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Final Drive-By For Late Police Vet Draws Throng To Dumont Final Drive-By For Late Police Vet Draws Throng To Dumont
Final Drive-By For Late Police Vet Draws Throng To Dumont TRIBUTE: Church bells tolled, a lone bagpiper played, but otherwise all remained silent during a solemn final drive-by Wednesday morning for late Dumont Police Sgt. James Flaherty Jr. A police escort with a motorcycle unit and a vehicle transporting the veteran officer’s family flanked the hearse, which stopped briefly in front of police headquarters beneath the Stars and Stripes, hung by borough firefighters, on Washington Avenue. The turnout included fellow active and retired officers – both from town and more than a dozen surrounding communities – as well as other responders and civilia…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Veteran Dumont Police Sergeant, 51, Dies Veteran Dumont Police Sergeant, 51, Dies
Veteran Dumont Police Sergeant, 51, Dies Arrangements were being finalized Tuesday for a veteran Dumont police sergeant who died the night before. ****** UPDATE: Church bells tolled, a lone bagpiper played, but otherwise all remained silent during a solemn final drive-by Wednesday morning for late Dumont Police Sgt. James Flaherty Jr. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/bergenfield/police-fire/final-drive-by-for-late-police-vet-draws-throng-to-dumont/782595/ ****** Sgt. James Flaherty Jr., 51, was four months shy of 25 years in blue -- just about all of it in Dumont, records show. He’d returned to work after back surgery on…

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by Jerry DeMarco