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Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn
Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Two trespassers loitering on the railroad tracks in Fair Lawn forced a commuter train to stop during rush hour when it hit a backpack that one of them was carrying, authorities said. "They're lucky they only got away with summonses," an official source said following the incident at the Fair Lawn Avenue crossing near the Radburn station shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, June 16. No one was injured. However, 175 passengers and crew on the Suffern-bound 1167 train out of Hoboken were inconvenienced by the stop, which also blocked the railroad crossing to vehicular and pedestrian traffic while F…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bystander Saves Cop From 'Guillotine' Chokehold During Unruly NJ Mall Patron's Arrest Bystander Saves Cop From 'Guillotine' Chokehold During Unruly NJ Mall Patron's Arrest
Bystander Saves Cop From 'Guillotine' Chokehold During Unruly NJ Mall Patron's Arrest A bystander came to the aid of a South Jersey police officer who was put in a "guillotine" style chokehold by a disorderly mall patron he was trying to arrest over the weekend, authorities said. Michael Carberry was harassing shoppers at the Deptford Mall around 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, bringing police to the scene, Deptford Police Chief Joe Smith said. Patrol Officer Anthony Gatto arrived and found Carberry on the second level of the mall. Carberry was asked to leave the property multiple times but refused, police said. Carberry became confrontational over getting the boot from the …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned
Englewood PD: Student Told To Stay Home Ignites High School Brawl, Criminal Charges Planned A Dwight Morrow High School student who was told to stay home from school Tuesday returned and instigated a brawl that’s expected to produce criminal charges, Englewood police said. “There are between five to 10 students involved [in Tuesday’s melee], most of them 18 years old,” Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Wednesday. “As we move forward, aggressors who have been positively identified will be charged in all likelihood with disorderly conduct,” he said. “We are looking at charging at least one with defiant trespass, as he was told the previous day not to return to the school fo…

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by Jerry DeMarco