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Authorities: Off-Duty North Jersey Officer Shot, Killed By Juvenile In Deer Hunting Accident Authorities: Off-Duty North Jersey Officer Shot, Killed By Juvenile In Deer Hunting Accident
Authorities: Off-Duty North Jersey Officer Shot, Killed By Juvenile In Deer Hunting Accident A 38-year-old off-duty police officer was shot and killed Tuesday when a juvenile accidentally fired off a weapon while the pair were hunting in Sussex County, Daily Voice has learned. Hamburg police officer Jason Franco, of Montague, was deer hunting near Havens and Lott roads in Wantage around 12:30 p.m. when the incident occurred, according to local and state police. Franco was pronounced dead at the scene, "after an unintentional discharge of a weapon held by a juvenile while deer hunting in a group," said Lawrence Hajna, of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Prot…

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'Let Me Get My Teeth On You': Drunk Sussex County Man Spits, Coughs On Officers, Police Say 'Let Me Get My Teeth On You': Drunk Sussex County Man Spits, Coughs On Officers, Police Say
'Let Me Get My Teeth On You': Drunk Sussex County Man Spits, Coughs On Officers, Police Say A drunken Sussex County man spit, coughed on and tried to bite police trying to arrest him after finding him outside of a local business Tuesday, authorities said. Hamburg police responding to reports of an unconscious man outside of an Ames Boulevard business found Scott Thompson, of Stockholm, who was alert and conscious but highly intoxicated around 4 p.m., according to a news release from the Hamburg Police Department. Thompson immediately became belligerent and confrontational with the officers, and refused to sit down for a medical assessment by Saint Clare's EMS, police said.  …

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