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Traumatized By Break-In, NJ College Student Develops Emergency App
An MBA fellow at Rowan University has designed an app to enhance the security of students at the Glassboro campus. Siena Rampulla was a victim of an off-campus break-in in March 2022, as reported by Daily Voice. Jorge L. Navaheredia, 29, of Sicklerville, had broken into several women's homes including Rampulla's, according to Glassboro police. He was caught hiding under a kitchen sink with panties, police said. A search of the suspect's vehicle turned up additional panties and mail from burglary victims, police said at the time. A pre-trial conference for Navaheredia is set for Feb. …
Police & Fire
Students Show Up At Wrong Jersey Shore Address Playing 'Dangerous Assassins Game': Police
Students at a Jersey Shore high school have been pretending they are assassins as a senior prank, authorities said. But in one case, a "senior assassin" went to the wrong address to shoot another student with a water pistol, according to Holmdel police. Police in other school districts have said the water guns sometimes look like real guns. Also, sometimes students place bets on "surviving" the game. "We have received calls in the past, where students have shown up at the homes of their 'targets.' sometimes waiting hours for them to come outside," Holmdel police said on Facebook. This pas…
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Man Grabs Student Walking To School In Morristown, Police Say
Know anything? Police are seeking information and surveillance footage on a suspicious man who approached and grabbed a student who was walking to school in Morristown. The male student was approached from behind by a man while walking to school near Sussex Avenue and Mills Street in the morning on Monday, Oct. 17, the Morristown Department of Public Safety said in a Facebook post. The man grabbed the student’s backpack and the student grabbed it free before reporting the incident to a school resource officer at the building after he arrived, authorities said. The man is described as bein…
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Update
: Classes Resume After 'Swatting' Call Clears Hackensack High School
UPDATE: Authorities gave the all-clear for Hackensack High School students and staff to return after a bomb threat phoned in from out of state cleared the school. The "swatting" incident began shortly before 9 a.m. Friday, March 4, when a caller "indicated he put bombs at a specific location" on school grounds, said Hackensack Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the department. Area streets were closed down and students and staff were moved to safe locations, the captain said. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad and K-9 Unit "assisted Hackensack police officers in …
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Student Filmed At Morris County Bus Stop In ‘Suspicious’ Incident, Police Say
A student waiting at a Morris County bus stop was filmed by a man behind the wheel of a sedan in what police are calling a “suspicious incident.” The student was filmed near the School House Lane-Mount Pleasant Road area in Mendham around 7:50 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, township police said. The suspect vehicle was a silver sedan driven by a man in his 30s or 40s, authorities said. “Please be vigilant at school bus stops and report any suspicious activity immediately,” the Mendham Township Police Department said.
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Hit-run
: Fair Lawn Girl, 10, Struck Bicycling To School
A 10-year-old Fair Lawn girl told authorities that a hit-and-run driver sideswiped her as she rode her bicycle to school Tuesday morning. The Memorial Middle School pupil sustained a minor knee injury when she was knocked down at 12th Street and Norma Avenue, Police Sgt. Brian Metzler said. The incident was reported from the school at 8:30 a.m. but had apparently occurred earlier, Metzler said. The girl told police the male driver was behind the wheel of a red vehicle -- either a sedan or small SUV -- with a Fair Lawn marching band magnetic sticker on the back, the sergeant said. Anyone w…
Police & Fire
School Bus Carrying 12 Children Crashes In Jersey City
A school bus carrying a dozen students struck a parked car Monday morning in Jersey City. The privately-owned bus was parked near Stuyvesant Avenue and JFK Boulevard when it rolled into a parked vehicle around 10:10 a.m., city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said. None of the students, ages 10 and 11, were injured. The driver of the other vehicle, however, was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries, Wallace-Scalcione said.
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Where Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal Go? Those Who Know Won't Say
It’s been nearly a month since their local middle school principal and his second in command suddenly "vanished" from the district, and concerned parents in Wyckoff, as well as their children, still have no idea why. Had they gotten into some kind of trouble? Were they fired? Did they quit? “We found out that we had no principal and vice-principal through the hair salon and through town gossip,” prominent civil attorney Michael Epstein said during a Wyckoff Board of Education Zoom meeting Monday night. Parents in the northwest Bergen County town who are concerned for their children’s safet…
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How Did Bergen School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? Those Who Know Won't Say
It’s been nearly a month since their local middle school principal and his second in command suddenly "vanished" from the district, and concerned parents in Wyckoff, as well as their children, still have no idea why. Had they gotten into some kind of trouble? Were they fired? Did they quit? “We found out that we had no principal and vice-principal through the hair salon and through town gossip,” prominent civil attorney Michael Epstein said during a Wyckoff Board of Education Zoom meeting Monday night. Parents in the northwest Bergen County town who are concerned for their children’s safet…
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A hammer and knife were recovered and one person was injured in a pair of unrelated lockdowns that had students panicking at Union High School Friday, authorities said. An adult student who showed up with a hammer was taken into custody following the 8 a.m. lockdown, Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay Ruotolo said. The hammer and a knife were subsequently recovered and a second student was removed from the building before the lockdown was lifted, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said. A second lockdown that lasted several hours was imposed around 11 a.m. by school security on repor…
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Lawsuit
: Former Bergenfield HS Student Alleging Violent Assault By Peers Goes To Trial
To him it was "humorous horseplay" but to her it was a violent assault. A former Bergenfield High School student who filed a lawsuit alleging she was attacked by some of her peers more than six years ago could be taking her case to trial, according to a recent news report. The attorney representing Daniella Restel, now 21, and her parents told NorthJersey.com she and their opponents were preparing their cases for trial. The suit against the Bergenfield BOE, current and former district employees, its superintendent and some former students alleged Restel "suffered numerous and severe i…
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Police: Parsippany Student Injured Trying To Climb Out Window During Lockdown
A Parsippany Hills High School cut himself while trying to climb out a first floor window during a Friday morning lockdown, authorities said. The student was treated for the minor injury by EMTs and during the lockdown, which had ended as of 9:55 a.m., Parsippany police said. The lockdown was in response to a perceived threat at Parsippany Hills High School, the BOE said. "The situation has been secured and Parsippany Police are handling the matter," the statement says. The PHHS lockdown is separate from the Morris County School of Technology lockdown, which students on Snapchat sai…
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Long Hill School Bus Driver Cited In Crash That Downed Power Lines, Briefly Trapped Students
A 62-year-old Long Hill school bus driver has been cited for a crash last month that caused live power lines to fall on the vehicle, trapping eight students inside before power was shut to the area. Sarah Scott-Farrar of Irvington is on suspension with the bus company and is not driving a route in Long Hill, according to District Superintendent Edwin Acevedo. No injuries were reported in the Jan. 28 crash, when Scott-Farrar lost control of the vehicle while attempting a left turn. The eight children made it to school safely.
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