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: Wallington Police Seize Boy Who Brought BB Gun To School
WALLINGTON, N.J. -- Students and staff at Wallington Jr./Sr. High School were briefly sheltered in place Thursday while police seized a 13-year-old boy who'd shown off a plastic BB gun to classmates, authorities said. "It appears that [the] student was showing his plastic BB gun outside of school in the woods while on lunch break" just before 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said Friday morning. "Fortunately someone 'saw something and said something'," Kudlacik told Daily Voice. "School officials swiftly interceded and confiscated the orange-tipped plastic…
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: Wallington Police Seize Boy Who Brought BB Gun To School
WALLINGTON, N.J. -- Students and staff at Wallington Jr./Sr. High School were briefly sheltered in place Thursday while police seized a 13-year-old boy who'd shown off a plastic BB gun to classmates, authorities said. "It appears that [the] student was showing his plastic BB gun outside of school in the woods while on lunch break" just before 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Capt. Shawn Kudlacik said Friday morning. "Fortunately someone 'saw something and said something'," Kudlacik told Daily Voice. "School officials swiftly interceded and confiscated the orange-tipped plastic…
News
Teacher's Aide Fired After Bringing Gun To School
A 24-year-old teacher's aide who was arrested for bringing a gun to a school in her purse has been fired. Gillian J. Jeffords, 24, of Warwick, was fired Wednesday evening, effective immediately, from the Jesse Kaplan School of the BOCES Campus in West Nyack, according to Scott Salotto, director of communications for BOCES. "The Board of Education met last night and a decision was made to terminate Ms. Jeffords," he said. "She was informed last night." The discovery of the gun took place around 9 a.m. Wednesday when the Clarkstown Police Department responded to the schoo…
Lifestyle
Bergen's Lori Alhadeff Gets Real With Megyn Kelly: I'm In Survival Mode
Nearly a month after her daughter was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Massacre, Woodcliff Lake's Lori Alhadeff opened up about the tragedy and her goal to promote school safety on NBC News' Megyn Kelly Today. "I'm in survival mode," said the mom, mourning 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff and 16 others robbed of promising futures. Alhadeff had the nation in tears the day after the shooting when she shared a powerful message with the president on CNN. "President Trump, please do something. Action. We need it now. These kids need safety now." The previous ni…
Police & Fire
Hackensack Middle Schooler Brings BB Guns To School
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A Hackensack Middle School student who brought two BB guns in with him on Monday was detained by police and then sent home, authorities said. A source with knowledge of the situation said it was the second time it had recently happened at the Union Street school, which has roughly 1,500 students in grades 5-8. The situation was handled without incident, Acting Schools Supt. Rosemary Marks said in a letter to parents (see photo above). The Hackensack Police Department's school resource officer responded to the school and took the sixth grader into custody before he was …
Police & Fire
Garfield High School Locked Down, Searched After Threat
GARFIELD, N.J. -- A threat locked down Garfield High School on Friday. The threat "was found on a note in the hallway," Capt. Darren Sucorowski said. "The school resource officer and school administration decided to have the student's shelter in place and lock down the school." Garfield police secured the school, with help from a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, the county sheriff's office and GHS security. Officers from Elmwood Park, Lodi, Passaic, Saddle Brook and the New Jersey State Police helped secure the outer perimeter and a search was conducted. "Stude…
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Police
: Scrawled Bathroom Wall Scribble Prompts Lodi HS Lockdown
LODI, N.J. -- A barely decipherable message scrawled on a bathroom wall led to an afternoon lockdown Thursday at Lodi High School. "It's nothing serious. The building and students are safe," a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the incident told Daily Voice. Included in the ineligible writing was the time "1 p.m," authorities said. School officials and Lodi police dealt with the matter quickly. The lockdown was temporarily kept in place while a pair of tactical officers with a K-9 swept the building, as anxious parents waited outside. A trio of New Jerse…
Police & Fire
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School
DUMONT, N.J. -- (UPDATE) While one family deals with the unthinkable, other parents of Dumont High School students were grateful that what had been a terrifying ordeal ended with their children returning safely to them. Authorities said they seized a rifle from the home of a sophomore who was taken into custody Monday after allegedly threatening a mass shooting. "It was a long gun, a rifle," a ranking law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "It was not his. "His mother was extremely cooperative," the official added. "[The gun] was at the house. He didn't br…
Police & Fire
Police Investigate 'Gun' And 'School' Scrawled On Mahwah HS Bathroom Wall
MAHWAH, N.J. – Authorities were reviewing surveillance video to try and find who scribbled the words “gun” and “school” in graffiti found Tuesday morning in a Mahwah High School boy’s bathroom. Although the mostly “indiscernable” markings found in the second-floor bathroom bore both words, “there was no specificity to the graffiti such as a threat, date, time, or location,” Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said. “Mahwah Police were immediately notified and responded and opened an investigation,” Schoen wrote in an email to parents, co-signed by Police Chief James N. Batelli. “A threat assess…
Police & Fire
Lockdown: What Happened At Dumont High School
DUMONT, N.J. -- (UPDATE) While one family deals with the unthinkable, other parents of Dumont High School students were grateful that what had been a terrifying ordeal ended with their children returning safely to them. Authorities said they seized a rifle from the home of a sophomore who was taken into custody Monday after allegedly threatening a mass shooting. "It was a long gun, a rifle," a ranking law enforcement official told Daily Voice. "It was not his. "His mother was extremely cooperative," the official added. "[The gun] was at the house. He didn't br…
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Reports Of Mahwah Threat Prompt Young Boy To Bring Airsoft Gun To School
MAHWAH, N.J. -- Amid unprecedented security prompted by a purported threat by a middle schooler, a frightened Mahwah youngster brought an airsoft gun to his elementary school in his backpack Friday morning. "He had no intention of causing harm," Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said Sunday night. It wasn't until Saturday that a Joyce Kilmer School parent told school officials that the boy showed fellow 4th- and 5th-grade students the weapon -- which shoots plastic pellets -- during the morning bus ride the day before, she said. Mahwah police were out in force at township schools on…
Police & Fire
Threat At 'New Milford' School In Other State Had Bergen Officials Wary
NEW MILFORD, N.J. -- Initial fear was quickly addressed after authorities discovered that a Snapchat threat to "shoot up" schools in New Milford and Dover referred to towns of the same name in Connecticut and New York. "Earlier tonight we were alerted to a message posted on snap chat claiming that someone is planning to shoot up Dover and New Milford high schools," New Milford Schools Supt. Michael Polizzi wrote in a message to parents and staff Wednesday night. "Please note that after investigating this further, the reference is to Dover and New Milford, Connecticu…
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