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'False Public Alarm': Bergen Homeless Shelter Bomb Scare Leads To Summons 'False Public Alarm': Bergen Homeless Shelter Bomb Scare Leads To Summons
'False Public Alarm': Bergen Homeless Shelter Bomb Scare Leads To Summons A man who authorities said frequents the Bergen County homeless shelter was charged with causing a false public alarm after reportedly saying he had a bomb stashed there. John Showers, 57, was at a local social services program in Bergenfield on Wednesday when he claimed he had a bomb in his locker at the shelter in Hackensack, said Derek Sands, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton's chief of staff. Showers, whose most recent fixed address was in Elmwood Park, was issued a summons and released pending a court date. He apparently was disgruntled when he made mention of the purported bomb a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Bomb Threat Clears All Three BCC Campuses, Saddle Brook Man Charged UPDATE: Bomb Threat Clears All Three BCC Campuses, Saddle Brook Man Charged
Update: Bomb Threat Clears All Three BCC Campuses, Saddle Brook Man Charged UPDATE: Authorities charged an 18-year-old mechanic from Saddle Brook with calling in bomb threats to Bergen Community College on Monday and a business in town last month -- neither of which they said ultimately were considered genuine. https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/saddlebrook/police-fire/local-mechanic-charged-with-bergen-community-college-saddle-brook-business-bomb-threats/779561/ ****** ORIGINAL STORY: All three campuses of Bergen Community College were evacuated early Monday afternoon after a caller phoned in a bomb threat. The call that came in to Paramus police around 1 p.m. d…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne Man Who Made Library Bomb Threat Nabbed At Ridgewood Bus Station Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne Man Who Made Library Bomb Threat Nabbed At Ridgewood Bus Station
Glen Rock PD: Hawthorne Man Who Made Library Bomb Threat Nabbed At Ridgewood Bus Station Glen Rock police arrested a Hawthorne man who they said emailed a bomb threat to the borough public library. Carlos R. Pabon, 33, was arrested at the Ridgewood bus terminal early Wednesday evening and charged with making terrroristic threats and causing a false public alarm, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad swept the building after patrons left and staff put the Rock Road library into lockdown after the director received the email saying "a bomb was about to go off in the building," Ackermann said. "No explosive devices nor any other item of a suspicio…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Flight From India To Newark Resumes After Security Threat: Report Flight From India To Newark Resumes After Security Threat: Report
Flight From India To Newark Resumes After Security Threat: Report An Air India flight from Mumbai that was forced to land in London due to an unspecified security threat is once again headed to Newark, WABC 7 reported Thursday.  The flight was forced to land at Stanstead Airport for what the airline originally described in a tweet as a bomb threat, but that tweet was deleted, according to WABC 7.  The plane was allowed to continue on to its destination after about an hour on the ground. 

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat
Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat A Lodi elementary school was evacuated for nearly an hour and a half after someone phoned in a bomb threat Monday morning. The caller said he was "not so happy with" George Washington School and that there was a bomb inside, a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. The Bergen County Bomb Squad and K-9 Unit was summoned just before 10 a.m. Police closed off streets and accompanied the youngsters to the high school. They started returning to George Washington shortly before 11:30 a.m. ****** ALSO SEE: Sprinklers helped douse a fire in a Lodi industrial building Sunday night. https…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
ALL CLEAR: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search ALL CLEAR: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search
ALL Clear: Non-Credible Bomb Threat At Paramus Catholic Prompts K9 Search UPDATE: An hour-long shelter-in-place ended at Paramus Catholic High School around 11 a.m. Thursday following what authorities deemed a non-credible bomb threat. A Bergen County Sheriff's K-9 unit joined Paramus police to check the school as a precaution, authorities said.

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by Jerry DeMarco