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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…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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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…

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by Jerry DeMarco