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Hackensack Police Director Ray Guidetti Stepping Down, City Says Hackensack Police Director Ray Guidetti Stepping Down, City Says
Hackensack Police Director Ray Guidetti Stepping Down, City Says Hackensack Police Director Ray Gudietti is stepping down. The City of Hackensack made the announcement on Thursday, March 6. Guidetti said he will step down at the end of March. Guidetti's departure comes after "taking on a culture of corruption that had infected the Hackensack Police Department when he was appointed in 2022, and instituting major reforms with the goal of bringing the Department back to its rightful position as a premier law enforcement agency in Bergen County," the release says. Guidetti was appointed "after a storied law enforcement career to clean up a police department…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Tense Standoff With Knife-Wielding Hackensack Woman Ends Peacefully: Police Tense Standoff With Knife-Wielding Hackensack Woman Ends Peacefully: Police
Tense Standoff With Knife-Wielding Hackensack Woman Ends Peacefully: Police A suicidal woman pulled a kitchen knife and pointed it at herself during a tense standoff before Hackensack police peacefully disarmed her, authorities said. Responding to an attempted-suicide call in the 300 block of Prospect Avenue, Sgt. Franklin Bay and Officers Alexander Reyes, Matt Tedesco and Anthony Mattalian found the door to the woman's apartment barricaded, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. Reyes and Bay established a rapport with the woman, but she was unwilling to get help and backed away during the conversation, the captain said. With several…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Officers Responding To Hackensack Street Brawl Find Birthday Boy Carrying Loaded Gun: PD Officers Responding To Hackensack Street Brawl Find Birthday Boy Carrying Loaded Gun: PD
Officers Responding To Hackensack Street Brawl Find Birthday Boy Carrying Loaded Gun: PD Two Hackensack police officers responding to a report of an overnight fight found a city man marking his 24th birthday Tuesday with a loaded handgun stashed under the driver’s seat of his vehicle, authorities said. Participants in the fight on Central Avenue off Prospect scattered as police approached shortly after 1 a.m. June 20, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. While some of them were being rounded up, Officers Michael Reo and Reuven Lyak turned their attention to an idling vehicle occupied by Noah Brown, the captain said. The officers determined that …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD
Local Dealer Nabbed Near Hackensack School With 1,330 Heroin Folds, 440 Crack Vials, More: PD A Hackensack resident who ran a street-level drug operation around the block from a middle school was seized by city police with 1,330 heroin folds, 440 crack vials, meth and more, authorities said. Detective Sergio Raneli began an investigation that led to the arrest of Everett Cline, 46, at his Union Street apartment during the execution of a court-approved search warrant late last week, Capt. Michael Antista said on Monday, April 10. Along with the coke and smack, police seized an ounce of methamphetamine, more than six ounces of pot, more than two dozen unknown pills, packaging material…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bergenfield Man Seized In Overdose Death Of Hackensack Drug User Bergenfield Man Seized In Overdose Death Of Hackensack Drug User
Bergenfield Man Seized In Overdose Death Of Hackensack Drug User A Bergenfield man was seized at his home on Friday and charged with supplying the drugs that killed a 34-year-old Hackensack user nearly five weeks ago. Stevie J. Killins, 59, was sent to the Bergen County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack following his March 3 arrest, city Police Capt. Michael Antista said. Killins -- also known as Steven Bease -- is charged with the strict liability death of the overdose victim on Jan. 28, the captain said. He's also charged with various drug possession counts for heroin and illegal prescription pills tha…

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by Jerry DeMarco