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Driver Plunges Car Into River, Tries Swimming Across In Hours-Long North Jersey Standoff Driver Plunges Car Into River, Tries Swimming Across In Hours-Long North Jersey Standoff
Driver Plunges Car Into River, Tries Swimming Across In Hours-Long North Jersey Standoff A driver being pursued by police drove through a park and ultimately landed in the Hackensack River, where he used a wrench to break out of his own window and stand in the water in an attempt to swim away on Tuesday, April 4, authorities said. Things began unfolding around 11:45 a.m. on Paterson Plank Road, where Secaucus police saw a man later identified as Michael A. Zummo, 51, of Toms River, having been involved in a crash, Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said. The officers tried to stop him but "due to the way he was driving prior to that accident and prior to the officers trying to…

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by Cecilia Levine
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HERO: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge HERO: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge
Hero: Saddle Brook Police Officer Coaxes Distraught Youth, 15, Off Highway Ledge Route 46 was closed down and an air mattress was inflated beneath a Bergen County overpass as police tried to convince a troubled 15-year-old not to jump. Officers found the Saddle Brook teen perilously perched on the Outwater Lane overpass in Garfield, near the Lodi border, around 10 p.m. Tuesday, Saddle Brook Police Chief Robert Kugler said. “The parents said the youth left the home in a crisis state of mind,” Kugler said Wednesday. “They were deeply concerned for the juvenile's well-being.” The teen, apparently upset over a conflict involving a life choice, had climbed the curved fence…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SWAT Incident Ends Peacefully At Teaneck Home SWAT Incident Ends Peacefully At Teaneck Home
SWAT Incident Ends Peacefully At Teaneck Home UPDATE: A SWAT incident ended peacefully in Teaneck after a barricaded man was removed from a home after several hours inside. A 4 p.m. call brought of a possible shooting and man with a gun brought township police to the single-family home on Churchill Road on Sunday. "The responding officers attempted to get the man to exit his residence, but he refused to do so," Deputy Police Chief John Faggello said. "It was quickly determined that law enforcement was dealing with a barricaded subject-type situation. "Within minutes, responding officers arrived on scene and began a dialogue with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home
SWAT Team Removes Barricaded Teaneck Auto Detailer From Home A SWAT team stormed a Teaneck home early Saturday afternoon and seized a 72-year-old auto detailer who's had trouble before with the law. John Heywang barricaded himself in the Ogden Avenue home after Bergen County sheriff's officers went there Saturday morning to execute a removal order, law enforcement sources said. "What began as a civil eviction became a welfare check after there was no answer at the door," Sheriff Anthony Cureton said.  Officers determined that Heywang was inside but wasn't answering the door, Cureton said.  So reinforcements were called in. After 90 minut…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
(UPDATE) SWAT Breaks Through Door, Seizes Barricaded Elmwood Park Man (UPDATE) SWAT Breaks Through Door, Seizes Barricaded Elmwood Park Man
(Update) SWAT Breaks Through Door, Seizes Barricaded Elmwood Park Man ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) Members of a Bergen County Regional SWAT team battered open a side door and seized an Elmwood Park man who'd threatened to kill himself Saturday afternoon. The suicidal man was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with cuts on his abdomen and wrists after surrendering without a struggle around 3:50 p.m., a little over 2½ hours after the standoff began, Police Chief Michael Foligno said. He will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, the chief said, adding that no decision on possible charges had been made yet. "We're two-for-two," Foligno said, …

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by Jerry DeMarco