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"Get the f*** out of my house!" Brian Rodriguez, 33, shouted as he descended the stairs toward two borough police officers inside his mother's Obal Avenue home wielding two knives on Saturday, Police Chief Michael Foligno said.
Coolly and calmly, the officers backed out, Foligno said.
Negotiators tried through the afternoon and into the evening to get Rodriguez to surrender.
A SWAT team finally stormed the house and seized him without incident.
Rodriguez was taken to Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus for an evaluation.
He remained there in custody Tuesday awaiting a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of making terroristic threats, obstruction and illegal weapons possession.
Rodriguez was alone upstairs when officers responded to his mother's call for a welfare check shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday, Foligno said.
He'd been "acting strangely and seemed dangerous," she told them. Continued....
SWAT STANDOFF: Elmwood Park Man Tear-Gassed Out After Threatening Officers With Knives
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