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Hammer-Wielding Ex-Bio Teacher In Bergen County Loses License After Assaults: Officials Hammer-Wielding Ex-Bio Teacher In Bergen County Loses License After Assaults: Officials
Hammer-Wielding Ex-Bio Teacher In Bergen County Loses License After Assaults: Officials A former biology teacher in Bergen County had his teaching license revoked after an incident in which he purposely backed his car into another vehicle and then used a hammer to assault the victim, state officials said. The State Board of Examiners reviewed the information regarding Christopher R. Icochea from the Office of Student Protection (OSP) in September 2023, they said. The incident appears to have happened two years after Icochea resigned from his position as a biology teacher at Tenafly High School, district paperwork shows. In June 2023, Ocochea pleaded guilty to aggravated …

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by Cecilia Levine
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SWAT STANDOFF: Troubled Ridgefield Park Man Taken To Hospital SWAT STANDOFF: Troubled Ridgefield Park Man Taken To Hospital
SWAT Standoff: Troubled Ridgefield Park Man Taken To Hospital An emotionally disturbed apartment visitor held responders at bay in Ridgefield Park for four hours before being taken to a hospital Monday afternoon, authorities said. Police responded for a welfare check at the Marlboro House Apartments on Main Street around 12:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, Ridgefield Park Police Chief Joseph Rella said. The man, who apparently was visiting a relative, threatened to jump from the balcony of a third-floor apartment four stories above the rear parking lot.  Village police had spoken to the man for two hours before members of a Regional Crisis Negotiation …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: No Charges For Troubled Driver Who Claimed Child Was In Burning Car, Fair Lawn PD Says UPDATE: No Charges For Troubled Driver Who Claimed Child Was In Burning Car, Fair Lawn PD Says
Update: No Charges For Troubled Driver Who Claimed Child Was In Burning Car, Fair Lawn PD Says An emotionally disturbed woman who told Fair Lawn police that a child was inside her burning car won't be criminally charged, authorities said. Officers were looking for an erratically-driven Dodge Neon when they spotted it speeding down a resident's driveway into a heavily wooded area off Saddle River Road around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1.  The sedan got stuck on a large mulch pile, after which the driver began redlining the engine in a futile attempt to free it, a witness said."It sounded like someone was running a wood chipper," the witness said. The hot exhaust system ignit…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: SWAT Standoff In Mahwah Ends Quickly, Peacefully UPDATE: SWAT Standoff In Mahwah Ends Quickly, Peacefully
Update: SWAT Standoff In Mahwah Ends Quickly, Peacefully 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 (𝘄/𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗦): A brief standoff in Mahwah ended peacefully when a barricaded man emerged from his home and surrendered to police. The immediate neighborhood had been cleared and streets closed off Campgaw Road near Campgaw Mountain and Darlington County Park after tactical officers and other law enforcers converged on the area early Friday afternoon, March 8. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team and negotiators joined Mahwah officers and their police colleagues from surrounding towns who established a perimeter around the house. A colleague from one of the retired resident's former jobs …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Kill Me, Shoot!': Teaneck, Bergenfield PD Peacefully End Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man 'Kill Me, Shoot!': Teaneck, Bergenfield PD Peacefully End Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man
'Kill Me, Shoot!': Teaneck, Bergenfield PD Peacefully End Standoff With Knife-Wielding Man A Teaneck police sergeant confronted by a disturbed man on a Bergenfield street was surprised when the stranger pulled out a large knife. "Kill me! Shoot!" the Portuguese native shouted in broken English to Sgt. Ronald Boswell and backup officers from both towns who rushed to the scene, Teaneck Police Chief Glenn O'Reilly said. The tense noontime drama played out on New Bridge Road, across from Veterans Memorial Park in Bergenfield, beginning shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday. The unidentified man had walked in front of Boswell's car, so the sergeant stopped and got out, O'Reilly said. The …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police: Passaic Man Stabs Mom With Pocket Knife, Surrenders After Brief Standoff Police: Passaic Man Stabs Mom With Pocket Knife, Surrenders After Brief Standoff
Police: Passaic Man Stabs Mom With Pocket Knife, Surrenders After Brief Standoff A troubled 35-year-old Passaic man stabbed his mother with a pocket knife and then briefly remained locked in a bathroom before surrendering Monday, authorities said. Devon Rodriguez was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center for a psychological evaluation pending transfer to the Passaic County Jail following the incident on Linden Street near Broadway, responders said. His mother was treated at St. Mary's General Hospital in Passaic and released with a minor stab wound, they said. A sergeant and two officers responded to an 8 a.m. call Monday at the Linden Street garden apartm…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SWAT STANDOFF: Disturbed Barricaded Subject Emerges Without Incident In Wyckoff SWAT STANDOFF: Disturbed Barricaded Subject Emerges Without Incident In Wyckoff
SWAT Standoff: Disturbed Barricaded Subject Emerges Without Incident In Wyckoff A troubled resident who remained barricaded in a Wyckoff home for nearly an hour and a half Sunday eventually walked out unharmed, authorities said. A Bergen County Regional SWAT team was summoned and ramps on and off Route 208 were temporarily closed during the Grandview Avenue incident near St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. It began with a 911 call for "an emotionally disturbed person with a knife inside the home" around 1:45 p.m., Police Chief David Murphy said. "The person involved ultimately walked out unharmed and was transported" by the Wyckoff Volunteer Ambulance Corps to a local…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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HEROES: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife HEROES: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife
Heroes: Hackensack Police Subdue Distraught Man Wielding Kitchen Knife A crying and shaking Hackensack man who’d already cut himself several times refused to drop a bloody kitchen knife when a trio of city officers found him. Sgt. Michael Capone and Officers Mark Carrillo and Stanislav Tovbin found the man “visibly distraught” after a 911 call brought them to a Lodi Street home Wednesday morning, Detective Capt. Darren DeWitt said. He'd already cut his neck several time when the officers repeatedly asked him to put down the knife, the captain said. He refused. “With disregard for their own safety and with concern that [he] would hurt himself further, t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital
Authorities: Teaneck Man Attacks, Injures 3 Bergenfield Officers After Fleeing Hospital Three Bergenfield police officers had to be treated for various injuries following an unprovoked attack by a Teaneck man who’d become the subject of a search after he walked out of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, authorities said. Officer Shane Churaman, hearing an alert shortly after midnight, stopped a sedan with Pennsylvania license plates being driven by 26-year-old Patrick S. Chakauya Jr. in the area of South Washington Avenue and Carnation Street. A search for Chakauya involved several area towns and a New Jersey State Police helicopter. The Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance Cor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Authorities: Cliffside Park High School Goes On Lockdown Following Threat From Student's Father Authorities: Cliffside Park High School Goes On Lockdown Following Threat From Student's Father
Authorities: Cliffside Park High School Goes On Lockdown Following Threat From Student's Father Cliffside Park High School went on lockdown and students and staff were moved to another location Monday morning after a father threatened to "shoot up the school," authorities said. Police pinged his cellphone, obtained a warrant and arrested the father, identified as Misael Echevarria, 44, at his North Bergen home on 41st Street, where he lives with his girlfriend, around 9:50 a.m., Detective Capt. Vincent Capano said. He was taken to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for a psychological evaluation, after which he will be sent to the Bergen County Jail. He's charged with making terro…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Fairview PD: Teaneck Grandmother, 71, Deliberately Drives Off Road In Attempted Murder-Suicide Fairview PD: Teaneck Grandmother, 71, Deliberately Drives Off Road In Attempted Murder-Suicide
Fairview PD: Teaneck Grandmother, 71, Deliberately Drives Off Road In Attempted Murder-Suicide A video shows the path an SUV took when a Teaneck grandmother drove it off the road in what Fairview police said was an attempt to kill herself and her passenger. Judith McLead, 71, was arguing with a passenger, who said she threatened to kill them both before driving off southbound Bergen Boulevard just before 5 p.m. Saturday, Police Chief Martin Kahn said. The vehicle would have careened down a steep embankment to Fairview Avenue -- 250 or so feet below -- if it hadn’t hit the tree, Kahn said. "She said she was going to kill me and drove off. She tried to kill us both," the female passe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged
Upstate NY Woman Who Drove Onto Teterboro Airport Runways Charged A 31-year-old upstate New York woman who drove her car across two runways at Teterboro Airport on Tuesday was hospitalized for a psychological evaluation, authorities said Thursday. Ciara Schultz, of Ballston Spa, NY was sent to New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus after being processed by Port Authority police on trespassing, obstruction and improper behavior charges, they said. Schultz -- formerly of North Carolina -- got into the airport off Industrial Avenue just after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, drove across the runways, then bailed out of her car, authorities said. The security breach brought…

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by Jerry DeMarco