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SWAT STANDOFF: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle SWAT STANDOFF: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle
SWAT Standoff: Stabbing Suspect Sets Fire, Tosses Furniture Out Window, Seized After Struggle A suspect in a stabbing set fire to his clothes, then began tossing furniture at police cars out the window of his second-floor Clifton apartment Thursday before a Passaic County Sheriff's SWAT team stormed in and seized him, authorities said. Police tried negotiating with the combative 32-year-old tenant after they determined the fire was extinguished in the Lexington Avenue apartment above a city business, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. But he only "became more angry and began to toss chairs and other hard objects from the second-floor window, damaging patrol cars that were parke…

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Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree
Arson Investigators Probe Clifton Fire Spree Arson investigators Monday morning probed a trio of garbage can fires on the same Clifton block, authorities confirmed. No one was injured in the most recent blaze, a smoky 5 a.m. fire Monday that cleared a Highland Avenue home, authorities said. Firefighters quickly doused the blaze and vented smoke from the home with fans. The Red Cross tended to the residents. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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Police: Detectives Capture Teens Who Stabbed Clifton Man In Chest During Street Robbery Police: Detectives Capture Teens Who Stabbed Clifton Man In Chest During Street Robbery
Police: Detectives Capture Teens Who Stabbed Clifton Man In Chest During Street Robbery Clifton detectives tracked down two boys – one of them 14 – who they said stabbed a city man in the chest while robbing him. The robbers also cut the 43-year-old Clifton victim on his face when they attacked him near the corner of Highland and Parker avenues on Jan. 3 before fleeing with $300 in cash, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. He was treated at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and survived his injuries, Bracken said. Clifton detectives, meanwhile, identified both teens – 17 and 14 – and took them into custody on Tuesday with help from their colleagues in Passaic, the lieutenan…

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by Jerry DeMarco