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Hollow-Point Bullets, Handgun Seized From Six In Linden Traffic Stop: Police Hollow-Point Bullets, Handgun Seized From Six In Linden Traffic Stop: Police
Hollow-Point Bullets, Handgun Seized From Six In Linden Traffic Stop: Police A traffic stop led charges for six, as well as the seizure of multiple handguns and hollow-point bullets in Linden, authorities said. Officers stopped a vehicle on the 1000 block of Summit Terrace and saw a handgun “laying on the floorboard” around 11:10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, a release said. A second handgun was also found. Meanwhile, one of the teen occupants ran from the scene through a nearby park and several backyards before he was arrested on Academy Terrace with help from the Union County Sheriff’s K-9 unit, police said. The five other occupants were arrested at the scene. M…

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by Valerie Musson
News
Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16 Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16
Authorities: Passaic County Boy, 17, Held After Abducting, Raping, Beating Girl, 16 A 17-year-old Passaic County boy held a 16-year-old girl against her will while raping and assaulting her, authorities said. Detectives from Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the girl, among others, hours after the attack occurred at a Pompton Lakes home last Thursday, they said. The boy was taken into custody the next day and has remained held in the Essex County Juvenile Detention Facility in Newark since then. A delinquency complaint charges him with kidnapping, five counts of aggravated sexual assault, three counts of child endangerment and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell
Flanders Teen In Custody After Attacking Teacher In West Caldwell A Flanders teen was taken into custody after attacking a teacher and injuring two other staff members at a West Caldwell school, authorities said. The 13-year-old girl attacked the Essex Valley School teacher at 11:04 a.m. on Wednesday, West Caldwell police said. The two staff members sustained minor injuries while intervening, while the teacher initially assaulted was transported to Mountainside Hospital for treatment of undisclosed injuries, police said. The Essex Valley School's website says it's a "comprehensive therapeutic alternative school that offers second chances to students…

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by Cecilia Levine