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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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Hackensack Police Officer Hospitalized After Crash Hackensack Police Officer Hospitalized After Crash
Hackensack Police Officer Hospitalized After Crash A Hackensack police officer was hospitalized Friday following a collision on his way to a call. Initial details were scant apart from word that the officer was headed to a report of a fight in the area of Atlantic and Main streets, with his emergency lights on, when his cruiser collided with a commercial van in front of the 7-Eleven at the corner of Essex and Newman streets before 9:30 a.m. Aug. 18. The officer got out of his cruiser and sat on the sidewalk behind it as a Good Samaritan stopped and rushed to his aid. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after complaining of…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home
Adult, Three Kids Stricken By CO Poisoning In Hackensack Home A holiday season tragedy was avoided Tuesday when a Hackensack woman and three young children were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. A malfunctioning boiler in their two-family home on Atlantic Street off Railroad Avenue sent all four to Hackensack University Medical Center early on Dec. 6, said Police Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the city police department. Fortunately, the injuries to the 39-year-old adult and three children -- ages 12, 9 and 5 -- weren't life-threatening, Antista said. Readings of 200 PPM of the colorless, odorless gas were…

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Firefighter Injured In Hackensack Condo Building Blaze Firefighter Injured In Hackensack Condo Building Blaze
Firefighter Injured In Hackensack Condo Building Blaze A firefighter was treated for a cut on his hand in a blaze that blew through the roof of a condo building in Hackensack. The fire broke out in a cockloft and spread to several units of the Atlantic Court Condominiums at the corner of State and Atlantic streets shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 20, Hackensack fire officials said. All of the residents got out safely, they said. Firefighters had the main body of the two-alarm blaze knocked down in about 45 minutes. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Bergenfield, Bogota, Englewood and Ridgefield Park. Flames through the…

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DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash
DWI Driver Jailed After Hackensack Police Pursuit Ends In Crash An Ecuadoran national was drunk when he crashed his Jeep into a traffic signal during a pre-dawn police chase in Hackensack and then took off on foot before dawn Monday, authorities said. Segundo Tapia-Yunganaula, 24, who lives in Hackensack, was speeding down Linden Street when Sgt. Richard Melber tried to stop him shortly after 2 a.m., Detective Lt. Michael Antista said. Tapia-Yunganaula kept going, running several red lights in the process, before stopping at the intersection of Main and Salem streets, Antista said. He then suddenly reversed toward Melber’s vehicle before throwing it in…

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Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site
Worker Struck By Steel Beam Rescued From Fourth Floor Of HackensackUMC Construction Site HEROES: A worker was rescued after he was struck and pinned beneath a steel beam on the fourth floor of a Hackensack University Medical Center construction site on Thursday. With help from the construction company, the victim was secured into a basket by city firefighters and HUMC paramedics and then lowered by a crane after he was struck in the lower extremities by the I-beam at the Atlantic Street construction site shortly after 11 a.m., Hackensack Fire Capt. Justin Derevyanik said. Members of the third platoon Rescue 1, Ladder 1, Engine 2, Deputy 3 Car 2, police and HUMC BLS and ALS…

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Police: Jaywalking Wood-Ridge Pedestrian, 72, Struck In Hackensack Police: Jaywalking Wood-Ridge Pedestrian, 72, Struck In Hackensack
Police: Jaywalking Wood-Ridge Pedestrian, 72, Struck In Hackensack A 72-year-old Wood-Ridge man struck by a vehicle while jaywalking Thursday morning in Hackensack, authorities said. The victim was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with minor injuries after being struck shortly before 8:30 a.m. while crossing Atlantic Street near Main Street, police Capt. Nicole Foley said. The 63-year-old 1999 Honda driver from Hackensack remained at the scene, the captain said. The fault was "assigned to the pedestrian," she said.

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'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack Man, 22, Charged With $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery 'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack Man, 22, Charged With $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack Man, 22, Charged With $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery Thanks to a GPS tracking device hidden in a pack of cash, Hackensack police captured a 22-year-old city man moments after he robbed a TD Bank branch of $1,150 armed with a steak knife on Tuesday, authorities said. “Hey, gimme the money. Big bills only. It’s for my daughter,” police said Drew Hughes told a teller at the TD Bank on River Street at Atlantic Street just after noon. The teller then handed him $600, Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. Hughes "demanded more money, at which point the teller gave him an additional $468," Buscilgio said. "Hughes then turned his attention to t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery 'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery
'It's For My Daughter': Hackensack PD Nabs Local Man In $1,150 Steak Knife Bank Robbery Thanks to a GPS tracking device hidden in a pack of cash, Hackensack police captured a 22-year-old city man moments after he robbed a TD Bank branch of $1,150 armed with a steak knife on Tuesday, authorities said. “Hey, gimme the money. Big bills only. It’s for my daughter,” police said Drew Hughes told a teller at the TD Bank on River Street at Atlantic Street just after noon. The teller then handed him $600, Capt. Peter Buscilgio said. Hughes "demanded more money, at which point the teller gave him an additional $468," Buscilgio said. "Hughes then turned his attention to t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Couple, Both 64, Struck In Hackensack By Tenafly Driver UPDATE: Couple, Both 64, Struck In Hackensack By Tenafly Driver
Update: Couple, Both 64, Struck In Hackensack By Tenafly Driver HACKENSACK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) A 64-year-old couple were struck near a Hackensack bus stop Friday morning. Both were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that Police Capt. Francesco Aquila said weren't life-threatening after being struck at Atlantic and River streets just after 9:30 a.m. One complained of right shoulder pain and other of pain to the left leg, said Aquila, the officer in charge of the department. The driver, 35, from Tenafly, received a summons, he said. An NJ Transit officer who was at the bus stop and a New Jersey State Police trooper who was driving…

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by Jerry DeMarco