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'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station 'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station
'Swatting' Hoax Caller Threatens To 'Blow Up' Bergenfield Gas Station A Bergen County Regional SWAT team, crisis negotiators and the county bomb squad were among the responders to what turned out to be a "swatting" incident at a Bergenfield gas station before dawn Saturday. The 5:13 a.m. a.m. caller claimed to be holed up in the BP station on New Bridge Road near the CSX railroad tracks and was planning to “blow the place up" -- prompting an immediate response, Bergenfield Police Capt. Mustafa Rabboh said. The caller made several claims -- among them, that he could see police outside, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident said…

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by Jerry DeMarco