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6th-Grade Girl Accused Of 'Non-Specific' Threat At Palisades Park School
A sixth-grade girl was responsible for a “non-specific" threat found at a Palisades Park school on Thursday, authorities said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was determining whether to sign a delinquency complaint against the youngster, while district officials considered what do on their end. Meanwhile, additional police were assigned on Friday to Lindbergh Elementary School, where the typewritten threat was found at a printer in one of the classrooms on Thursday. K-9 units from the Bergen County Sheriff's Office also swept the interior and exterior of the building before any …
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Ramsey Middle Schooler Faces Discipline For 'Non-Credible' SnapChat Threat
District officials in Ramsey said they were disciplining a middle school student who posted a picture on SnapChat "that involved a weapon with threatening comments." Borough police investigated and determine there was no credible threat after a citizen reported the post "referencing violence against Eric S. Smith Middle School," a letter sent by Schools Supt. Matthew J. Murphy to parents on Thursday says. "Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken at the school by the administration in accordance with our policies," says the letter, co-signed by Police Chie…
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Second 'Non-Specific' Threat In 10 Days Found At Palisades Park School
UPDATE: A sixth-grade girl was responsible for a “non-specific" threat found at a Palisades Park school on Thursday, authorities said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was determining whether to sign a delinquency complaint against the youngster, while district officials considered what do on their end. Meanwhile, additional police were assigned on Friday to Lindbergh Elementary School, where the typewritten threat was found at a printer in one of the classrooms on Thursday. K-9 units from the Bergen County Sheriff's Office also swept the interior and exterior of the building bef…
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Threat Scrawled On Palisades Park Jr/Sr High School Desk Prompts Response
An increased police presence at Palisades Park Junior/Senior High School on Tuesday will be among the measures taken after a "non-specific" threat was found scrawled on a desk. Students also will be able to enter the school only through the front doors, Schools Supt. Joseph Cirillo said Monday. School officials were working with police to determine who wrote the graffiti found on a desk in a classroom, Cirillo said. "Please discuss the ramifications of such a threat with your child," the superintendent wrote to parents. He also urged them to call police if they or thei…
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Emerson PD: Delinquency Complaint Coming Versus Student In Purported Threat
Although Emerson school officials said a purported threat by a 7th grader wasn't as serious as some parents thought, police are filing a delinquency complaint against him. Police Chief Michael Mazzeo told Daily Voice on Friday that he expected the complaint alleging "alarming" threats to be filed against the 13-year-old Emerson Junior-Senior High School student this Monday. Delinquency complaints are heard by judges behind closed doors in the Family Division of Superior Court in Hackensack. This is intended to protect the youngster's identity, eliminating a potential obstacle to r…
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Emerson Schools Superintendent Responds To Gun Threat: Please Trust Us
More trust in Emerson's school educators and administrators might have prevented a viral firestorm about a supposed threat that wasn't as serious as some parents thought, School Supt. Brian Gatens said Saturday morning. Gatens personally assured parents that the purported threat was never credible by not only sending a follow-up email to one issued a day earlier but by also going to work Saturday morning -- and inviting them all to come talk with him face-to-face. Upset that police weren't immediately notified of a comment made by a 7th grader to gun down classmates and record them being ki…
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Emerson Parent Accuses School District Of Covering Up Gun Threat
A video of a concerned Emerson parent accusing school administrators of attempting to cover up an alleged gun threat made by a student went viral on social media Friday. ** UPDATE: Schools Superintendent Responds To Gun Threat ** Standing in front of the Emerson Junior-Senior High School, Stefanie El-Ansari recounted the events that unfolded after one of her son's peers allegedly threatened gun violence against him and "a multitude" of his classmates this week. "When administration was notified of it and spoke to my child, I was assured all proper steps were being taken to e…
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: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search
UPDATE: An hour-long shelter-in-place ended at Paramus Catholic High School around 11 a.m. Thursday following what authorities deemed a non-credible bomb threat. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit joined Paramus police to check the school as a precaution, authorities said.
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: Montvale Special PD Officer Saves Choking Pascack Hills Student, 17
MONTVALE, N.J. – A Montvale special in-school police officer rescued a choking 17-year-old Pascack Hills High School student by using the Heimlich maneuver, authorities said. Special Law Enforcement Officer III Roger Caron was patrolling the interior of the Montvale school when he came across the girl, who was “exhibiting signs of distress due to choking,” Police Chief Jeremy Abrams. “Her face was turning blue, she was unable to speak and she had her hands to her neck displaying the universal choking sign,” Abrams said. Caron asked her if she was choking, to which she nodded her head “yes,…
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Man Who Threatened Rockland School Had 9 Guns, Bump Stock, Police Say
This story has been updated. A 32-year-old man who left a series of threatening phone messages for a staff member at a Rockland County school that he attended in 2002 was arrested after police found nine illegal guns and bump stock at his home on Long Island, the Clarkstown and Suffolk police departments announced Sunday afternoon. The Clarkstown Police Department received a report of a suspicious incident on Saturday, April 14, possibly involving a threat to a staff member, at the Summit School located at 339 N. Broadway in Upper Nyack. The school is for students with emotional and behavio…
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Man Who Threatened Rockland School Had 9 Guns, Bump Stock, Police Say
This story has been updated. A 32-year-old man who left a series of threatening phone messages for a staff member at a Rockland County school that he attended in 2002 was arrested after police found nine illegal guns and bump stock at his home on Long Island, the Clarkstown and Suffolk police departments announced Sunday afternoon. The Clarkstown Police Department received a report of a suspicious incident on Saturday, April 14, possibly involving a threat to a staff member, at the Summit School located at 339 N. Broadway in Upper Nyack. The school is for students with emotional and behavio…
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: Should All Bergen Schools Have Armed Guards?
Two regional high schools in Bergen County -- Northern and Pascack Valley -- have recently hired off-duty police officers for protection. Lodi’s has eight retired police officers with active shooter training patrolling its schools. So do Lodi and Mahwah. Local police and experts elsewhere say that schools are best protected from shooters by public safety professionals. Opponents say armed guards in combat gear frighten youngsters. Others question what the cost will do to their taxes. What do you think?
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