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Police & Fire
Toms River Man Tries Swimming Across River In Wild, Hours-Long North Jersey Pursuit: Police
A driver being pursued by police drove through a park and ultimately landed in the Hackensack River, where he used a wrench to break out of his own window and stand in the water in an attempt to swim away on Tuesday, April 4, authorities said. Things began unfolding around 11:45 a.m. on Paterson Plank Road, where Secaucus police saw a man later identified as Michael A. Zummo, 51, of Toms River, having been involved in a crash, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The officers tried to stop him but "due to the way he was driving prior to that accident and prior to the officers trying to…
Police & Fire
Man Barricades Himself In Central Jersey Home
A special response team was able to assist a man who was barricaded inside his home, authorities said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Special Operations Response Team (SORT) assisted with negotiations during an incident on Nicholas Avenue in Monroe on Sunday, July 10. Monroe Police Department responded to Nicholas Avenue after a report of a man being barricaded in his home. Over the course of several hours, numerous attempts to contact the individual had been unsuccessful. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office SORT was called in to assist wi…
Police & Fire
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: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge
Route 46 was closed down and an air mattress was inflated beneath a Bergen County overpass as police tried to convince a troubled 15-year-old not to jump. Officers found the Saddle Brook teen perilously perched on the Outwater Lane overpass in Garfield, near the Lodi border, around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “The parents said the youth left the home in a crisis state of mind,” Kugler said Wednesday. “They were deeply concerned for the juvenile's well-being.” The teen, apparently upset over a conflict involving a life choice, had climbed the curved fence…
Police & Fire
Burlington County Man Surrenders After 9 Hours Of SWAT Negotiations From Friend's Roof
A Burlington County man surrendered to police after hours of negotiations with a SWAT team from the roof of a friend's home whose family he threatened to kill, authorities said. It all began on the 100 block of Carnation Drive in Deptford Township Friday morning, when a 26-year-old Medford man began destroying property and breaking windows at the home of one of his acquaintances, authorities told NJ.com. The man flashed a knife when the homeowner confronted him as the family escaped around 10:15 a.m., NJ.com reports. The man had locked himself inside of the home when police arrived, summon…
Police & Fire
NJ Man In Police Standoff Charged With Fatally Shooting Girlfriend, 37
A 29-year-old South Jersey man involved in an hours-long standoff with multiple police agencies in Atlantic County is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend. Junior English of Camden has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Lateemah Leavy, 37, Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Camden County Police Chief Joseph Wysocki said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Police from Pleasantville, Absecon, and Galloway Township were held at bay by English beginning about 1 p.m. on Sunday, their statement said, English had called 911 from his silver Nissan while parked in At…
Police & Fire
SWAT Incident Ends Peacefully At Teaneck Home
UPDATE: A SWAT incident ended peacefully in Teaneck after a barricaded man was removed from a home after several hours inside. A 4 p.m. call brought of a possible shooting and man with a gun brought township police to the single-family home on Churchill Road on Sunday. "The responding officers attempted to get the man to exit his residence, but he refused to do so," Deputy Police Chief John Faggello said. "It was quickly determined that law enforcement was dealing with a barricaded subject-type situation. "Within minutes, responding officers arrived on scene and began a dialogue with …
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