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Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid
Prosecutor: Englewood Ex-Con With Guns Tries To Disarm Officer In Drug Den Raid An Englewood ex-con struggled with police within arm’s reach of three stolen guns – at one point trying to take an officer’s weapon -- during a drug-den raid that produced four arrests, authorities said. A Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, along with Dumont and Englewood police, joined county prosecutor’s detectives in the Friday raid of the Thompson Avenue home of Gavin Birthwright, 30, following what they said was a tip about extensive drug dealing there. Birthwright, whose adult criminal record stretches back more than a decade, “fought with police and resisted arrest within reaching dis…

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by Jerry DeMarco