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Standoff Continues: NJ Resident Turns Flamethrower On SWAT Team
UPDATE: A Lyndhurst man was charged with two counts of attempted murder for firing a flamethrower at SWAT team members during a 21-hour standoff.
Robert C. Condit, 51, was also charged with nine counts of possession of prohibited weapons and ammunition, aggravated assault, violating a court order, obstruction of the law and unlawful use of a body vest, among other counts, criminal records in Superior Court in Hackensack show.
Condit, who reportedly was angered after a judge ordered him to surrender his weapons, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Thursday, May 5, after an exhaustive…
Feds: Armed Fugitive In 7-Hour Hudson Hotel Standoff Was ‘Prepared For War,’ ‘Ready To Die’
UPDATE: A heavily-armed fugitive who held tactical officers at bay for nearly seven hours at a Secaucus hotel told police that he was “prepared for war” and “ready to die,” the U.S. attorney for New Jersey said Monday.
ATF agents charged Rahim Harris, 42, of Maplewood, with being a convicted felon in possession of weapons and ammo, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
His wife, Haneefha White, 39, of Pottsville, PA, who was with him, is charged with aiding and abetting the possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.
Authorities said they found eight loaded wea…
NJ SWAT Team Justified Killing Former UPS Employee Who Took Hostages, Shot At Ex-GF
A SWAT team was justified in shooting and killing a former UPS employee as he chased at an ex-girlfriend at his old job, firing a handgun at her, after taking her and another woman hostage, New Jersey's attorney general said Wednesday.
The beaten, bleeding woman had broken away from William J. Owens, 39, of Sicklerville (Camden County) during what had been a 3½-hour standoff with police.
Owens chased her, firing shots from a 9mm handgun, as the woman ran out an employee door into the parking lot of the UPS Mail Innovations facility on Birch Creek Road in Logan Township on Jan. 14, 2019, sta…