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GOTCHA! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After NJSP Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows GOTCHA! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After NJSP Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows
Gotcha! K-9 Nabs Gun-Toting Ex-Con After Njsp Foot Chase From American Dream Into Meadows UPDATE: A gun-carrying ex-con chased by State Police from the American Dream mall into the meadows off the New Jersey Turnpike on Labor Day was captured with help on the ground and in the air. A Lyndhurst police drone was in the air when a Bergen County sheriff's canine tracked down Sequan Watts, 25, of Brooklyn near the banks of the Hackensack River in East Rutherford around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 5, authorities said. NJSP trooper responding to an 8:04 p.m. report of a patron using counterfeit cash at a retail store in the mall spotted Watts, who took off on foot, Trooper II Charles March…

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SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Local NJ Police HQ SERIAL CALLER: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Local NJ Police HQ
Serial Caller: Midwest Woman Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Local NJ Police HQ A Midwest woman who once set fire to garbage bins outside a middle school -- and then contacted authorities to confess -- was charged this week with threatening to blow up Ramsey police headquarters. The threat by Amber Schadewald, 24, "led to a search of the building, parking lot and departmental and personal vehicles by Bergen County sheriff's bomb dogs" back in January, Ramsey Police Chief Brian Lyman said. The subsequent investigation led to Schandewald, who "was believed to be in a group home in Minnesota at the time she made the threat," Lyman said Thursday. Schadewald has a history…

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by Jerry DeMarco