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COOL DUDE: Worker Wrestles Gun From NJ Convenience Store Robber COOL DUDE: Worker Wrestles Gun From NJ Convenience Store Robber
Cool Dude: Worker Wrestles Gun From NJ Convenience Store Robber A robber seemed desperate as she pointed a handgun and demanded money from a convenience store worker on the graveyard shift at a Route 46 gas station in Elmwood Park. The steel-nerved worker wasn’t rattled, though. The gun had no magazine. Gambling that there wasn't a bullet chambered, he snatched the weapon from her hands, then shouted to a colleague outside to call police. A male accomplice then rushed in and punched him in the head, freeing his partner. Elmwood Park police nabbed the Paterson couple moments later, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. Krystina Tracey-Vaughan, 30,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers
Baby Ingests Fentanyl, Revived With Narcan, Fairview Police Praised As Life Savers A 1-year-old girl who'd ingested fentanyl was revived with Narcan thanks to a fast-acting group of Fairview police officers, Daily Voice has learned. "They literally saved that child's life," a source with direct knowledge of the incident said. Borough resident Geraldo J. Colon, 35, was arrested and charged with child endangerment after being identified as the individual responsible, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday, March 31. Colon and the mother had come to Fairview police headquarters with 13-month-old Abigail Colon shortly after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29. She…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Garden Apartment Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Garden Apartment
Tear Gas Ends Hours-Long SWAT Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Garden Apartment SWAT team members ended a standoff of more than five hours when they subdued a knife-wielding man who’d barricaded himself in his mother’s River Edge apartment. A construction worker by trade, the man had been living in shelters in New York City before recently moving in with his mother at the Oxford Terrace Apartments. He'd become violent, however, so she fled and called police at 7:43 a.m., River Edge Police Chief Michael Walker said. Responding officers “tried to contend with him,” but he retreated into the kitchen of the garden apartment and began picking up knives, the chief said. Th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Two People Critically Wounded In Bridgeton Two People Critically Wounded In Bridgeton
Two People Critically Wounded In Bridgeton Two people are in critical condition after a shooting in South Jersey, authorities said. Bridgeton police responded to a home on Bank Street around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1 for a shooting. Police officers found two Bridgeton men, 33 and 39, suffering from gunshot wounds. Both victims were airlifted by medical helicopter to Cooper University Hospital, Camden, for treatment. The shooting came three days after another shooting that left one person dead and another injured in Bridgeton.

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by Jon Craig
Weather
Probable Tornado Touched Down In Camden County Probable Tornado Touched Down In Camden County
Probable Tornado Touched Down In Camden County A probable tornado touched down in South Jersey early Thursday, June 9, according to the National Weather Service. Trees fell on several homes in Camden County due to strong winds, authorities said. Residents of Blackwood and Gloucester Township reported widespread storm damage due to the possible tornado. At approximately 5;17 a.m., Gloucester Township police received several 9-1-1 calls by residents that were reporting storm damage to their homes.  NWS Mount HollyTwitter/ NWS Mount Holly One resident reported a large tree had fallen over and went through the roof of their residence.…

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by Jon Craig