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Special Police Officer IDs Brooklyn Boy, 15, Who Threatened To Blow Up Lyndhurst High School Special Police Officer IDs Brooklyn Boy, 15, Who Threatened To Blow Up Lyndhurst High School
Special Police Officer IDs Brooklyn Boy, 15, Who Threatened To Blow Up Lyndhurst High School A sharp-eyed Lyndhurst special police officer nabbed a 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn who authorities said made a 911 call threatening to blow up the township high school. A Bergen County communications dispatcher told Lyndhurst police shortly after noon on Oct. 7 that an unknown caller using anonymizing technology claimed there was a bomb inside the high school, Detective Lt. Vincent Auteri said. The school was locked down and all 852 students, along with teachers and staff, were escorted out by Lyndhurst police. The Bergen County sheriff’s bomb and K-9 squads checked inside and out and d…

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Unfounded Threat Clears Ridgewood Private School Unfounded Threat Clears Ridgewood Private School
Unfounded Threat Clears Ridgewood Private School A private school in Ridgewood was evacuated following what police said was an unfounded threat. The unspecified threat came in via email to The Holmstead School, a non-profit extended-year middle/high school on Hope Street, on Monday, Sept. 12, Capt. Forest Lyons said. Two Bergen County sheriff's dogs were brought in, along with a member of the sheriff's Bomb Squad, to help village police completely search the building, the captain said. Nothing of note was found and everyone was allowed to return about an hour later, Lyons said. Ridgewood police are investigating. Boyd A. Loving took th…

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SCHOOL LOCKDOWN: System Inadvertently Triggered At OLM In Park Ridge SCHOOL LOCKDOWN: System Inadvertently Triggered At OLM In Park Ridge
School Lockdown: System Inadvertently Triggered At OLM In Park Ridge School was back in session Thursday after an accidental activation of the lockdown system at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Park Ridge brought a huge law enforcement response. "We're not sure why the lockdown system was activated," Park Ridge Police Capt. Joseph Rampolla said, "but we treated it as genuine, as always. Everything went smoothly." Police established a perimeter and summoned their colleagues from local towns, as well as Bergen County Regional SWAT team, the captain said. They cleared the elementary school classroom by classroom while bringing the students to a safe location, he …

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School Evacuated, SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully With Barricaded South Hackensack Man In Custody School Evacuated, SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully With Barricaded South Hackensack Man In Custody
School Evacuated, SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully With Barricaded South Hackensack Man In Custody A school was evacuated and a SWAT team responded after an emotionally troubled man barricaded himself in his South Hackensack apartment Wednesday. The standoff ended about 4½ hours after it began when members of the Bergen County Regional SWAT team entered the home and took the 43-year-old resident into custody. The landlord had called police around 9:30 a.m., saying he'd heard a lot of loud banging and water running for a couple of hours in the Dyer Avenue apartment off Route 80. The man refused to come to the door, so police checked with those who know him. They said they feared he mig…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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POLICE: Wrongly-Delivered Firearm Ammunition Evacuates Chatham School POLICE: Wrongly-Delivered Firearm Ammunition Evacuates Chatham School
Police: Wrongly-Delivered Firearm Ammunition Evacuates Chatham School Firearm ammunition that was wrongly delivered evacuated a Chatham school Tuesday. Students at the St. Patrick School on Chatham Street were sheltered in place and then evacuated due to the factory-sealed package, that was delivered Friday among a pallet of school traffic safety equipment, the borough's police department said. Members of the Morris County Sheriff’s Office assisted Chatham Borough Police with a precautionary sweep. Parents were notified and school grounds were deemed safe, police said.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat
Lodi Elementary Schoolers Return After Bomb Threat A Lodi elementary school was evacuated for nearly an hour and a half after someone phoned in a bomb threat Monday morning. The caller said he was "not so happy with" George Washington School and that there was a bomb inside, a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. The Bergen County Bomb Squad and K-9 Unit was summoned just before 10 a.m. Police closed off streets and accompanied the youngsters to the high school. They started returning to George Washington shortly before 11:30 a.m. ****** ALSO SEE: Sprinklers helped douse a fire in a Lodi industrial building Sunday night. https…

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by Jerry DeMarco