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Officer Wanda Rivera was due to undergo surgery this afternoon at Hackensack University Medical Center following yesterday’s incident in drug-ridden Carver Park.
Responding to residents’ complaints, Hackensack police have been keeping an eye on the park. Around 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, Police Director Michael Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT, Rivera and Sgt. James Smith spotted a deal going down there.
Backup Officer Ralph Cavallo quickly joined his colleagues, who approached the quartet.
Trouble followed, Mordaga said, when a man identified as 30-year-old Terence Damon Morgan began fighting the officers.
Smith injured his left hand and Cavallo his right, but Rivera clearly got the worst of it before Morgan was subdued and all four were taken into custody, Mordaga told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Morgan, who now lives in Scotland Neck, N.C., was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, along with various drug possession counts. He was being held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail.
George Bradley Wright, 18, of Hackensack, was charged with various marijuana possession counts. He was being held on $25,000 bail.
The two others — identified as Bryant K. Dula, 18, of Bogota and 42-year-old John Jackson Jr., formerly of Hackensack but now Columbia, S.C. — were being held on $5,000 bail each, charged with possessing and being under the influence of marijuana.
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