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UPDATE: Modified Lockdown At Middle School In Mahwah Lifted, Source Of Social Media Threat ID'd UPDATE: Modified Lockdown At Middle School In Mahwah Lifted, Source Of Social Media Threat ID'd
Update: Modified Lockdown At Middle School In Mahwah Lifted, Source Of Social Media Threat ID'd UPDATE: A modified lockdown of nearly three hours was lifted at the Ramapo Ridge Middle School in Mahwah after authorities identified the young source of what they called an unfounded social media threat. Parents began communicating with their children and asking questions as police converged on the Ridge Road school late Thursday morning, Feb. 10. Schools Supt. Michael DeTuro reassured them that students and staff remained safe while administrators and police worked to trace the source of the "Internet/social media posting," which sources said was on TikTok. Students reported being held i…

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Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates
Shoplifter Assaults Mahwah Liquor Store Worker, Flees In Sedan With Stolen Plates What began as a shoplifting turned into a robbery at a Mahwah liquor store, authorities said. An employee tried to stop the thief and was assaulted just before 5 p.m. Friday in the parking lot at the MacArthur Ridge Plaza on Ridge Road -- making it a strong-arm robbery, they said. He then drove off in a silver Honda sedan bearing a PA license plate that police said didn't belong to the vehicle. The employee wasn't injured.  Police who reviewed store video said the incident bore similarities to a crime also committed on Friday in Teaneck. ANYONE who might have witnessed the incident …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools
Superintendent: Suspicious Call Locks Down Mahwah Schools Mahwah schools went into "precautionary modified lockdown" on Monday after a suspicious call came in to the high school, officials said. The lockdowns began at 12:45 p.m. while police investigate the call to the high school's main office, Schools Supt. C. Lauren Schoen said in an email to parents. The call was deemed non-credible and the lockdowns were lifted at 1:38 p.m., Schoen said. "A police presence will remain on Ridge Road for the remainder of the school day," the superintendent said. "We thank the Mahwah Police Department for [its] continued support in maintaining a safe learn…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Mahwah Police Heroes Honored For Reviving Center For Food Action Manager, Donate Defibrillator Mahwah Police Heroes Honored For Reviving Center For Food Action Manager, Donate Defibrillator
Mahwah Police Heroes Honored For Reviving Center For Food Action Manager, Donate Defibrillator HEROES: A 62-year-old warehouse manager at Mahwah's Center for Food Action site was in full cardiac arrest when a group of township police officers responded last July. Using CPR and an automated external defibrillator, they kept Babar Khawaja of Ramsey alive. His pulse returned and he began breathing en route to the hospital, said Detective Michael Grassi, the president of Mahwah PBA Local #143. “B.K.,” as he’s called, made a full recovery and returned to work. He also posed for a photo Friday – along with his wife, Bushra, a CFA maintenance worker – as members of the PBA executive board…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Two Kids, Other Driver Hospitalized After Mahwah Crash Two Kids, Other Driver Hospitalized After Mahwah Crash
Two Kids, Other Driver Hospitalized After Mahwah Crash Two schoolchildren and an adult were hospitalized after a crash in Mahwah Friday morning, authorities said. A Toyota Rav IV was making a left onto Ridge Road from Lydia Lane in Ramapo Ridge when it struck by a Lincoln sedan heading south around 8 a.m., Police Chief James A. Batelli said. The female Rav IV’s driver had her son and daughter in the back seat, Batelli said. All were wearing their seat belts, he said, adding that the airbags deployed. The driver of the sedan, who was also wearing a seat belt, was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood after complaining of neck and chest pain…

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Police: Burglar Held In Sex Assault Stole Guns, Jewelry In Mahwah Police: Burglar Held In Sex Assault Stole Guns, Jewelry In Mahwah
Police: Burglar Held In Sex Assault Stole Guns, Jewelry In Mahwah MAHWAH, N.J. – A man who authorities said sexually assaulted a woman after breaking into her Morris County home was charged with a trio of burglaries in Mahwah, authorities said. Brian Sessions, 47, of Jersey City was captured on surveillance cameras wearing a backpack he stole in one of three burglaries committed last June – two off Hilltop Road and the other off Ridge Road, Police Chief James N. Batelli said Friday. He also stole two guns and jewelry valued around $15,000, the chief said. Mahwah detectives connected with their Morris County colleagues, who’d arrested Session for similar …

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by Jerry DeMarco