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SWAT Standoff In North Jersey Ends Peacefully SWAT Standoff In North Jersey Ends Peacefully
SWAT Standoff In North Jersey Ends Peacefully A 63-year-old Saddle Brook man was hospitalized after an hours-long SWAT team standoff at his home. Saddle Brook police received a report of a “resident in distress” at the Saddle Brook Apartments on Finnigan Avenue at 2:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, said Capt. John A. Zotollo, Jr. “The responding officers arrived and began to speak with the individual from outside,” Zotollo said. “It was apparent this person was experiencing some type of medical issue and was presenting in an altered mental state. “Officers determined the individual was having difficulty cooperating and refused to safely ex…

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Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested
Hackensack SWAT Standoff Ends, Man Wanted In Earlier Teaneck Incident Arrested UPDATE: A man who was seized following a SWAT standoff at his Hackensack home had gone after another man with a handgun and a machete earlier in the day in Teaneck, prompting a lockdown of FDU and a local high school, authorities said Thursday. Andrew Deininger, 48, chased the other man through part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus following a dispute near the corner of Beverly and River roads around 2 p.m. Wednesday, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. "Although no specific threat to the campus community was known at the time, the FDU campus was placed into a lockdown fo…

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SWAT STANDOFF: Ex-Con's Horrifying Attack On Bergen GF With Sledgehammer, Knife Described SWAT STANDOFF: Ex-Con's Horrifying Attack On Bergen GF With Sledgehammer, Knife Described
SWAT Standoff: Ex-Con's Horrifying Attack On Bergen GF With Sledgehammer, Knife Described UPDATE: An ex-con smashed his way into his Oakland girlfriend's home overnight with a sledgehammer, then beat her and held her captive at knifepoint -- at one point cutting her hair -- before he was captured following an hours-long SWAT standoff this weekend, authorities said. "I wasn't going to make it to see tomorrow," the victim said Owen R. Harshaney, 30, of Dunnelen, told her during the horrifying overnight ordeal, court papers show. The woman, who'd lost consciousness and suffered severe head injuries during the attack, managed to escape to a family member's home after Harshaney fell…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SWAT STANDOFF: Elmwood Park Man Charged With Threats, Weapons, Obstruction SWAT STANDOFF: Elmwood Park Man Charged With Threats, Weapons, Obstruction
SWAT Standoff: Elmwood Park Man Charged With Threats, Weapons, Obstruction UPDATE: An Elmwood Park man who was captured by a SWAT team after a 6½-hour standoff remained hospitalized in police custody Tuesday pending a first court appearance. "Get the f*** out of my house!" Brian Rodriguez, 33, shouted as he descended the stairs toward two borough police officers inside his mother's Obal Avenue home wielding two knives on Saturday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Coolly and calmly, the officers backed out, Foligno said. Negotiators tried through the afternoon and into the evening to get Rodriguez to surrender. A SWAT team finally stormed the house and seized …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Prosecutor: Multiple Firearms, Ammo Seized In 2-Hour Central Jersey SWAT Standoff Prosecutor: Multiple Firearms, Ammo Seized In 2-Hour Central Jersey SWAT Standoff
Prosecutor: Multiple Firearms, Ammo Seized In 2-Hour Central Jersey SWAT Standoff Multiple firearms and ammunition were seized from a 74-year-old Central Jersey man who authorities said fired a gun inside his home with a woman upstairs, launching a nearly two-hour SWAT standoff. Raritan police were called to a Hidden Pond Court home, just after Stephen E. McManus fired a shot around 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said. Nearby residents were evacuated for their safety as officers on scene made "direct visual and verbal contact" with a female resident in an upstairs bedroom of McManus' home, Robertson said. Meanwhile, McM…

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