The incident took place on Friday, August 13, around 10:38 a.m., when the Ridgefield Police Department responded to a report of a large suspicious container left near Hobart Street and Teaneck Road in Ridgefield Park.
Body discovered inside plastic container on New Jersey street
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Inside the plastic container, police discovered human remains, later identified as 44-year-old Nicole Flanagan of Corona, Queens.
An investigation led to the arrest of 29-year-old Aquellio Parker of Springfield Gardens.
Investigators said the body was removed from 95 Wall Street in a barrel the night before she was discovered.
They say Parker assisted in moving the remains of Flanagan from New York to Ridgefield Park.
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He has been charged with conspiring to disturb, move and conceal or desecrate a dead body.
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Police say Parker turned himself in to the NYPD on Sunday, August 22.
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