing that the phone was in close range, police proactively decided to call it. 

The suspect reportedly answered the phone, and was apparently confused by the person calling him. He was said to have stated that he was lost in Fairfield and needed to be picked up. Then the suspect hung up and when police next texted him, they could hear the sound of the cellphone receiving the text very close by.  

Struss was soon located hiding near the home. 

Struss was arrested and the West Essex First Aid Squad transported  him to Morristown Memorial Hospital for evaluation.

Struss was later released from the hospital and at police headquarters he was charged with:

• obstruction
  
  
• resisting arrest by flight
  
  
• assault by auto
  
  
• driving under the influence 
  
  
• other motor vehicle violations

Struss was then returned to Morristown Memorial Hospital for
additional evaluation.

Investigating Officers Sergeant Christopher Niemiec and Officer Daniel Moran have determined that the female driver's Mazda was travelling west on Route 46 in the right lane and Struss’ Nissan was directly behind her in the same lane and that it hit her from behind. 

Police believe Struss’ Nissan struck the left rear of the Mazda, which caused it to spin, strike a utility pole and come to rest on the lawn of 333 Route 46.

Witnesses have told police that the Nissan may have flipped
as many as four times before it came to rest, right side up, near the driveway of 333 Route 46.

Route 46 West was closed until about 1am and Chief Manna commended the work of all of the responding emergency personnel "in both the treatment of the injured and the apprehension of the suspect."