‘Stink bomb’ prompts response at Rphs

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A suspicious device that forced a brief lockdown at Ridgefield Park High School this morning was a previously used “stink bomb,” a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Jerry DeMarco

04/28/2014 2:40 p.m.

Only 7th- and 8th-graders were in the building for statewide Assessment and Evaluation testing when an officer found what at first glance looked like a grenade in the school parking lot just after 8 a.m.

Students in the 9th through 12th grades hadn’t arrived yet.

FILE PHOTO: Boyd A. Loving

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