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Detective John Behr was investigating a report of a suspicious-looking man walking up and down Terrace Avenue around 11:30 a.m. when he stopped Marcos Payne, 21, of Lodi, who police said was pointing his fingers — pistol-styled — at passing cars.
As Behr identified himself, Payne took off, Detective Sgt. Michael Colaneri told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Payne then pulled a .22-caliber revolver loaded with hollow-point bullets from his waistband just as Behr reached him, the sergeant said.
A pedestrian, seeing what was happening, asked Behr what he could do, so the detective told him to go to his police car and radio headquarters for backup.
Officers Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Hackensack, Lodi, Wood-Ridge and the Bergen County and the Port Authority police departments.
Payne was being processed on a variety of charges at headquarters — aggravated assault on a police officer, illegal possession of a handgun, resisting arrest, possession of hollow-point bullets and disorderly conduct — and taken to the Bergen County Jail.
He remained held on $100,000 bail.
Behr, while saying that he’s “blessed to have the best friends and family,” redirected the spotlight: “Please remember the only important thing right now,” he said, “the recovery of BCPD Dan Breslin and the Paramus officer who are in need of our thoughts and prayers.”
The incident came as Paramus police were announcing that the borough officer shot during an undercover buy in Garfield on Tuesday was released from the hospital, and the morning after a candlelight vigil was held for Breslin in Hackensack.
IMAGES: Courtesy HASBROUCK HEIGHTS PD
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