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Wrongly Sent Bomb Threat Over Canadian Transgender Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To NJ District Wrongly Sent Bomb Threat Over Canadian Transgender Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To NJ District
Wrongly Sent Bomb Threat Over Canadian Transgender Teacher Brings Tactical Teams To NJ District A misdirected bomb threat intended for a school more than 600 miles away brought the bomb squad, K-9 unit and SWAT team to Glen Rock on Tuesday. A Central School in Hamilton, Ontario, apparently was the intended target of an email directed to the school of the same name in Glen Rock, borough Police Chief Dean Ackermann said on Sept. 26. No fewer than six schools in the Hamilton-Wentworth district in Ontario reported receiving an unrelenting string of threats that began late last week. Their Central School wasn’t one of them, however. Not taking any chances, the Glen Rock police chief sum…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Ex-Con Repeat Offender, NJ Roommate Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More Ex-Con Repeat Offender, NJ Roommate Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More
Ex-Con Repeat Offender, NJ Roommate Charged With 1,500 Heroin Bags, Pounds Of Pot, More An ex-con whose Point Pleasant boardwalk arrest became part of a viral video was busted once again on drug charges, this time along with his roommate, authorities said. A SWAT team led a raid on the Grand Street apartment in Garfield that Zakee Murphy, 32, shares with fish tank technician Ryene Perry, 34, landing both in jail on various drug-related counts, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Murphy has been arrested dozens of times in multiple counties over the past decade, records show. This time he's accused of using the Garfield home to stash the drugs along with more than $8,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Suspect In Armed Robbery Arrested After 14-Hour Standoff With Police Suspect In Armed Robbery Arrested After 14-Hour Standoff With Police
Suspect In Armed Robbery Arrested After 14-Hour Standoff With Police A 14-hour standoff with police ended peacefully and without injuries in Neptune Township, authorities said. The standoff followed an armed robbery and a suspect was taken into custody, Capt. Michael McGhee of the Neptune Township Police Department said Thursday, Nov. 17. ALSO SEE: Suspect ID'd In Lengthy Standoff The standoff began Wednesday morning, Nov. 16 and ended at 10:33 p.m., McGhee said. The armed robbery suspect barricaded himself inside a home at Atkins Avenue and 11th Avenue, McGhee said, and no one was hurt. A SWAT team and State Police also assisted. Additional details abou…

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by Jon Craig
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APARTMENT RAID: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed APARTMENT RAID: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed
Apartment Raid: Large Cache Of Coke, Trio Of Tasers Seized, Hackensack Repeat Offender Jailed A SWAT-backed drug raid on a Hackensack ex-con’s apartment turned up “a large amount” of cocaine, as well as three Tasers, authorities said Friday. Howard M. Harper, 41, was arrested on drug and weapons charges Tuesday following a warranted raid on his Quail Heights apartment on Prospect Avenue, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The SWAT team-backed raid was part of a joint investigation that Musella said his Narcotics Task Force detectives were conducting with Hackensack police. Harper has a criminal history covering nearly all of his adult life, records show. These include arr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SWAT STANDOFF: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident SWAT STANDOFF: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident
SWAT Standoff: Barricaded River Edge Man Surrenders Without Incident UPDATE: A troubled River Edge man remained barricaded for several hours before finally surrendering peacefully Sunday during what became the second call of the day for the Bergen County Regional SWAT team. The man's mother had summoned police to their East Midland Avenue home near Cedar Avenue Sunday morning on a welfare check, saying that he'd been "acting irrationally," a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. The father of three refused to talk with police, however. Not knowing whether or not he was a danger to himself or others, police summoned the SWAT team, along with the county Re…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives
SWAT Team Safely Removes Toms River Man Barricaded With Bat, Knives A standoff between police and a Toms River man armed with knives and a bat ended safely, authorities said. The man initially ignored police commands to come out of a home, but eventually was taken into custody by a SWAT team without incident, the police chief said in a press statement. Toms River police were called to Patmas Drive at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday on a report of a man barricaded inside a residence, according to Toms River Police Chief Mitchell A. Little. An "emotionally disturbed male (was) acting erratically in the residence," according to Little's statement. Family members livi…

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by Jon Craig
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SWAT Team Responds To 'Armed Man Barricaded' In Central Jersey, Reports Say SWAT Team Responds To 'Armed Man Barricaded' In Central Jersey, Reports Say
SWAT Team Responds To 'Armed Man Barricaded' In Central Jersey, Reports Say A SWAT team was called on a report of a person armed with weapons barricaded in a house, authorities said.  Initial reports said that EMS had been placed on standby as negotiations between the Monmouth County Emergency Response Team (MOCERT) and the barricaded person continued in Keansburg about 4:30 p.m. Friday. And exact address of the incident was not immediately available. This is a developing news story. CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES

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by Jon Craig
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SWAT SITUATION: Armed NJ Man Takes Own Life SWAT SITUATION: Armed NJ Man Takes Own Life
SWAT Situation: Armed NJ Man Takes Own Life A distraught Ridgefield Park man shot himself dead after barricading himself in his home Thursday night, authorities confirmed. Scott DeGraw, 58, had recently lost a close friend and was “going through a tough situation,” one responder said. A woman sustained minor injuries after trying to take a knife from him when police were called around 7:30 p.m., he said. The area around the Main Street home near Grand Avenue was cordoned off and a SWAT team responded, along with borough, Bogota, Little Ferry and Ridgefield police, Lt. Arthur Jensen said. Everyone else got out of the home safely. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok
NJ Woman Details Extremist Group's Attempt To Drive Her Out Of New House On TikTok A New Jersey woman posted a 48-part series on TikTok detailing the terrifying days that a member of an extremist group invaded her home and tried to reclaim it as his ancestral property. Shanetta -- on the video-sharing app as @regblackgrl -- said she began getting letters from members of a sovereign citizens group who claimed ownership of her Ivy Street home in Newark, since purchasing and renovating it back in February. Sometime last week, the men -- who identified as members of the Al Moroccan Empire -- broke into the house, changed the locks and hung a moorish flag in the window. On J…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush
Authorities: Ex-Con Enlisted Baltimore Shooters Who Killed Newark Man At Englewood Party Ambush UPDATE: A local ex-con recruited two unemployed Baltimore men who shot and killed a Newark man in an ambush at an Englewood house party last month, authorities said. Daily Voice broke the story Saturday that members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT team captured Jamal "Mally" Robinson, 44, in a rental car on Reade Street in Englewood on Friday in connection with the fatal June 20 shooting at the corner of 2nd and 4th streets. What was temporarily withheld was that authorities had also captured one of two accused hit men while they searched for the other. Dejuan Stokes, 23 (photo inset, abo…

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by Jerry DeMarco