A Few Clouds and Breezy 58°
Tag:

Barricade Situation

Police & Fire
Wanted PA Arsonist Attacks FBI Agent During Bergen County SWAT Standoff: Officials Wanted PA Arsonist Attacks FBI Agent During Bergen County SWAT Standoff: Officials
Tyre Dunn Attacks FBI Agent With Pickaxe In NJ Standoff: DA A York, PA man wanted for arson is facing attempted murder and other charges after a tense standoff with law enforcement in Bergen County, NJ, during which he wielded a pickaxe and attacked an FBI agent, authorities announced on Monday, Feb. 3. Tyre (Tyrie) R. Dunn, 36, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 27, after an investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, led by Prosecutor Mark Musella, alongside the FBI and Lodi Police Department. Dunn, who was already wanted in Pennsylvania, fled from law enforcement and barricaded himself inside a shed attached to a private home on Stokes St…

SHARE

by Jillian Pikora & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
SWAT Team Called To Bergen County Home After Restraining Order Violation Escalates: Police SWAT Team Called To Bergen County Home After Restraining Order Violation Escalates: Police
SWAT Team Called To Bergen County Home After Restraining Order Violation Escalates: Police A Bergen County SWAT team was called to an Oakland home Sunday morning, Nov. 24, after a restraining order violation escalated into a barricade situation, local police said. Officers responded to a residence on River Road at 8:37 a.m. for a report of a restraining order violation involving Carlos Rocha, 43, formerly of Oakland, who had been barred from the home, Oakland Police Capt. Timothy Keenan said.  When informed that he would be placed under arrest, Rocha became belligerent and barricaded himself in a bedroom, Keenan said. In compliance with NJ Attorney General Directive 2024-04,…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
SWAT STANDOFF: Man Standing On Church Steeple Points Long Gun At Officers In Philly, Police Say SWAT STANDOFF: Man Standing On Church Steeple Points Long Gun At Officers In Philly, Police Say
SWAT Standoff: Man Standing On Church Steeple Points Long Gun At Officers In Philly, Police Say A barricade situation involving a man standing on a church steeple was unfolding Monday night, May 13 in Philadelphia, police said. Officers were dispatched to a church on the 700 block of E Cornwall Street around 8:15 p.m. for a man, believed be under the influence of drugs, standing on the steeple of a church, city police said. Google Maps Upon arrival, the man pointed a long gun at the officers, leading to the declaration of a barricade situation at 8:41 p.m., police said.  The staging area is at G & Westmoreland, with SWAT and Tactical Air units on location. This is a devel…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack
SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack A Bergen County Regional SWAT team seized a troubled man who'd barricaded himself in a Hackensack apartment on Saturday. The 21-year-old man's girlfriend called police to a Newman Street apartment in the Oratam Court development between Atlantic and Sussex streets -- which was the city's first public housing project when it was built in 1951 -- the morning of Jan. 27. They found the front door barricaded by various items. The SWAT team was mobilized around noon and entered the apartment around 2 p.m., subduing the man with pepper spray and removing him from the bathroom, a law enforce…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History
Barricaded East Rutherford Gunman Seized By SWAT Team Has Criminal History EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A man who barricaded himself in an East Rutherford apartment on Monday after authorities said he pointed a gun at his girlfriend is an ex-con with a criminal history dating back nearly 20 years, records show. Mauro Jay Enriquez, a 39-year-old Filipino national, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a detention hearing after a county Regional SWAT team took him into custody and turned him over to East Rutherford police after a nearly three-hour standoff. The 6-foot, 180-pound Enriquez is charged with aggravated assault (pointing a firearm at anothe…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco