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SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack
SWAT Team Seizes Barricaded Man, 21, In Hackensack A Bergen County Regional SWAT team seized a troubled man who'd barricaded himself in a Hackensack apartment on Saturday. The 21-year-old man's girlfriend called police to a Newman Street apartment in the Oratam Court development between Atlantic and Sussex streets -- which was the city's first public housing project when it was built in 1951 -- the morning of Jan. 27. They found the front door barricaded by various items. The SWAT team was mobilized around noon and entered the apartment around 2 p.m., subduing the man with pepper spray and removing him from the bathroom, a law enforce…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Teaneck Teen Nabbed In Hackensack Knifepoint Robbery Attempt: Police Teaneck Teen Nabbed In Hackensack Knifepoint Robbery Attempt: Police
Teaneck Teen Nabbed In Hackensack Knifepoint Robbery Attempt: Police Hackensack police nabbed a Teaneck teen moments after he tried to rob a man at knifepoint of money and his cellphone, authorities said. A first-degree robbery charge has kept Xiomor Highsmith, 19, in the Bergen County Jail since the June 22 incident. Officers responding to a call near the corner of Newman and Sussex streets found Highsmith carrying a folding knife and five counterfeit $100 bills, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. In addition to robbery, Highsmith is charged with fraud and an illegal weapons offense.

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by Jerry DeMarco
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UPDATE: Victim In Hackensack Barbershop Shooting Laid To Rest, Two Charged With Murder UPDATE: Victim In Hackensack Barbershop Shooting Laid To Rest, Two Charged With Murder
Update: Victim In Hackensack Barbershop Shooting Laid To Rest, Two Charged With Murder UPDATE: On the day when loved ones laid to rest a Maywood man who was gunned down outside a Hackensack barber shop last weekend, authorities announced the arrests of his alleged killer and two accomplices. A Catholic prayer service and burial were held on Thursday morning, Nov. 17, for Vidal Nieves, a 28-year-old single dad who worked at a dollar store in Passaic. At the same time, charges were being brought against: Dior Alston, a 21-year-old laborer from South Hackensack; Malik Abel, 21, an electrician from Maywood; Rayshawn Powel-Myhand, a 19-year-old cashier from Hackensack. Alston a…

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by Jerry DeMarco