Newark Officer Badly Burned By Hot Bleach Flung By Woman: Officials

The officer was responding to a Hawkins Street home near Horatio Street  to assist DCP&P in gaining entry around 3:30 p.m., Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said.

That's when a female suspect threw a hot liquid, suspected to be bleach, on the office, Frage said. 

The officer was taken to St. Barnabas Medical Center for treatment of second-degree burns and the woman, whose name has not been released, was arrested.

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