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Hostage Emerges Screaming, With Stab Wounds After 4-Hour SWAT Standoff In NJ: Prosecutor Hostage Emerges Screaming, With Stab Wounds After 4-Hour SWAT Standoff In NJ: Prosecutor
Hostage Emerges Screaming, With Stab Wounds After 4-Hour SWAT Standoff In NJ: Prosecutor Police have released details and made an arrest in a nearly five-hour SWAT standoff involving a hostage Friday, Nov. 10 in Somerset County. Police received 9-1-1 calls saying a man later identified as Alonzo D. Blakey, 50, was holding a female relative against her will in his apartment on Columbia Drive in Finderne, around 7:20 a.m., Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said. Blakely was threatening to harm himself and the victim when Bridgewater police arrived, McDonald said alongside Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of County Detectives Francisco Roman Jr., Bridgewate…

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by Cecilia Levine
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SWAT STANDOFF: Explosive Ending In Hours-Long NJ Barricade Situation SWAT STANDOFF: Explosive Ending In Hours-Long NJ Barricade Situation
SWAT Standoff: Explosive Ending In Hours-Long NJ Barricade Situation A SWAT standoff in Finderne ended after several hours on Friday, Nov. 10, with a woman being escorted out and a man being removed on a stretcher. Live footage at the scene showed SWAT members set off some sort of explosive just before noon at an apartment on Columbia Drive in Finderne. Moments later, members of the SWAT team escorted a woman out of the building and removed a man on a stretcher. The woman was treated by paramedics while the man was loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher.  Circumstances around the incident weren't immediately clear. Chief of Somerset County Dete…

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by Cecilia Levine