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Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash
Four Linden Police Officers Hospitalized: Three In Arson Assault, Another In Crash Hours after a Linden police officer was hospitalized in a crash, another officer was seriously injured and two others briefly hospitalized Sunday morning following an assault by an arson suspect. A 23-year-old man set fire to a mattress at a Chandler Avenue residence, then assaulted a responding officer who confronted the suspect as he emerged from the building around 10:45 a.m., Lt. Christopher Guenther said. The suspect ran but was quickly captured near the corner of East Blancke Street and Baltimore Avenue, Guenther said. The first officer was taken to Newark University Hospital wi…