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Traumatized By Break-In, NJ College Student Develops Emergency App Traumatized By Break-In, NJ College Student Develops Emergency App
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. …
Students Show Up At Wrong Jersey Shore Address Playing 'Dangerous Assassins Game': Police Students Show Up At Wrong Jersey Shore Address Playing 'Dangerous Assassins Game': Police
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…
Man Grabs Student Walking To School In Morristown, Police Say Man Grabs Student Walking To School In Morristown, Police Say
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…
UPDATE: Classes Resume After 'Swatting' Call Clears Hackensack High School UPDATE: Classes Resume After 'Swatting' Call Clears Hackensack High School
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 …
Student Filmed At Morris County Bus Stop In ‘Suspicious’ Incident, Police Say Student Filmed At Morris County Bus Stop In ‘Suspicious’ Incident, Police Say
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.
HIT-RUN: Fair Lawn Girl, 10, Struck Bicycling To School HIT-RUN: Fair Lawn Girl, 10, Struck Bicycling To School
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…
Warren County Middle School Enters Lockdown As 'Agitated' Student With Weapon Flees Premises Warren County Middle School Enters Lockdown As 'Agitated' Student With Weapon Flees Premises
Warren County Middle School Enters Lockdown As 'Agitated' Student With Weapon Flees Premises A Warren County middle school was placed under lockdown Tuesday morning after a student was found with a weapon and fled the building, authorities said. Administrators at the Washington Township Middle School received a report of an agitated and potentially armed student riding the bus around 7:25 a.m., police Chief Thomas Cicerele said in a release alongside Warren Hills Regional School District Superintendent Earl C. Clymer, III. The school was immediately placed under lockdown after a staff member confronted the student, who then fled the building, authorities said. Washington Township …
How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'?
How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? 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…
How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'?
How Did Bergen County School Principal, Assistant Principal ‘Vanish'? 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…
'SCARED TO DEATH': Weapons Recovered In Pair Of Union High School Lockdowns, Authorities Say 'SCARED TO DEATH': Weapons Recovered In Pair Of Union High School Lockdowns, Authorities Say
'Scared TO Death': Weapons Recovered In Pair Of Union High School Lockdowns, Authorities Say 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…